Cookie Policy

📅 Effective Date: January 1, 2025 🔄 Last Updated: April 1, 2025
🍪 The short version: We use cookies to make the website work, remember your preferences, and understand how people use AIToolTank. You can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage your settings. We do not sell your cookie data to third parties.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to website owners.

Similar technologies include:

  • Web beacons (pixels): Tiny transparent images used to track email opens and page visits.
  • Local storage / Session storage: Browser-based storage used to hold data on your device temporarily or persistently.
  • Fingerprinting: Collecting device/browser characteristics to identify a browser. We do not use fingerprinting.

2. How We Use Cookies

AIToolTank.com uses cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • 🔐 Authentication: Keep you logged in to admin sessions securely.
  • ⚙️ Preferences: Remember your display preferences (e.g., dark/light mode, accepted cookie consent).
  • 📊 Analytics: Understand how visitors use our site so we can improve content and performance.
  • 📣 Affiliate tracking: Attribute referral clicks so that tools receive credit when you click affiliate links.
  • 🛡️ Security: Detect and prevent fraudulent activity, enforce rate limits, and maintain site integrity.
  • 🎯 Personalisation: Remember quiz results and recommendation history to show relevant content.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function. Without them, services like secure login, form submissions, and navigation cannot work. You cannot opt out of these cookies.

3.2 Functional / Preference Cookies

These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as cookie consent decisions, preferred view modes, and quiz results) and provide enhanced, personalised features. Disabling them may affect your experience.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

We use privacy-focused analytics (including Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymisation enabled) to understand which pages are most popular, where users come from, and how they navigate the site. This data is aggregated and cannot identify individuals.

3.4 Affiliate / Tracking Cookies

When you click an affiliate link to a third-party AI tool, we may set a cookie to track that referral. This helps us understand which tools drive traffic and may result in commission payments to us — at no extra cost to you.

3.5 Advertising Cookies (Limited)

We display sponsored tool listings and banner ads. These may involve third-party ad networks that set cookies for frequency capping and relevance. We do not use behavioural advertising based on sensitive personal data.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on AIToolTank.com are set by third-party services we use. These include:

  • Google Analytics 4 — Website traffic and behaviour analytics. Google Privacy Policy
  • Google reCAPTCHA v3 — Spam and bot prevention on forms. Google Privacy Policy
  • Google Fonts — Typography delivery (loaded from Google servers). Google Privacy Policy
  • Affiliate Networks — Tools like ShareASale, Impact, or direct affiliate programmes may set tracking cookies when you click tool links.

We do not control third-party cookies. Please review the respective privacy policies of these providers to understand how they process your data.

6. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit AIToolTank.com, a cookie consent banner will appear. You have the following options:

  • ✅ Accept All: Enables all cookies including analytics and preference cookies.
  • ❌ Reject: Disables non-essential cookies. Only strictly necessary cookies will be set.

You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site — the consent banner will reappear.

🍪 Manage Your Cookie Preferences

Click below to reset your cookie consent and see the preference banner again.

7. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Here are links to instructions for major browsers:

Note: Disabling cookies entirely may break website functionality, including contact forms and admin login.

For opting out of Google Analytics specifically, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal to websites. Currently, there is no universally agreed-upon standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. We do not currently alter our data collection practices in response to DNT signals, but we respect your right to opt out through the cookie consent banner and browser settings described above.

9. Children's Privacy

AIToolTank.com is not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at privacy@aitooltank.com and we will promptly delete such information.

10. Policy Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our data practices. When we make significant changes, we will:

  • Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
  • Show a notification banner to returning visitors.
  • Reset cookie consent so you can review and reconfirm your preferences.

Continued use of AIToolTank.com after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding our use of cookies, please contact us:

For EU/EEA residents, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.