Cookie Policy - Geekflare

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Geekflare LTD ("we," "us," or "our") uses them on our website geekflare.com and related services (collectively, the "Services"), and your choices regarding cookies.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy. By using our Services, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

1. What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

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 information to the owners of the site.

We may also use other similar technologies like web beacons (or "pixels"), local storage, and session storage. These technologies function like cookies to store information or access information stored on your device. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as "cookies" in this policy.

Cookies can be "first-party" (set by Geekflare) or "third-party" (set by a different domain than the one you are visiting, such as Google or Stripe).

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several reasons:

To keep you logged in, secure the website, and process payments.
To understand how users interact with our AI, API, and Tools to improve performance.
To support features like sign-in and live chat support.
To measure the effectiveness of our affiliate and referral partnerships.

Our Guides section (our blog and educational articles) runs its own cookie consent notice, separate from the one described here. This policy covers geekflare.com's main site and product pages only.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We classify our cookies into the same four categories you can choose between in our cookie consent banner. Necessary cookies are always on; the other three are off by default and only activate if you accept them, either individually or via "Accept All."

3.1. Necessary

Essential for the site and its security to function, and cannot be disabled. This includes Cloudflare's bot-protection check on our forms and interactive tools, and a cookie that remembers your cookie preference itself.

3.2. Analytics

Helps us understand how visitors use the site - which pages are visited, how our AI tools and APIs are used, and where errors occur - via Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, and optionally PostHog. If you don't accept this category, Google may still receive an anonymous, cookieless signal it uses only to estimate aggregate trends; no cookie is set on your device and you are not individually tracked.

3.3. Functionality

Powers optional features that aren't required for core browsing: our live chat/support widget (Freshworks) and Google Sign-In (One Tap) on our homepage.

3.4. Marketing

Used for affiliate and referral attribution - crediting partners who refer visitors to us and our own cookies that record which campaign or referrer brought you here.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we rely on trusted third-party partners to provide specific features. These third parties may set cookies on your device when you use our Services.

Cloudflare - security and bot protection (Necessary).
Google Tag Manager & Google Analytics (GA4), and optionally PostHog - usage analytics (Analytics).
Freshworks - live chat and support widget (Functionality).
Google Sign-In - one-tap sign-in on our homepage (Functionality).
Awin/Tolt - affiliate and referral tracking (Marketing).

Please note that we do not control these third-party cookies. We recommend you review the privacy and cookie policies of these providers.

Other Geekflare services outside this website - such as our account dashboard and billing system - may use additional processors, including payment providers, as needed to deliver those services, under their own applicable terms.

5. Your Choices and How to Manage Cookies

5.1. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner. It gives you three options:

Accept All - enables all four cookie categories.
Reject All - keeps only Necessary cookies active.
Customize - choose which of Analytics, Functionality, and Marketing you want to allow, individually.

You can fully browse and use our website whether or not you accept any non-essential cookies. Until you make a choice, or if you choose Reject All, only Necessary cookies are active - nothing else is set.

To change your choice later, clear your browser's cookies for geekflare.com; the cookie banner will appear again on your next visit.

5.2. Browser Settings

In addition to our consent, you can control cookies through your browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

If you disable "Necessary" cookies via your browser, you will not be able to log in to your Geekflare account, view your API keys, or manage your subscription.

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us through the contact page.