Cookies
This site sets no cookie, and counts its visits without one. Base Captain, once you sign in, sets one, to keep you signed in, remembers a few of your choices in your browser, and gathers data on how it is used, as below. Of all this, only the count of this site’s visits goes to another company.
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This site
No cookie, nothing kept in your browser and no script loaded from another company. Our web server logs each request. To count the visits, each page also sends our analytics provider, PostHog, the page’s address, the page you came from and what you clicked. PostHog counts a visitor without a cookie, by a number it makes on its servers that changes each day. A browser that sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track is not counted. The privacy policy says what is sent and for how long it is kept.
The cookie Base Captain sets
- session
- Keeps you signed in. Set when you sign in, readable by no script on the page, sent only to the base you signed in to, and gone when you sign out or when the session ends: after a day, or thirty days if you asked to stay signed in. Over a secure connection it is named __Host-session.
Kept in your browser
- theme, look, accent, density
- Your theme, look, accent colour and density, so a page opens in them before it has loaded. Kept until you clear your browser’s data.
- assistant-width
- The width you gave the assistant panel, so it opens at that width. Kept until you clear your browser’s data.
- group-collapsed:…
- The groups you folded in a grouped list, so they stay folded in this browser. Kept until you clear your browser’s data.
Kept until you close the tab
- Scroll positions.
- Where you were on each page, so going back returns you there (scroll:…, sveltekit:scroll and sveltekit:snapshot).
- Unsaved form drafts.
- What you typed in a form and have not saved yet, so a reload does not lose it.
- The assistant panel.
- Whether the assistant was open, and the change it just applied, across the reload that applies it.
- Who is signed in.
- The ID of the user signed in in the tab, so that another user who signs in there does not get the drafts and positions above (user).
- The tour.
- That you ended the tour in the tab, so it does not start again (toured).
- An accepted invitation.
- After you accept an invitation, your email address and a message for the sign-in page, which reads them once and removes them (joined).
How Base Captain is used
- What we use.
- We may use data gathered from how Base Captain and its apps are used to improve our products.
- Who sees it.
- We do not share this data with other companies; only the providers that host Base Captain for us keep it.
- In your browser.
- Nothing: no cookie and nothing in your browser’s storage.
We are responsible for this data, as the privacy policy says.
Why there is no banner
The cookie and everything kept in your browser are strictly necessary for what you asked for, signing in and working in a base, or remember a choice you made there. The EU’s ePrivacy rules need no consent for that, only this statement.
The data on how Base Captain is used is not strictly necessary, and we say so. We ask no consent for it because it only measures and improves our own product: no other company, no tracking across sites and nothing stored in your browser. The EU’s rules and its regulators’ guidance are not clear on this, and some regulators may read them more strictly than we do. This is our reading, and we have recorded it.
The count of this site’s visits is not strictly necessary either. It stores nothing in your browser and reads nothing stored there, it measures this site alone, and PostHog handles it for us only: nothing follows you to another site or to another day. So we ask no consent for it, on the same reading, recorded the same way.