Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files that a website can place on your device to remember information between visits. Alongside traditional cookies, websites can use similar browser technologies such as local storage, which stores small preferences directly in your browser.

AskFredd.ai relies mainly on browser local storage rather than traditional tracking cookies. Whichever technology is used, the principle we follow is the same: store as little as technically possible, only for essential functionality, and never for tracking you.

2. What This Site Actually Uses

These are the items AskFredd.ai stores on your device:

• Cookie consent preference — a single value (stored in your browser’s local storage under the name cookie-consent) that records whether you accepted or declined this notice, so the banner does not reappear on every visit. It contains no personal data.
• Theme preference — a value (stored under the name theme) that remembers whether you chose the light or dark appearance of the site, so your choice is respected on your next visit.

Both items are strictly functional, are set only in your own browser (first-party), and are never transmitted to advertisers or used to build a profile of you.

3. What We Do NOT Use

To be clear, AskFredd.ai does not use:

• advertising or marketing cookies;
• profiling or behavioural-targeting cookies;
• cross-site or third-party tracking cookies;
• social media tracking pixels;
• fingerprinting or similar covert identification techniques.

We do not run our own analytics dashboard that identifies individual users, and we do not require you to create an account.

4. Third-Party and Infrastructure Cookies

AskFredd.ai is delivered through modern hosting and AI infrastructure. Some third-party providers we rely on to run the service (for example, the hosting platform and the AI service that generates answers) may set strictly necessary technical cookies or make network requests to keep the connection secure and functional. These are limited to what is required to deliver the service and are not used by us for advertising or profiling.

When you follow an external link from our answers (for example to a scientific journal, a health authority or an emergency service), that destination website has its own cookie and privacy policies, over which we have no control. We encourage you to review them.

5. Legal Basis

Under the EU/UK ePrivacy rules and the GDPR, strictly necessary and functional storage of the kind described above can be used on the basis of legitimate interest in providing a working website, without requiring prior consent. We nonetheless display a clear cookie notice for transparency. Because we do not use any non-essential, advertising or profiling cookies, no additional consent is required for those categories — there are none.

6. Managing and Deleting Cookies

You are always in control. You can:

• decline the cookie notice when it appears — the site will still work, though your theme and consent choice may not be remembered between visits;
• clear your browser’s local storage and cookies at any time from your browser settings;
• use private/incognito browsing, which discards this storage when you close the window;
• configure your browser to block or delete cookies and local storage for this site.

Most browsers explain how to do this in their help pages (look for “Privacy”, “Cookies” or “Site data” settings). Because the items we store are purely functional, removing them will not lock you out of any feature.

7. Users Outside the European Union

This Cookie Policy applies to all visitors worldwide. If you access AskFredd.ai from outside the EU, the same minimal, non-tracking approach applies. Depending on your location, additional local rules (such as the UK ePrivacy regulations or the California Consumer Privacy Act) may give you further rights regarding data and tracking technologies; since we do not use advertising or profiling cookies, most of those concerns do not arise here.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the technologies we use or in applicable law. The current version will always be available on this page, with the “Last updated” date revised accordingly.

9. Related Information

For more detail on how we handle data in general, please read our Privacy Policy and our Disclaimer & Terms of Use.