Cookies Policy

This page explains, in plain English, what cookies 99coupons.ai sets in your browser, what cookies other companies might set when you click an outbound link from our site, and what choices you have. We have tried to keep this short and free of legalese. If something is unclear, write to us at privacy@99coupons.ai and we will fix the wording.

What are cookies

Cookies are tiny text files that a website asks your browser to store. The next time you visit, your browser hands the cookie back to the site so it can remember something about you, like the fact that you are signed in. Cookies cannot read files off your computer and they cannot run programs. They are just little notes a website leaves for itself. Some cookies expire when you close your browser; others stick around for days, months, or years.

The cookies we set ourselves

We set exactly one cookie on our own domain, and it is the boring kind. It does not contain your name, your email, your IP address, or any behavioural fingerprint. It is a random session identifier so our server can tell one browser apart from another while you are using the site (for example, to keep your sort order or your country preference consistent across pages).

We do not run any first-party analytics cookies, advertising cookies, A/B test cookies, fingerprinting scripts, or social sharing widgets that quietly phone home. If a cookie is set on the 99coupons.ai domain, it is the one in the table below.

Name	Purpose	Duration	Type
99c_sess	Anonymous session ID so the server can keep your preferences (sort order, country) consistent between page loads.	30 days	First-party, strictly necessary

Cookies set by affiliate networks

This is the part that every honest coupon site should explain, so here it is. When you click a coupon or a "Go to store" button on our site, your browser is briefly redirected through an affiliate network — usually Awin, CJ (Commission Junction), Impact, or Rakuten Advertising — before landing on the merchant. During that redirect, the affiliate network sets a cookie on the merchant's domain (not on ours) that tags the click as having come from 99coupons.ai.

If you go on to buy something from that merchant within their attribution window (commonly 24 hours to 30 days, depending on the brand), the cookie tells the merchant to pay us a small commission. The price you pay does not change. This commission is how we keep the lights on and how we pay our human editors to verify codes.

A few honest notes about these cookies:

• They are set by the affiliate network and the merchant, not by us. We cannot see your purchase, your card, or your account.
• You can block or delete them in your browser at any time. If you do, the coupon code itself still works — you just won't be giving us credit for sending you over.
• If you would rather not be tracked by the network at all, you can copy the code from our page and paste it directly at the merchant. The code applies; we simply don't get paid for that visit.

We mention this openly because we think you deserve to understand the trade. Free coupon sites are not magic; affiliate cookies are the mechanism that makes them sustainable.

Why we don't use third-party analytics like Google Analytics

Most websites embed Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, or similar scripts. Those scripts drop cookies in your browser and send your behaviour to a third party for ad targeting and profiling. We do not do this.

Instead, we run server-side analytics. When our server returns a page to you, it logs the request (URL, country, referrer) on our own machine in Germany and then forgets about you. Nothing about that process requires a cookie in your browser, and no third party is involved. The practical result: our pages are GDPR-friendly out of the box, and we do not need to throw a cookie banner in your face on every visit.

Managing cookies in your browser

You are always in charge. Every modern browser lets you view, block, or delete cookies on a per-site basis:

• Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data.
• Safari: Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data.
• Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data.
• Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies.

Blocking our session cookie is harmless — the site will still work, you just may notice your sort or country preference resetting between pages.

Do Not Track signals

If your browser sends a Do Not Track (DNT) header, we honour it. In practice this is a no-op for us, because we do not track you in the first place: no behavioural cookies, no third-party scripts, no cross-site profiling. DNT changes nothing about what we do, because there is nothing to turn off.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we use cookies — for example, if we ever add a new first-party cookie — we will update this page and bump the "last updated" date at the top. We will not quietly start running third-party trackers without telling you.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or complaints about cookies: privacy@99coupons.ai. A human reads that inbox.