Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Career Workbench uses cookies and similar technologies. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. We also use browser storage APIs (localStorage and sessionStorage), which behave similarly. In the rest of this page we refer to all of them as “cookies”.
2. Strictly necessary cookies we set
These cookies are required to operate the Service. They are always set and do not require your consent under the ePrivacy Directive.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
cw_access | HttpOnly cookie | Short-lived authentication token used to keep you signed in. | ~30 minutes |
cw_refresh | HttpOnly cookie | Refresh token used to renew your session without signing in again. | ~7 days |
cw-cookie-consent | localStorage | Remembers your cookie-consent choice so we don’t show the banner again. | Until you clear it |
cw:sw-reload-pending | sessionStorage | Technical flag used to reload the page after a service-worker update. | Until the browser tab is closed |
3. Analytics and advertising cookies
Right now, Career Workbench does not load any analytics or advertising cookies. No Google Analytics, Plausible, PostHog, Meta Pixel, or similar third-party trackers are active in the V1 thesis demo.
We do collect a small amount of first-party diagnostic telemetry to monitor whether the tools complete successfully (event names like tool_run_started, tool_run_succeeded,frontend_error). The payload contains the tool ID, route, access mode (guest or authenticated), and an opaque history identifier, never the resume text or job description content. This telemetry runs from our own backend and is suppressed when you decline cookies.
In the future we may enable Google AdSense to support the free tier. If and when that happens, AdSense will load only after you accept cookies, and Google may then set advertising cookies on your device. You can read more in Google’s ads policy.
4. Error monitoring (Sentry)
When something crashes in the app, we send a diagnostic event to Sentry to help us fix the bug. Sentry does not set tracking cookies for this; it is triggered only on errors and uses a minimal payload. See Sentry’s privacy policy for details.
5. Managing cookies
You control cookies in two places:
- In your browser: every major browser lets you block or delete cookies. See aboutcookies.org for guides. Blocking strictly-necessary cookies will sign you out.
- In Career Workbench: you can reset your cookie-consent choice below. The consent banner will reappear the next time you visit.
6. Contact
Questions? Email goncuegemen@gmail.com.