Cookies Policy

A short summary

If you don't want to read the rest, here is the substance:

• The Manav marketing site (manavagi.com) sets no cookies at the time this policy was published. There are no analytics cookies, no advertising cookies, and no third-party trackers loaded.
• The Manav platform (the signed-in app) sets a small number of strictly necessary cookies to log you in and protect against cross-site request forgery. There are no marketing or analytics cookies in the platform either.
• We do not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Mixpanel, Posthog, Amplitude, or any similar third-party tracker on either surface.
• If we ever add cookies that require consent under applicable law, we will deploy a consent banner before they load.

The longer version explains exactly what we do and why.

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store. The browser then sends it back on subsequent requests. Cookies have a name, a value, an expiry, and a domain. Variants include:

• Session cookies — deleted when you close the browser.
• Persistent cookies — kept until they expire or you delete them.
• First-party cookies — set by the site you are visiting.
• Third-party cookies — set by a different domain (typically advertising / analytics networks).

The term "similar technologies" covers things that behave like cookies for tracking or storage purposes: localStorage, sessionStorage, browser fingerprinting, pixel-based tracking, and so on.

2. Cookies on the Manav marketing site

As of the effective date of this policy, the Manav marketing site (manavagi.com and its subdomains used for marketing content) sets no cookies of any kind.

Specifically:

If you open your browser's developer tools on a Manav marketing page and inspect the cookie jar, you should see an empty list for the manavagi.com domain.

How we measure traffic without cookies

We do track aggregate page-view counts so we know which pages are read and which are not. The mechanism is first-party server-side:

• When a page is rendered in your browser, a small fetch() is sent to our server endpoint at /api/stats with the page path you visited.
• Our server appends one row to a database with (page_path, timestamp).
• No cookie is set. No identifier is stored. We do not know it was you who visited; we know only that someone visited that page at that time. The same person visiting the same page twice produces two indistinguishable rows.

Your IP address may appear in our standard server access logs alongside the request, kept for security purposes (see the Privacy Policy) and not used for tracking.

If you'd rather not contribute to even that aggregate count, browser settings that block scripts entirely will prevent the fetch() from being made.

3. Cookies on the Manav platform (when you sign in)

The Manav platform (the signed-in product application) sets a small number of cookies. These are strictly necessary for the application to function and are not used for analytics or advertising.

These cookies do not identify you to any third party. They are necessary for the service to operate — without them, you cannot sign in. As such, under GDPR and similar laws, no consent is required for these.

4. Cookies and similar technologies we do not use

To be explicit, on both the marketing site and the platform, we do not use:

• Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or any other Google tracking script;
• Meta Pixel (Facebook), TikTok Pixel, X/Twitter Pixel, or any social-media tracking pixel;
• Mixpanel, Posthog, Amplitude, Heap, FullStory, Hotjar, or similar product-analytics SDKs;
• Segment, RudderStack, or other customer-data-platform SDKs;
• Advertising networks or retargeting cookies;
• Behavioural advertising based on browsing history;
• Browser fingerprinting libraries;
• Third-party "share" buttons that load tracking scripts from the social network.

If we add any of these in the future, this policy will be updated, your account will be notified (if applicable), and — for cookies that legally require consent — a consent banner will appear before any tracking script is loaded.

5. Cookies set by integrations you choose to use

The Manav platform allows you to connect third-party integrations (for example, Slack, Stripe, your model provider via BYOLLM, or any MCP server). If you trigger an OAuth flow or otherwise interact with one of these third parties, they may set cookies on their own domain as part of that interaction.

We have no control over and no visibility into cookies set on third-party domains. The third party's own privacy and cookies policies apply.

6. Sub-processor cookies on platform pages

Where the platform embeds a sub-processor's resource (for example, a Stripe checkout iframe), that sub-processor may set cookies on its own domain to protect that flow. The cookies that Stripe sets during a checkout are governed by Stripe's cookie policy. We do not have access to those cookies.

7. How to control cookies

You can control cookies in the following ways.

7.1 Browser settings

Every major browser lets you:

• view all cookies currently stored;
• delete specific cookies or all cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• block all cookies (note: this may break sign-in to the platform).

The instructions vary by browser. Vendor links:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge

7.2 Do Not Track

We honour the spirit of the "Do Not Track" signal in this sense: we don't track you in a way that would require ignoring the signal in the first place. We don't set tracking cookies, don't load third-party analytics, and don't fingerprint browsers.

7.3 Global Privacy Control (GPC)

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as an opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal data under the CCPA. (We do not sell or share personal data in that statutory sense anyway, but the signal is logged for completeness.)

7.4 Withdrawing consent

If a future version of the marketing site or platform requires you to consent to optional cookies (analytics, marketing, etc.), the consent banner will let you change or withdraw that consent at any time from the cookie-preferences page or footer link.

8. Changes to this policy

If we change how cookies are used on either surface, we will:

• update the version date and effective date at the top of this page;
• where the change is material (for example, introducing analytics cookies), provide reasonable notice and a consent mechanism before the change takes effect;
• maintain prior versions in our git repository for reference.

9. Contact

For questions about this policy or about cookies on the Manav surfaces, contact:

• Email: privacy@manavagi.com
• Postal: Manav Research Lab Pvt. Ltd., 2165 Sushant Lok, Gurugram – 122002, Haryana, India

Also see our Privacy Policy for the broader picture of how we handle personal data, and our Data Processing Agreement for processing personal data on behalf of customer organisations.