Effective Date: 09/01/2025
Our Philosophy on Cookies: We Use as Few as Possible.
Welcome to LinkSouls.AI ("we," "us," or "our"). Our mission is to provide deep, lasting connection with absolute, uncompromising privacy.
Our "Privacy Vault" architecture, which stores your private conversation data encrypted on your own device, means we do not need to use invasive cookies for personalization, tracking your interactions, or remembering your preferences.
This Cookies Policy explains the very limited and specific cookies we do use to make our Services function safely and securely.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They help websites recognize your device and remember basic information.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies only for the following essential purposes:
- To Operate Our Services (Essential): To keep you securely logged into your account and manage your session.
- To Ensure Security & Process Payments (Essential): To protect your account from fraud and to allow our payment partner (Stripe) to securely process your `Inner Circle` subscription.
- To Improve Our Services Anonymously (Your Choice): To understand, in an aggregated and anonymous way, *how* users interact with our app's features (like button clicks or feature popularity), not *what* they are saying. This helps us fix bugs and improve the app.
3. What We <em>Do Not</em> Use Cookies For
This is what makes us different. Linksouls.AI does not use cookies or other tracking technologies to:
- Store, track, or analyze your `Interaction Data` (your private conversations).
- Remember your personalization preferences (like your favorite AI Souls or topics).
- Remember your `Core Memories` or `Dynamic Memory Log`.
- Track you across other websites for third-party advertising.
All your personal interaction history and memories are part of your Privacy Vault, stored securely and encrypted on your device, where they belong.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
Our use of cookies is minimal and transparent.
- Essential (Strictly Necessary) Cookies: These cookies are required for the website and app to function. You cannot opt out of these, as they are necessary for core features like logging you in and securing your payments.
- `Authentication Cookies:` (First-Party) To manage your login session.
- `Payment & Security Cookies:` (Third-Party) Set by our payment partner, Stripe, to securely process your subscription.
- Analytical (Performance) Cookies (Your Choice): These are opt-in. They allow us to collect anonymous, aggregated statistics about how our *features* are used. This data is never linked to your personal identity or conversation content.
- `Analytics Cookies:` (Third-Party) We use services like Google Analytics to help us understand anonymous user traffic and improve our app's stability.
5. Your Choices and How to Manage Cookies
You are in control.
- Our Cookie Consent Tool: When you first visit our Services, our cookie consent banner will ask for your permission to use Analytical Cookies. They will be "Off" by default. You must actively "Opt-In" to enable them. You can change this setting at any time.
- Browser Controls: Most web browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies through your settings. Please note that blocking our Essential Cookies (like our login cookie) will prevent you from being able to use our Services.
6. Third-Party Partners
We use the following trusted partners who may set cookies:
- Stripe (Essential): Our payment processor for handling `Inner Circle` subscriptions. Their cookie practices are governed by their privacy policy: https://stripe.com/privacy
- Google Analytics (Optional): Our analytics provider for understanding anonymous usage patterns. Their practices are governed by: https://policies.google.com/privacy
7. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this policy if our practices change. We will notify you by posting the revised policy on our website and updating the "Effective Date" above.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about our minimal use of cookies, please contact us at:
LinkSouls.AI
c/o Viswise Consulting Limited
Room 2705, 27th Floor, China Resources Building, 26 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Email: vip_service@linksouls.com