Cookie Policy
Effective date: 30 October 2026
Version 2026-10-30 · replaces the policy of 29 October 2026
This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies used by edsmartly.com and app.edsmartly.com, operated byAxiom Intelligence Partners LLC.
The short version. We use only what is needed to sign you in, remember your language and campus, and remember a few things you chose or typed, all listed below and none of them sent anywhere to track you. Our visitor analytics is cookieless — it stores nothing on your device and cannot follow you anywhere. There is no advertising, no tracking pixel and no cross-site profiling. You can still switch analytics off, and it will genuinely stop loading.
1. Exactly what we use
| Name | Category | What it does | Where | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase auth session | Strictly necessary | Keeps you signed in to the copilot app. | app.edsmartly.com | Session, up to 12 months |
eds_campus | Strictly necessary | Remembers which campus you are working in, if you belong to more than one. Set server-side and not readable by scripts. | app.edsmartly.com | 12 months |
eds_consent | Strictly necessary | Remembers your choice on this page. Stored in your browser's local storage, not as a cookie. | edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds_ui_lang | Strictly necessary | Remembers the interface language you chose, so the app opens in it. | app.edsmartly.com | 12 months |
ui_lang | Strictly necessary | The same language choice, kept in local storage as a fallback. | app.edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds_email, eds_display_name | Strictly necessary | Show your name and email in the account menu while the app loads. Local storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds_logout | Strictly necessary | Signs you out in every open tab when you sign out in one. Local storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds-live-check | Strictly necessary | Keeps a student's place in a Live Check if the page reloads. Session storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until the tab closes |
edsmartly_context | Functional | Remembers the copilot's last settings (curriculum, grade, subject, language) for each workspace. Local storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds_term_evidence_… | Functional | Keeps your unsent edits to a term evidence report. Local storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until you clear it |
eds_trial | Functional | Remembers your trial's days left for 15 minutes, to save a request. Session storage. | app.edsmartly.com | 15 minutes, or until the tab closes |
eds_start | Functional | Remembers which tool you came to try from one of our pages, so it opens after you sign up. A tool name and a time only. Local storage. | app.edsmartly.com | Until it is used, at most 7 days |
eds_unlocked | Functional | Remembers that you filled in the short form for a download or a paper, so you are not asked again. A single flag, never your details. Session storage. | edsmartly.com | Until the tab closes |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Strictly necessary | Runs only on the app's sign-up form. Checks that a person, not an automated program, is creating the account, by reading technical details of your browser inside Cloudflare's own frame. EdSmartly stores nothing for it. | challenges.cloudflare.com | For the check only (see section 3) |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Analytics | Counts visits and page views. Sets no cookie and stores nothing on your device. | edsmartly.com | Nothing is stored |
| — | Advertising | None. We run no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels and no cross-site profiling. | — | — |
2. Why there is no consent banner — and why you still get a real switch
Cookie-consent law is about storing information on your device, or reading it back. Three things follow:
- Strictly necessary cookies are exempt. Without them, signing in does not work — so there is no meaningful choice to offer.
- The functional items are set only by something you did, such as a setting you chose in the app or a form you filled in, and they do only that one job: remembering it for you. They stay in your browser, carry no identifier for tracking, and are never read by anyone else.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics stores nothing at all. It sets no cookie, writes nothing to your device, uses no fingerprinting, and cannot follow you to other websites. It reports how many people viewed a page — never who you are. Because nothing is placed on your device, there is nothing to consent to.
So we inform you rather than block you with a consent wall you cannot meaningfully refuse.
We give you the off switch anyway. In Cookie preferences you can turn Analytics off, and the Cloudflare script will not load at all — not merely be recorded as unwanted. A preference centre whose toggles change nothing is theatre, and we would rather it worked.
3. Third parties that can see your IP address
Every request your browser makes reveals your IP address to whoever answers it. That is how the internet works, and we would rather list it than let you discover it. On EdSmartly, those parties are:
- Netlify — serves this website and the app.
- Cloudflare — serves the analytics beacon described above.
- Cloudflare Turnstile, on the app's sign-up form only: the check described above. Cloudflare may set its own security cookies on its own domain while the check runs; we never read them. Its use of this data is described in Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
- Google and Microsoft, only when a school administrator chooses a staff list from Google Drive or OneDrive to invite teachers. Their sign-in and file windows open on their own sites and use their own cookies there. EdSmartly sets nothing for this and stores nothing on your device.
- Font delivery — the typefaces used across this site are served from our own servers. No third-party font services are used.
None of them set cookies on this site, and none of them build a profile of you for us.
4. Managing your choices
- Open Cookie preferences at any time — it is linked in the footer of every page.
- Turning Analytics off stops the beacon loading on every page you visit afterwards.
- Strictly necessary cookies cannot be switched off. Blocking them in your browser will break sign-in.
- You can clear cookies and local storage at any time in your browser settings.
5. If this ever changes
If we introduce a new technology, we will publish a new version of this policy first. And if we ever adopt anything that does require consent — anything that stores or reads information on your device for advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking — we will ask you before it runs, not after.
6. Contact
Axiom Intelligence Partners LLC
30 N Gould St #68017, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States
privacy@edsmartly.com