Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device by your browser when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to make sites work, remember preferences, and produce aggregate analytics. They cannot read other files on your device.

ADA sets the following cookies. We do not set advertising or cross-site cookies.

• ada_cookie_consent — Records that you accepted our consent banner so we don't show it again. Strictly necessary. Lifetime: 1 year.
• __session, __client_uat (set by Clerk) — Authenticate signed-in users and keep your session active. Strictly necessary when you sign in. Lifetime: session / short-lived.
• __stripe_* (set by Stripe on the checkout page) — Used by Stripe to detect fraud and process payments. Set only on pages that embed Stripe. Lifetime: short-lived. See Stripe's privacy notice for details.

We do not currently use third-party analytics or marketing cookies. If we add any in the future, we will update this policy and gate them behind explicit opt-in.

The ADA web app and desktop app also use the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage for non-personal preferences (UI state, draft inputs, collapsed panels). These are not cookies and are never transmitted to our servers.

You can control cookies in three ways:

• Decline non-essential cookies by closing the consent banner without accepting (you can still browse the site; some features that depend on session cookies will be limited).
• Clear cookies in your browser settings; the consent banner will reappear.
• Browser extensions and privacy tools can block specific cookies. Note that blocking session cookies will sign you out.

We honor the Global Privacy Control header when present. We do not respond to legacy DNT headers because we do not run cross-site tracking in the first place.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by a new effective date and, where required, a fresh consent prompt.