Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Dot Coms, Inc. may use cookies, local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, server logs, device identifiers, and comparable technologies in connection with Psychologist.CV. It supplements the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and should be read together with those documents. Some technologies are necessary to deliver pages, authenticate users, protect forms, maintain sessions, preserve settings, generate documents, and secure the Service. Other technologies may support analytics, performance measurement, traffic attribution, embedded resources, cross-promotional links, and service improvement. The exact technologies, providers, names, values, and durations may change as the platform and its service providers evolve. Availability of consent controls and opt-out mechanisms depends on the technology, browser, device, jurisdiction, and applicable law.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files stored by a browser at the request of a website or service provider. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, software identifiers, cache entries, and server-side logs. These technologies may recognize a browser or device, maintain an authenticated session, protect forms, remember settings, measure activity, diagnose errors, and connect events across pages or visits. A technology does not always identify a person by name, but associated identifiers, IP addresses, device information, and interaction records may be treated as personal information under some laws.
2. First-party and third-party technologies
First-party technologies are placed or controlled through Psychologist.CV for account access, security, preferences, and operation. Third-party technologies may be placed or controlled by hosting, analytics, security, email, content-delivery, font, embedded-resource, or other providers. A third party may receive technical information directly from a browser when its resource loads, including IP address, browser information, requested URL, referrer, timestamp, and interaction data. The provider may process that information under its own terms and privacy notice. Dot Coms, Inc. does not control technologies used by an external website after a user follows a link or leaves Psychologist.CV.
3. Strictly necessary technologies
Strictly necessary technologies support page delivery, account login, session continuity, request routing, form protection, security, fraud prevention, load management, and other functions required to provide the Service. Examples may include session identifiers, authentication records, cross-site-request-forgery protection, load-balancing information, security tokens, and short-lived technical storage. These technologies may operate without optional consent where permitted because disabling them can prevent registration, login, editing, uploading, saving, downloading, publishing, or other core functions.
4. Account, session, and security technologies
When a user signs in, technologies may maintain the authenticated session, recognize authorized requests, support a remember-me choice, detect suspicious activity, and help prevent unauthorized account use. Security technologies may record failed logins, rate-limit events, bot indicators, unusual traffic, header information, and other signals used to challenge, block, investigate, or prevent harmful activity. Deleting session storage or blocking required cookies may sign a user out, cause forms to fail, interrupt document editing, or require repeated verification.
5. Functional and preference technologies
Functional technologies may remember interface choices, language, accessibility preferences, dismissed notices, template selections, navigation state, or other convenience settings. Some preferences may be stored in the account rather than the browser. Others may remain in local storage until they expire, are replaced, or are deleted by the user. If disabled, the Service may remain available but may not remember prior choices or may present repeated prompts.
6. Analytics and performance measurement
Analytics and performance technologies may record page views, sessions, referrers, navigation paths, device category, browser characteristics, approximate location, feature interactions, public-page visits, errors, and timing information. This information may be used to understand aggregate usage, identify broken pages, diagnose performance problems, improve design, allocate infrastructure, evaluate cross-promotional links, and protect the Service. Analytics reports may be aggregated, pseudonymous, or associated with browser identifiers depending on provider configuration. Blocking analytics may reduce measurement accuracy but should not prevent basic public viewing.
7. Embedded resources and cross-promotional services
Psychologist.CV may load external fonts, scripts, widgets, security resources, analytics, or cross-promotional service links. A resource may set or read a technology when the page loads or when the user interacts with it. Cross-promotional links may direct visitors to independently operated services. The destination may use its own cookies immediately after navigation and is governed by its own policies. The presence of a link or embedded resource does not mean that Psychologist.CV controls the provider’s independent databases, advertising practices, or downstream processing.
8. Advertising, attribution, and conversion technologies
The Service may use promotional or attribution technologies to measure impressions, clicks, referrals, or campaign effectiveness. Depending on configuration and jurisdiction, these technologies may support contextual promotion, frequency control, or cross-site measurement. Psychologist.CV does not sell personal information for money as its ordinary business model. Some laws may nevertheless classify particular analytics or cross-context disclosures as sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. Where applicable law requires consent, opt-out controls, or recognition of a valid preference signal for covered technologies, those requirements will be addressed to the extent legally and technically applicable.
9. Session and persistent duration
Session technologies generally expire when the browser closes or the session ends. Persistent technologies remain until their configured expiration, until replaced, or until deleted through browser or device controls. Local-storage entries may remain until cleared. Server logs may persist independently of browser cookies because web servers ordinarily receive request information even when browser storage is blocked. Duration depends on purpose, provider configuration, account settings, security needs, consent status, and legal obligations. We do not guarantee that every provider uses identical expiration periods.
10. Consent and preference management
Where law requires consent before nonessential technologies activate, a notice or preference mechanism may be presented. Users may be able to accept, reject, or adjust available categories. A consent or opt-out choice may itself be stored in a cookie or local-storage entry so the Service can remember it. Clearing browser data may erase the choice and cause the notice to reappear. Consent applies to the browser, device, profile, and domain on which it is provided unless the control states otherwise. A choice on one device may not automatically apply to another.
11. Browser and device controls
Most browsers allow users to view, block, delete, restrict, or clear cookies and site data. Mobile devices and browser extensions may provide additional privacy, tracking, or advertising controls. Blocking all cookies may prevent account access, form submission, document editing, uploads, downloads, publishing, security checks, and preference storage. Blocking third-party technologies may affect analytics, embedded resources, or cross-promotional features. Browser controls vary and change over time. Users should consult official browser or device documentation for current instructions.
12. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Do Not Track signals are not standardized or interpreted consistently, and Psychologist.CV may not respond to every DNT signal. Browser storage controls remain available regardless of DNT status. Where applicable law requires recognition of a valid opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, and the signal is technically detectable and relevant to covered processing, it may be treated as an opt-out request for that browser or device. A browser signal does not delete an account, unpublish a CV, erase server logs, or remove information from recipients, search engines, or external websites.
13. Security and abuse-prevention records
Security systems may use identifiers and logs to detect bots, excessive requests, credential attacks, malicious uploads, fraud, scraping, or attempts to bypass controls. Security records may be used to rate limit, challenge, block, investigate, preserve evidence, or restore service. They may be retained longer when connected to an incident, legal request, dispute, or enforcement action. Blocking a security technology may result in denied access because the Service must be able to distinguish authorized activity from harmful traffic.
14. Third-party controls and opt-out tools
Some analytics, advertising, security, or embedded providers offer independent opt-out mechanisms, browser add-ons, account settings, or industry tools. Availability and effectiveness are controlled by the provider. Using a provider opt-out may not block first-party session cookies, server logs, necessary security processing, or technologies used by a different provider. Dot Coms, Inc. does not guarantee the continued availability, accuracy, or compatibility of a third-party opt-out tool.
15. International users
Cookie and tracking laws differ by country, state, and configuration. A technology treated as necessary in one jurisdiction may require consent or additional notice in another. We may adjust notices, categories, provider settings, or consent behavior to reflect legal, technical, and operational requirements. The same feature may therefore behave differently by location or over time. Users remain responsible for browser and device settings and for understanding the controls available where they live.
16. Relationship to the Privacy Policy and Terms
The Privacy Policy explains broader information practices, including account data, CV content, uploaded files, public pages, sharing, service providers, retention, security, and privacy rights. The Terms of Use govern acceptable use, accounts, publication, User Content, intellectual property, disclaimers, and liability. This Cookie Policy addresses browser and similar technologies specifically. If these documents appear inconsistent, they should be read together and interpreted to give effect to the most specific provision, subject to mandatory law.
17. Changes and contact
We may update this Cookie Policy when technologies, providers, features, laws, or operational practices change. The revised version will be posted on this page. A material change may also be communicated through a website notice, preference interface, account message, or email when reasonably appropriate or legally required. Questions about cookies or privacy controls may be submitted through Client Assistance. Include the browser, device, page, and approximate time involved when reporting a technical issue, but do not include passwords or patient information.