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Cookies Policy for HelloStocks

Cookies Policy
Last Updated: September 29, 2025

1) What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites. They help websites function, improve security and performance, remember your preferences, and measure how the site is used. Similar technologies include local storage, SDKs, pixels, and tags—together we call these “cookies”.

2) How we use cookies
Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect (essential functionality).
  • Keep you signed in and remember your settings between visits.
  • Improve site speed, reliability, and security.
  • Offer free content and support our business through privacy-compliant advertising.
  • Enable sharing via social networks.
  • Continuously improve our website via analytics and A/B testing.
  • Make our marketing more efficient so we can offer the service at a fair price.

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect personally identifiable information without your express permission.
  • Collect special category (sensitive) data.
  • Sell your personal information.

3) Cookie categories

Essential (strictly necessary)
Required for core functionality. Without these, the site won’t work properly.

  • Sign-in, session management, and access control.
  • Payment and subscription checkout flows.
  • Fraud prevention and security (e.g., rate limiting).
  • Consent storage (remembering your cookie choices).

Functional / Preferences
Enhance your experience but aren’t strictly required.

  • Remembering preferences (e.g., theme, layout, text size).
  • Remembering recent pages or searches.
  • Remembering if we’ve asked you certain questions (e.g., surveys, app prompts).

Analytics / Performance
Help us understand usage so we can improve the product.

  • Visitor statistics (e.g., pages visited, time on page, errors).
  • Technology diagnostics (e.g., browser/OS to identify issues).
  • A/B testing and feature experiments.

Marketing / Advertising
Support relevant, non-intrusive advertising and measure effectiveness.

  • Frequency capping so you don’t see the same ad too often.
  • Measuring which ads are useful and relevant.
  • Affiliate tracking to reward partners when referrals convert.

Social Media & Third-Party Content
Enable sharing and embedded content.

  • Share buttons (e.g., Facebook, X/Twitter) and social login (if enabled).
  • Embedded media/components (e.g., charts, videos, maps).

4) Examples of how cookies are used on our site

  • Website Function Cookies: subscription checkout, logged-in status, remembering search settings, acknowledging acceptance of Terms, recently viewed pages, comments (where available), preference storage (e.g., theme), and “don’t ask me again” dismissals.
  • Third-Party Functions: features provided by trusted vendors (e.g., Google services for analytics or authentication, embedded videos). Disabling these may break parts of the site.
  • Social Website Cookies: sharing widgets (e.g., ShareThis), Facebook, X/Twitter. Your experience depends on your social account privacy settings.
  • Site Improvement Cookies: A/B testing and experiments to improve layout, speed, and usability.
  • Visitor Statistics Cookies: anonymous or pseudonymous measurement to see what works and what doesn’t, so we can spend more time building features and less on ineffective marketing.
  • Advertising Cookies: to keep much of the internet free, ads may be shown. We work with partners that follow recognised privacy standards; advertising cookies help with relevance, capping, and performance reporting.
  • Affiliate Cookies: allow us to reward partners for successful referrals—without identifying you personally.

5) Third parties we may work with
We may set or allow cookies from third parties that provide functionality or services, for example:

  • Google (e.g., analytics, authentication, tag management).
  • ShareThis (sharing widgets).
  • Payment platforms (e.g., Stripe) for checkout flows.
  • Email & messaging (e.g., Mailgun) for service emails.
  • Hosting & performance (e.g., Vercel, CDN providers).
  • Affiliate networks (for referral attribution).

Where these providers place cookies, their own privacy/cookie notices apply in addition to ours.

6) Consent and your choices

  • Consent banner: In the UK/EEA, we request consent for non-essential cookies. You can accept, reject, or manage categories via our banner or preferences panel.
  • Change your mind anytime: Use our cookie preferences link (usually in the footer) to update choices.
  • Browser controls: You can block or delete cookies via your browser settings. This may impact site functionality, especially for essential features.
  • Email marketing: Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. You can also email charles@hellostocks.ai.
  • Global Privacy Control (GPC): Where legally required (e.g., California), we will honour recognised browser-based opt-out signals for “Do Not Sell or Share”.

If you block or delete essential cookies, the site (including login and checkout) may not function correctly.

7) Online advertising choices
You can learn about interest-based advertising and manage preferences via industry tools such as:

Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads—it means they may be less tailored to you.

8) Turning cookies off
Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies. Guidance is typically available in your browser’s help pages. You can also use reputable anti-spyware or privacy tools to remove cookies considered invasive. Note: disabling cookies may limit functionality on our site and many others.

9) Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. We’ll post the updated version here with a new “Last Updated” date and, where appropriate, notify you in-product or by email.

10) Contact
Questions about cookies? Reach us at charles@hellostocks.ai.
Postal Address: 13, Cross Park Road, Wembury, Devon, United Kingdom, PL9 0EU.