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Cookie Policy

Which cookies Academe sets, what each category does, and how to opt out.

Required cookies keep Academe working

Sign-in, checkout, OAuth state, preferences, and collaboration need strictly necessary storage.

Analytics can be turned off

Academe honors Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control, and account settings include a product analytics toggle.

Private research content is excluded

Error reports and analytics are designed not to include documents, files, API keys, or research text.

Contents
  1. Overview
  2. Strictly necessary
  3. Product analytics
  4. Error tracking
  5. How to opt out
  6. Updates to this policy
01

Overview

Academe uses cookies and similar technologies (local storage, session storage, and device identifiers) to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, and understand how the product is used in aggregate so we can improve it.

This policy explains what each category does and how to disable categories you do not want. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes every category of personal data we collect.

02

Strictly necessary

These cookies keep the product working. You can't turn them off without breaking core functionality like sign-in, billing, and collaborative documents.

  • Supabase auth session. Keeps you signed in across pages. HTTP-only.
  • CSRF state tokens. Short-lived cookies used during OAuth (Google / Microsoft) and Stripe checkout to prevent request forgery.
  • Preference cookies. Remember the width of your sidebar panels, which tabs are pinned, and whether you had dark mode on.
03

Product analytics

We use PostHog to understand aggregate product usage: which features are reached, where users drop off, and which flows need polish. PostHog is self-hosted on our infrastructure and we disable session recording for any page that could show private research content.

We do not sell or share this data with advertisers. You can opt out by setting posthog-opt-out in your browser's local storage or by turning on Global Privacy Control. Academe honors the GPC signal.

04

Error tracking

We use Sentry.io to catch software errors and surface them as bug tickets. Error reports include a stack trace, the URL where the error happened, and non-sensitive browser metadata. They do notinclude your research content, API keys, or other personal data. Redaction rules strip those before the report leaves your browser.

05

How to opt out

There are three ways to turn off non-essential categories:

  • Browser DNT / GPC.Turn on “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control. Academe respects both.
  • Settings. The privacy panel in your account settings has a single toggle for product analytics.
  • Browser settings. Every browser lets you block cookies per-site or clear them wholesale.
06

Updates to this policy

We update this policy when we change which categories we use. For material changes we also post a banner inside the product. Questions? Email hello@academe-ai.com.