Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026  •  Controller: CryptoReview (operator of cryptoreview.us)  •  Lead supervisory authority reference: Users in the EEA/UK may lodge a complaint with their national data protection authority (DPA), e.g. the ICO in the UK, CNIL in France, BfDI in Germany, AEPD in Spain, Garante in Italy.

This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. It applies to the CryptoReview website at https://cryptoreview.us (and its staging alias https://cryptoreview.netlify.app) and governs the use of cookies, pixel tags, local storage, web beacons, SDKs and similar technologies ("Cookies" or "Cookie Technologies") when you visit or interact with the site.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website. They help websites work efficiently, store preferences, and provide anonymous statistical information about how a site is used. "Pixel tags" (or web beacons) are tiny graphics used to record page views and email opens; they do not store text on your device but may drop or read associated cookies. "Local storage" or "session storage" hold structured data in your browser for features that persist between page loads. In this policy we refer to all of these collectively as Cookie Technologies.

2. Legal Framework & Consent

CryptoReview treats Cookie Technologies in accordance with the EU ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) as amended by the GDPR (Regulation 2016/679), the UK GDPR, and national implementing laws. Under these rules:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies may be placed without consent because they are required for the technical operation of the website you have explicitly requested (Article 5(3) ePrivacy exception, GDPR Article 6(1)(b) and (f)).
• All other Cookies (Analytics, Functionality/chat, Advertising, Social) require your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a), ePrivacy Article 5(3)) before they are set on your device.
• You can change or withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Use the controls in the section below ("7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences") or contact us via our Contact page.

Where we rely on the Controller's legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)), we document a Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) and provide an opt-out mechanism as described per provider.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

4. Register of Third-Party Cookie Providers

The table below lists every third-party provider that may place Cookie Technologies through this site, the cookie names (where documented), retention periods, purpose, and direct opt-out or privacy links. This register is intended to satisfy the "list of all third parties" requirements under Article 10 of the ePrivacy Directive and Article 13/14 of the GDPR.

5. Google Tag Manager & Tag Container Governance

The site loads Google Tag Manager (GTM container GTM-KJ65VV2S) as a tag-orchestration layer. GTM itself is a tag scheduler that drops only a strictly necessary session cookie (if any) to remember your consent state. GTM does not by itself place analytics or advertising cookies. Any tag that places a non-necessary cookie (for example, a future Tawk.ready() or Statcounter event) is blocked until our Consent Management Platform (CMP) signals your affirmative consent for that specific category, in compliance with TCF v2.2 Purposes 1–10 and Google Consent Mode v2 (ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage, functionality_storage, security_storage).

6. "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" / Global Privacy Control

CryptoReview does not sell personal information derived from cookies to third parties. Accordingly, the CCPA / CPRA "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" category does not apply to the cookies described above. If you send the Global Privacy Control (GPC) header in your browser, our analytics provider Statcounter will honor it as an opt-out for their client-side tracking.

7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control cookies through a combination of:

• Our cookie banner / CMP. When available on the site, the banner provides granular Accept / Reject per category and a "Cookie Preferences" footer link to revisit it.
• Browser controls. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies via their settings. Instructions for major ones:
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Safari (macOS/iOS)
  • Microsoft Edge
• Advertising industry opt-outs. While we do not use ad cookies, you can generally opt out of many third-party ad networks at YourOnlineChoices (EEA) and NAI Opt-Out (US).

Consequences of blocking cookies: If you block strictly necessary cookies some parts of the site may not work correctly (e.g. collapsed nav states, form progress). Blocking analytics cookies has no functional impact. Blocking functionality cookies means the Tawk live-chat widget will not load and you must instead reach us via the WhatsApp, Telegram, phone, or Contact-form channels listed on the Contact page.

8. Similar Technologies & Device Fingerprinting

We do not use passive device fingerprinting (e.g. mixing canvas hash, font lists and WebGL renderer IDs to build a cross-site tracking identifier). Our Bootstrap/FontAwesome vendors may use browser cache for fonts and icons; these are not Cookie Technologies for tracking purposes and are covered by standard web cache semantics. When you submit a form (write-a-review / report-a-problem / contact) we may bind a short-lived CSRF token in session storage — this is strictly necessary to prevent replay attacks and is not used for tracking.

9. International Transfers

Our third-party providers may process your data outside the EEA/UK: Tawk.to operates data infrastructure in Gibraltar/UK (adequacy decisions apply) and possibly US; Statcounter processes in Ireland (EEA) and the USA under their EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) self-certification; WhatsApp and Telegram transfer data between Meta's Irish and US entities under Meta's SCCs and their DPF certification; Telegram operates servers in multiple jurisdictions. Where no adequacy decision applies (Art. 45 GDPR), transfers are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR) as published by each provider. You may request a copy of the relevant SCCs via our Contact page.

10. Your GDPR Rights

Independently of cookies, where we act as Controller for any personal information, you have the following rights under Chapters III (Articles 12–23) of the GDPR:

• Right of access (Art. 15) — obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification (Art. 16) — correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten", Art. 17) — delete personal data where we have no overriding legal ground to retain it.
• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18) — suspend processing pending verification.
• Right to data portability (Art. 20) — receive personal data you provided to us in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to object (Art. 21) — object at any time to processing based on legitimate interests (e.g. analytics).
• Rights around automated individual decision-making (Art. 22) — we do not carry out any decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
• Right to withdraw consent (Art. 7(3)) — any consent-based processing can be revoked via the same mechanism you used to give it (banner or contact form).
• Right to lodge a complaint (Art. 77) — with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

Subject access, deletion, and other requests relating to cookies stored on your device can often be self-served via your browser controls (Section 7). Requests for copies of controller-held records (e.g. Statcounter IP logs, Tawk chat transcripts in our account) should be directed in writing through our Contact page; we will respond within one month per Art. 12(3) GDPR.

11. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy if we add a new provider or category (for example, if we later add advertising tags or a new chat vendor). Material changes will be announced via a prominent re-prompt on the cookie banner with an updated "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the site after the banner re-prompt, after having had the opportunity to read the updated policy, constitutes acceptance of the revised policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

12. How to Contact Us

If you have a question about this Cookie Policy, want to exercise your GDPR rights, or need clarification on a specific cookie or provider, please reach out via our Contact page, through the live chat once you have opted in (Tawk.to), or via:

• Phone: +1 917 764 9451
• WhatsApp: +1 213 443 8004
• Telegram: @alex_john049

This policy was authored in line with the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 04/2012 on cookies (WP194, updated May 2014), the EDPB Guidelines 05/2022 on consent (Art. 4(11) and Art. 7 GDPR), CNIL Deliberation n°2020-091, and the Italian Garante Presidio n°194/2014 (updated 10 August 2023). Last reviewed against TCF v2.2 Policy specifications.