Cookie & Tracking Policy
Effective Date: September 2026 • Version 2.4 • SocialDine Inc. • ePrivacy & GDPR Compliant
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Required for session continuity, anti-fraud, and safe table bookings.
Preserves your vibe filters, location radius, and interface theme.
Measures anonymous page latency and Core Web Vitals (IP masked).
Rewards friends who invited you and validates partner reservations.
01.Scope & Tracking Definitions
This Cookie & Tracking Policy applies to all domains, subdomains (including socialdine.online and web.socialdine.online), mobile web interfaces, and interactive applications managed by SocialDine Inc. ("SocialDine", "we", "us", or "our").
We believe in total transparency. When you visit our platform, we and our authorized service partners store and access small data fragments on your device. These tracking technologies include:
- HTTP Cookies: Small text files placed in your browser directory that record state, authentication, and navigational session data.
- Local Storage & Session Storage: Web Storage API objects that retain structured client-side values (such as dining vibe preferences, UI theme flags, and offline tokens) with lower overhead and zero cross-domain transmission.
- Edge Telemetry Beacons: Anonymous, non-invasive performance signals used exclusively to calculate TTFB (Time to First Byte) and latency across global edge points.
02.Why SocialDine Uses Cookies & Storage
Social dining requires real-time coordination, reliable seat verification, and safety among participants sharing a dining table. We deploy tracking technologies for strictly defined purposes:
Preventing bot takeovers on limited restaurant reservation tables and verifying waitlist entry integrity through cryptographic tokens.
Remembering your chosen dining mood (e.g. Quiet Café, Buzzing Social, Fine Dining) so recommendations fit your exact tempo immediately.
Measuring page rendering performance across 300+ edge locations to ensure table discovery loads in under 300 milliseconds.
Ensuring dining rewards and invite tokens are allocated properly between hosts and their newly invited tablemates.
03.Complete Cookie & Storage Inventory
Below is the full, exhaustive inventory of all first-party and third-party cookies and local storage keys currently utilized across the SocialDine ecosystem:
| Identifier | Category | Provider | Purpose & Scope | Lifespan | Necessity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sd_session | Strictly Necessary | SocialDine (1st Party) | Encrypted user session identifier for live table matching, reservation holds, and authenticated socket connections. | 14 days | Mandatory |
| sd_csrf_token | Strictly Necessary | SocialDine (1st Party) | Cryptographic anti-forgery token preventing malicious cross-site request attacks on form submissions. | Session | Mandatory |
| sd_cookie_consent_v1 | Strictly Necessary | SocialDine (1st Party) | Retains your specific cookie consent grant status, timestamps, and category selections. | 365 days | Mandatory |
| sd_dining_vibes | Functional | SocialDine (1st Party) | Saves selected dining mood filters (e.g. Cozy Café, Buzzing Social, Gourmet, Solo Foodie). | 90 days | Optional |
| sd_location_pref | Functional | SocialDine (1st Party) | Remembers approximate city or neighborhood search radius without requiring repetitive GPS permission prompts. | 30 days | Optional |
| sd_theme | Functional | SocialDine (1st Party) | Maintains dark mode or light mode visual preference across page navigation. | 365 days | Optional |
| _sd_analytics | Analytics | SocialDine (1st Party) | Collects anonymized page load latency, UI scroll depth, and interaction counts. IP addresses are pseudonymized. | 180 days | Optional |
| _va & _vercel_jwt | Analytics | Vercel Inc. (Edge) | Measures Real Experience Score (Core Web Vitals) and CDN caching effectiveness globally. | 30 days | Optional |
| _sd_referral | Attribution | SocialDine (1st Party) | Attributes tablemate invitations and referral links to credit dining organizers. | 30 days | Optional |
04.Dining Personalization & Cache Architecture
To make spontaneous social dining fast and lightweight, SocialDine uses client-side local caching. When you filter dining spots by atmosphere (e.g. "Buzzing Bistro", "Cozy Coffeehouse", or "Rooftop Chill"), these preferences are stored locally in your browser storage.
Zero Cross-Site Ad Tracking Guarantee
We do not sell your personal dining history, and we do not permit third-party ad networks (such as Google AdSense, Meta Pixel, or data brokers) to plant tracking beacons across your visits to profile your dining habits across other websites.
05.Third-Party Telemetry & Analytics Partners
We collaborate with a limited, audited set of infrastructure service providers to ensure platform uptime and performance:
Vercel Web Analytics
Edge runtime telemetry and server latency monitoring without fingerprinting.
Google Tag Manager (GTM-NN2MXQZX)
Container loader configured with IP anonymization flags and strict consent mode.
06.Managing & Revoking Consent
Under Article 7 of the EU GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and the India DPDP Act 2023, you have the absolute legal right to withdraw consent at any time without negative consequences:
- Interactive Sandbox: Use the interactive control sandbox at the top of this page to disable Functional, Analytics, or Referral cookies in one click.
- Permanent Flush:Click "Clear All Stored Cookies" to wipe all optional local storage keys immediately from your device.
- Persistent Floating Modal:Re-open our full preferences modal at any point by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link in the website footer.
07.Browser Controls & Global Privacy Control (GPC)
Most web browsers let you control cookies through their configuration settings:
Google Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
Apple Safari
Settings / Preferences → Privacy → Prevent cross-site tracking
Mozilla Firefox
Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
Microsoft Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete
SocialDine honors the Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC) header. If your browser broadcasts a valid GPC signal, all non-essential analytics and attribution cookies are automatically switched off.
08.Regulatory Legal Frameworks
Our tracking practices conform to international data privacy statutes:
- European Union: Directive 2002/58/EC (ePrivacy Directive) and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR, Articles 6 and 7).
- United States: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). We do not sell or share personal information.
- India: Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP Act). Notice and verifiable consent are honored prior to processing non-essential data.
09.Contact Privacy & Data Protection Office
If you have questions regarding our use of cookies, tracking technologies, or wish to exercise your rights:
SocialDine Inc. • Data Protection Officer (DPO)