Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, which keeps small values in your browser without sending them to our servers on every request.

2. What we use

• Sign-in session cookies (names starting with sb-, or __Host-sb-aw on brand.motionvault.site): keep you signed in and protect your account. Strictly necessary. Set only when you sign in, and removed when you sign out or the session expires.
• Cookie notice (local storage key aw_cookie_notice_v2): remembers that you closed the cookie notice so it is not shown again. Strictly necessary. Stays until you clear your browser storage.
• Referral cookie (aw_ref, first-party, 90 days): set only when you arrive through a creator's or affiliate's ?ref= link, so they get credit if you subscribe. It holds only their referral code. It is read by our own checkout and is never shared with advertisers. It is not set if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland we ask first, and it is set only if you choose “Allow”.
• Referral choice (local storage keys aw_ref_declined_v1 and aw_ref_allowed_v1): remembers whether you chose Reject or “No thanks”, or Accept or “Allow”, for the referral cookie, so we don't ask again. Reject also removes a referral cookie already stored.
• Mascot choice (local storage key aw_pet_hidden_v1): set only if you choose “Hide Flick” on our fox mascot, so he stays hidden. Strictly necessary for a choice you made. Stays until you clear your browser storage.
• Brand Studio and Design work (local and session storage keys starting with aw-brand-, and similar keys in Design): keep your projects, designs, prompts and settings in your browser so your work is there when you come back. Strictly necessary for a feature you use. Stays until you clear your browser storage.
• Analytics: we run our own instance of Umami, which is cookie-free. It records page views and events, plus on public pages where people click and how far they scroll, as event-level records tied to an anonymous visitor ID that rotates and is never linked to your account, without cookies and without tracking you across other websites. The click and scroll part records nothing when your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

We do not use advertising, retargeting or social-media cookies, and we do not sell or share your data for advertising.

3. Consent

Under EU and UK rules (ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and PECR), storage that is strictly necessary for a service you asked for does not need consent. That covers the sign-in cookies and the notice and choice flags. The referral cookie is not strictly necessary, so where those rules apply we ask before setting it and you can say no without losing anything. In the United States we give notice here and honor Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track as an opt-out.

4. Third parties

• Stripe: checkout runs on Stripe's own site (checkout.stripe.com), where Stripe sets its own cookies for payment and fraud prevention. See the Stripe Privacy Policy.
• Live template demos: demos run in an isolated frame and load fonts from Google Fonts and scripts from jsDelivr. These services receive your IP address as part of a normal web request. They set no cookies on our site. See the Google Privacy Policy and the jsDelivr Privacy Policy.

5. Controlling cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the sb- cookies you will not be able to sign in, but you can still browse templates and live demos. To remove the referral cookie, delete aw_ref for animatedwebs.com in your browser. Turning on Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track stops it being set at all.

6. Changes

If we change what we use, we will update this page and the date above before the change takes effect.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy: use our contact form. See also our Privacy Policy.