Cookie consent
When you first visit Bower, you’ll see a consent banner at the bottom of the screen. You can choose:- Accept all: enables analytics cookies alongside essential ones.
- Essential only: only the cookies Bower needs to function. No analytics or tracking.
Cookie categories
Essential (always active)
These cookies are required for Bower to work. They cannot be disabled.Analytics (requires consent)
These cookies help us understand how Bower is used so we can improve it. They are only activated after you click “Accept all” in the consent banner.Advertising (requires consent)
Used on our marketing website only (bowerlabs.ai). There is no advertising cookie anywhere in the Bower app.
Like analytics, it loads only after you accept cookies; until then it is not set. Nothing from inside Bower reaches it, and no research content is ever used for advertising.
What we track: page views, feature usage (which tools you use and how often), UI interactions, and error rates. We use this to prioritize improvements and fix bugs.
What analytics events contain: action names and metadata (e.g., “Note Created”, “Search Performed”), not the body of your notes or files. Two honest caveats, because they are how these tools actually work. Session replay, when you consent to it, records what is on your screen, and your screen can include your notes as you edit them. And click tracking can capture the text of the element you clicked, such as a button label or an item title. Both are disabled entirely for workspaces in Restricted mode. Voice recordings and file contents are never sent to analytics.
Session recording and heatmaps are disabled entirely for workspaces in Restricted mode, regardless of your cookie choice. That gate runs in the browser, because session replay sends page content straight to PostHog without passing through Bower’s servers.
Not a cookie: AI quality monitoring
Bower retains AI request and response text in a third-party observability service for quality monitoring. This is server-side. It sets no cookie and no browser storage, so it is not covered by the consent banner above and cannot be changed from this page. It is disclosed in full on AI & your data, and the provider is named on the sub-processor list.Third-party services
Bower uses the following third-party services that may set cookies or process data:
For a complete list of services that process your data, see Data privacy.
Managing your cookies
- On first visit: use the consent banner to make your choice.
- After sign-in: go to Settings > Security to update your analytics-cookie preference.
- In your browser: you can clear Bower’s cookies and localStorage at any time via your browser settings. This will sign you out and reset your consent preference.