Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains the cookies and similar technologies (such as browser local storage) that 1000x Digital LLC uses on its websites and applications, what each one is for, and how you can control them. It lists what we actually use: no more, no less. It forms part of our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more generally.

1. WHAT THIS COVERS

• Our website: websitebuilder.studio. Each other website of 1000x Digital LLC has its own cookie information, listed at https://1000xdigital.com/legal.
• Our application: app.websitebuilder.studio.
• What our platform itself places on the websites our customers publish with it ("Customer Sites"), in section 6. Each Customer Site is run by the business that published it, and that business is responsible for any tools it adds and for telling its own visitors about them.

2. THE KINDS WE USE

STRICTLY NECESSARY: needed to sign you in, keep your account and checkout secure, and tell people from bots. They are always on, because the application cannot work without them.

PREFERENCES: remember small choices you make, such as a display setting or that you closed a banner. They hold no information about who you are.

OPTIONAL ANALYTICS: help us understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it. They run ONLY if you click "Accept" in our cookie banner.

We do not use advertising, retargeting or social-media tracking cookies or pixels on our websites or in our applications.

3. OUR APPLICATION (app.websitebuilder.studio)

PAYMENT AND SIGN-IN PAGES RUN BY OTHERS. When you pay, you enter your card on Stripe's own checkout page, and Stripe may set its own cookies there to process the payment securely and prevent fraud. If you choose to sign in with Google, you do so on Google's own page. Those cookies are governed by Stripe's and Google's own policies, not ours.

The application runs no analytics tools.

4. OUR WEBSITE

WEB FONTS. Our website and application load web fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google, which receives your IP address. This happens whatever you choose in the cookie banner.

WHAT EACH WEBSITE USES

STRICTLY NECESSARY AND PREFERENCES

CONTACT FORMS. Our contact forms set no cookies of their own; the only technology on them that may use cookies is Cloudflare's bot check, above. What you type is delivered to us through our own platform, as our Privacy Policy explains.

OPTIONAL ANALYTICS (only after you click "Accept")

MICROSOFT CLARITY (websitebuilder.studio). Records how visitors use our pages (page views, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement) to produce aggregated heatmaps and session replays, which show us how a visit moved through a page. It is set to hide what you type into forms. It does not collect payment information. Cookies include _clck (up to 1 year), _clsk (1 day) and CLID (up to 1 year), and Microsoft may set cookies on its own domains, such as MUID (up to 1 year). Microsoft processes this information under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS (websitebuilder.studio). Records how visitors find and move through our pages, such as page views, scrolling, outbound clicks, file downloads, site searches and whether a form was started or submitted (never what was typed into it). Cookies: _ga and a cookie beginning with _ga_ (each up to 2 years). Google processes this information under the Google Privacy Policy.

Because these tools are provided by Microsoft and Google, those companies may collect information about your activity on our website over time and across other websites, under their own privacy policies.

5. YOUR CHOICES

• THE COOKIE BANNER. On your first visit to a website that offers optional analytics, we ask. "Accept" turns them on; "Decline" keeps them off. Nothing optional loads before you choose.
• CHANGE YOUR MIND at any time with the "Cookie settings" link at the foot of every page of a website that offers optional analytics. If you withdraw consent, the analytics stop loading from then on; you can also delete cookies already set, in your browser settings.
• GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a decision to decline: optional analytics do not load, and we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information (which we do not do in any case).
• DO NOT TRACK. There is no common standard for responding to "Do Not Track" signals, so our website and application do not change their behavior when they receive one. We honor Global Privacy Control as described above.
• YOUR BROWSER. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies and site data. Blocking strictly necessary cookies in the application will stop you from staying signed in. Blocking optional analytics has no effect on your use of our website or application.
• GOOGLE'S OPT-OUT. You can also stop Google Analytics on every website you visit with Google's browser opt-out add-on.

6. WEBSITES OUR CUSTOMERS PUBLISH WITH OUR PLATFORM

Our platform places no cookies of its own on Customer Sites. Page views are counted on our server as totals, without a cookie and without recording the visitor's IP address with the count. What the platform does place:

• a short privacy notice; if a visitor dismisses it, that choice is remembered in the visitor's own browser storage, not in a cookie;
• where the business serves international visitors and turns on a consent banner, the visitor's choice is remembered the same way, and any analytics the business has added wait for the visitor to accept;
• on contact forms, Cloudflare's bot check, which may use cookies or similar technologies needed for that check; and
• web fonts from Google Fonts, so the visitor's browser contacts Google, which receives the visitor's IP address.

A business may add its own tools to its site, such as its own Google Analytics measurement ID, a video, a booking calendar, a map or other web fonts. The visitor's browser then contacts that company directly, and that company may set its own cookies. Those tools are the business's choice, and the business's own privacy and cookie notices cover them.

7. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If what we use changes (for example, a new analytics tool), we will update this page and its "Last updated" date before the change takes effect, and, where your consent is needed, we will ask for it again.

8. CONTACT US

1000x Digital LLC
P.O. Box 700012, Plymouth, MI 48170-9998
Through our contact page

Related documents: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service