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Cookies and privacy policy

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

This site uses cookies for A/B testing, Google Analytics, advertising and content delivery.

A/B Testing

Magic8's A/B Testing uses cookies to run experiments and temprarily track anonymous visitor information. The cookies identify a visitor and their session, specify whether that visitor participates in the running experiments and keep track of the alternative a visitor has viewed so that they always sees the same alternative, offering a consistent and coherent user experience.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google. www.example.com uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of www.example.com and user behavior concerning ads, products and the services we offer. You may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en.

Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing: USA. You can find the AdSense Privacy Policy here.

Content Delivery

Cookies are used by Cloudflare, our content delivery network used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not correspond to any userid in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.This cookie is strictly necessary for site security operations and can't be turned off.

Data collection

In addition to the above, this site records questions asked along with the date and time these questions were asked. These will only ever be displayed to other visitors unless the "Make question private" checkbox is set when you submit your question. No further information is collected.

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