Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 15, 2026

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how HowlingCookie.com ("HowlingCookie," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you access or use our website, account features, prediction tools, invite system, emails, analytics, and related services (the "Service").

We do not run advertisements on the Service. We do not sell user information. We do not distribute user information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

2. Information We Collect

We intentionally collect limited personal information. The main personal information we store is your email address and IP address. Your email address is used for account login, verification, password reset, invitations, prediction notifications, and account-related communications. IP addresses are used for site security, abuse prevention, fraud prevention, diagnostics, rate limiting, and legal compliance.

We also store account and operational data needed to provide the Service, such as hashed passwords, usernames, session-related information, invite codes, credit balances, prediction requests, generated prediction outputs, vote activity, timestamps, and technical logs.

We may collect basic technical information from your browser or device, including pages viewed, approximate location derived from IP address, browser type, device type, referring pages, and interaction events. This information helps us understand usage, troubleshoot issues, improve performance, and protect the Service.

3. Prediction Requests and Generated Content

When you submit a question or prediction request, we process that content to generate a prediction. Your prompts, questions, generated prediction outputs, public/private flags, votes, and related metadata may be stored so we can operate the Service, display predictions, maintain your history, prevent abuse, and improve the product.

Do not submit sensitive personal information, protected health information, financial account details, government identification numbers, passwords, confidential business information, or information you are not authorized to share.

4. How We Use Information

We use information to create and maintain accounts; authenticate users; provide invite-only registration; process prediction requests; display prediction history; manage credits; send verification, password reset, invite, and prediction notification emails; secure the Service; detect and prevent abuse; diagnose bugs; understand aggregate usage; and comply with legal obligations.

We may also use prediction requests and generated outputs to improve, evaluate, secure, and market the Service, including developing ranking, popularity, or filtering features based on public prediction activity.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

HowlingCookie.com uses cookies and similar technologies for login, authentication, session management, security, and basic site functionality. We do not use our own cookies for advertising.

We use Google Analytics and may use other analytics platforms to understand how visitors use the Service, diagnose issues, improve performance, and make product decisions. These analytics providers may separately use cookies, identifiers, or similar technologies according to their own privacy policies and settings. Your browser or device may allow you to block, delete, or limit cookies, but disabling certain cookies may affect login, session, or security functionality.

6. Analytics Providers

Analytics tools may collect information such as pages visited, time on page, approximate location, device and browser details, referral source, and interaction events. We use analytics data in aggregate or operational form to understand site performance and improve the Service. Analytics providers act separately under their own policies and may offer opt-out tools or account settings.

7. Information Sharing

We do not sell user information. We do not distribute user information to advertisers or unrelated third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the Service, such as hosting providers, email delivery providers, security tools, analytics providers, and AI/research providers used to process prediction requests. These providers are used to perform services for us or to support Service functionality.

We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, or government request; to protect the rights, safety, or security of HowlingCookie.com, users, or others; to investigate abuse or fraud; or in connection with a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets.

8. AI and Research Providers

Prediction requests may be processed using AI models, automated research systems, or third-party infrastructure. We try to avoid sending unnecessary personal information to AI providers, and users should not include sensitive personal information in prompts. Third-party providers may process submitted content according to their own service terms, security practices, and data handling policies.

9. Public Predictions and Votes

If a prediction is public, it may be displayed on public areas of the Service together with its prompt, generated output, timestamps, vote counts, and other related metadata. Logged-in users may be able to agree or disagree with predictions, and these tallies may be shown publicly or used for future filtering, ranking, popularity, or quality features.

Private predictions are intended to be visible only to the account owner and authorized Service systems, but no internet service can guarantee absolute confidentiality. You should not submit sensitive information in private predictions.

10. Data Retention

We retain account information, prediction history, generated outputs, invite records, votes, logs, and related operational data for as long as needed to provide the Service, maintain security, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, improve the product, and enforce our Terms.

You may request account deletion by contacting us. We may retain certain records where necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, backups, dispute resolution, or legitimate business operations.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, including password hashing, HTTPS encryption, prepared SQL statements, session controls, and access restrictions. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Children

The Service is not intended for children under 13, and users under 13 are not authorized to use HowlingCookie.com. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided information to us, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

13. Your Choices and Rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account information by contacting us. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws, such as the right to know what information is collected, request deletion, correct inaccurate information, object to certain processing, or request a copy of your information.

We do not sell personal information. If we receive a valid privacy request, we will respond as required by applicable law and may need to verify your identity before completing the request.

14. International Users

HowlingCookie.com is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate. Data protection laws in those locations may differ from laws in your jurisdiction.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date reflects the latest version. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

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