Cookie Policy

Last updated: June 2026

 

1. Introduction

The What About Mkt values your privacy and uses cookies and pixel systems to enhance our website’s reliability, security, and user experience. By accepting cookies, you help us improve functionality, remember your preferences, and provide tailored content and advertising. This Cookie Policy applies to all What About Mkt websites and applications and should be read alongside our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@whataboutmkt.com.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They allow websites to recognize your device, remember your preferences, and improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also collect information about your usage patterns and preferences. In this policy, “cookies” refer to all similar technologies used to achieve these purposes, including pixels, tags, web beacons, and local storage used for AI integrations. Cookies may be generated directly by our website (first-party cookies) or by third-party services integrated into our platform, such as analytics or advertising tools.

3. How We Use Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

3.1. Functional Cookies It is essential for the website’s core functionality, such as navigating pages, accessing secure areas, and completing transactions. It’s also used to remember user settings like language preferences or login details to provide a personalized experience.

  • Example: Saving your selected language for future visits.
  • Example: Cookies that maintain your shopping cart during checkout.
  • Example: Cookies that track your Free Trial eligibility and membership status to ensure the 7-day trial limit is respected.

These cookies are typically first-party and remain stored for a defined retention period necessary to provide these features.

3.2. Performance and Analytics Cookies Collect data on website usage to help us identify errors, understand visitor behavior, and improve functionality. These cookies improve website performance and ensure a smoother user experience. Specifically, we partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replays.

  • Example: Tools like Google Analytics or Clarity track popular pages and time spent on the site.

Some of these cookies may come from third-party providers and have specific retention periods. Data collected may be shared with analytics partners operating under a lawful data-processing basis.

3.3. Advertising and Marketing Cookies Monitor browsing habits to show ads and promotional content relevant to your interests. These cookies ensures advertising aligns with your preferences, reducing irrelevant content. We use pixel systems alongside cookies to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

  • Example: Cookies and pixels used by Facebook Ads or Google Ads to display personalized advertisements and retarget users based on site interaction.

These cookies may be first-party or third-party and follow defined retention periods. The data collected may be shared with advertising partners when necessary to deliver personalized content, in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

3.4 AI Integration, Credit Tracking, and Local Device Storage

We use local storage, session storage, and similar browser-based technologies to facilitate the integration with ChatGPT AI (OpenAI) on our site. This integration is enabled through the Meow App plugin, which connects the platform to OpenAI’s API and manages the communication between the website and the AI system. These technologies allow us to:

  • Manage Credit Usage: Track the number of credits used within your specific membership plan. Credits are the user-facing unit through which AI usage is measured and managed. When you submit a request to the AI tool, your credit balance is updated to reflect the cost of that interaction. Internally, the platform converts credits into AI processing tokens used by the underlying AI infrastructure (OpenAI), but users interact with and manage their balance exclusively in credits. AI credits are blocked during the Free Trial period for all membership plans — Basic and Premium — and only become available after the trial ends and the first successful payment has been processed.
  • Maintain Chat Context: Ensure continuity in your conversation with the AI during a session.
  • Collect Insights: Gather chat information and query history, which we use to generate studies, analysis, news, and magazines for the site, as well as to improve the user experience.
  • Support Session Performance: Store session-level information necessary for the proper functioning of AI tools and ensure continuity of AI-assisted features during a browsing session.

Information collected through these technologies may include technical session identifiers, AI interaction metadata, credit consumption metrics, and contextual data necessary for the operation of the AI tool.

Certain interaction data and usage patterns may also be analyzed in aggregated or anonymized form to improve the AI features offered on the website and to support the development of studies, reports, insights, and editorial content published on the platform.

Unlike standard cookies, local storage technologies may remain stored on your device until they are cleared through your browser settings or replaced by updated session data.

For more information on how AI interaction data and related analytics are processed, please refer to our Privacy Policy, particularly Section 6.3 (AI Credit Usage, Platform Interactions, and Content Access Data). For details on how the Meow App plugin handles data, we recommend reviewing Meow App’s own privacy policy.

3.5 Authentication and Membership Cookies

To provide secure access to account-based services, we use cookies and similar technologies to manage authentication sessions and membership status.

These cookies help us:

  • Maintain your login session when navigating the website.
  • Verify account authentication and prevent unauthorized access.
  • Identify active membership status and subscription permissions.
  • Track Free Trial eligibility and subscription plan limitations.

These cookies are essential for the operation of the Website and are typically first-party cookies generated by our membership and e-commerce systems, including ARMember, WooCommerce, and WooCommerce Subscriptions.

Without these cookies, certain features such as account login, subscription management, and access to members-only content may not function properly.

3.6 Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies

Certain cookies and tracking technologies may be used to maintain the security and integrity of the Website. These technologies help detect suspicious behavior, prevent unauthorized access attempts, and protect the platform against fraud, abuse, and automated attacks.

These cookies may collect technical information such as IP address patterns, session identifiers, and device-related metadata to help identify abnormal activity.

Security-related cookies are considered necessary for the proper operation and protection of the platform and may operate without optional user consent where legally permitted.

3.7 Research, Analytics, and Editorial Insights

Data collected through cookies and interaction tracking technologies may also be used in aggregated or anonymized form to support research, analytics, and editorial development.

This may include analyzing:

  • User interaction with articles, studies, reports, and magazines.
  • Content engagement patterns and reading behavior.
  •  Platform feature usage, including AI tools.

Insights derived from these analyses may be used to produce research, studies, analytical reports, or editorial content published on the Website. Any such research is conducted using aggregated or anonymized data and does not disclose identifiable personal information.

AI use in content and image production: In addition to the AI assistance feature available to users, What About Mkt uses artificial intelligence tools internally to support content creation and visual production. This includes the use of AI to draft written content such as articles, reports, and studies — which are reviewed and edited by human editors before publication — as well as the use of AI image generation tools to produce visual assets used within platform content and marketing materials. No personal data collected through cookies or tracking technologies is used as input for these internal AI production processes.

4. Consent and Management of Cookies

4.1. Consent Banner We use a cookie consent banner to inform you about the cookies used on our website. When visiting the site for the first time, you can accept or customize your preferences.

4.2. Managing Preferences You can manage or disable cookies at any time through:

  • Browser Settings: Adjust cookie permissions directly in your browser.
  • Important Note: Disabling certain cookies may impact website functionality, such as login access, AI chat features, or personalized content.

4.3 Cookie Duration

Cookies may remain stored on your device for different periods depending on their function.

Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device only for the duration of your browsing session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain stored on your device for a predefined period or until manually deleted. They help the website remember your preferences and settings across visits.

The retention period of cookies may vary depending on their purpose, the service provider that generates them, and applicable legal requirements.

5. Embedded Content

Our website includes content from third-party platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and X (Twitter). Viewing this content may require you to accept cookies from these third parties. Please refer to their respective privacy policies for details.

5.1 Third-Party Cookies from Embedded Platforms

Embedded content providers may place cookies or tracking technologies on your device when you interact with their content.

These providers may include platforms such as:

  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Facebook / Meta
  • LinkedIn

These cookies are controlled by the respective third-party platforms and may collect information about your interaction with embedded media. We recommend reviewing their privacy and cookie policies for further information on how these providers handle your data.

6. Updates to This Policy

We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, regulations, or our practices. Notifications of significant updates will be displayed prominently by e-mail.

7. Contact Us

For any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at: support@whataboutmkt.com