Cookie Policy

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They cannot execute code or deliver viruses to your computer.

2. How We Use Cookies

Run Business Smartly uses cookies to optimize site features and protect security. We categorize our cookies as follows:

• Essential Session Cookies: These cookies are critical to log you in and manage your authenticated portal sessions via NextAuth. Without them, you would not be able to navigate within your dashboard or stay securely signed in.
• Security & Rate Limiting Cookies: Used to identify request sources and verify anti-CSRF tokens. They prevent brute-force attacks and guarantee that malicious actors cannot spoof your user profile.
• Preference Cookies: Used to temporarily store UI choices (such as language, currency formatting presets, or recently customized invoice theme color indices) to offer a streamlined user experience.

3. Third-Party Cookies

We do not allow third-party advertising cookies or analytics script trackers to scan your invoice transaction databases or company metadata. However, our hosting and database networks (such as Upstash Redis or Vercel edge modules) may store transient network logs and cookies solely for security verification and load balancing.

4. Managing Cookie Settings

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can configure your browser to block cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. Please note that if you choose to disable essential cookies, major portions of the Run Business Smartly dashboard (such as client drawers, SMTP setups, and invoice lists) will cease to function correctly.