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This notice describes cookies and related browser storage on the Before Your Claim website. It also explains how the separate app stores a home record.
Site statistics and advertising
The website uses Google Analytics, a service of Google LLC, to measure how its pages are used. It sets the two Google Analytics cookies listed below. We use the statistics only in summary form to improve the website, not for advertising. We do not use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, or social-media trackers. Our hosting and security providers may also collect technical visitor information and compile site-traffic statistics. See the Privacy Policy.
Cookies the website may use
| Cookie | Set by | Why | How long |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare, the network our host uses to deliver the site | Security: helps tell people from automated traffic and protect the site from abuse | About 30 minutes |
| wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_logged_in_…, wordpress_sec_…, wp-settings-… | WordPress | Only for the people who sign in to manage the site. Ordinary visitors do not receive the sign-in cookies. | Session, or as WordPress sets them |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Site statistics: tells one visitor’s browser from another’s, so visits can be counted | Up to 2 years (Chrome keeps it about 13 months) |
| _ga_5HG4ZZ07BR | Google Analytics | Site statistics: keeps track of the current visit | Up to 2 years (Chrome keeps it about 13 months) |
The app: local records and browser storage
The app is designed to keep your home record locally in browser or app storage, without a sign-in account. That local storage is different from ordinary website cookies. The app host may use its own security cookies. The app does not use Google Analytics or any other analytics. Because the website’s cookies are set for the beforeyourclaim.com name, your browser may also send them when it loads app.beforeyourclaim.com; the app does not read or use them.
- Your home record: rooms, photographs, notes, measurements and belongings, kept in the browser’s built-in database for app.beforeyourclaim.com (or in the Android app’s private storage).
- One small setting: a note that you have seen the app’s first-run notice, so it is not shown every time.
The intended design keeps the home record on the device rather than uploading it to Absolute Adjusting. See the Privacy Policy.
Your controls
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking security cookies may stop parts of the website from working. To stop Google Analytics, install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (for desktop browsers), or block or delete cookies for beforeyourclaim.com. The website works without the Google Analytics cookies. Important: clearing browser data for app.beforeyourclaim.com, or clearing all site data, may delete any home record stored there. If you later use the app, create and check an independent backup before clearing browser data.
Links and other websites
Links to other websites, including absoluteadjusting.com, the How It Works video hosted there, and government websites, are governed by those websites’ own cookie practices once you follow them.
Changes and contact
We will update this notice when the website, app, or providers change. Before adding any other tracking or advertising technology, we will review disclosure and consent requirements. Questions: beforeyourclaim@absoluteadjusting.com.