Cookie Policy
Last Updated November 1, 2023
Privacy Bee, LLC (collectively, “Privacy Bee”, “us”, “our” or “we”) understands that your privacy is important to you and we are committed to being transparent about the technologies that Privacy Bee uses in this respect. This Cookie Policy (this “Policy”) explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy, including, but not limited, to our website located at https://privacybee.com (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, each of which may be updated by us, from time to time.
1. Changes to this Policy. We may change this Policy at any time, and from time to time. Any change in this Policy will become effective when we make the revised Policy available on or through the Services.
2. Cookies and Other Technologies. A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our Services, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Services. This allows our Services to recognize your device from those of other users of the Services. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more useful information about cookies and other similar tracking technologies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
3. How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
(a) We use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Services. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Services, protect the Services, and to process any requests that you make of us.
(b) To administer our Services and for research purposes, we have also contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Services users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our content on our Services, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Services.
4. First and Third-Party Cookies.
(a) “First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device.
(b) “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Services to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our Services which may also be used to provide measurement services and target ads. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on and how long you are on our sites. This code is only active while you are on our Services. For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their respective privacy policies.
5. Cookies We Use. Depending on the Services that we are providing, we may use the following types of cookies:
5.1 Necessary Cookies. Necessary Cookies are essential to enable your use of the Services and to identify and prevent security risks, such as storing your session information to prevent others from changing your password without your username and password.
5.2 Preference Cookies. Preference Cookies are used to remember your settings and preferences and to improve your experience on our website and in using our Services. For example, we may use these Preference Cookies to remember your language preferences.
5.3 Session Cookies. Session Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from your device when you close the browser. We use these Session Cookies to support the functionality of the Services and to understand your use of the Services—that is, which pages you visit, which links you use, and how long you stay on each page.
| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
| pb | Required | Site functionality and optimization |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Required | Security controls |
| privacy_bee_session | Required | User session cookie |
| auth.pb.state | Required | Privacy Bee user authentication state |
| auth.pb.pkce_state | Required | Privacy Bee user authentication security |
| auth.strategy | Required | Privacy Bee user authentication method |
| auth.redirect | Required | Pre-authentication redirection history |
5.4 Statistics Cookies. Statistics Cookies help collect information about your use of the Services and enable us to improve the way it works. These Cookies give us aggregated information that we use to monitor the Service’s performance, count page visits, spot technical errors, see how users reach the Services, and measure the effectiveness of marketing (including e-mails).
| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | Statistics | Google Analytics helps us track what pages in Privacy Bee they visit, in aggregate. We use it to optimize our marketing initiatives and prioritize things like blog posts and help center articles. |
5.5 Marketing Cookies. Marketing Cookies are used to show users display advertisements across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. We do not display ads for any website besides our own.
| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
| Facebook Pixel | Marketing | We use the Facebook Pixel to acquire users for our service, such as ads on the Facebook feed. We do not display ads for any services besides our own. |
5.6 Unclassified Cookies. Unclassified Cookies are Cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual Cookies.
6. Managing Cookies.
(a) If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the settings of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please see the specific browser procedures below, or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly Necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all, or parts or specific functionalities, of our Services.
(i) Chrome
(ii) Safari
(iii) Safari Mobile (iPhone and iPads)
(iv) Firefox
(v) Microsoft Edge
(b) If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Services from placing further Cookies on your device, unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
(c) For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see http://www.youronlinechoices.eu, if you are located in Europe, or, http://www.aboutads.info/choices, if you are located in the United States of America.
7. How We Use Other Technologies. We may also use web beacons (including conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above and we may include these on our sites, in marketing e-mail messages or our newsletter, affiliated websites, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but they may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity. The information provided above about Cookies generally also applies to web beacons and similar technologies. Conversion pixels are small codes located on a particular web page which are triggered when someone visits a page resulting in an increase in the conversion count.
8. Managing Web Beacons. You may avoid web beacons by configuring your e-mail reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in e-mail messages.
9. Contact Us. If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected], or via our “Contact Us” support form.
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