Cookies Policy

Cookies enable you to sign in to the Photocrowd.com site, and help us tailor your experience so that you can get the most out of using it. A cookie is a text-based file that is lodged automatically on your computer or equivalent device. Each cookie contains information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued it to you. The information that cookies collect includes your registration data, the date and time of your visit, and your navigational history.

There are lots of advantages to the use of cookies:

• They help to safeguard your security by checking your login details, which may help prevent fraudulent use of your account.
• They save you time by getting rid of the need to repeatedly enter the same information into boxes on sign-in pages, etc.
• They enable us to offer you content that has been tailored to suit your particular profile as a user.
• They enable us to identify registered users each time they come back to the site after initial registration.
• They enable the site to remember your preferences each time you sign in, so that you don't need to keep answering prompts about how you want to do certain things.
• They enable protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

In addition to cookies, we may also use other technologies, including single-pixel gifs on our websites and in promotional email messages or newsletters. These electronic images help us work out how many users have visited certain pages on the site or opened messages or newsletters. We do not use these single-pixel gifs to collect personal information.

You always have control over whether or not cookies are allowed onto your computer or equivalent device. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to decline them. Please be aware, however, that declining cookies means that there will then be a less-than-optimal relationship between Photocrowd.com and your browser. You may not be able to sign in automatically, nor use other interactive features of our site and services that rely on the use of cookies. This may of course have a detrimental effect on your experience of using Photocrowd.com. Guidance on blocking cookies in specific browsers can be found at:

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
• Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
• Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Photocrowd.com sets the following cookies essential to the successful operation of the site. Blocking any of these cookies will result in some parts of the website not working correctly.

• sessionid - This cookie is used to connect multiple page views together, allowing users to log in or to perform certain tasks leading into a registration.
• csrftoken - This cookie is used to ensure that data changing requests are always made from a visitor to the website. This is to guard against a kind of phishing attack called a Cross-Site Request Forgery.

Photocrowd.com also sets other temporary cookies to enhance the user experience. These include but are not limited to:

• cookie_popup - used to record that the cookie policy is accepted
• seen_registration_popup - used for logged out users to hide the prompt to register for the site
• strawpoll - used to streamline voting in some competitions

Photocrowd.com may also use the following services from Google LLC, Facebook Inc. and others, which may also set cookies:

AdWords Remarketing and Similar Audiences (Google LLC) and Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook Inc.)

AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the activity of this Application with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US Google Opt Out

The following services enable Photocrowd to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior. Display Advertising extension for Google Analytics (Google LLC) Google Analytics on this Application might use Google's Interest-based advertising, 3rd-party audience data and information from the DoubleClick Cookie to extend analytics with demographics, interests and ads interaction data. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US Opt Out

Google Analytics (Google LLC) Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US Opt Out

Google AdWords conversion tracking (Google LLC) Google AdWords conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC that connects data from the Google AdWords advertising network with actions performed on this Application. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US

Google Tag Manager (Google LLC) Google Tag Manager is an analytics service provided by Google LLC Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: US

User ID extension for Google Analytics (Google LLC) Google Analytics on this Application makes use of a feature called User ID. This setup allows for a more accurate tracking of Users by associating that User with the same ID over various sessions and devices. It is set up in a way that doesn’t allow Google to personally identify an individual or permanently identify a particular device. The User ID extension might make it possible to connect Data from Google Analytics with other Data about the User collected by this Application. The opt-out link below will only opt you out for the device you are on, but not from tracking performed independently by the Owner. Contact the Owner via the email address provided in this privacy policy to object to the aforementioned tracking as well. Personal Data collected: Cookies. Place of processing: US Opt Out

We use Stripe for payment, analytics, and other business services. Stripe collects identifying information about the devices that connect to its services. Stripe uses this information to operate and improve the services it provides to us, including for fraud detection. You can learn more about Stripe and read its privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

If you wish to contact Photocrowd, please do so by email at the following address:

support@photocrowd.com

You may also want to take a look at our Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy.