Cuddle Cookie / Tracking Policy

Effective Date: May 8, 2026

1. Introduction and Scope

1.1 What This Policy Is

Cuddle is an 18+ online dating and social connection service operated by Third Hub US, Inc., a Delaware corporation, d/b/a Cuddle (“Cuddle,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

This Cookie / Tracking Policy (“Cookie Policy”) explains how Cuddle uses cookies, pixels, tags, SDKs, local storage, session storage, device identifiers, analytics tools, security tools, fraud-prevention tools, payment-risk tools, communications tools, consent-management tools, and similar technologies in connection with the Service.

This Cookie Policy is Additional Terms under the Cuddle Terms of Service.

1.2 When This Policy Applies

This Cookie Policy applies when you access or use Cuddle, create or manage an account, use profiles, discovery, messaging, safety, reporting, support, checkout, billing, Paid Features, privacy choices, cookie choices, consent choices, or related functionality.

This Cookie Policy explains the technologies we use, the information they may collect, how we use them, and the choices that may be available to you.

1.3 Relationship to Privacy Policy and Other Terms

Our Privacy Policy controls how Cuddle processes personal information generally. This Cookie Policy controls cookie-specific and tracking-specific subjects, including cookie categories, tracking technologies, analytics, security technologies, fraud-prevention technologies, payment-risk technologies, consent choices, opt-out choices, browser settings, and universal opt-out signals where applicable.

1.4 Core Commitments

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not use private messages, sensitive personal information, or payment-related personal information for targeted advertising. Cuddle also does not use cookies or tracking technologies to provide user-to-user payments, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, or sugar arrangements.

2. What Cookies and Tracking Technologies Are

2.1 Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website, browser, or service may place on or read from your device or browser when using a service.

Cookies may help a service recognize a browser or device, maintain a session, remember preferences, support account security, support privacy choices, and understand Service use.

Cookies may be session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which may remain for a period of time unless deleted earlier.

2.2 Similar Technologies

Cuddle may also use technologies that work like or alongside cookies.

These may include pixels, tags, scripts, SDKs, local storage, session storage, device identifiers, browser identifiers, analytics identifiers, security identifiers, fraud-prevention identifiers, payment-risk identifiers, checkout identifiers, communications identifiers, consent-management identifiers, and server-side event tracking.

These technologies may help us recognize sessions, process choices, secure accounts, detect misuse, support checkout security, measure performance, debug errors, analyze Service use, support communications, and maintain operational records.

2.3 First-Party and Third-Party Technologies

Some technologies may be set or controlled by Cuddle. Others may be provided by service providers that help us host, secure, analyze, support, operate, or enforce the Service.

These providers may include hosting, analytics, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, payment processing, communications, support, privacy request, or consent-management providers where used.

Third-party providers may process information under their own terms, privacy policies, cookie policies, security practices, and legal obligations, or under agreements with Cuddle where applicable.

2.4 Important Limits

Using cookies or similar technologies does not mean that Cuddle sells personal information or shares personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not use cookies or tracking technologies to provide user-to-user payments, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, or sugar arrangements.

Some technologies may be necessary for the Service to work. Blocking them may affect login, security, checkout, privacy choices, support, or other functionality.

3. Categories of Cookies and Similar Technologies We Use

3.1 Overview

Cuddle may use different categories of cookies and similar technologies depending on how you access or use the Service, the features you use, the choices you make, your device or browser, and applicable requirements.

Not every category is used for every user, device, browser, session, feature, jurisdiction, or purchase. Some technologies are necessary for the Service to function, while others may be optional or subject to consent, preference, or opt-out choices where required by law.

3.2 Strictly Necessary, Authentication, and Session Technologies

Strictly necessary, authentication, and session technologies help operate the Service and provide core functionality.

They may support account registration, login, authentication, session management, account settings, account recovery, security checks, privacy choices, cookie choices, support requests, legal notices, service communications, and other basic Service functions.

They may use session identifiers, browser identifiers, device identifiers, local storage, session storage, or similar signals. If you block or delete these technologies, some parts of the Service may not work correctly.

3.3 Security, Fraud-Prevention, and Payment-Risk Technologies

Security, fraud-prevention, and payment-risk technologies help protect users, Cuddle, payment processors, banks, card networks, service providers, and the Service.

They may help detect or respond to account takeover, bots, spam, scraping, automation, suspicious login activity, linked accounts, unauthorized payment use, card testing, payment-method testing, refund abuse, chargeback abuse, promotional abuse, prohibited services, prohibited payments, scams, or other misuse.

These technologies may involve device signals, browser signals, IP address information, session information, account activity, checkout activity, payment-risk signals, fraud-prevention signals, and related records.

3.4 Checkout and Billing-Support Technologies

Checkout and billing-support technologies may help operate checkout, payment authorization, receipt delivery, purchase records, billing support, cancellation support, refund support, chargeback support, payment-dispute support, tax, accounting, audit, and compliance functions.

They may also help support payment processor, card-network, bank, payment-method provider, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, and service-provider requirements.

3.5 Preference, Privacy, and Consent-Management Technologies

Preference, privacy, and consent-management technologies may help remember account settings, display settings, language or region preferences, notification preferences, privacy choices, cookie choices, consent choices, opt-out choices, and related records.

They may also help us honor legally required choices, including universal opt-out signals where applicable.

3.6 Analytics and Performance Technologies

Analytics and performance technologies may help us understand how the Service is used, measure performance, detect errors, debug issues, test features, improve reliability, and improve user experience.

They may process pages viewed, links clicked, features used, session duration, device type, browser type, operating system, error events, crash data, and related usage information.

3.7 Communications Technologies

Communications technologies may help deliver, secure, and manage service-related communications, support communications, account notices, safety notices, billing notices, cancellation notices, refund notices, privacy notices, security notices, legal notices, policy updates, and other communications.

Marketing communications, if any, are subject to applicable law and available preferences.

3.8 Advertising Technologies, If Any

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising and does not use private messages, payment-related personal information, or sensitive personal information for targeted advertising.

If Cuddle uses advertising technologies in the future in a way that requires additional notice, consent, opt-out rights, universal opt-out signal recognition, or other choices, Cuddle will provide them to the extent required by law.

3.9 Category-Specific Limits

Cuddle does not use any cookie or tracking category to provide user-to-user payments, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, or prohibited services or prohibited payments.

4. Information Collected Through Cookies and Similar Technologies

4.1 Overview

Cuddle may collect, receive, generate, or infer technical, usage, device, browser, session, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, analytics, communications, preference, consent, and similar information through cookies and similar technologies.

Not every user, device, browser, session, feature, jurisdiction, or purchase generates every category described in this Section.

4.2 Device, Browser, and Session Information

Information collected through cookies and similar technologies may include IP address, device type, browser type and version, operating system, device identifiers, browser identifiers, cookie identifiers, session identifiers, authentication status, login status, account status, local storage information, session storage information, referring pages, exit pages, dates and times of access, session duration, language or region information, and approximate location inferred from IP address.

This information may help Cuddle recognize sessions, maintain login functionality, support account settings, operate privacy choices, and protect account security.

4.3 Service, Feature, and Preference Activity

Cookies and similar technologies may collect information about how the Service is used.

This may include pages viewed, links clicked, features used, account activity, profile activity, discovery activity, matching or connection activity where supported, visibility activity, messaging activity metadata, Paid Feature usage, checkout activity, support-channel activity, report-related activity, cookie choices, consent choices, opt-out choices, notification preferences, communication preferences, and other Service-related events.

Unless Cuddle expressly states otherwise, cookies and similar technologies are not intended to collect full payment card numbers, card security codes, full bank account credentials, passwords, private keys, cryptocurrency wallet credentials, or other highly sensitive credentials.

4.4 Checkout, Security, Fraud-Prevention, and Payment-Risk Signals

Cookies and similar technologies may collect or support signals related to checkout security, payment authorization, payment status, billing support, cancellation support, refund support, chargeback support, payment-dispute support, fraud prevention, payment-risk management, account security, bot detection, spam detection, account-takeover detection, linked-account analysis, device checks, IP checks, session checks, velocity limits, abuse prevention, analytics events, performance data, crash data, error data, debugging information, communications delivery information, communications interaction information, and operational information.

These signals may help Cuddle protect users, Cuddle, payment processors, banks, card networks, service providers, and the Service; measure performance; improve reliability; maintain records of choices; and comply with legal and operational requirements.

Information collected through cookies and similar technologies is handled as described in this Cookie Policy, the Privacy Policy, and applicable law.

5. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

5.1 Overview

Cuddle uses cookies and similar technologies to provide, operate, secure, support, improve, measure, and enforce the Service.

How we use these technologies may depend on how you access Cuddle, the device or browser you use, the features you use, your account status, your settings, your cookie choices, your privacy choices, your checkout activity, your Paid Feature usage, your support interactions, your location or jurisdiction where relevant, and applicable legal, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, operational, or compliance requirements.

Not every use described in this Section applies to every user, device, browser, session, feature, jurisdiction, or purchase.

5.2 Operating the Service

We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate core Service functionality.

This may include account registration, login, authentication, session management, account settings, profile functionality, discovery features, matching or connection features where supported, messaging functionality, visibility settings, privacy settings, safety tools, reporting tools, support tools, checkout flows, billing-support flows, cancellation-support flows, privacy choices, cookie choices, consent records, and related Service functionality.

These technologies may help us recognize your browser or device, maintain your session, remember settings, prevent accidental loss of choices, route requests, display content, provide features, and keep the Service functioning.

5.3 Security, Fraud Prevention, Payment Risk, and Compliance

We may use cookies and similar technologies to protect users, accounts, Cuddle, payment processors, banks, card networks, service providers, and the Service.

This may include supporting account security, detecting suspicious login activity, preventing account takeover, identifying bots or spam, detecting scraping or automation, supporting abuse prevention, supporting checkout security, detecting unauthorized payment use, detecting card testing or payment-method testing, managing refund or chargeback risk, supporting sanctions or restricted-location compliance, preserving records, and enforcing applicable terms.

More detail about these uses is provided in the Service, Security, Fraud Prevention, Payment Risk, and Checkout Technologies section of this Cookie Policy.

5.4 Preferences, Communications, and Support

We may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences and manage communications.

This may include language or region preferences, display preferences, notification preferences, email preferences, privacy choices, cookie choices, consent choices, opt-out choices, support requests, billing-support communications, cancellation-support communications, safety notices, security notices, privacy notices, legal notices, and policy-update communications.

Opting out of marketing communications, where available, does not prevent Cuddle from sending service-related, transactional, legal, safety, security, billing, privacy, policy, support, or enforcement communications where permitted by law.

5.5 Analytics, Performance, Debugging, and Improvement

We may use cookies and similar technologies to understand how the Service is used, measure performance, detect errors, debug issues, test features, improve reliability, improve user experience, maintain operational quality, and evaluate whether Service features are functioning as intended.

This may include measuring pages viewed, links clicked, features used, session duration, device type, browser type, error events, crash data, performance data, feature availability, checkout performance, support flow performance, privacy-choice functionality, and other usage or operational events.

5.6 Limits on Use

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not use cookies or similar technologies to sell personal information or to share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not use private messages, sensitive personal information, or payment-related personal information for targeted advertising.

Cuddle also does not use cookies or tracking technologies to provide user-to-user payments, tips, donations, payouts, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, or any prohibited service or prohibited payment.

6. Service, Security, Fraud Prevention, Payment Risk, and Checkout Technologies

6.1 Service Operation and Account Security

Cuddle may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Service, maintain sessions, authenticate users, support account settings and account recovery, remember privacy and cookie choices, operate reporting tools, support requests, and provide stable Service functionality.

These technologies may help us recognize a browser, device, session, or account activity pattern so that we can provide access, reduce repeated authentication, prevent unauthorized access, protect account integrity, and maintain operational records.

6.2 Security and Abuse Prevention

Cuddle may use cookies and similar technologies to support security, abuse prevention, and account-integrity controls.

These technologies may help detect or respond to suspicious login activity, account takeover attempts, unauthorized access, bots, spam, scraping, automation, linked accounts, ban evasion, verification evasion, payment-block evasion, suspicious device activity, suspicious IP activity, suspicious session activity, or other misuse.

They may also help us enforce the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Prohibited Services, Payments & Commerce Policy, Safety Tips / Dating Safety Notice, and other applicable terms.

6.3 Fraud Prevention and Payment-Risk Management

Cuddle may use cookies and similar technologies to support fraud prevention, payment-risk management, checkout security, billing support, cancellation support, refund support, chargeback support, and payment-dispute support.

These technologies may help detect or respond to unauthorized payment use, stolen payment credentials, false billing information, card testing, payment-method testing, payment abuse, refund abuse, chargeback abuse, promotional abuse, trial abuse, suspicious transaction velocity, suspicious checkout behavior, or other payment misuse.

They may also help Cuddle, payment processors, banks, card networks, payment-method providers, fraud-prevention vendors, payment-risk vendors, and service providers assess, decline, delay, review, restrict, or protect transactions, payment methods, accounts, devices, sessions, or access points where appropriate.

6.4 Checkout and Payment Technology Limits

Checkout-related technologies may support payment authorization, payment status, purchase records, receipt delivery, billing descriptor support, tax records, accounting, audit, refunds, cancellations, chargebacks, and payment disputes.

Cuddle does not use ordinary cookies or tracking technologies to collect or store full payment card numbers, card security codes, full bank account credentials, passwords, private keys, or cryptocurrency wallet credentials on Cuddle-controlled systems.

Payment card data may be submitted directly to an authorized payment processor through processor-hosted, processor-controlled, or processor-approved payment fields or payment flows.

6.5 No Prohibited Use

Cuddle does not use cookies or tracking technologies to provide user-to-user payments, tips, donations, payouts, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, banking, lending, investment services, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, or prohibited payments.

Processing cookie, device, session, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, or checkout signals for safety, security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or enforcement does not mean that Cuddle provides, supports, facilitates, endorses, or assumes responsibility for prohibited services, prohibited payments, user-to-user transfers of value, or financial services.

7. Analytics, Performance, Communications, and Preferences

7.1 Analytics and Performance Technologies

Cuddle may use analytics and performance technologies to understand how the Service is used, measure reliability, detect errors, debug issues, test features, improve performance, and evaluate whether Service features are functioning as intended.

These technologies may help us understand pages viewed, links clicked, features used, session duration, device type, browser type, operating system, feature availability, error events, crash data, checkout performance, support performance, privacy-choice functionality, cookie-choice functionality, and related operational events.

7.2 Product Testing and Service Improvement

Cuddle may use cookies and similar technologies to support product testing, feature testing, user-experience improvements, safety improvements, fraud-prevention improvements, payment-risk improvements, and operational improvements.

This may include understanding whether a feature loads correctly, whether checkout works as expected, whether a privacy or cookie choice is recorded, or whether an error affects a browser, device, or session.

7.3 Communications Technologies

Cuddle may use communications technologies to deliver, manage, secure, measure, or confirm service-related communications.

These communications may include account, safety, security, fraud, billing, receipt, cancellation, refund, chargeback, payment-dispute, privacy, cookie, legal, policy-update, support, and enforcement communications.

Marketing communications, if any, are subject to applicable law and available preferences. Opting out of marketing communications does not prevent Cuddle from sending service-related, transactional, safety, security, billing, privacy, legal, support, policy, or enforcement communications where permitted by law.

7.4 Preferences and Choice Records

Cuddle may use cookies and similar technologies to remember and record language or region preferences, display preferences, notification preferences, email preferences, privacy choices, cookie choices, consent choices, opt-out choices, and related records.

These records may help us honor choices, demonstrate compliance, troubleshoot issues, and maintain legally required records.

7.5 Limits

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not use analytics, performance, communications, or preference technologies to sell personal information or to share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not use private messages, sensitive personal information, or payment-related personal information for targeted advertising.

Cuddle also does not use these technologies for user-to-user payments, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, or prohibited services or prohibited payments.

8. Third-Party Providers and Data Sharing Limits

8.1 Service Providers

Cuddle may use third-party service providers to help provide, host, store, secure, monitor, analyze, support, improve, and enforce the Service.

These providers may include hosting providers, cloud providers, content-delivery providers, analytics providers, performance providers, debugging providers, security providers, fraud-prevention vendors, payment-risk vendors, payment processors, payment-method providers, communications providers, email providers, customer-support providers, billing-support providers, cancellation-support providers, privacy request providers, consent-management providers, legal, tax, accounting, audit, and compliance providers.

Not every provider is used for every user, device, browser, session, feature, jurisdiction, or purchase.

8.2 Information Shared With Providers

Cuddle may share or make available cookie, device, browser, session, usage, analytics, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, checkout, communications, preference, consent, and related information with service providers where reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy.

This may include information needed to maintain sessions, operate features, detect errors, measure performance, support privacy choices, record cookie or consent choices, secure accounts, prevent fraud, manage payment risk, support checkout, deliver communications, provide support, comply with law, and enforce applicable terms.

8.3 Provider Terms and Independent Technologies

Some third-party providers may set or read cookies or similar technologies through tools, fields, scripts, SDKs, integrations, hosted pages, or services that help Cuddle operate the Service.

Where a provider operates a service, platform, payment flow, hosted checkout page, login tool, analytics tool, support tool, or consent-management tool, the provider may process information under its own terms, privacy policy, cookie policy, security practices, and legal obligations, or under agreements with Cuddle where applicable.

Cuddle is not responsible for third-party websites, apps, platforms, or services that Cuddle does not own or control, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

8.4 Data Sharing Limits

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not use or disclose private messages, sensitive personal information, or payment-related personal information for targeted advertising.

Cuddle does not share cookie or tracking information with providers to provide user-to-user payments, tips, donations, payouts, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, banking, lending, investment services, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, or prohibited payments.

8.5 Provider Safeguards

Where required by applicable law, Cuddle uses contractual, technical, organizational, and operational safeguards designed to require service providers to process information for permitted purposes and protect information appropriately.

9. Your Choices, Consent, Browser Settings, and Universal Opt-Out Signals

9.1 Overview

You may have choices about cookies and similar technologies depending on the technology, your browser, your device, your account settings, your location, the Service features you use, and applicable law.

Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for the Service to function. Others may be optional or subject to consent, preference, or opt-out choices where required by law.

Your choices may affect how Cuddle works. For example, disabling certain technologies may affect login, session management, account settings, security, fraud prevention, payment-risk controls, checkout, billing support, privacy choices, cookie choices, support tools, or other Service functionality.

9.2 Cookie and Consent Tools

Cuddle may provide a cookie banner, consent-management tool, privacy settings, cookie settings, account settings, or other choice mechanism where required or appropriate.

These tools may allow you to accept, reject, manage, or change certain cookie or tracking preferences. They may also help Cuddle record your consent choices, opt-out choices, cookie choices, privacy choices, and related records.

Where applicable law requires consent before using certain cookies, tracking technologies, analytics technologies, advertising technologies if any, precise geolocation, sensitive personal information, or similar technologies, Cuddle will seek consent to the extent required.

Where applicable law allows or requires withdrawal of consent, Cuddle will provide a method to withdraw consent to the extent required.

9.3 Strictly Necessary Technologies

Certain technologies may be necessary to provide the Service, maintain security, authenticate users, remember privacy or cookie choices, process checkout, support fraud prevention, manage payment risk, comply with law, or enforce applicable terms.

You may not be able to disable strictly necessary technologies through Cuddle’s cookie tools.

If you block or delete strictly necessary technologies through your browser, device, network, or other settings, parts of the Service may not function properly or may become unavailable.

9.4 Browser and Device Settings

Most browsers and devices allow you to manage cookies, local storage, device identifiers, tracking preferences, notification preferences, location permissions, and similar settings.

You may be able to delete cookies, block cookies, disable local storage, limit tracking, reset device identifiers, manage location permissions, or adjust browser privacy settings.

Your browser or device settings may not affect all technologies, all third-party tools, all server-side records, all service-related records, or all technologies used for security, fraud prevention, payment-risk management, legal compliance, or operational purposes.

If you use more than one browser, device, account, or network, you may need to manage choices separately for each.

9.5 Universal Opt-Out Signals

Certain laws may require businesses to recognize legally valid universal opt-out signals, such as Global Privacy Control or similar browser-based or device-based signals.

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

Where applicable law requires Cuddle to recognize a legally valid universal opt-out signal, Cuddle will do so to the extent required by law.

A universal opt-out signal may not apply to all processing, all cookies, all technologies, all service providers, all devices, all browsers, all accounts, or all purposes. For example, it may not disable technologies that are necessary to provide the Service, maintain security, prevent fraud, manage payment risk, process privacy choices, comply with law, or enforce applicable terms.

9.6 Marketing and Communications Choices

If Cuddle sends marketing communications, you may be able to opt out by using the unsubscribe instructions or preference tools we provide.

Opting out of marketing communications does not prevent Cuddle from sending service-related, transactional, safety, security, legal, privacy, billing, receipt, cancellation, refund, chargeback, payment-dispute, support, policy-update, account, enforcement, or similar communications where permitted by law.

Communications choices may be managed separately from cookie choices.

9.7 Third-Party Choices

Some third-party providers may offer their own privacy, cookie, analytics, advertising, or tracking choices.

Cuddle does not control all third-party choice tools, browser tools, device tools, industry opt-out tools, or provider-specific settings, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

If you interact with a third-party website, platform, payment flow, hosted checkout page, external purchase channel, social platform, messaging service, or other service that Cuddle does not own or control, that third party’s own terms, privacy policy, cookie policy, and choices may apply.

9.8 Limitations of Choices

Cookie, tracking, consent, opt-out, browser, device, and universal opt-out choices may be limited by law, technology, security requirements, fraud-prevention requirements, payment-risk requirements, service-provider requirements, or operational needs.

Cuddle may retain records of consent choices, cookie choices, opt-out choices, privacy choices, browser signals, security events, fraud-prevention events, payment-risk events, and related records where reasonably necessary or permitted by law.

Nothing in this Section limits any non-waivable privacy, consent, opt-out, access, deletion, correction, appeal, data-security, consumer-protection, or other right you may have under applicable law.

10. No Sale, No Targeted Advertising, No Prohibited Uses, Retention, Contact, and Changes

10.1 No Sale and No Targeted Advertising

As of the Effective Date, Cuddle does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising, or similar advertising purposes, as those terms may be defined under applicable privacy laws.

Cuddle does not use private messages, payment-related personal information, or sensitive personal information for targeted advertising.

If Cuddle changes these practices in a way that requires additional notice, consent, opt-out rights, universal opt-out signal recognition, limitation rights, appeal rights, or other rights under applicable law, Cuddle will update this Cookie Policy and provide required notices and choices to the extent required by law.

10.2 No Prohibited Uses of Cookies or Tracking Technologies

Cuddle does not use cookies, tracking technologies, analytics technologies, communications technologies, security technologies, fraud-prevention technologies, payment-risk technologies, checkout technologies, consent-management technologies, or related records to provide, support, facilitate, process, or disguise user-to-user payments, tips, donations, payouts, stored value, wallet balances, gift cards, cryptocurrency, money transmission, banking, lending, investment services, financial services, adult content monetization, sexual services, escort services, compensated dating, sugar arrangements, paid companionship, creator monetization, marketplace activity, or any prohibited service or prohibited payment.

Processing cookie, device, browser, session, analytics, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, checkout, consent, or preference information for Service operation, fraud prevention, legal compliance, privacy compliance, support, analytics, or enforcement does not mean that Cuddle provides or permits prohibited services, prohibited payments, user-to-user transfers of value, or financial services.

10.3 Retention

Cuddle may retain cookie, device, browser, session, analytics, performance, communications, preference, consent, opt-out, privacy-choice, security, fraud-prevention, payment-risk, checkout, support, legal, audit, and related records where reasonably necessary or permitted by law.

Retention periods may vary depending on the category of information, purpose of processing, user choices, account status, security needs, fraud-prevention needs, payment-risk needs, legal requirements, tax or accounting requirements, disputes, chargebacks, privacy compliance, enforcement, or operational needs.

Cuddle may retain choice records and related notices where reasonably necessary to honor choices, demonstrate compliance, troubleshoot issues, protect the Service, or comply with law.

10.4 Relationship to Privacy Policy and Other Terms

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Purchase Terms, Paid Features Terms, Prohibited Services, Payments & Commerce Policy, Community Guidelines, Safety Tips / Dating Safety Notice, State-Specific Terms & Cancellation Notices, Contact / Legal Notices, and applicable law.

The Privacy Policy controls the handling of personal information generally. This Cookie Policy controls cookie-specific and tracking-specific subjects, including cookie categories, tracking technologies, analytics, consent choices, opt-out choices, browser settings, device settings, and universal opt-out signals where applicable.

10.5 Contact and Changes

For privacy or cookie-related questions, contact privacy@cuddle-global.com. For security reports, contact security@cuddle-global.com. For general support, contact support@cuddle-global.com.

Use the channel that best matches your request. Do not send highly sensitive information by ordinary email unless Cuddle specifically requests it through an appropriate method.

Cuddle may update this Cookie Policy and will provide notice where required by law.

Nothing in this Cookie Policy limits any non-waivable privacy, consent, opt-out, access, deletion, correction, appeal, data-security, consumer-protection, payment, cancellation, refund, safety, accessibility, anti-discrimination, or other right that may apply under applicable law.