The session cookie
Name: `account`. Set when you open a sign-in link, HttpOnly (no script on the page can read it), SameSite=Lax, Secure on the live site, expires after thirty days. It holds a random session id, not your email address. Signing out deletes it; so does the browser when it expires. Without it the site works fully as a visitor — the free tools, the guides and the funnel need no cookie.
What is kept in the browser instead
The /start/ funnel keeps your answers in localStorage under one key (`ebookgen:start`) so a closed tab does not lose the brief; it is on this device only, never sent anywhere by itself, and cleared when the outline is made or when you choose "Start a new one". Your books themselves are not kept in the browser: they are saved to your account so they open on another device.
What is not here
No advertising cookies, no analytics, no pixels, no A/B testing cookies, no consent banner — because there is nothing to consent to. If that changes (an analytics tool, for instance) this page changes first, with the cookie named and its purpose stated.
Common questions
Straight answers
Do I need to accept cookies?+
No, and the site does not ask. The one cookie is strictly necessary for sign-in and is set only by the act of signing in.
Can I use the site with cookies blocked?+
Everything except signing in. The tools, the guides and the funnel up to the email step need no cookie; opening a sign-in link needs the browser to accept the one session cookie.
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