Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy sets out how KidInspector uses cookies and comparable technologies when you browse our website, open or sign in to your account, work in the web dashboard, or interact with our online services in any other way.

KidInspector is operated by FamilyShield Technologies, LLC, United States, 2810 N Church St STE 88432, Wilmington, DE 19802. Phone: +1 (505) 306-8710. Support email: [email protected].

Read it alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers the wider question of how we collect, use, store, share and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your browser or device when you visit. They let a site recognize a browser, hold a secure session open, remember preferences and understand how visitors move around.

Some disappear as soon as you close the browser. Those are session cookies.

Others stay on your device for a set period, or until you clear them yourself. Those are persistent cookies.

Cookies set by KidInspector directly are first-party cookies. Cookies set by the services that support our website or dashboard are third-party cookies.

2. Similar Technologies

We may also use other technologies that do much the same job as cookies, among them:

• local storage
• session storage
• pixels or tags
• browser identifiers
• analytics scripts
• device identifiers
• other technologies that store or read information on a browser or device

Where it makes sense, references to "cookies" in this document should be read as covering these technologies too.

3. Why We Use Cookies

KidInspector may rely on cookies and similar technologies in order to:

• keep the website and the web dashboard working
• let users sign in securely
• hold account and dashboard sessions open
• remember language, interface and cookie preferences
• shield accounts, forms and services from misuse
• see how visitors use the website
• measure traffic and page performance
• spot errors and technical faults
• improve navigation and the general experience
• support contact, account and customer-service functions

KidInspector does not use cookies for third-party advertising, for behavioral advertising, or to display ads on the website.

4. Types of Cookies We Use

4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are the cookies the website, the account and the dashboard cannot function correctly without.

They may be used to:

• hold secure login sessions open
• authenticate users
• protect accounts and forms
• prevent fraud, abuse or unauthorized access
• remember your cookie and privacy choices
• carry requests from one page to the next
• deliver the functions a user has asked for

As a rule they cannot be switched off in the cookie-preferences tool, because the relevant website or account functions would stop working.

Blocking them in your browser may leave you unable to sign in, use the dashboard or reach certain parts of the site.

4.2 Functional Cookies

Functional cookies let the website remember choices and offer extra convenience.

They may hold:

• language preferences
• region or time-zone settings
• interface settings
• options you selected earlier
• account or support preferences

Turn them off and some choices will not be remembered, and certain features may behave unexpectedly.

4.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies

These help us see how visitors use the KidInspector website and whether pages and features behave as intended.

They may help gather:

• actions taken on the website
• pages visited
• navigation paths
• time spent on pages
• referring pages or websites
• browser name and type
• device name or type
• operating system
• approximate geolocation
• page-loading and performance data
• technical errors and interaction events

We use it to judge how the website performs, find problems, improve navigation and work out which pages and features visitors actually find useful.

Where the law requires it, analytics and performance cookies are only used once the user has consented. Cookies strictly necessary to deliver a requested service may be used without consent where that is permitted.

4.4 Account, Contact, and Support Technologies

Opening an account, signing in, filling out a form or contacting support may involve processing information including your email address.

That email address normally comes from you directly rather than from a cookie. Cookies and similar technologies may nonetheless keep your session alive, protect the form, tie your request to your account, or otherwise support the service you asked for.

5. Information Collected Through the Website

Depending on how you use the KidInspector website, account or dashboard, the following may be collected or processed:

• approximate geolocation inferred from your IP address
• browser name and type
• device name or type
• operating system
• email address
• actions taken on the website

Actions on the website can include pages viewed, buttons or links clicked, forms opened or submitted, navigation activity, login activity and other interactions with site features.

Not all of this comes from cookies alone. Some of it you provide directly, some is generated by your account activity, and some is captured by standard website and security technologies.

6. Third-Party Services

KidInspector may engage third-party providers for website hosting, analytics, payments, security, account functions, email communications or customer support.

Those services may set or read cookies and similar technologies where their work requires it.

Third parties process information under their own privacy obligations and policies. We review what the third-party technologies on the website are for, and aim to keep this Cookie Policy in line with what actually happens.

7. Cookie Consent and Preferences

Where the law requires it, KidInspector asks for consent before placing or reading non-essential cookies.

Users may be able to accept or reject categories such as:

• functional cookies
• analytics and performance cookies

Strictly necessary cookies may stay active regardless, because the website, the account, security and the dashboard depend on them.

You can change or withdraw your choices whenever you like through the Cookie Preferences option on the website.

Consent to non-essential cookies should be given freely and actively, and users should be told clearly what those cookies do and why they are there.

Withdrawing consent does not undo processing that already took place while consent was in force.

8. Browser Controls

Most browsers let you view, delete, block or restrict cookies.

Depending on the browser, you may be able to:

• delete stored cookies
• block all cookies
• block third-party cookies
• be warned before a cookie is stored
• clear cookies when the browser closes
• restrict local storage and other site data

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of KidInspector, including login sessions, dashboard access, saved preferences and security functions.

Your browser's help or privacy settings will explain how.

9. How Long Cookies Remain Active

Lifespans vary:

• Session cookies normally expire when the browser closes.
• Persistent cookies last until their expiry date, or until you delete them.
• Records of cookie preferences may be held for a set period so the site remembers your choices.
• Security or authentication cookies may last only as long as the session they protect.
• The lifetime of analytics cookies depends on how the website is configured.

Duration comes down to the purpose, the type and the configuration of each cookie or similar technology. You can inspect or clear stored cookies from your browser settings.

10. How We Use Website Information

Information gathered through cookies, website forms, accounts and similar technologies may be used to:

• run and secure the website and the dashboard
• authenticate users and keep sessions alive
• create and administer accounts
• answer contact and support requests
• understand activity on the website
• measure how pages and features perform
• find errors and technical faults
• prevent fraud, misuse and unauthorized access
• improve the structure, content and usability of the website
• meet applicable legal and security obligations

None of it is used to place advertising on the KidInspector website.

11. Personal Information and Privacy

Some of what cookies and related website technologies collect can amount to personal information, particularly once it is tied to:

• an email address
• an account
• an IP address
• a browser or device identifier
• geolocation information
• website activity
• login or security records

Our Privacy Policy explains in more detail how personal information is processed and protected.

Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy

12. Children's Privacy

KidInspector addresses parents and other authorized adults. Children should not open or run KidInspector accounts.

The public KidInspector website is not designed to collect children's personal information through advertising cookies, and no advertising cookies are used on it.

Managing browser and cookie settings on the devices used to reach the website or the dashboard is down to parents and authorized users.

13. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may revise this Cookie Policy when:

• cookies or similar technologies are added or dropped
• their purposes or retention periods change
• website, dashboard or account functions change
• providers or technical systems change
• legal requirements change

Every revision updates the "Last updated" date at the top of the page.

Where necessary, we may also give further notice or ask for consent again.

14. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or about the cookies and similar technologies KidInspector uses, please contact us:

FamilyShield Technologies, LLC

2810 N Church St STE 88432

Wilmington, DE 19802, United States

Phone: +1 (505) 306-8710

Support: [email protected]