Effective date: 07.10.2026

PlagScanX Cookie Policy

This policy explains how PlagScanX uses cookies and similar technologies, what they do, and how you can control them. Read it together with our Privacy Policy.

1 Who is responsible

PlagScanX, established in Finland, is responsible for the use of these technologies on its website and in its tools.

For questions about cookies or your information, contact [email protected].

2 What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small pieces of information saved in your browser. They can keep you signed in, remember a choice, help protect the service, or measure how people use a website.

We also use local storage, which saves information in your browser between visits. Local storage has no automatic expiry unless the website or your browser removes it.

Scripts, pixels, and tags can contact an external service or collect information without setting a cookie. This policy also covers these technologies where they are used for the purposes described below.

First-party cookies are set for our website. Third-party cookies are set for another provider’s domain. A first-party cookie can still be used by an external provider, such as Google Analytics.

3 Your choices

Some storage supports services you request, such as signing in or remembering your cookie choice. Optional website analytics requires your consent.

You can accept or reject optional analytics through the cookie banner. Rejecting analytics does not prevent you from using our writing tools. Continuing to browse, creating an account, or accepting our Terms does not count as cookie consent.

Your choice applies to the browser and website where you make it. You may need to choose again on another device, after clearing site data, or when your saved choice expires. Section 9 explains how to change your choice and manage stored data.

4 Storage used by PlagScanX

These items support sign-in, remember choices, or carry your text from a landing page into a tool. The identifiers at the end of some cookie names vary between installations.

Cookie or storage item	Purpose and provider	Duration
seopress-user-consent-accept	PlagScanX uses SEOPress to remember that this browser accepted analytics.	30 days by default. Making a new choice restarts this period.
seopress-user-consent-close	PlagScanX uses SEOPress to remember that this browser rejected analytics.	30 days by default. Making a new choice restarts this period.
WordPress sign-in cookies, including wordpress_logged_in_<hash> and the applicable authentication cookie	PlagScanX uses WordPress to maintain your signed-in session and protect account access.	Browser session cookies, with a default login validity of two days from sign-in. Signing out ends the session earlier. Browser session restoration may retain the cookies.
plagscanx_login_<site hash>	PlagScanX links a Google sign-in attempt to the browser that started it using a random security value.	Up to 10 minutes; removed after successful sign-in or replaced when a new attempt starts.
plagscanx_sidebar_collapsed local storage	PlagScanX remembers whether you have collapsed the app’s sidebar.	No automatic expiry. Updated when you change the setting or removed when browser site data is cleared.
plagscanx_pending_tool and plagscanx_pending_text local storage	PlagScanX preserves the selected tool and pasted text while you move from a landing page through sign-in into the app.	Removed when the intended tool receives the text. If that transfer does not finish, there is no automatic expiry.

SEOPress remembers your current choice in this browser. Accepting removes the rejection cookie, and rejecting removes the acceptance cookie. These choice cookies do not contain your pasted writing or account email.

5 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website, including which pages they visit and how they interact with website features. This can involve browser and device information, referral information, website events, and identifiers that distinguish visits.

Optional analytics depends on your consent. We do not need analytics consent to run an AI detection or plagiarism check for you.

Cookie	Purpose and provider	Duration
_ga	Google Analytics identifier used to distinguish users.	2 years by default, refreshed on return visits while analytics consent remains active. Browser limits may shorten this period.
_ga_<container-id>	Google Analytics cookie used to maintain session state.	2 years by default, refreshed on return visits while analytics consent remains active. Browser limits may shorten this period.

These periods concern cookies stored in your browser. They are separate from how long information already collected is retained by Google Analytics. Google provides further information in its Analytics cookie documentation.

6 Security, Google sign-in, and payments

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA v3 to help protect our Rewriter, Humanizer, and Grammar Checker from automated abuse. It can process your IP address and technical information about your browser, device, and interaction with the protected feature. It uses the _GRECAPTCHA cookie as part of its risk analysis.

The script loads from www.google.com. Where these security checks apply, it can load when you open the app or a page containing our checkout button, before you submit a writing request. We use Google’s default cookie settings; Google controls the lifetimes of cookies set by its service. Browser settings and restrictions can affect their storage.

Read more about the service in Google’s reCAPTCHA documentation.

Google sign-in

Google’s sign-in interface can load when you open the sign-in window or visit a page displaying our sign-in card. It may contact Google before you select the Google sign-in button and may use browser-dependent cookies or related technologies.

Our own temporary sign-in security cookie is listed in section 4. Google’s processing is also described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Dodo Payments

When you choose to buy a plan, we redirect you to Dodo Payments’ hosted checkout. Its checkout and customer portal may use their own storage to manage the payment session, prevent fraud, and provide the requested payment service.

The provider’s notices and controls explain its use of storage on those pages. See the Dodo Payments Privacy Policy.

7 Pasted text stored on your device

If you enter text on a landing page and continue through sign-in, we may save that text in your browser’s local storage so you do not have to paste it again. This storage can contain personal or confidential information within your writing.

The text is removed from this storage when the intended tool receives it. If you leave before that happens, it can remain on the device. Closing the browser, signing out, or clearing the visible text box does not necessarily remove it. You can remove it by clearing PlagScanX’s site data in your browser.

Take this into account when using a shared device. Clearing browser storage does not delete reports or documents already saved in your PlagScanX account. Our Privacy Policy explains how submitted content and saved reports are handled separately.

8 How long information stays

The tables above show the default durations for the listed cookies and storage items. A session cookie normally ends with the browser session, although session-restoration features may retain it. A persistent cookie remains until its expiry or earlier deletion. Some cookies renew when you return or make a new choice.

Local storage can remain until the app removes it, you clear it, or your browser removes it. Closing a tab does not automatically clear it.

Deleting a cookie does not automatically delete information already sent to a provider or saved on our servers. Our Privacy Policy explains the separate retention of that information and your privacy rights.

9 Changing your choice and clearing storage

Where the Cookie preferences control is displayed, use it to reopen the banner and change your analytics choice. Select the rejection option to withdraw your analytics consent. SEOPress saves the updated choice for that browser.

Changing the choice does not automatically remove existing analytics cookies or unload every script already running on an open page. Reload open pages after changing your choice so they load with the updated setting. You can use your browser’s privacy settings to inspect or delete cookies and other site data, including cookies stored under another provider’s domain.

Deleting analytics cookies alone does not necessarily withdraw your saved consent. Deleting the cookie that remembers your choice can cause the banner to appear again.

Blocking storage needed for sign-in or payment may prevent the relevant feature from working. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

For help changing your choice or managing stored data, contact [email protected].

10 Personal data and your rights

Information collected through cookies and similar technologies can be personal data. Our Privacy Policy explains recipients, international processing, legal grounds, retention, and your rights to request access, deletion, or other action.

Our main application server is hosted in Germany. External providers may process information outside the European Economic Area, as explained in our Privacy Policy.

Where California privacy law applies, rights concerning the sale or sharing of personal information are separate from EU cookie consent. Our Privacy Policy explains the applicable rights and how to contact us about them.

11 Updates and contact

We may update this policy when the website, providers, or relevant requirements change. Where a new purpose requires consent, we will request it before using the relevant technology for that purpose.

For questions about this policy or your cookie choices, email [email protected].