Cookies

Effective August 9, 2026 · operated by 1581455 B.C. LTD.

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. This page lists every cookie WhiteCoat Prep uses, grouped by what it does, and which of them you get a say over. Section 9 of the Privacy Policy covers the same ground in less detail.

1. Analytics and advertising are optional

Both are on by default and yours to refuse below. Under California law the advertising cookies count as “sharing” personal information, so this section doubles as our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page.

Opting out costs nothing and changes no feature. A Global Privacy Control signal from your browser does it automatically, with no clicks. In Quebec the default is reversed: they start off, as Law 25 requires, and run only if you turn them on. We set no social media cookies.

2. Required

Always active

These make the site work. They keep you signed in, protect forms against cross-site request forgery, and remember the choice you make on this page. Without them you could not have an account.

Sign-in, security and preferences

Purpose: Keep you signed in, protect forms from cross-site request forgery, and remember the choices you make on this page.
Set by: WhiteCoat Prep
Duration: Session to 1 year

Fraud prevention (wcp_fd)

Purpose: Prevents the one-per-person free demo from being reused across accounts.
Set by: WhiteCoat Prep
Duration: 5 years

Dismissed notices and page state (browser storage: wcp-mobile-notice-dismissed, wcp-policy-notice-dismissed, sooResultReloads)

Purpose: Remember which notices you have dismissed, and stop the scoring wait page reloading forever. Dismissing a policy notice never shortens the notice period. Never sent anywhere.
Set by: WhiteCoat Prep
Duration: Until you clear site data

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Duration
Sign-in, security and preferences	WhiteCoat Prep	Keep you signed in, protect forms from cross-site request forgery, and remember the choices you make on this page.	Session to 1 year
Fraud prevention (wcp_fd)	WhiteCoat Prep	Prevents the one-per-person free demo from being reused across accounts.	5 years
Dismissed notices and page state (browser storage: wcp-mobile-notice-dismissed, wcp-policy-notice-dismissed, sooResultReloads)	WhiteCoat Prep	Remember which notices you have dismissed, and stop the scoring wait page reloading forever. Dismissing a policy notice never shortens the notice period. Never sent anywhere.	Until you clear site data

3. Payment and video

Always active

Stripe and Tavus set their own cookies, but only while you are actually checking out or sitting a session, never on ordinary browsing. They are how a payment clears and how a live video call holds together, so they cannot be switched off separately from the feature. Not using the feature means not getting the cookies.

Stripe cookies

Purpose: Processes your payment and detects fraud during checkout.
Set by: Stripe
Duration: Set by Stripe

Tavus / Daily.co cookies

Purpose: Maintains the live video connection during a session.
Set by: Tavus
Duration: Session

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Duration
Stripe cookies	Stripe	Processes your payment and detects fraud during checkout.	Set by Stripe
Tavus / Daily.co cookies	Tavus	Maintains the live video connection during a session.	Session

4. Analytics

Optional

Google Analytics, so we can see how people move through the site: which pages lead to a sign-up, where people stop, and how often a session fails to start. Unlike the advertising cookies, these run on every page, including while you are sitting a session. Google is sent the shape of your visit — which page, which station number, how long — with identifiers stripped out first: never your transcripts, your scores, your answers, or anything you say to an interviewer. You can turn these off below, and a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser turns them off automatically. In Quebec they start off, as Quebec law requires, and run only if you turn them on.

Google Analytics cookies

Purpose: Distinguish visitors so repeat visits are not counted twice, and keep the current visit together as one session.
Set by: Google
Duration: 2 years

Feedback wait timer (browser storage: wcp_fb_wait)

Purpose: Times how long you waited for feedback, so we can tell whether scoring is too slow. Set only if analytics is on, and cleared when the feedback arrives.
Set by: WhiteCoat Prep
Duration: Until the browser tab closes

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Duration
Google Analytics cookies	Google	Distinguish visitors so repeat visits are not counted twice, and keep the current visit together as one session.	2 years
Feedback wait timer (browser storage: wcp_fb_wait)	WhiteCoat Prep	Times how long you waited for feedback, so we can tell whether scoring is too slow. Set only if analytics is on, and cleared when the feedback arrives.	Until the browser tab closes

5. Advertising

Optional

Set by the ad platforms we buy sign-up advertising from, so we can tell which ads led to a sign-up or purchase and show ads to people who visited these pages. They see which pages you visit here and nothing else: never your sessions, transcripts, scores, or anything you say to an interviewer. You can turn these off below, and a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser turns them off automatically. In Quebec they start off, as Quebec law requires, and run only if you turn them on.

Advertising cookies

Purpose: Measure ad conversions and enable retargeting.
Set by: Google, Meta, Reddit
Duration: Up to 90 days

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Duration
Advertising cookies	Google, Meta, Reddit	Measure ad conversions and enable retargeting.	Up to 90 days

6. Your choices

7. Changes

If we add a cookie, this page changes with it. Adding a category that is not strictly required is a material change, so you get at least 14 days' notice before it takes effect, and this page will say what the cookie does and how to turn it off.

Questions?

Email feedback@whitecoatprep.com and a human will answer.