Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to website operators. Similar technologies include your browser's local and session storage, which Graid Ai uses to keep your card catalog and signed-in session available on your own device.

These are essential for the application to function. They cannot be disabled. Without them, features such as checkout, account access, and order tracking will not work.

• Authentication session — Keeps you signed in as you move between pages and protects your account from unauthorized access. (Session / until you log out.)
• Fraud prevention — Set by our payment provider to confirm a payment request is genuine and to protect against fraudulent transactions. (Up to 1 year.)
• Checkout session — Identifies your active checkout so your order and payment stay correctly linked. (30 minutes.)
• Security and load balancing — Routes your request and protects the Services against abuse. (Session.)

These enable enhanced functionality and personalization. Disabling them may affect your experience but will not break core functionality.

• Your local card catalog — Stores the cards you have saved, along with their photos and pre-grade results, on your own device so they load instantly and stay available between visits. (Until you clear it.)
• Cart contents — Keeps the cards in your cart in place across page refreshes. (Until checkout, or until you clear the cart.)
• Referral code — Remembers a referral code from a shared link until you complete your first order. (Until first checkout.)
• Profile details — Caches your name and email so your account and checkout screens load faster. (Until updated or cleared.)

Analytics. Graid Ai uses aggregate analytics to understand overall traffic patterns such as page views, general geographic region, referral source, and device type. This information is aggregated and is not used to identify you individually.

Advertising and measurement. We advertise Graid Ai on social media, search, and display networks. To measure whether that advertising works, we use advertising and conversion-measurement technologies supplied by those platforms. These may set cookies or similar identifiers, and may record events such as pages viewed, a submission started, or an order completed.

In some cases we share a hashed (irreversible) form of an identifier such as your email address with an advertising platform so it can measure conversions and show ads to people with similar interests. We do not share your name, shipping address, or payment details with advertising platforms. Card images and grade results that we publish as promotional content may appear on these platforms as part of our own marketing — always as card content only, never linked to your identity.

Under California and several other state privacy laws, this activity may be treated as "sharing" personal information for targeted advertising, or as a "sale," even though no money changes hands. You can opt out at any time — see Your Choices below and the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our footer. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals automatically.

If our use of analytics or advertising technologies changes materially, we will update this policy and, where required, obtain your consent first.

The following categories of third-party services may set cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with Graid Ai:

• Payment provider — Sets cookies for fraud prevention and to manage your checkout session while a payment is being processed.
• Advertising and measurement platforms — Social media, search, and display advertising networks may set cookies or similar identifiers to attribute a visit or an order to an advertisement and to measure campaign performance.
• Content delivery — Fonts, images, and other static assets may be served from third-party content delivery networks, which record the request IP address in their standard server logs.

Each of these providers processes data under its own privacy and cookie policies. We do not permit advertising platforms to use data collected on Graid Ai for their own independent purposes beyond providing measurement and advertising services to us.

Because Graid Ai is a progressive web application rather than a traditional website, most of what we store sits in your browser's own storage rather than in traditional HTTP cookies. You can manage this as follows:

• Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information — Use the link in our website footer to opt out of the use of your information for targeted advertising. This is the fastest way to stop advertising measurement.
• Global Privacy Control (GPC) — If your browser or extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a valid opt-out request automatically. You do not need to do anything else.
• Browser settings — You can configure your browser to block or delete cookies and to clear stored site data. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent Graid Ai checkout and account features from working.
• Clearing app data — Clearing site data for Graid Ai in your browser removes locally stored app data, including your local card catalog. Cards you have submitted, your graded results, and your order history remain on your account and are not affected.
• Platform ad preferences — Social and search platforms each offer their own ad-preference controls, which limit ad targeting across every advertiser, not just Graid Ai.