Cookie Policy
We use a few essential cookies to sign you in and protect the service, a few functional ones to make Ask work, and one optional analytics tool. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
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In short
- Essential cookies keep you signed in and protect sign-in from bots. They cannot be switched off, because the site needs them.
- Functional cookies and storage remember your Ask conversation and reading preferences on this device.
- Analytics (PostHog, served from our own subdomain t.retailintel.in) tells us which pages help readers, including session replays with everything you type masked. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland it runs only if you say yes. Everywhere else it runs unless you turn it off or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Session replays are recorded only if you say yes, in every country (including India and the United States): choose Allow analytics in .
Every cookie we set
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Type | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__session, __client_uat, __client_uat_* | Clerk, on retailintel.in | Keeps you signed in | Essential | Session (__session); 400 days (__client_uat) |
__client | Clerk, on clerk.retailintel.in | Sign-in state for the account service | Essential | 400 days |
__clerk_environment (local storage) | Clerk | Caches the sign-in service settings | Essential | Until you clear it |
__cf_bm, _cfuvid | Cloudflare, on clerk.retailintel.in | Bot protection and rate limiting for sign-in | Essential | 30 minutes; session |
clarity-retail-session | RetailIntel | Signs you in to manage email alerts from an emailed link | Essential | 30 days |
ri:consent:v1 (local storage) | RetailIntel | Remembers your analytics choice | Essential | Until you clear it |
clarity-ask-sid | RetailIntel | Keeps your Ask conversation together and applies the free question limit | Functional | 30 days |
ri_ask_intent | RetailIntel | Remembers a question you started, so it runs after you sign in | Functional | Minutes |
clarity:thread:* (local storage) | RetailIntel | Lets you reopen an Ask conversation on this device | Functional | Until you clear it |
ri:reading-font (local storage) | RetailIntel | Remembers your reading font choice | Functional | Until you clear it |
ph_phc_*_posthog, ph_phc_*_posthog_cpm (cookie and local storage) | PostHog, through t.retailintel.in | Analytics: counts visits and sessions and, if you are signed in, links them to your account ID | Analytics | 1 year |
ri_ft | RetailIntel | Analytics: how you first found RetailIntel (the referring site's domain, the campaign tag in the link and the first page you opened), copied onto your account if you sign up, so we know which channels bring subscribers | Analytics | 90 days |
Your choices
Change your analytics choice at any time: . Turning analytics off stops collection straight away and removes the analytics cookies from this browser. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings; if you block essential cookies, sign-in will not work.