Cookie Notice
Last updated: October 5, 2026 • Effective date: January 1, 2026
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device storage when you visit a website. They allow web platforms to remember your actions, preserve authenticated states, enhance user interface convenience, protect against automated attacks, and understand how pages are accessed.
This Cookie Policy explains how CreatorManch ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and related technologies across our marketplace, directories, and creator hubs.
2. Essential, Authentication & Security Cookies
These cookies are strictly required for the core technical operation and security of CreatorManch. They cannot be turned off within our systems:
Authentication & Session Management (Strictly Necessary)
Enables you to sign in, navigate authenticated creator hubs, manage your account, and maintain session continuity:
- Session Cookie (`creatormanch_session`): Maintains your active logged-in state across page loads.
- Remember Login Token (`remember_web_*`): Secure encrypted token set only if you select "Remember Me" during login, preserving authentication across browser restarts.
Security & CSRF Protection (Strictly Necessary)
Deployed to guard against unauthorized form submissions and cross-site scripting:
- CSRF Defense Token (`XSRF-TOKEN`): Verifies that mutating requests (submitting prompts, downloading products, posting reviews) originate directly from your authentic session on CreatorManch.
Interface Preferences & Functionality
Used to remember user interface preferences, dismissed notifications, filter options, and navigation view states on marketplace indexes.
Operational Telemetry & Diagnostics
First-party aggregated counters and server logs used to measure response latency, identify broken links, and monitor server capacity. These metrics are processed internally to maintain platform reliability.
3. Advertising & Third-Party Commercial Cookies
To support platform operations and content discovery, CreatorManch may display advertising, sponsored tools, or partner links:
Where advertising services (such as Google AdSense or authorized advertising networks) are active on our public pages, third-party advertising vendors may deploy and read cookies, web beacons, or unique device identifiers on your browser.
- Ad Serving & Relevance: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's prior visits to CreatorManch or other websites on the internet.
- Impression & Fraud Monitoring: Advertising cookies enable networks to track ad frequency, prevent the same ad from repeatedly appearing, and verify authentic impressions.
- Third-Party Control: Specific cookie names, technical keys, and retention periods are established and managed directly by the respective third-party advertising providers according to their privacy policies.
Opt-Out Options: You may opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting
Google Ads Settings. You may also opt out of third-party interest-based advertising by visiting consumer choice portals such as
aboutads.info or
youronlinechoices.com.
4. Third-Party Integrations & External CDNs
Certain platform functions interact with external infrastructure providers that may process standard connection headers or deploy security cookies:
- Typography Repositories: Fonts are delivered via optimized content delivery networks (e.g., Bunny Fonts / Google Fonts) to ensure rapid stylesheet rendering.
- Payment Gateway Frames: During checkout, integrated payment processors (e.g., Stripe, Razorpay) operate inside secure checkout frames that may set anti-fraud tokens required for financial risk analysis and 3D-Secure authentication.
5. How Users Can Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers allow you to control cookie settings through their preferences or options menus:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection & Cookies.
- Safari: Settings / Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
You may also configure your browser to block third-party cookies while permitting first-party essential cookies.
6. Impact of Disabling Essential Cookies
If you configure your browser to reject all cookies (including strictly necessary first-party session cookies), key features of CreatorManch will be impaired:
- You will not be able to log in or maintain an active creator or customer session.
- Checkout flows and digital product download entitlements cannot be verified.
- Security forms will fail CSRF verification checks.