Cookie Policy

1. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, such as your login status, preferences, settings, and activity.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, and device identifiers, may also be used to store or access information on your browser or device.

2. How Artycen Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies

Artycen uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the Service, keep users signed in, remember preferences, protect accounts, measure usage, improve performance, and support platform features.

We may use these technologies for purposes including:

• Keeping you signed in to your account.
• Remembering your account and profile settings.
• Applying adult content visibility settings.
• Restricting adult content access for users under 18.
• Remembering cookie consent choices.
• Protecting the Service from spam, abuse, fraud, and unauthorized access.
• Measuring page views, post views, engagement, and platform usage.
• Improving performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Supporting content feeds, discovery, recommendations, and analytics.
• Displaying advertising or promotional content, where applicable.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for Artycen to function properly. These cookies may be used for authentication, account login, security, session management, age-based restrictions, and core platform features.

Without essential cookies, some parts of Artycen may not work correctly. For example, you may not be able to stay signed in, access your account, or use certain safety and preference features.

Preference Cookies

Preference cookies help us remember choices you make on Artycen, such as display preferences, language-related preferences, adult content visibility settings, and other user settings.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies and similar technologies help us understand how users interact with Artycen. We may use analytics information to measure post views, page views, time spent on pages, scroll depth, click activity, referrers, search terms, device type, browser type, country or region, and other usage information.

For signed-in users, Artycen may use account-linked internal analytics to provide creator statistics, improve product quality, personalize service features, and maintain security. Visitors who are not signed in may be included in basic aggregate view counts even when detailed analytics consent is not provided, but detailed visitor analytics are used according to applicable consent choices.

Analytics may also help creators understand how their posts perform, including views, engagement, approximate audience information, and other limited usage statistics.

Security Cookies

Security cookies help us detect and prevent unauthorized access, spam, abuse, fraud, suspicious activity, and violations of our Terms of Service, Content Policy, or Community Guidelines.

Advertising Cookies

Artycen may display advertising or promotional content. Advertising cookies may be used in the future to support advertising, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, or provide more relevant promotional content, where permitted by applicable law and user settings.

4. Local Storage and Session Storage

In addition to cookies, Artycen may use local storage and session storage in your browser. These technologies may store information such as login state, user preferences, consent choices, interface settings, draft-related information, or other data needed to operate the Service.

Local storage may remain on your device until deleted by you, your browser, or the Service. Session storage is generally deleted when your browser session ends.

5. Authentication and Account Cookies

Artycen uses authentication-related cookies and similar technologies to allow users to create accounts, sign in, stay signed in, and securely access account features.

These technologies may be provided or supported by third-party services used by Artycen for authentication, database, hosting, and infrastructure functions.

6. Adult Content and Age-Based Settings

Artycen may use cookies, local storage, account settings, and similar technologies to remember and apply adult content visibility settings.

Users under 18 are not permitted to access adult content. Adult content settings and adult content visibility features are not made available to users under 18.

We may use technical and account-based information to help enforce these restrictions and prevent attempts to bypass age-based access controls.

7. AI and Content Labeling Features

Artycen may use cookies, local storage, account settings, and similar technologies to support content labeling features, including AI-generated content labels, adult content labels, and other content classification settings.

These technologies help us display, filter, moderate, and organize content according to user settings, platform rules, and safety requirements.

8. Third-Party Cookies and Services

Artycen may use third-party services for hosting, authentication, database management, storage, analytics, email delivery, security, advertising, payments, or other infrastructure and platform functions.

These third-party services may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies. We do not control all cookies or technologies used by third-party services.

If Artycen adds services such as external analytics tools, advertising networks, payment processors, or creator monetization tools in the future, those services may use additional cookies or similar technologies.

9. Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, we may ask for your consent before using certain non-essential cookies, such as analytics or advertising cookies.

Signing in allows Artycen to process account-linked internal analytics that are reasonably necessary to provide creator statistics, operate account features, prevent abuse, and improve the Service. This is separate from optional advertising cookies or external marketing tracking.

Essential cookies may be used without consent where they are necessary to provide the Service, maintain security, authenticate users, remember required settings, or comply with legal obligations.

You may be able to manage your cookie choices through a cookie banner, consent settings, browser settings, or other tools we provide.

10. Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive alerts when cookies are being used.

If you disable or delete cookies, some features of Artycen may not work properly. For example, you may be signed out, preferences may not be saved, adult content settings may not work as expected, or certain security features may be limited.

Your browser or device may also provide controls for local storage, session storage, tracking technologies, and advertising identifiers.

11. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls

Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals or similar privacy preference signals. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to all such signals, Artycen may not respond to every Do Not Track signal.

Where required by applicable law, we may recognize certain legally required opt-out preference signals or provide alternative ways to manage your privacy choices.

12. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our technology, legal obligations, third-party services, advertising practices, analytics tools, or platform features.

If we make material changes, we may notify users through the Service, by email, or by other reasonable means.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how Artycen uses cookies and similar technologies, you may contact us at contact@artycen.com.

Copyright and DMCA-related notices should be sent to dmca@artycen.com.