Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how IQ Abroad ("IQ Abroad", "we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use iqabroad.com and related services (collectively, the "Service").
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files or similar technologies that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
Cookies and similar technologies can help websites:
- Keep users signed in.
- Remember preferences.
- Maintain security.
- Understand how a website is used.
- Improve performance and functionality.
IQ Abroad may also use technologies such as local storage, session storage, pixels, SDKs, or similar mechanisms where necessary for the Service.
2. How IQ Abroad Uses Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Technologies
These technologies are required for the Service to function correctly.
They may be used to:
- Maintain your authenticated session.
- Remember that you have signed in.
- Protect accounts and prevent unauthorized access.
- Maintain application state.
- Provide essential security features.
- Detect suspicious activity.
- Enable core website functionality.
Because these technologies may be necessary to provide the Service, they may not always be disabled through the website's cookie settings.
3. Authentication and Supabase
IQ Abroad uses Supabase for authentication and related infrastructure.
IQ Abroad uses Magic Link authentication, meaning users can sign in through a link sent to their email rather than creating an IQ Abroad password.
Authentication systems may use cookies, local storage, session storage, tokens, or similar technologies to maintain a user's authenticated session.
These technologies may allow IQ Abroad to recognize that a user has successfully authenticated and keep them signed in while using the Service.
IQ Abroad does not use cookies to store an IQ Abroad password because IQ Abroad does not require users to create a password for Magic Link authentication.
The exact technologies used for authentication may depend on the current IQ Abroad and Supabase implementation.
4. Preference and Functionality Technologies
IQ Abroad may use cookies or local storage to remember information such as:
- Language preferences.
- Interface preferences.
- Feature settings.
- Session state.
- Other choices necessary to provide a consistent experience.
These technologies help prevent users from having to repeatedly configure the same settings.
5. Analytics
IQ Abroad may use analytics tools to understand how visitors and users interact with the Service.
Analytics may help us understand:
- Which pages are visited.
- Which features are used.
- General usage patterns.
- Performance problems.
- Technical errors.
- How the Service can be improved.
Analytics provider(s): Google (through advertising and measurement technologies used with Google AdSense, where enabled).
Analytics technologies may collect technical information such as device type, browser information, approximate location, pages visited, and interaction data.
6. Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)
IQ Abroad may use Google AdSense to show advertisements on iqabroad.com.
Google and its advertising partners may place cookies or use similar technologies to:
- Deliver ads on IQ Abroad.
- Store whether you have seen a particular ad.
- Measure ad impressions, clicks, and conversions.
- Help show ads that may be relevant based on your browsing activity on this site and other sites.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to iqabroad.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
Examples of technologies that may be used include Google advertising cookies and the DoubleClick cookie (or successor technologies).
You can manage or opt out of personalized Google ads at Google Ads Settings. You can also visit aboutads.info (US) or Your Online Choices (EU) to opt out of some third-party advertising cookies.
Where required by law, advertising cookies are activated only after you give consent through our cookie banner or settings.
7. Security and Fraud Prevention
We may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Detect suspicious activity.
- Prevent abuse.
- Protect accounts.
- Protect the Service from automated attacks.
- Maintain platform security.
- Investigate security incidents.
Some security technologies may be operated by third-party infrastructure or security providers.
8. TikTok Integration
IQ Abroad may allow users to connect their TikTok accounts.
The TikTok integration itself may use technologies controlled by TikTok when you interact with TikTok's authorization or related functionality.
IQ Abroad does not control cookies or similar technologies placed by TikTok on TikTok's own website or services.
The processing of information by TikTok is governed by TikTok's own policies.
IQ Abroad's access to TikTok account information is described in our Privacy Policy.
9. Third-Party Services
Some features of IQ Abroad may depend on third-party services.
These may include:
- Supabase.
- TikTok.
- AI providers.
- Google AdSense and advertising partners.
- Analytics and ad measurement providers.
- Hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Security providers.
- Other services necessary to operate the platform.
Third-party services may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own policies.
Actual third-party services used by IQ Abroad include Supabase (authentication and database), Amazon Web Services (infrastructure hosting), Google (advertising through Google AdSense), and TikTok (social integration).
10. Cookie Categories
Depending on the technologies currently used by IQ Abroad, cookies may fall into the following categories:
| Category | Purpose | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Authentication, security, core functionality | Login/session cookies |
| Functional | Remember preferences and settings | Language or interface preferences |
| Analytics | Understand usage and improve the Service | Website analytics |
| Security | Detect abuse and protect the Service | Fraud/security technologies |
| Advertising | Display and measure ads, ad relevance | Google AdSense / advertising cookies |
| Third-Party | Features provided by external services | TikTok or other integrations |
Not every category is necessarily used at all times.
11. Managing Cookies
You can control cookies through your browser settings.
Most modern browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies.
- Delete cookies.
- Block cookies.
- Restrict third-party cookies.
- Receive warnings before cookies are stored.
Blocking or deleting strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain IQ Abroad features from working correctly, including authentication and account-related functionality.
12. Consent
Where applicable law requires consent for certain non-essential cookies or similar technologies, IQ Abroad may request consent before activating those technologies.
Strictly necessary technologies may be used without consent where permitted or required to provide the requested Service.
Your choices may be stored using a cookie, local storage, or another appropriate mechanism.
13. Cookie Duration
Cookies and similar technologies may be:
Session-based:
These are generally deleted when the browser session ends.
Persistent:
These remain on the device for a specified period or until manually deleted.
The exact duration depends on the technology and its purpose.
14. Personal Information and Cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies may be associated with information that can identify or distinguish a user.
Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data under applicable law, it will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements.
15. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
The "Last updated" date at the top of the policy will indicate when it was most recently revised.
If we introduce new types of cookies or materially change how cookies are used, we may update this Policy and provide additional notice where required.
16. Contact
If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, contact:
IQ Abroad
Website: iqabroad.com
Operator: Byebakov Igor
Email: email@iqabroad.com
17. Related Policies
This Cookie Policy should be read together with:
By using IQ Abroad, you acknowledge this Cookie Policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.