Cookies Policy
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You may also want to take a look at our Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy.
Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Photocrowd ("we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files placed on your device or computer that help us to understand how our site is used, provide certain functionalities, and improve your experience.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our site:
A. Necessary Cookies (Strictly Required)
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and cannot be switched off in our systems. Without these cookies, some parts of the website would not function properly. The necessary cookies we place may include:
| Example cookies | Purpose | Duration | First/Third Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| photocrowd-sessionid | Maintains authenticated sessions. | 2 weeks (sliding) | First party |
| photocrowd-cookie-consent | Stores user’s cookie consent status. | 1 year | First party |
| photocrowd-hide-ai | Stores user's AI filter preference. | Persistent | First party |
| photocrowd-user-id | Stores user ID for server-side rendering. | Session | First party |
| photocrowd-screen-width | Stores the user's screen width for responsive rendering. | Session | First party |
| photocrowd-color-scheme | Tracks light/dark mode preference. | Persistent | First party |
| cf_clearance | Ensures traffic validity through Cloudflare. | 1 year | Third party (Cloudflare) |
| cf_chl_rc_i, cf_chl_rc_ni, cf_chl_rc_m | Cloudflare internal cookies for traffic validation. | Persistent | Third party (Cloudflare) |
Additional essential third party cookies relating to our payment provider, Stripe, will also be placed.
These cookies are placed without prior consent as they are necessary for the functioning and security of the site.
B. Non-Necessary Cookies (Requiring Consent)
These cookies are set via our Google Tag Manager integration and help us improve performance, analyze traffic, and personalize content. These cookies are all third party cookies, are only placed with your explicit consent, and may include:
| Service | Example cookies | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. |
| Google Analytics | _ga_* | Used to persist session state. |
| Amplitude | AMP_* | Used by Amplitude Inc. to collect user behavior data for analytics. |
| Amplitude | AMP_MKTG_* | Used for marketing-specific tracking in Amplitude. |
| Amplitude | amplitude_cookie_test.* | Used to test cookie support in the browser. |
| Google Ads | _gads | Associated with Google Ad Manager to measure interactions and performance. |
| Google Ads | IDE | Used by Google for advertising across the web. |
| Google Ads | test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| Google Ads | _gcl | Helps advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking action. |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding. | |
| Microsoft | MR | This is a Microsoft cookie that contains a binary flag. It gets set when you interact with a Microsoft property, including a UET beacon call or a visit to a Microsoft property through the browser. |
| Microsoft | MSPTC | UET assigns this unique, pseudoanonymized visitor ID, representing a unique visitor. It's a partition cookie. This cookie is used in the browsers' Privacy API. |
| Microsoft | MUID | This is a Microsoft cookie that contains a GUID assigned to your browser. It gets set when you interact with a Microsoft property, including a UET beacon call or a visit to a Microsoft property through the browser. |
| Microsoft | _uetmsclkid | This is the Microsoft Click ID, which is used to improve the accuracy of conversion tracking. Note: UET sets a first-party cookie on your site’s domain for this parameter. When auto-tagging of the Microsoft Click ID is enabled, the ad click information is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL. |
| Microsoft | _uetsid | This contains the session ID for a unique session on the site. Note: As of as of July 2023, _uetsid has been updated with additional parameters as follows: insights_sessionId, timestamp, pagenumber, upgrade, upload. |
| Microsoft | _uetvid | UET assigns this unique, pseudoanonymized visitor ID, representing a unique visitor. UET stores this data in a first-party cookie. Note: As of as of July 2023, _uetvid has been updated with additional parameters as follows: insights_userId, cookieVersion, expiryTime, consent, cookie_creation_time. |
You can control which of these cookies are active via our cookie banner when you first visit our site, and you can manage your preferences anytime by clicking the link at the top of this page.
3. How to Control Cookies
When you visit our site, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to:
Accept all cookies
Customize your preferences
You can manage your preferences anytime by clicking the link at the top of this page, and you can also manage cookies via your browser settings.
4. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
5. Contact Us
If you wish to contact us then you can do so at support@photocrowd.com
You may also want to take a look at our Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy.