Cookie Policy
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**Last Updated:** October 26, 2023
Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how DoWithAI (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, https://dowith-ai.com. We use cookies to provide a better browsing experience, understand user behavior, track affiliate sales, and for advertising purposes, always with your consent where required. This policy aims to inform you about what cookies are, the types of cookies we use, their purpose, and how you can manage your preferences.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies can be ‘persistent’ or ‘session’ cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How DoWithAI Uses Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes across our website. These purposes fall into distinct categories, each designed to enhance your experience, analyze site performance, or facilitate our business operations as an affiliate review website. By understanding how we use cookies, you can make informed choices about your privacy preferences.
Types of Cookies We Use and Their Purpose
### Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the DoWithAI website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or remembering your cookie consent preferences. Without these cookies, services like maintaining your session or remembering your consent choice cannot be provided. They do not store any personally identifiable information and are usually set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms. These cookies are always active and do not require your explicit consent as they are fundamental to the website’s operation.
* **Examples:** Session management cookies, cookie consent preference cookies.
* **Purpose:** To enable core website functionality and remember your cookie consent choices.
### Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us to improve the functionality and content of DoWithAI, identifying popular pages, understanding navigation paths, and detecting any issues. We use the following third-party analytics services:
* **Google Analytics 4 (GA4):** Collects data about user interactions, traffic sources, and website performance. We anonymize IP addresses where possible to enhance privacy.
* **Microsoft Clarity:** Provides visual insights into user behavior, such as heatmaps and session recordings, helping us understand how users engage with our content. This data is aggregated and anonymized.
* **Purpose:** To gather anonymous data on website usage and performance to improve user experience and website content.
### Affiliate Tracking Cookies
As an affiliate review website, DoWithAI partners with various vendors, including Amazon, to recommend products and services. When you click on an outbound link from our website to an affiliate partner, a cookie may be placed on your device by that partner. This cookie serves to attribute your purchase or action to DoWithAI, allowing us to earn a commission. This is commonly known as ‘last-click attribution.’ These cookies do not store personal information about you directly but identify that you originated from DoWithAI.
* **Amazon Associates:** Tracks referrals to Amazon.com to ensure we receive commission for eligible purchases.
* **Other Vendor Programs:** Tracks referrals to various software and service providers we review to record successful leads or sales.
* **Purpose:** To track successful referrals to our affiliate partners for commission purposes.
### Advertising Cookies (Optional)
With your explicit consent, we may use advertising cookies to deliver more relevant advertisements to you based on your interests and browsing behavior on our site. These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
* **Examples:** Retargeting pixels, ad personalization cookies from platforms like Google Ads or other ad networks.
* **Purpose:** To provide personalized advertising based on user interests, subject to your consent.
Third-Party Cookies
Many of the cookies described above, particularly analytics, affiliate tracking, and advertising cookies, are set by third parties. These include Google (for Analytics and potentially advertising), Microsoft (for Clarity), Amazon, and other affiliate program vendors. We do not have direct control over these third-party cookies, but we ensure that our partners adhere to data protection regulations and respect your privacy choices.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through various methods:
### Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit DoWithAI, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to:
* **Accept All:** Consent to all types of cookies described above.
* **Reject All:** Opt-out of all non-strictly necessary cookies.
* **Manage Preferences:** Customize your choices by enabling or disabling specific categories of cookies (e.g., analytics, affiliate, advertising) individually. You can revisit these settings at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookie Settings’ or ‘Manage Cookies’ link, usually found in our website’s footer.
### Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to:
* Delete all cookies.
* Block all cookies.
* Allow only certain types of cookies.
* Receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Here’s how to manage cookies in major browsers:
* **Google Chrome:** Navigate to Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > Cookies and site data.
* **Mozilla Firefox:** Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Enhanced Tracking Protection or Cookies and Site Data.
* **Apple Safari:** Access Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data.
* **Microsoft Edge:** Find Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data or Tracking prevention.
Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your user experience and might prevent certain parts of our website from functioning correctly. For example, disabling affiliate tracking cookies might mean that we do not receive credit for your referral, which impacts our ability to continue providing free content and reviews.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the ‘Last Updated’ date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at privacy@dowith-ai.com.