Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device when you visit a website. They allow a website to remember information about your visit, recognize your browser, keep you signed in, protect your account, and understand how the website is used.

We may also use related technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, software development kits, device identifiers, and server logs. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as "cookies."

Spyrochat may use cookies to:

• provide the website and remember your account, session, and sign-in state;
• save settings and preferences, such as language, display, or accessibility choices;
• secure accounts, prevent unauthorized access, and detect spam, fraud, abuse, and suspicious activity;
• remember actions you take and make forms, navigation, and other features work correctly;
• measure traffic, performance, reliability, and how people interact with our pages and features;
• diagnose errors, fix problems, test improvements, and develop new services; and
• where permitted, measure campaigns, referrals, promotions, or advertising.

Cookies and similar technologies may collect information about activity taking place on our website. Depending on how you use Spyrochat, this may include:

• pages or screens visited, links and buttons clicked, searches, referring and exit pages, and the date and time of activity;
• session duration, navigation patterns, feature interactions, and whether a page or message was successfully displayed;
• IP address, approximate location derived from an IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, language, and device or advertising identifiers;
• login events, authentication state, security signals, crash data, error reports, and performance information; and
• campaign, referral, and conversion information where applicable.

This information may be linked with other information associated with your account where necessary to provide, secure, analyze, or improve the service. Cookies used for website analytics do not change our commitments concerning the content of private messages described in our Privacy Policy.

Some cookies or similar technologies on Spyrochat may be set, received, or operated by third parties that provide services to us, such as analytics, hosting, security, payment, embedded-content, customer-support, advertising, or social-media providers.

These third parties may collect cookie data and information about your browser, device, visits, and interactions with Spyrochat. They may combine that information with data collected on other websites or services, subject to applicable law and their own practices.

For example, we use Google Analytics to help measure website activity. Google may set or read cookies and process usage, device, and network information under its own policies and controls.

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. How long a cookie remains depends on its purpose, legal requirements, and the settings chosen by Spyrochat or the relevant third party.

We retain information collected through cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

You can usually review, block, or delete cookies through your browser or device settings. Some browsers also allow you to limit cross-site tracking or send privacy preference signals. Controls offered by third-party providers may provide additional choices.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent you from signing in or using important security and service features. Deleting cookies may sign you out, reset saved preferences, and require you to make your choices again. Where applicable law requires consent, we will provide appropriate choices before using non-essential cookies.

We may update this Cookie Policy when our technology, providers, services, or legal obligations change. We will post the revised policy here and update the "Last updated" date. Material changes may also be communicated through the service or by another appropriate method.

For questions about cookies or this policy, contact us at support@spyrochat.org.