Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how IYH.AI uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your creative experience on our AI-powered trending style transformation platform.

We use cookies sparingly and only when necessary to provide our "Instantly access Your Hot-styles" service or improve your creator experience and trending content delivery.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit websites. They help websites remember your preferences and provide a better user experience. IYH.AI uses cookies to maintain your creator session and remember your trending style preferences and social media optimizations.

How IYH.AI uses cookies

We use cookies for essential platform functionality and optional trending improvements. You have control over non-essential cookies.

Essential Cookies (Always Active)

These cookies are necessary for IYH.AI to function properly and cannot be disabled without breaking core trending features:

• Creator Session: Keeps you logged in to your account and maintains your hot-style transformations in progress
• Authentication: Verifies your identity and protects your creator gallery and trending content
• Security: Protects against fraudulent activity and ensures secure viral content processing
• Payment Processing: Secure handling of subscription and billing information for trend-setter plans
• Platform State: Maintains your current trending style selections and transformation queue

Creator Experience & Trending Cookies

These cookies enhance your creative workflow and trending experience but are not strictly necessary. You can disable them while still using IYH.AI:

• Hot-Style Preferences: Remembers your favorite trending styles and recent viral transformations
• UI Settings: Saves your gallery view preferences and creator dashboard layout
• Language & Region: Maintains your preferred language and regional trend customizations
• Tutorial Progress: Tracks which onboarding steps you've completed for trending features
• Social Media Integration: Remembers your connected platforms and content optimization preferences
• Trend Notifications: Stores your trend alert preferences and notification settings.
• Third-Party Authentication: If you use services like Google Sign-In (facilitated by Supabase), these services may set cookies to manage your authentication status and remember your login preferences. These cookies are governed by the respective third parties' cookie policies.

Analytics & Trend Research Cookies (Optional)

With your consent, we use analytics cookies to understand how creators use IYH.AI and improve our trending service:

• Usage Analytics: Anonymous data about which trending features are most popular with creators
• Performance Monitoring: Helps us identify and fix platform issues affecting viral content generation
• Style Popularity: Aggregate data on which hot-styles are trending and their viral potential
• Creator Journey: Understanding how new users discover and use different trending features
• Viral Success Metrics: Anonymized data on content performance across social media platforms
• Trend Prediction: Helps improve our AI's ability to identify emerging viral aesthetics

Note: Analytics cookies never contain personal information, images, or individual creator data. They're purely statistical and help us serve the creator community better and predict viral trends more accurately.

Community & Social Media Cookies

When you interact with community features and social media integrations, additional cookies may be used:

• Social Platform Integration: When you connect Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or other platforms for optimized content delivery
• Viral Content Sharing: When you share trending creations on social platforms with engagement tracking
• Creator Community: For community features, leaderboards, and trend challenges
• Trend Collaboration: When participating in collaborative trending projects or creator partnerships

Third-party cookies & trending partners

IYH.AI integrates with trusted third-party services that may set their own cookies to enhance your trending experience:

Payment & Billing

• Stripe: Secure payment processing for subscriptions and trend-setter creator plans

Platform Infrastructure & Content Delivery

• AWS CloudFront: Content delivery and security for fast viral content generation
• Content Optimization: Ensures your trending transformations load quickly across all devices and regions

Social Media & Trend Analytics

• Social Platform APIs: When you connect social media accounts for optimized content delivery and trend tracking
• Trend Research Partners: Anonymized data sharing with trend research organizations (opt-in only)
• Viral Analytics: Aggregate performance data to improve our viral content prediction algorithms

Managing your cookie preferences

You have several options to control how cookies are used on IYH.AI:

Platform Cookie Controls

• Account Settings: Manage trending personalization and analytics cookies in your creator dashboard
• Notification Preferences: Control trend alert cookies and viral opportunity notifications
• Social Integration: Enable/disable social media platform cookies and optimizations
• Community Features: Opt in/out of community and collaboration cookies

Browser Cookie Settings

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings:

• Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies

Important: Disabling essential cookies will prevent IYH.AI from functioning properly and may affect your ability to access trending styles and viral content features.

Mobile apps & trending on-the-go

When using IYH.AI on mobile devices:

• Mobile browsers use the same cookie policies as desktop versions
• Native mobile apps may use device identifiers instead of cookies for trending personalization
• Push notifications for trending alerts use platform-specific mechanisms
• Social media integrations follow each platform's mobile policies

Cookie retention & trending data lifecycle

Different types of cookies are retained for different periods:

• Session Cookies: Deleted when you close your browser or end your creator session
• Authentication Cookies: Expire after 30 days of inactivity for security
• Preference Cookies: Retained for up to 1 year to remember your trending style choices
• Analytics Cookies: Anonymized data retained for up to 2 years for trend research and platform improvement

International cookie compliance

IYH.AI complies with international cookie regulations:

• GDPR (EU): Explicit consent for non-essential cookies and trending analytics
• CCPA (California): Right to opt-out of cookie-based data collection for trend analysis
• ePrivacy Directive: Clear information about all cookies used for trending and viral content features

Changes to cookie usage

As we improve our trending features and viral content capabilities:

• We may introduce new optional cookies for enhanced trending experiences
• You'll be notified of significant changes to our cookie usage
• New trending features may require additional consent for related cookies
• We'll always maintain our commitment to cookie minimalism and transparency

Contact us about cookies & trending privacy

Questions about our cookie usage or trending data practices?

• Email: privacy@iyh.ai
• Cookie Questions: cookies@iyh.ai
• Trend Data Inquiries: trends@iyh.ai
• Creator Support: help@iyh.ai