1. What we use
Your answer about emails, at sign-up
If you tick the box about emails while signing up, this tab remembers it (sessionStorage) until your account exists, so it can be saved on your account, and then removes it. It is gone when you close the tab anyway.
Strictly necessary
Sign-in (Clerk)
Cookies that keep you signed in on this device, also after you close the browser, until you sign out or the session ends, and protect your session. Set by Clerk, which runs sign-in for us.
Strictly necessary
A scan waiting for your account
When you scan a picture before you have an account, this browser keeps the scan’s id and a random code (localStorage), so the account you create or sign in to next can open it. Removed when it is opened, or after 24 hours.
Strictly necessary
Your colours
When a Pro account chooses Classic or Dark in Settings, this browser remembers the choice (localStorage), so pages open in those colours. It holds nothing else, is never sent to us, and is removed when you choose Default or the account isn’t on Pro.
Strictly necessary
Credits notice closed
When you close the notice that says how much of your credits you have used, this browser remembers it for that point of that period (localStorage), so it isn’t shown again until you have used more or your credits reset. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
Creator mode
For the swag.ai team only: when a team account turns on creator mode on the scan page, this browser remembers it (localStorage), so its next scans open as a picture to download. It holds nothing else, is never sent to us, and is removed when creator mode is turned off.
Strictly necessary
Your month’s quiz
For Pro: when the quiz about your month on swag.ai has offered itself, this browser remembers which month it asked about (localStorage), so it opens by itself at most once a month. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
Folded rows on a scan
Which of a result card’s rows (More options, Cheaper, Secondhand) you keep open or folded, and whether your stats and your scan history on the scan page are open, so every card, your next scan and the scan page open the same way (localStorage). It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
A friend’s invite
When you open swag.ai through a friend’s invite link, this browser keeps the link’s code (localStorage) until you make an account, so the invite can count, and then removes it. Kept at most 7 days. It holds nothing else.
Strictly necessary
The yearly banner closed
On a free account, when you close the banner about Pro by the year, this browser remembers when (localStorage), so it stays away for a week. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
When to show the plans
On a free account, how many scans this browser has finished, when the plans were last shown after one, and whether you pressed Don’t show this again (localStorage), so they open after every second scan and not more than once in four hours, or not at all. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
The plans at sign-in
On a free account, which sign-in last showed the plans and whether you pressed Don’t show this again (localStorage), so they open once each time you sign in, or not at all. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
When to ask about emails
On a free account, when the question about emails was last shown after a scan, and whether you pressed Don’t ask me again (localStorage), so it comes back at most every 12 hours, or not at all. It holds nothing else and is never sent to us.
Strictly necessary
Your cookie notice answer
Whether you pressed Accept or Necessary only (localStorage), so the notice isn’t shown again and we know whether you agreed to the menu count in section 2. It holds nothing else. Answers given before 29 October 2026 aren’t counted as agreeing, so the notice asked once more.
Strictly necessary
2. What we ask you about
Everything in the table is needed to sign you in or to do something you chose to do, so it doesn't need your agreement. One thing does, and the notice at the bottom of the page asks about it: counting which menu items you press (Home, Wishlist, Feed, FAQ, What's new, Upgrade, Settings and the like) while you are signed in, so we can see what people use and improve it. With Accept, each press sends the item's name to us and we count it on your account by day; nothing about the page, the time of day or your device is kept, the counts are deleted after 90 days and with your account, and they are in your data export. With Necessary only, nothing is sent. You can change your answer at any time in Settings. We use no analytics service, no advertising and no tracking cookies, and share none of it.
3. Other websites
The photos of products in your results load through our own server. Your browser doesn't contact the shop's or Google's servers to show them, so those servers can't set cookies through the pictures or see your IP address.
When you tap through to a shop, you leave swag.ai. Some links may pass through an affiliate network on the way, which can set its own cookie so the shop knows the visit came from us. Those cookies belong to the network and the shop, under their own policies.
4. Managing them
You can clear or block cookies and site data in your browser settings at any time. Blocking the sign-in cookies signs you out.
