Cookie & storage policy
- Effective:
- 21 September 2026
- Next review:
- 21 March 2027
- Owner:
- Dom Cowen ([email protected])
This page lists every cookie and browser-storage key Vantage actually sets — not a generic list of what a site “might” use. It was built by tracing the application’s source code directly; see our privacy policy for how this data fits into the bigger picture.
Cookies
Vantage sets the sign-in session cookie, and — only if your organisation uses enterprise SSO — a short-lived cookie for the sign-in redirect below. We do not set, and have found no evidence in our code of, any analytics, advertising, or marketing cookie.
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session cookie (Better Auth) | Necessary | Keeps you signed in and lets the app tell whether a request is authenticated. | Session-lived; cleared on logout or session revoke. |
| SSO state cookie (Better Auth) | Necessary (enterprise SSO only) | Holds the sign-in handshake's state/nonce while you're redirected to your organisation's identity provider and back, so the return trip can be verified. Only set if your organisation uses enterprise SSO. | Cleared automatically once the sign-in redirect completes. |
Both cookies are strictly necessary for the service to work, so neither is gated behind the consent control below — withholding the session cookie would mean you couldn’t stay signed in, and withholding the SSO state cookie would mean you couldn’t complete an enterprise sign-in redirect.
Browser storage (localStorage / sessionStorage)
Vantage also stores a small number of first-party values directly in your browser (not sent to any third party):
| Key | Storage | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
vantage-theme | localStorage | Remembers your light/dark/system theme choice. | Necessary |
vantage-app-theme | localStorage | Remembers which app theme you picked (Dusk Route, Blue Hour or Contour). | Necessary |
vantage-site-mode | localStorage | Remembers the light/dark choice you made on the marketing site. | Necessary |
vantage.portal.token | localStorage | Anonymous identifier so a public feedback portal can de-duplicate your votes. | Necessary (portal feature) |
vantage.portal.email / vantage.portal.name | localStorage | Remembers the email/name you gave when you first submitted or voted on a portal. | Necessary (portal feature) |
vantage:share-attempt-id | localStorage | Rate-limits passcode attempts on a shared link, to slow down guessing. | Necessary (security) |
vantage:share-grant:<token> | sessionStorage | Remembers a shared link's passcode was already entered this browser session. | Necessary |
usage:touched:<workspace>:<module> | sessionStorage | First-party record of which area of the app you've opened this session, sent only to Vantage's own backend. | Necessary (product feature) |
Various UI-state keys (coach-mark and onboarding-card dismissal, platform-operator workflow continuity) | localStorage | Remembers a one-time prompt was dismissed, or resumes an in-progress workflow after a redirect. | Necessary |
vantage.consent.decision | localStorage | Remembers the choice you made in the cookie preferences banner below, so you're not asked again. | Necessary (records your consent choice itself) |
vantage.helpLocale | localStorage | Remembers your preferred language for the in-app help content. | Necessary |
workspace-hard-delete:<orgId>:<workspaceId> | sessionStorage | Tracks progress through the multi-step confirmation for permanently deleting a workspace, so it survives a page refresh mid-confirmation. | Necessary (security) |
Optional processing
Vantage doesn’t currently use any optional analytics, personalisation, or marketing cookie/storage. If we ever add one, it will not run until you’ve accepted it through the consent control available from this marketing site’s footer (“Cookie preferences”) — accepting and rejecting carry equal weight, and you can change your choice at any time. Public feedback-portal and shared-link pages don’t currently carry this control themselves; they only ever write the necessary portal/share storage listed above, never anything optional.
Managing storage yourself
You can clear cookies and site data for Vantage at any time from your browser’s settings; this will sign you out and reset the preferences above.