The short answer
Prospektor stores six small things on the device you are reading this on, and every one of them is either signing you in or remembering a preference you set about your own screen. There is no analytics tool, no advertising, no session recording and no third party — the studio's pages make no request to any other company at all, not even for typefaces.
Two things are counted, on Prospektor's own servers rather than on your device, and they are set out in What Prospektor counts about your use below. Until 24 August 2026 this page said "no analytics" without that paragraph, which was true of your browser and not true of the product. It is corrected here and in the panel itself.
That is why the notice you saw on your first visit had a Got it button rather than an Accept and a Reject. There is nothing optional to accept or reject yet, and a choice over nothing is worse than no question at all.
Seeing the list yourself
Cookies in the footer of any page, or the address studio.prospektor.ai/#cookies, opens the full list: what each item is called, whether it is a cookie or browser storage, what it is for, and how long it stays. It is the same list the code works from, so it cannot drift out of date without a test failing.
| What | Kind | For | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
pps_session | Cookie | Keeps you signed in, and remembers which workspace you picked | 12 hours |
pps_oauth_state | Cookie | Protects the Google sign-in round trip | 10 minutes |
pps_share | Cookie | Remembers which shared pitch sent you to sign in, so you land back on it | 10 minutes |
pps-theme | Local storage | This device's light/dark choice | Until you clear site data |
pps-library-sort | Local storage | How this device likes the library sorted | Until you clear site data |
pps-consent | Local storage | Your answer to the cookie notice, and when you gave it | 12 months |
The two pps- preferences are stored on the device, not against your account — your colleagues are unaffected, and nobody, including us, can look up how you like the studio to appear.
What Prospektor counts about your use
Neither of these is a cookie, neither involves another company, and neither records anything you looked at. They are records kept on Prospektor's servers, and this page names them because a page titled what is kept about me that stopped at cookies would be answering an easier question than the one you asked. The same two are listed in the Cookies panel in the studio's footer, in the same words the code works from.
When you were last here
Per member, per workspace: your email address, when you first and last opened the studio here, when you last signed in, how many separate days you have been here, how many times you have signed in, and whether the last sign-in came through Google or an emailed link.
Not what you looked at. No page, no screen, no search, no pitch, no scroll and no dwell time — the record is written when you arrive and knows nothing about what you did next.
It is written on the studio's own start-up call, at most once an hour. It exists so a workspace nobody has opened in a month gets a conversation rather than an invoice. Only Prospektor's operator sees it, on the monitoring screen — not your colleagues, not the agency above you, and nowhere in the product. It is deleted with the workspace.
The life of this workspace
About the workspace rather than about you: when it was created, which door it came through, its plan, and the dates it was suspended, resumed or ended. No address, no company name, nothing anybody typed or produced.
This one deliberately outlives the workspace it describes — otherwise the question do customers stay? could only ever be asked of the customers who did. When a workspace is deleted the record is re-keyed to a one-way hash and marked erased, so the arithmetic survives without you surviving in it.
If you would rather we did not
Both run on legitimate interest rather than on consent, which is why there is no switch for them in the Cookies panel — a switch that has to say yes is worse than an honest sentence. What you have instead is the right to object, under Article 21 of the GDPR.
Write to privacy@prospektor.ai. A person answers every one: either we stop counting you, or we tell you why we believe we may continue — and if you disagree with that answer you can take it to your supervisory authority. Nothing about your account changes while you wait, and objecting is never a reason for anything in the studio to work differently.
Changing your mind
Click Cookies in the footer. Whatever you chose, the same panel that set it will unset it, from any page, with no sign-in and no email to anyone. If you clear your browser's site data, the answer goes with it and you will be asked again on your next visit.
You will also be asked again if twelve months pass, or if we ever change what we store — an answer to one version of this notice is not treated as an answer to a different one.
If your browser says no on your behalf
Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control signal, which is a standing "do not sell or share my information". Prospektor reads that as a refusal of everything optional and records it that way without asking you again. You can still turn something on from the Cookies panel if you want to.
Why there is a panel at all if nothing is optional
Because of what comes next. The panel is the gate anything loaded into your browser would have to come through, and it is switched on before there is anything to gate rather than after. If Prospektor ever adds an analytics tool, three things happen at once and none of them is optional for us: it appears in that list with its name and its purpose, the notice turns into a real Accept and Reject with equal weight, and it does not load at all until you have said yes.
The two records above are the other kind of thing, and the panel now says so in the same breath rather than leaving them to a policy page. A gate is the right answer for something that would run in your browser; for something that runs on our servers under legitimate interest, the right answer is to name it and to make objecting easy.
Your phone number, and your passkeys
Two things we hold about you rather than about your work, both added 24 August 2026:
- A recovery phone number, if you gave one. Its only purposes are getting you back into your account and reaching you about the account itself. It is never sent to a model, never included in a pitch, a proposal or a shared link, never used for marketing, and no third party receives it. Clear it any time in Workspace settings → Your account.
- Your passkeys, if you made any — and specifically only their public halves. The private key never leaves your device and we never see it. We keep no information about the make or model of your device, no IP address and no browser fingerprint: a passkey record is a public key, a coarse label like "This device", when it was made and when it was last used.
- Your contact permissions — which of product email, account texts, product texts and phone calls you have allowed, when you last changed each one, and whether you answered on the first card or in settings. Withdrawals are recorded the same way grants are, so there is always an answer to "what did I agree to, and when". Nothing is actually sent through any of these channels: Prospektor has no mailing list, no text-message provider and nobody making calls. If that ever changes, this page changes first.
The first two belong to your account rather than to a workspace, so deleting a workspace does not remove them. Removing a passkey in Your account does; so does asking us to erase your account data at privacy@prospektor.ai.
Share links
If someone sent you a Prospektor link and you are reading their work rather than using the studio, the same is true of that page: strictly necessary cookies only, no third-party requests, and the same Cookies link in its footer. The person who shared it can see that the link was opened; what they see, and what the sender's workspace knows about you, is set out in the privacy policy.