Cookie Policy
How VidSeeds.ai uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies
Table of Contents
1. What This Policy Covers
This Cookie Policy explains how CARROTGAMESSTUDIOS LLC, doing business as VidSeeds.ai ("we", "our", or "us"), uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies on vidseeds.ai. It complements our Privacy Policy, which describes how we handle personal information in general. This policy describes only the technologies that run in your browser when you visit our public website or use the product.
Cookies are small text files that a website or its partners store on your device. Local storage is a similar technology that keeps small records inside your browser rather than in a file. We use both, and this policy refers to them together as "cookies" unless stated otherwise.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies We Use
These are required for the website and product to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set in response to actions you take, such as logging in, changing privacy settings, or filling in forms.
These cookies remember choices and attributes that make the site more useful but are not strictly required for it to work. They are set on every visit, including before consent, because they do not identify you and are used only to credit the partner or campaign that brought you to us and to keep your preferences.
3. Strictly Necessary
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| vs_analytics_consent | Stores whether you have allowed or declined analytics cookies, so your choice is respected on every page, including by our servers. | 365 days |
| vs_cf_country | Stores an approximate country code used only to apply the correct consent rules for your region. | Set by our edge network per request |
| Session and authentication cookies | Keep you signed in to your VidSeeds.ai account and protect forms against cross-site request forgery. | Session or short-lived |
| Cloudflare security cookies | Set by our hosting and security provider to distinguish legitimate visitors from bots and to protect the site. | Vendor-managed, short-lived |
We also keep one local storage record that stores your cookie preferences themselves (which categories you allowed). It contains no tracking identifier and stays until you clear your browser data or change your choice.
4. Functional (Attribution and Preferences)
These cookies remember choices and attributes that make the site more useful but are not strictly required for it to work. They are set on every visit, including before consent, because they do not identify you and are used only to credit the partner or campaign that brought you to us and to keep your preferences.
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| vs_traffic_source | Records the external site and campaign that brought you to us on your first visit (first-touch attribution), so signups can be credited correctly. | 90 days |
| vs_attribution | Records a paid-ad click identifier (for example from Google Ads) so a later signup can be attributed to the ad you clicked. | 90 days |
| vs_referral_code | Stores a referral or affiliate code from a link you clicked, so the referring partner can be credited if you sign up. | 60 days |
| FirstPromoter cookies (_fprom_ref, _fprom_tid) | Set by our affiliate platform when you arrive through an affiliate link, to credit the affiliate if you purchase. In regions where the law requires a tracking opt-in, the affiliate script that sets these cookies only loads after you allow analytics cookies, so without consent no affiliate cookies are written. | Vendor-managed |
5. Analytics (Consent Required in Some Regions)
These cookies help us understand how the site and product are used, so we can improve them. They are set only after you allow analytics cookies in regions where the law requires prior opt-in (the EU/EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, and Brazil). Where you have not made a choice, no analytics cookies are written.
| Technology | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 (via Google Tag Manager) | Counts visits and usage patterns; runs in consent mode, so before consent it sends only cookieless measurement pings without cookies or advertising identifiers. | Vendor-set (Google default: 13 months) | |
| Amplitude | Amplitude | Product usage analytics for signed-in users; loads only when analytics consent is granted or your region allows it. | Vendor-set |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Cloudflare | Privacy-friendly, cookieless traffic measurement; does not set cookies and does not fingerprint visitors. | No cookies |
6. Marketing (Consent Required in Some Regions)
These cookies measure the performance of our advertising so we do not pay for ads that do not work. They are set only after you allow marketing cookies.
| Technology | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Pixel | Meta Platforms | Measures conversions of Facebook and Instagram ads. | Vendor-set (Meta default: 3 months) |
| X Pixel | X Corp. | Measures conversions of X (Twitter) ads. | Vendor-set |
| OpenAI Ads Pixel | OpenAI | Measures conversions of ads shown on OpenAI surfaces. | Vendor-set |
| Google Ads tags (via Google Tag Manager) | Measures conversions of Google Ads campaigns. | Vendor-set |
7. Third-Party Technologies
Third parties that set or receive information through cookies on our site are limited to the providers listed above. In particular:
- Google (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads): measurement and advertising tags, governed by Google's Privacy Policy and, where enabled, Google's EU user consent policy.
- Amplitude: product analytics, governed by Amplitude's privacy terms.
- Meta Platforms, X Corp., and OpenAI: advertising measurement pixels.
- Cloudflare: hosting, security, and cookieless web analytics.
- FirstPromoter: affiliate attribution. The affiliate script loads only when analytics tracking is permitted for your session (your consent choice and region rules), and checkout attribution writes are additionally suppressed when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal.
- Apollo.io: on authenticated and login pages only, a visitor-identification tool that helps our sales team understand which companies visit our site. It loads only when analytics tracking is permitted for your session, and you can learn more in our Privacy Policy.
8. How Consent Works
When you first visit vidseeds.ai, a small banner appears at the bottom of the page. You can accept all non-essential cookies, reject all non-essential cookies, or open the manage panel to choose per category. Essential cookies are always on because the site cannot function without them.
If you visit from a region where the law requires prior opt-in for non-essential tracking (the EU/EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, and Brazil), analytics and marketing cookies stay off until you explicitly allow them. Rejecting or ignoring the banner leaves the site fully usable; we simply measure less.
If you visit from other regions, analytics tracking is on by default and marketing pixels remain off until you allow them, and you can opt out at any time using the controls described below.
9. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You can change your choice at any time:
- Banner: if you have not decided yet, the banner reappears on your next visit and you can pick a different option.
- Account settings: signed-in users can review and change cookie and analytics permissions under Settings → Privacy, which also explains what each setting controls.
- Reset: clearing your browser's cookies and site data for vidseeds.ai removes your stored choice, and the banner will appear again on your next visit.
10. Your Browser Controls
All modern browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies or all cookies may break sign-in, consent storage, or parts of the checkout and publishing flows, because the site can no longer remember that you are signed in or what you allowed.
11. Global Privacy Control (GPC)
If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out signal, we treat it as a request to decline all non-essential cookies and turn off analytics and advertising tracking, unless you have made an explicit choice in the banner that overrides it. Our handling of GPC is declared at https://vidseeds.ai/.well-known/gpc.json.
12. Updates to This Policy
We update this policy when we add or change cookies or related technologies. The "Last Updated" date above shows the current version, and material changes are highlighted on this page.
13. Contact Us
Questions about cookies or this policy? Contact us at privacy@vidseeds.ai, or write to the entity identified in our Privacy Policy. We aim to respond within 48 hours.