Cookie Notice
Cookies keep you signed in securely and protect your session on appifio.com - they are not only there to “make the site work.”
1. What cookies do for you
Cookies are not only a convenience so the website loads. On Appifio they are part of account security and session protection.
When you sign in, we do not send your password with every click. Your browser keeps a session token (a session cookie). That token lets the Platform recognise you while you edit a biolink, update a site, use Creator, or check out - without asking for your password again. Session data travels over HTTPS (encrypted in transit), which makes it much harder for someone on the same public Wi‑Fi to read what passes between you and appifio.com.
Cookies also keep you signed in on your own device, expire the session when you sign out, reduce the risk that another site can forge a request in your name, and remember language or layout choices. How we handle personal data: Privacy Policy.
2. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small data file your browser stores when you visit a site. It is not malware and it cannot read your whole hard drive. It is a reminder note between your browser and appifio.com.
- First-party cookies (set by Appifio): sign-in, security, and your preferences on appifio.com.
- Third-party cookies: only if you use a feature that needs another provider (payments, some analytics, social buttons, embedded AI). Those providers may recognise your device across sites - you can turn off non-essential ones.
3. Cookies and security - how your session is protected
Most strictly necessary cookies on Appifio exist to protect you, not to track ads.
| What the cookie does | Why it helps you |
|---|---|
| Holds a signed-in session with a session ID - not your password | You can keep working (editing, publishing, using AI) without typing your password on every action. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes - see the Privacy Policy. |
| Sends cookies over HTTPS (encrypted in transit) and, where we can, sets security flags (for example: only on a secure connection; harder for page scripts to read) | Lower risk of session snooping on public Wi‑Fi; lower risk of a script in the page stealing the session. |
| Ties the cookie to the current session and expires or revokes it when you sign out, change your password, or the session times out | Someone using a shared computer, or an old session, is less likely to stay in your account. |
| Helps stop forged requests (another site trying to make your browser “click” as you) | Lower risk of a silent money move, email change, or site delete you did not start. |
| Helps spot unusual devices or sessions (together with technical logs) | We can flag strange sign-ins, lock a suspicious session, and better protect Your Work and form data from your visitors. |
| Sends you to the server that already holds your session when we run more than one machine | You are less likely to lose an in-progress edit or a checkout because the next request hit a different server. |
Cookies do not encrypt your whole site into a secret file on your computer. “Encryption” here mainly means HTTPS in transit and protection of the session token, so others cannot easily read or impersonate you while you work. The content of Your Work is stored on our infrastructure under the Privacy Policy.
No system is perfectly safe. Sign out on shared machines, do not share passwords, and turn on multi-factor authentication when it is available.
4. Cookie types - what you get, and what happens if you turn them off
| Type | What it does for you | If you turn it off |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary (security and operation) | Sign-in, session, checkout, anti-forgery, load balancing so you do not lose work in progress | You cannot turn these off and still use the full Service. Blocking them in the browser can break sign-in, checkout, and the session. |
| Functional | Remembers language, layout, and choices you already made | The site still works, but you have to set preferences again. |
| Analytics | Helps us find broken or slow pages so we can fix them for you. Aggregated or de-identified where we can | You can refuse these on a banner (if we show one) or in the browser. The Service still works. |
| Marketing / third party | Only if you click a social share, pay through a processor, or have consented to measurement / ads where the law requires consent | You can turn these off. Sign-in and editing Your Work still work. |
Technical vendors (hosting, payments, analytics, AI) can change over time. They may use data only for the job you asked for (paying, generating AI output, sending email) - see the Privacy Policy on sharing.
5. Similar technologies
Browsers may also store local storage, pixels, or session IDs - for example a draft on your device, or a flag that a page finished loading. When that data relates to you, we treat it the same way: it supports the feature you are using, it protects the session, and we do not sell customer lists.
6. How you control cookies
- Browser settings: view, delete, or block cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break sign-in, sessions, and checkout - that is a security/usability trade-off, not a willful failure of the Platform.
- Banner / cookie preferences (if shown): turn off non-essential cookies. Session-security cookies still have to stay on if you want to use an account.
- Third-party cookies: block them in the browser or in device settings (limit ad tracking).
- Sign out on a shared computer; clear cookies if you just used someone else’s machine.
Keeping using the parts of the Service that need strictly necessary cookies is treated as accepting those cookies - without them we cannot keep a safe session. For non-essential cookies we ask for consent when Vietnamese law requires it, and when mandatory law where you live (for example ePrivacy-style cookie rules in some countries) requires a separate consent.
7. Changes
We may update this notice at https://appifio.com/page/cookie-notice. Changes take effect when posted.
8. Contact
9. Related documents
- Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy
- Acceptable Use Policy
- Payment & Refund Policy
- Service & Complaints Policy
- Disclaimer
- Legal / IP reports: appifio.com/contact?subject=legal
- Abuse / content reports: appifio.com/contact?subject=abuse
