Cookie Notice
Effective: 2026-05-04 Last updated: 2026-07-26
This Cookie Notice explains how AIGI uses cookies and similar storage on your device.
1. What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored on your device by your browser when you visit a website. We also use related browser technologies such as localStorage and sessionStorage. For brevity, this notice refers to all of them as "cookies."
2. Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary (always on; no consent required)
These are required for the Service to function. Disabling them will break sign-in.
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
session |
JWT session cookie. Identifies your authenticated session after sign-in. HttpOnly, Secure, scoped to aigovbrief.com subdomains so the app and API share the session. |
7 days |
Product and News Room analytics (off)
AIGI's consent-controlled product-analytics mode is currently disabled. We do not currently send AIGI product-event payloads to managed PostHog. The deployed client may still request PostHog project configuration or support scripts because a public project key is present; like any web request, those requests expose ordinary connection metadata such as IP address, user agent, and request time. Heatmaps, autocapture, session replay, displayed surveys, persistent PostHog profiles, and transmitted Web Vitals events are not active. The disabled controller does not create its analytics identity or consent entries.
The same controller also keeps first-party News Room engagement measurement off. While disabled, article pages do not submit engagement events, create a journey identifier, or read or create a return-visit entry.
If AIGI proposes activation, the reviewed policy will select one of these storage postures before collection starts:
| Storage key | Policy and purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| No browser key; in-memory News Room journey identifier | No-storage mode only. A random page-journey identifier exists in memory while the article is open and is never written to browser storage. | Current page visit |
aigi_analytics_consent_v1 (localStorage) |
Consented-storage mode only. Records the explicit analytics choice and policy revision. | Until the choice is withdrawn, the policy changes, or site data is cleared |
aigi_analytics_identity_v1 (localStorage) |
Consented-storage mode only. Holds an opaque analytics identifier and controlled attribution fields; no article, search, prompt, form, or account text. | Until consent is withdrawn, the policy changes, or site data is cleared |
aigi_analytics_session_v1 (sessionStorage) |
Consented-storage mode only. Holds an opaque session identifier. | Until the tab session ends |
aigi_newsroom_return_v3:<article-slug> (localStorage) |
Consented-storage mode only. Holds the last-visit date used to count an aggregate return visit on a later day. | Until consent is withdrawn, the policy changes, or site data is cleared |
Any activation must also preserve the closed event catalog, structural section keys, text and form masking, route exclusions, retention and rights controls, and the choice required by the reviewed regional policy. AIGI will reconcile this Notice with the exact deployed controls before activation.
3. Third-Party Cookies
The pages where you provide payment information are served by Stripe. Stripe sets its own fraud-prevention cookies on its checkout pages. Those cookies are governed by Stripe's privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy.
We do not use third-party advertising cookies, social-media tracking pixels, or remarketing tags.
4. Managing Cookies
Browser controls: All major browsers let you block or delete cookies. Be aware that blocking the strictly-necessary session cookie will break sign-in.
Product and News Room measurement: No analytics storage is created while measurement is disabled. If consented-storage measurement is activated, you can withdraw consent through the analytics choice control or clear site data for aigovbrief.com. You may also request deletion of associated first-party engagement records by emailing privacy@aigovbrief.com.
Global Privacy Control / Do Not Track: A GPC signal, or a DNT value of 1 or yes, prevents AIGI's consent-controlled product analytics and first-party News Room measurement from starting. When either signal is present, AIGI does not submit News Room events or read or create analytics or News Room storage.
5. Changes
If we change cookie or similar-storage usage materially, we will update this Notice before the change takes effect and add a consent step where one is required.
6. Contact
Questions: privacy@aigovbrief.com.