Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, such as login status, preferences, security settings, and usage activity. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, session storage, and software development kits.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Keep you signed in and maintain secure sessions.
• Remember your language, preferences, and account settings.
• Provide core platform features and improve website performance.
• Understand how users interact with the platform.
• Detect fraud, abuse, and security risks.
• Support analytics, measurement, and, where applicable, marketing.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the platform to function. They may be used for authentication, security, session management, load balancing, checkout, and fraud prevention. You cannot disable essential cookies through our cookie tools because the platform may not work properly without them.

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make, such as language, region, display settings, or saved preferences, so we can provide a more personalized experience.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the platform, which pages are visited, which features are used, and whether errors occur. This helps us improve performance and usability.

Marketing Cookies

Where used, these cookies may help deliver relevant content, measure advertising campaigns, limit repeated ads, or understand user engagement. Marketing cookies are used only where permitted by law and your consent preferences.

4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set by SiteCalm. Third-party cookies may be set by external providers that support services such as analytics, hosting, payment processing, fraud prevention, embedded content, customer support, or advertising. Third-party providers may use cookies according to their own policies.

5. Examples of Cookies

The specific cookies used may change over time. Examples may include:

• Session cookies: used to keep your login session active and secure.
• CSRF/security cookies: used to protect forms and requests from unauthorized actions.
• Preference cookies: used to remember language or interface settings.
• Analytics cookies: used to measure visits, page views, and platform performance.
• Payment/security cookies: used by payment or fraud-prevention providers during checkout.

6. Managing Cookies

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or receive alerts about cookies. If you block or delete cookies, some platform features may not work correctly, including login, account settings, checkout, and saved preferences.

Where required by law, we may also provide a cookie banner or preference center that allows you to accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookies.

7. Browser Controls

You can usually manage cookies in the settings menu of your browser. The exact controls depend on the browser and device you use. You may also use private browsing modes, browser extensions, or device-level settings to limit tracking technologies.

8. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or similar signals. Because there is no single industry standard for these signals, our response may vary. Where required by applicable law, we will honor legally recognized opt-out signals such as applicable global privacy controls.

9. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, or our platform. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us at: privacy@example.com.