🍪 Cookie Transparency

Cookie Policy & Ad Choices

Last Updated: September 2026

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, or tablet when you visit websites. They are widely used to make websites function efficiently, improve user experience, and provide analytical information to site operators.

2. How BuildResume Uses Cookies

We classify our cookies into the following categories:

Cookie Category	Purpose	Essential / Optional
Essential Session Cookies	Maintains your user authentication session, CSRF security tokens, and flash notifications across page loads.	Essential
Preference Cookies	Stores your chosen UI preferences, active resume theme selection, and theme preview toggles.	Functional
Advertising & Analytics (Google AdSense)	Used by Google and approved partners to display relevant advertisements based on browsing history and measure ad effectiveness.	Third-Party Ad

3. Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookies

Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

4. Managing and Disabling Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Note that disabling essential cookies may impact the proper functionality of the resume builder and session login.

5. Questions?

If you have questions regarding our cookie practices, please contact us at privacy@buildresume.help or visit our Contact Page.