Cookie Notice
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This notice explains how IdeasCol, LLC (“Groveback”) uses cookies and similar technologies on groveback.com, docs.groveback.com and the dashboard at app.groveback.com. It complements our Privacy Policy.
The short version
We do not use advertising cookies, third-party analytics, session replay, social media trackers or tracking pixels. We only store what the dashboard needs to keep you signed in and remember your interface preferences. Because all of it is strictly necessary or set at your request, we do not show a cookie banner.
What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Local storage is a similar browser feature that keeps data on your device without sending it with every request. Both can be “first-party” (set by the site you visit) or “third-party” (set by another company’s content embedded in the site).
What we use
| Where | Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | mb_control_tokens, mb_admin_key |
Local storage, first-party | Keeps you signed in to the dashboard (session tokens, or the admin key you signed in with) | Until you sign out or the session expires |
| Dashboard | mb_control_email |
Local storage, first-party | Prefills the email on the sign-in form | Until you clear it |
| Dashboard | sidebar_state |
Cookie, first-party | Remembers whether the sidebar is open | 7 days |
| Dashboard | Interface preferences (grove.colorScheme, groveback.ui.locale, groveback.workspace, mb_assistant_*, mb_studio_*, mb_sound_enabled, per-project layout) |
Local storage, first-party | Remembers your theme, language, current workspace and how you like the dashboard laid out | Until you clear it |
| groveback.com, docs | None | — | Our public sites do not set cookies | — |
Project access tokens are kept in memory only and disappear when you close the tab.
Third-party content
- Tutorial videos. The videos on groveback.com are YouTube videos embedded in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Nothing loads from YouTube until you click play. Once you do, Google may store data on your device and collect information under Google’s Privacy Policy.
- Payments. When you upgrade, you are taken to a checkout page hosted by Stripe, which sets its own cookies for payment and fraud prevention under Stripe’s Privacy Policy.
- Sign-in with Google or GitHub. If you choose it, you sign in on the provider’s own site, which uses its own cookies.
Your choices
You can block or delete cookies and local storage in your browser settings. If you clear the dashboard’s local storage you will be signed out and your preferences will reset; the dashboard will not work if you block local storage entirely. Our public sites work fully without cookies.
Changes
If we start using cookies that are not strictly necessary, such as analytics, we will update this notice and ask for your consent first where the law requires it.
Questions
Write to jairof@ideascol.com.