Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help sites remember information about your visit, such as your login state, preferences, and usage patterns. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, and browser fingerprinting techniques.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary

Required to run the service. These cookies keep you signed in, secure your session, remember your authentication state, and route requests to the right server. The app cannot function properly without them.

Preferences

Remember choices such as your selected workspace, dashboard view, or interface settings.

Analytics and Performance

Help us understand how visitors and customers use ExpertRank AI — which pages are visited, which features are used, and where errors occur — so we can improve the product.

Functional

Enable enhanced features such as embedded content, in-app messaging, and support chat when applicable.

3. Analytics and Tracking

We may use first-party and third-party analytics tools to collect usage data such as page views, button clicks, audit submissions, session duration, browser type, device type, approximate location (derived from IP), and referring URLs.

This data is used to measure product performance, debug issues, prevent abuse, and improve the user experience. We do not use analytics data to build advertising profiles or sell your information.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by third-party services we use to operate ExpertRank AI, including:

• Authentication providers (to maintain your secure login session)
• Payment processors such as Stripe (for checkout and subscription management)
• Analytics and error-monitoring providers (to measure usage and detect issues)
• Hosting and content-delivery providers (for security and performance)

These providers may set their own cookies governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

5. How Long Cookies Last

Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period — typically from a few days up to twenty-four months — or until you delete them.

6. How to Control Cookies

You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge

Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent you from signing in or using core parts of ExpertRank AI.

7. Opting Out of Analytics

To opt out of analytics tracking, you can:

• Use your browser's "block third-party cookies" setting
• Enable private or incognito browsing
• Install a reputable tracker-blocking extension
• Opt out of common analytics vendors at optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com

You can also request information about or deletion of your data by contacting privacy@expertrank.ai.

8. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. There is no industry-wide standard for responding to DNT, and ExpertRank AI does not currently change behavior based on DNT signals. We honor browser-level cookie controls and the opt-out options described above.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy as our service and the tools we use evolve. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

10. Contact

For questions about this Cookie Policy, contact privacy@expertrank.ai.