Cookie Policy

Last updated: November 2025

This page explains how Polygon Price Prediction uses cookies and similar bits of tracking technology on polygonpriceprediction.com It’s a companion to our Privacy Policy — that one covers personal data in general, this one zooms in on the specific question of “what’s getting stored in my browser and why?” If you want the full picture, read both.

The company behind the site is based in the United Arab Emirates and operates in line with the UAE’s Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (the “UAE PDPL”) and its implementing regulations. Where visitors are based in the United Kingdom or the European Union, we also aim to align with the standards set by UK and EU GDPR for cookie consent, since those rules can apply to overseas operators that target or monitor users in those regions.

We’ve tried to keep this readable. Cookies are one of those topics where the official language gets very dry very quickly, so where we can use a plain word instead of a fancy one, we do.

1. What cookies actually are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to save on your device. The next time you visit that website (or sometimes another one), the cookie can be read back, which lets the site remember things — like the fact that you’ve already dismissed a popup, or that you’re logged in, or that you came from a particular search result.

Some cookies are set by the site you’re actually visiting (called “first-party” cookies). Others are set by services that the site has chosen to embed or use — like an analytics provider, a video player, or an ad network. Those are “third-party” cookies, and they’re the ones that tend to attract the most attention from regulators.

Cookies can also be sorted by how long they stick around:

Session cookies disappear the moment you close your browser. They’re used for short-term things, like keeping track of what you’re doing in a single visit.
Persistent cookies stay on your device for a set period — could be a day, a year, or anywhere in between — and are read back on later visits.

Beyond cookies, websites use a few other technologies that work in similar ways — web beacons, pixels, local storage, session storage, software development kits (SDKs) in mobile apps. For the sake of keeping this document readable, we’ll call all of those “cookies” too, even though that’s a slight simplification.

2. The short version of what we do

If you don’t want to read the whole document:

We use cookies that are strictly necessary to run the site, plus a few non-essential ones for analytics, advertising, and remembering your preferences.
Non-essential cookies only get set if you agree to them in our cookie banner.
You can change your mind whenever you like using the cookie settings link in our footer.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings — but doing that may break some features of the site.

3. Why we use cookies

Cookies do a few different jobs on our site. The main ones:

Making the site work. Some cookies are technically necessary — for example, to remember what cookie preferences you’ve set so we don’t ask you again on every page.
Understanding how the site is used. Analytics cookies tell us things like which articles are getting read, how long people spend on a page, which pages are loading slowly, and where visitors are coming from. We use that to improve what we publish and to fix problems.
Showing and measuring ads. If we run advertising — and most independent crypto news sites do, to pay the bills — ad partners may use cookies to show ads, limit how often you see the same one, and measure how ads perform. Where the law requires consent for this, we ask for it.
Affiliate tracking. If you click one of our affiliate links and sign up for a service or fund an account on the destination site, cookies are typically how that destination knows the referral came from us so we get credited.
Remembering small preferences. Things like whether you’ve chosen dark mode, your language, or whether you’ve already dismissed a particular notification.
Security and abuse prevention. Some cookies help us spot bot traffic, prevent comment spam, and stop people from breaking the site.

4. The categories of cookies we use

Most cookie consent systems group cookies into the same four buckets, so we’re sticking with that structure.

Strictly necessary cookies

These are the cookies the site genuinely can’t function without. They don’t track you for marketing purposes, they don’t profile you, and they don’t need your consent because the site couldn’t deliver the basic service without them.

Examples of what they’re used for: remembering your cookie consent choices, keeping the site secure, balancing traffic across servers, supporting basic features like comment submission.

Analytics and performance cookies

These help us understand how visitors use the site. They tell us which pages are popular, how people got here, what’s slow, and where things break. We use the data to improve the site and to write more of the content that actually gets read.

The main analytics provider we typically use is Google Analytics, although we may also use privacy-focused alternatives like Plausible or Fathom for specific things. We aim to use anonymised or aggregated data wherever possible.

Advertising cookies

If we run advertising on the site, advertising cookies are set by us or by our ad partners. They’re used to:

Decide which ads to show you, sometimes based on the topics you’ve shown interest in
Stop the same ad from showing too many times
Measure how ads perform — clicks, impressions, conversions
Limit fraud and invalid ad traffic

The specific ad providers we use depend on which networks we’re working with at the moment. The major players in this space include Google AdSense, Ezoic, Mediavine, and similar. If you want the current list, our cookie banner shows it, and you can also email us.

Functional cookies

These remember small choices you’ve made so the site feels less repetitive on your next visit — language, theme, dismissed notifications, whether you’ve already seen a particular popup. They don’t track you across other sites and they don’t drive advertising.

5. Third-party services that may set cookies

The site uses a handful of third-party services, and some of them set their own cookies. The exact list shifts over time as we add or remove tools, but the main categories are:

Analytics platforms (e.g. Google Analytics) for understanding site usage.
Advertising networks (e.g. Google AdSense, Ezoic, Mediavine, or similar) for serving ads and measuring them.
Email and newsletter providers (e.g. Mailchimp, ConvertKit, MailerLite, or similar) for managing subscriber lists and tracking newsletter signups.
Embedded content — when an article embeds a tweet, YouTube video, TradingView chart, or similar, those platforms set their own cookies on visitors who interact with the embed.
Social media buttons — share buttons for X (Twitter), Facebook, Telegram, Reddit, and so on may set cookies when you interact with them.
Affiliate networks — exchanges, services, and affiliate platforms we partner with may set cookies when you click an affiliate link, so they can attribute the referral back to us.
Comment systems — if we use a third-party comment service, it may set cookies to manage logins and discussion threads.
Security and CDN providers (e.g. Cloudflare) for keeping the site fast and protecting it from attacks.

Most of these providers are based outside the UAE — typically in the United States or the European Union — which means cookie data set by them may be processed in those jurisdictions. Each of them has its own cookie policy and privacy policy, and we don’t control what they do with cookie data once you’ve interacted with them. If you want to dig into the specifics of any one of them, the easiest place to start is their own privacy or cookie page. Our Privacy Policy explains in more detail how we handle international transfers of personal data.

6. How long cookies last

Lifespans vary a lot. Strictly necessary and functional cookies often last anywhere from a single session up to a year. Analytics cookies are typically set for somewhere between a few months and two years. Advertising cookies are usually in the same range. The exact duration of each cookie is shown in the detailed list inside our cookie consent banner.

7. Managing cookies on our site

The first time you visit, you’ll see a cookie banner asking what you’re happy with. You’ve got three broad choices:

Accept all — every category of cookie described above is enabled.
Reject all (or “Only necessary”) — only the strictly necessary cookies are set. The site will work, you’ll just see less targeted ads and we’ll have less data on how to improve things.
Manage preferences — pick and choose by category.

You can change your mind at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in the footer of the site. That reopens the preferences panel and lets you switch categories on or off. New choices apply going forward.

8. Managing cookies in your browser

You can also control cookies through your browser settings, independently of our consent banner. Every major browser lets you:

See which cookies are currently stored on your device
Delete cookies, either individually or all at once
Block cookies from specific sites, or block all third-party cookies
Set the browser to ask you each time a site wants to set a cookie
Use private or incognito mode, which automatically clears cookies when you close the window

The exact steps depend on the browser. Quick pointers:

Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
Safari: Settings → Privacy
Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies
Brave: Settings → Shields → Cookies, plus the Shields panel for per-site control

Blocking all cookies can break things — some sites just stop working without them. Blocking only third-party cookies is a reasonable middle ground if you want to limit cross-site tracking without breaking individual sites.

If you’d rather not deal with browser settings at all, there are also dedicated tools — privacy-focused browsers (Brave, Firefox with strict mode), browser extensions like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger, and operating-system-level controls on iOS and Android.

9. Do Not Track and global privacy signals

Some browsers can send a “Do Not Track” header or a Global Privacy Control signal to websites. There’s no settled global standard on how websites have to respond to these signals. Where our cookie consent platform supports it, we’ll honour these signals as a request to limit non-essential cookies. The most reliable way to control what we collect, though, is still the cookie banner and the cookie settings link in our footer.

10. Your rights

Cookie data that identifies you, directly or indirectly, counts as personal data under the UAE PDPL — and, where it applies to you, under UK and EU GDPR. That means you have rights over it, including the right to access it, correct it, delete it, restrict its processing, and withdraw any consent you’ve given. Our Privacy Policy walks through these rights in detail and explains how to exercise them.

If you have a complaint about how we use cookies that we can’t resolve directly, you can also contact a data protection authority. In the UAE, that’s the UAE Data Office. If you’re based in the DIFC or ADGM free zones, separate regimes apply (the DIFC Commissioner of Data Protection or the ADGM Office of Data Protection respectively). If you’re in the UK or the EU, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or your local supervisory authority.

11. Changes to this cookie policy

We may update this policy from time to time — when we add or remove tools, when the law changes, or when we just need to clarify something. The “Last updated” date at the top will always reflect the latest version. If a change is significant, we’ll do our best to flag it more visibly.

If you keep using the site after a change is posted, that means you’re okay with the new version.

12. More information and contact

If you want more detail about cookies in general, the All About Cookies project (allaboutcookies.org) is a useful plain-English resource, as are the published guidance documents from regulators like the UK ICO and various EU data protection authorities.

If you’ve got questions about cookies on this specific site, or you want to know exactly which providers we’re using right now, email us at mail@polygonpriceprediction.com and we’ll come back to you as soon as we reasonably can.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for caring enough to check.