Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember your preferences, maintain secure sessions, improve performance, and provide a more personalized browsing experience.

PaperDraft uses cookies and similar technologies to deliver core platform functionality, authenticate users, remember preferences, and understand how our services are used. These technologies allow us to continuously improve the experience for researchers, students, educators, and institutions using our platform.

• Maintain secure login sessions.
• Remember your preferences.
• Improve website performance.
• Provide a consistent experience across devices.

Some cookies are placed directly by PaperDraft, while others may be provided by trusted third-party services that support analytics, payments, authentication, or security.

2. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for the operation of PaperDraft. Without these cookies, core functionality such as signing in, maintaining secure sessions, switching organizations, and protecting user accounts would not function correctly.

These cookies do not track you for advertising purposes and cannot generally be disabled because they are required for the platform to operate securely.

• Authentication and login sessions.
• Account security.
• CSRF protection.
• Load balancing and infrastructure reliability.
• Workspace preferences.

3. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors and customers interact with PaperDraft. These insights allow us to identify popular features, detect usability issues, improve page performance, and continuously enhance the research experience.

The information collected through analytics cookies is aggregated whenever possible and is used for statistical purposes rather than identifying individual users. We do not sell analytics data or use it for unrelated advertising purposes.

• Measure website traffic and usage trends.
• Understand feature adoption.
• Improve page loading performance.
• Identify bugs and usability issues.
• Optimize product development decisions.

4. Functional Cookies & Preferences

Functional cookies remember choices you make while using PaperDraft so your experience remains consistent across sessions. These cookies improve convenience by storing preferences without affecting the security of your account.

Depending on the features you use, PaperDraft may remember language preferences, recently selected organizations, editor settings, interface preferences, and other personalization options that help streamline your workflow.

• Remember language preferences.
• Store editor personalization settings.
• Remember your selected organization or workspace.
• Retain interface layout preferences.
• Improve usability across future visits.

Disabling these cookies may cause certain personalization features to reset each time you visit PaperDraft, but the core functionality of the platform will continue to work.

5. Managing Cookies

Most modern web browsers allow you to manage, restrict, or delete cookies through their settings. You can choose to remove previously stored cookies or prevent certain cookies from being placed on your device in the future.

Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain PaperDraft features, including authentication, workspace preferences, and personalized settings. Essential cookies remain necessary for secure access to your account.

• View cookies stored by your browser.
• Delete previously stored cookies.
• Block third-party cookies.
• Configure browser-specific privacy settings.
• Clear browser storage when signing out.