How we use them
We use a small number of cookies and browser storage items. Most are needed to sign you in, keep your session secure and remember choices you made. We don't use advertising cookies or social media trackers, and we don't sell or share what they collect.
Analytics and diagnostics are optional. They're off until you turn them on, and they stay off when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal.
Your choices
Change your choices at any time with the button below or in Settings. Your choice is stored on this device and, when you're signed in, in your account. You can also clear cookies and site data in your browser settings; you'll be signed out.
Strictly necessary
These sign you in, keep your session secure and remember the choices you make on this page. The service can't work without them, so they don't need your consent.
| Name | Stored as | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| smartmanager_ | Cookie | Keeps you signed in with a sealed session from our sign-in provider. | Up to 30 days |
| sm_ | Cookie | Records when your session started and was last active, so inactive sessions end. | Up to 30 days |
| smartmanager_ | Cookie | Protects the sign-in handshake against forgery. An older single-transaction version may also be cleared. | 10 minutes |
| smartmanager_ | Cookie | Carries a team invite through sign-in without putting it in the address bar. | 10 minutes |
| sm_ | Cookie | Remembers your cookie choices. | 180 days |
| generaltranslation. | Cookie | Remembers your language and serves pages in it. | Browser session |
| nv- | Local storage | Remembers your workspace layout and device preferences. It doesn't hold your conversations or files. | Until you clear it |
| smartmanager_ | Local storage | Adjusts the sign-in screen for a device that has signed in before. | Until you clear it |
| smartmanager_ | Local storage | Remembers whether you allowed product analytics. | Until you clear it |
| smartmanager_ | Local storage | Lets you retrieve your deletion receipt and export after closing your account. | 30 days |
| workos_ | Local storage | Desktop app only: keeps the desktop app signed in. | Until you sign out |
| Sign- | Session storage | Keeps a sign-in, invite or unsent form step in progress. | Until you close the tab |
smartmanager_
session Keeps you signed in with a sealed session from our sign-in provider.
Cookie, up to 30 days
sm_
activity Records when your session started and was last active, so inactive sessions end.
Cookie, up to 30 days
smartmanager_
auth_ transactions Protects the sign-in handshake against forgery. An older single-transaction version may also be cleared.
Cookie, 10 minutes
smartmanager_
invite_ entry Carries a team invite through sign-in without putting it in the address bar.
Cookie, 10 minutes
sm_
consent Remembers your cookie choices.
Cookie, 180 days
generaltranslation.
* Remembers your language and serves pages in it.
Cookie, browser session
nv-
storage Remembers your workspace layout and device preferences. It doesn't hold your conversations or files.
Local storage, until you clear it
smartmanager_
session_ presentsmartmanager_ signed_ in_ before Adjusts the sign-in screen for a device that has signed in before.
Local storage, until you clear it
smartmanager_
product_ analytics_ v1 Remembers whether you allowed product analytics.
Local storage, until you clear it
smartmanager_
account_ deletion_ * Lets you retrieve your deletion receipt and export after closing your account.
Local storage, 30 days
workos_
session_ id Desktop app only: keeps the desktop app signed in.
Local storage, until you sign out
Sign-
in, invite and form steps Keeps a sign-in, invite or unsent form step in progress.
Session storage, until you close the tab
Features you turn on
Set only after you turn a feature on, to remember that setting on this device. Turning the feature off stops their use.
| Name | Stored as | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voice, gesture, gaze and sound settings | Local storage | Remembers input features you turned on, such as gestures or gaze pointing. | Until you clear it |
| smartmanager. | Local storage | Stores eye-tracking calibration after you turn on gaze pointing. It's used for pointing, not to identify you. | Until you clear it |
| nv- | Local storage | Remembers where you are in first-time setup. | Until setup ends |
| On- | Cache storage | Stores speech models you download for on-device voice. | Until you clear it |
Voice, gesture, gaze and sound settings
Remembers input features you turned on, such as gestures or gaze pointing.
Local storage, until you clear it
smartmanager.
gazeCalibration. * Stores eye-tracking calibration after you turn on gaze pointing. It's used for pointing, not to identify you.
Local storage, until you clear it
nv-
onboarding:pending Remembers where you are in first-time setup.
Local storage, until setup ends
On-
device voice models Stores speech models you download for on-device voice.
Cache storage, until you clear it
Analytics (optional)
Help us understand which parts of Smart Manager are used and how fast pages load. Off until you allow them.
| Name | Stored as | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| ph_ | Local storage | A pseudonymous identifier for product analytics. When analytics is off, it stores only the fact that you opted out. | Until you clear it |
| Vercel Web Analytics | None | Counts page views without cookies or device storage. | Not stored |
| Vercel Speed Insights | None | Measures how quickly pages load, without cookies or device storage. | Not stored |
ph_
* (PostHog) A pseudonymous identifier for product analytics. When analytics is off, it stores only the fact that you opted out.
Local storage, until you clear it
Vercel Web Analytics
Counts page views without cookies or device storage.
None, not stored
Vercel Speed Insights
Measures how quickly pages load, without cookies or device storage.
None, not stored
Diagnostics (optional)
Send operational events such as errors and request timings from your browser so we can find and fix problems. Off until you allow them.
| Name | Stored as | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| smartmanager. | Local storage | Queues up to 200 operational events, such as errors and timings, before sending them to our monitoring service. | Until sent |
smartmanager.
operational- events. v1 Queues up to 200 operational events, such as errors and timings, before sending them to our monitoring service.
Local storage, until sent
Third-party content
- Payments open on Stripe's own pages, where Stripe sets its own cookies under its own notice.
- Video embeds such as YouTube load only when you play a video, and the video service may set its own cookies.
- Features you start, such as the Google file picker or Apple Music, load that service's script, which may set its own cookies.
Changes
We update this page when we add or remove a cookie or storage item, and list significant changes on our legal updates page. Questions go to jonathan@smartmanager.ai.