Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Essential cookies: login, settings and security
Pinterest describes essential cookies as required so Pinterest works the way you expect, with login cookies that keep you logged in as an example. It says it may use them to remember settings and preferences such as your preferred language and privacy settings, to let you log in and out, and to detect when someone might be trying to hack your account or spam the community.
Supporting quotations
Essential cookies are required so Pinterest works in the way you expect.
We may use essential cookies to remember your settings and preferences, like the language you prefer and your privacy settings.
Essential cookies let you log in and out of Pinterest.
we use them to detect when someone might be trying to hack your Pinterest account or spam the Pinterest community
Qualifications & exceptions
- The settings use is stated as “may”; the other uses are stated as practices.
Not stated here
- This document does not say whether or how you can turn essential cookies off.