A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit. It lets a site remember things, so that you do not have to sign in again or re-pick your settings on every page. This policy is part of Buy Me a Coffee's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Cookies on Buy Me a Coffee
In short, we use cookies and similar technologies to run Buy Me a Coffee. Some are essential and the site will not work without them. The rest are optional, and they make the product better or help us understand and improve it. If you delete or block cookies, some features may stop working as intended.
This policy covers cookies, local storage, pixels and the SDKs in our mobile apps. We call them all cookies here.
Essential cookies. Needed for the site to work: signing you in, keeping your account secure, completing payments safely, preventing fraud, and protecting the integrity of the service.
Functional cookies. Needed for optional features to work properly, such as remembering your language, your display currency, and other settings and preferences.
Analytics cookies. Help us learn, measure and improve how Buy Me a Coffee is used and how well it performs, including understanding usage patterns in aggregate.
We do not show other companies' ads on Buy Me a Coffee. Marketing cookies may send identifiers and information about your visit to advertising partners. Under some US state laws this counts as "selling" or "sharing" personal information, or as targeted advertising. In the US, you can opt out using "Your privacy choices" at the bottom of every page, or with a Global Privacy Control signal.
Some of these are set by companies that run parts of our service, such as our payment processor and our analytics provider. They use the data only for the job we hired them for. Creator pages can also include embedded content, such as a video or music player, and those services set their own cookies. We do not control those cookies; their own privacy policies apply.
The cookies we use. A current list of the cookies and similar technologies we use, who sets them, what they do and how long they last is available in our cookie preference tool.
"Do Not Track" signals
Your browser may be set to send a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no industry standard for what the signal means, so Buy Me a Coffee does not respond to it. We do honour Global Privacy Control (GPC). When we receive a GPC signal, we switch off marketing cookies for that browser and treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising. If you are signed in, we apply it to your account too. Our cookie preference tool shows that your signal has been honoured.
How to manage cookies
We have a cookie preference tool where you can see and change your cookie preferences for this browser at any time. If you are in the EU, UK or Switzerland, we ask for your consent before setting anything other than essential cookies. If you are in the US, optional cookies may be set by default, and you can turn off marketing cookies at any time in the cookie preference tool or through "Your privacy choices".
You can also set your browser to decline cookies, delete them, or warn you when a site tries to set one. Your browser's own help pages explain how. In our mobile apps, limit tracking in your device settings instead.
Questions about this policy: [email protected].