1. What Does This Cookie Policy Cover?
This Cookie Policy explains how EZAudio uses cookies, local storage, session storage, device identifiers, and similar tracking technologies on ezaudio.io — and what choices you have regarding their use.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The practices described here align with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), which require websites to obtain informed consent before storing or accessing information on a user's device.
EZAudio provides browser-based AI audio tools, including Vocal Remover, Splitter, and Audio to Text Converter. These tools need certain storage technologies to keep users signed in, remember preferences, protect free credits from abuse, and preserve product state.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device through your browser. Together with local storage and session storage, they allow websites to remember information about your visit — such as login state, preferences, and site activity.
The EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), as amended, requires that "the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent."
Browser Storage Types
- Cookies: Usually sent between your browser and our server, such as a session cookie for account authentication.
- Local storage: Stored in your browser and used by the site to remember settings, login state, consent choices, and local transcription history.
- Device identifiers: Generated from technical request signals to help provide anonymous daily credits, rate limits, and fraud prevention.
3. How EZAudio Uses Cookies
EZAudio uses cookies and browser storage for four distinct purposes: keeping the site secure and operational, remembering your preferences, protecting free credits from abuse, and maintaining the continuity of your audio workflows across sessions.
Cookie Categories
| Category | Purpose | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Keep the website and audio tools working securely. | Login sessions, API authentication, free credit limits, upload limits, abuse prevention. |
| Functional | Remember your choices and improve repeated workflows. | Theme preference, cookie consent, user display cache, local transcription history. |
| Analytics and Diagnostics | Understand service performance and errors in aggregated or privacy-conscious ways. | Page usage, feature usage, performance metrics, error diagnostics. |
| Security and Anti-Abuse | Protect credits, uploads, accounts, and infrastructure. | Device identifier, IP prefix, user-agent hash, request metadata. |
Consent and Service Usage
We use these technologies to operate the website, secure accounts, remember your choices, maintain audio tool state, and understand high-level service usage. Where optional analytics are introduced, we will respect your cookie consent choice where required by law.
4. Cookies and Local Storage We Use
The table below catalogues every storage item EZAudio currently uses, organized by name, type, purpose, and typical retention period. You can inspect these items anytime through your browser's developer tools (Application → Storage in Chrome or Web Developer → Storage Inspector in Firefox).
| Name | Type | Purpose | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| session | Cookie | Server session used for account authentication and secure login state. | Up to 30 days or until logout |
| ez_token | Local storage | Authentication token used by the frontend to call protected EZAudio API endpoints. | Until logout or manual clearing |
| ez_user | Local storage | Cached account display information used to show login state and user context. | Until logout or manual clearing |
| ezaudio-color-mode | Local storage | Stores light or dark theme preference. | Persistent until changed or cleared |
| cookie-consent | Local storage | Stores your cookie banner choice, such as essential-only or accepted categories. | Persistent until cleared |
| current_device_id | Local storage | Stores the anonymous device context returned by the API for local history and credit workflows. | Persistent until cleared |
| transcription_history_v2 | Local storage | Stores recent Audio to Text transcript history locally by account or device context. | Until deleted by user or browser storage is cleared |
5. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies and storage are strictly necessary for EZAudio's core functionality — without them, you cannot sign in, upload files, process audio, or use your free credits. Under the GDPR, these are processed based on our legitimate interest in providing a secure, functional service (Article 6(1)(f)).
They support login sessions, secure API access, account state, anonymous credit limits, upload limits, and abuse prevention.
You can block essential cookies in your browser, but doing so may prevent login, credit tracking, file upload, audio processing, and other core features from working correctly.
6. Functional Storage
Functional storage improves usability by remembering your choices between visits — but it is not strictly required for the site to work. This category covers your theme preference (light or dark mode), cookie consent choice, cached user display information, and local transcription history.
Local transcription history is stored in your browser so you can revisit recent Audio to Text results on the same device or account context. Clearing browser storage may remove this local history.
7. Analytics and Performance
EZAudio uses aggregated or privacy-conscious diagnostics to understand page performance, feature usage, errors, and service reliability — but does not currently deploy advertising cookies or cross-site behavioral tracking cookies of any kind.
This diagnostic data helps us improve online audio transcription, vocal removal, and stem splitting workflows. If advertising or behavioral tracking cookies are introduced in the future, this policy and our consent controls will be updated where required.
8. Third-Party Technologies
EZAudio relies on third-party service providers to operate key parts of the platform — including cloud infrastructure, AI processing, payments, and email delivery. Some of these providers may set or process cookies or similar identifiers on our behalf.
| Provider Category | Purpose | Related Data |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting and infrastructure | Operate the website, API, database, and file delivery. | Technical logs, request metadata, account and task data where needed. |
| AI processing providers | Process audio features requested by users. | Audio inputs and task metadata needed for transcription, vocal removal, splitting, or summary generation. |
| Payment processors | Process subscriptions or credit purchases. | Billing and transaction data handled by the payment provider. |
| Email and communication providers | Send account, support, security, and service messages. | Email address and message metadata. |
| Analytics and diagnostics providers | Measure product performance and diagnose issues. | Aggregated or pseudonymized usage and technical data. |
Third-party providers process data according to their own policies and our applicable agreements with them.
9. Managing Your Choices
You have several options to control what cookies and storage EZAudio can use on your device — from the on-site cookie banner, to browser-level controls, to account-based privacy requests.
- Cookie banner: Use the banner to accept essential-only or all supported categories where available.
- Browser controls: Most browsers let you delete cookies, block cookies, or clear local storage.
- Local storage reset: Clearing site data for ezaudio.io removes stored theme, login cache, consent preference, and local transcription history.
- Account requests: For privacy requests, contact us at [email protected].
10. Does EZAudio Respond to "Do Not Track"?
No — EZAudio does not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals. There is no consistent industry standard for interpreting or honoring DNT requests, and without one, responding to them would not provide meaningful privacy protection.
Some browsers provide this "Do Not Track" signal as a request that websites stop tracking. Because there is no widely adopted standard, most websites — including EZAudio — do not alter their behavior based on this setting.
11. Updates to This Cookie Policy
EZAudio updates this Cookie Policy whenever our services, storage practices, legal obligations, or third-party providers change. The latest version is always available on this page, with the "Last Updated" date shown at the top.
12. Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions about how EZAudio handles cookies, local storage, transcription history, and what happens when you clear your browser data.
Does EZAudio use advertising cookies?
No. EZAudio does not currently use advertising cookies or cross-site behavioral advertising cookies.
Are local storage items the same as cookies?
No. Local storage is browser storage that is not automatically sent with every request. We list it here because it can store login state, preferences, consent, and local transcription history.
What happens if I clear site data?
You may be signed out, theme and consent preferences may reset, and browser-only transcription history may be removed.
Can I use EZAudio if cookies are disabled?
Some pages may still load, but login, credits, upload limits, and audio processing features may not work correctly without essential cookies or storage.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or EZAudio's privacy practices — including how we use cookies and local storage in our audio transcription, vocal removal, and splitter tools — reach out through the channels below.
Email:[email protected]
Website:https://ezaudio.io