Cookie Policy
Last Updated October 28, 2026
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 https://www.allaboutcookies.org and https://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) We use service providers to process measurement on our behalf. Visitor-based measurement may connect activity to an account or purchase and support server-side advertising attribution. Anonymous quiz measurement is separate: providers receive declared action categories and a UTC day, without visitor or account identity, page URLs, IP addresses, browser details or precise action times in the measurement payload.
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:
Our public sites may set pb_consent for your choice, pb_vid for permitted visitor measurement, and pb_promo to carry a discount you request to checkout. Live chat uses pb_anon_id and pb_chat_seen when you use it. Sign-in cookies support the Privacy Bee apps.
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 so that no one else can act on your Account without completing sign-in.
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_consent | Required | Remembers whether you accept or reject the visitor cookie. First-party across Privacy Bee subdomains, 12-month retention. Set when you make a choice. |
| pb_promo | Required | Carries a discount you requested to checkout. First-party, up to 30 days; checkout clears it after use. It is not a visitor identifier. |
| pb_promo_quiz_suppressed | Required | Remembers that you dismissed or completed the discount dialog so it stays closed across site pages during your browser session. First-party session cookie; contains no visitor identifier. |
| pb_anon_id | Required | Live-chat session so your support conversation can continue across pages and reloads. First-party, 30-day retention, functional only — it identifies the conversation, not you, and is cleared once you sign in. Set only if you open chat. |
| pb_chat_seen | Required | Records only that this browser has an ongoing support conversation, so any Privacy Bee page can reconnect you to it and deliver a reply. First-party across privacybee.com, 30-day retention, functional only — its value is a flag, not an identifier, and it carries nothing about you or what was said. Set only if you send or receive a chat message. |
| pb | Required | Site functionality and optimization (member dashboard only) |
| 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 Visitor and Statistical Measurement. Visitor-based measurement and anonymous quiz counts have different purposes and data flows.
| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| pb_vid | Analytics and marketing attribution | Our first-party visitor identifier connects pageviews, quiz activity and conversions across privacybee.com and our subdomains. This can connect activity to an account and support server-side marketing attribution. It has a 90-day rolling lifetime. It is not used or refreshed after rejection or while required consent is missing. Quiz callbacks never create this cookie. |
Anonymous quiz measurement counts declared questions, answer selections, screen views and step completions by UTC day and quiz version or variant. It does not create a visitor profile, store an individual journey, link those counts to an account, or export them for advertising. Each action has a random retry key so a network retry does not add another count. Hashed retry receipts have a four-day expiry; aggregate counters have a 400-day expiry. Quiz event retries stay in active browser memory; answers are not saved in browser storage or Privacy Bee customer records.
Your email and other information supplied to sign up or purchase still serve those requested functions. Anonymous quiz counts exclude those details. Subscription reporting remains part of the existing purchase process.
5.5 Advertising Measurement. We do not install third-party advertising cookies, Meta Pixel or Google advertising tags in the browser. Permitted visitor-based server-side conversion reporting to Google Ads, Google Analytics and Meta may use advertising click identifiers and attribution data already available to us. Anonymous quiz counts do not enter that reporting.
5.6 Unclassified Cookies. We do not currently use any unclassified Cookies. If one is ever introduced, it will be classified and listed here before it is relied upon.
6. Managing Cookies.
Open Cookie Preferences in the footer to change your choice. Accept permits the visitor cookie for analytics and attribution. Reject prevents use of that cookie; anonymous quiz counts continue. Your choice is remembered across Privacy Bee subdomains. Sign-in, purchase and support features remain available.
You can review or change your cookie choices at any time using the “Cookie Preferences” or “Your Privacy Choices” link in our website footer. In regions that require prior consent, non-essential Cookies are not set until you accept. Our visitor and measurement pipeline does not use the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) browser signal to disable collection. To decline the visitor cookie, use Cookie Preferences. For other privacy requests, contact us using the details below. You may also manage Cookies through your browser settings, as described below.
(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 https://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 https://www.youronlinechoices.eu, if you are located in Europe, or, https://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 legal@privacybee.com, or via live chat on our website (the “Live Support” link in the footer).
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