Cookie Policy

1. Overview

This Cookie Policy explains how AnswerRankIQ uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies. Optional categories are off by default for European visitors and are activated only after consent.

2. Consent categories

Necessary

Required for website delivery, security, authentication, fraud prevention, and storing consent choices. These cannot be disabled because the website would not operate correctly without them.

Functional

Used to remember non-essential interface preferences and improve website features. Disabled until accepted.

Analytics

Used to understand aggregate traffic, page performance, and feature usage. Disabled until accepted.

Marketing

Used for campaign attribution, retargeting, and marketing measurement. Disabled until accepted.

3. Current storage used by this website

• answerrankiq:cookie-consent:v1: stores consent choices in local storage. Category: necessary. Duration: until deleted or consent version changes.
• ariq_session: authentication/session cookie for private platform users. Category: necessary. Duration: session or configured authentication expiry.
• ai-growth:last-audited-url: remembers the last audited URL inside the private audit workflow. Category: functional.

4. Managing consent

You can accept all, reject optional cookies, or customize categories in the cookie banner. You can reopen preferences using the Cookie settings link in the footer. You can also clear cookies and local storage in your browser settings.

5. Third-party technologies

If analytics, marketing, payment, support chat, or embedded media providers are added later, they must be listed here before activation, including provider name, purpose, category, retention, and transfer mechanism.