Cookie and Tracking Notice
Effective date: August 4, 2026
This Cookie and Tracking Notice explains how vScrawl uses cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits, and similar technologies when you visit our website, access supported online services, or interact with embedded content.
We use these technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, secure accounts, understand how the website performs, improve user experience, support communications, and measure the effectiveness of selected campaigns. Our Privacy Policy provides additional information about how personal data is handled.
What Is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file placed on a computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other device when a website is visited. Cookies allow a website to recognize a browser or device, remember information about a visit, maintain a session, and enable selected features.
Some cookies remain only while the browser is open and are removed when the session ends. Others remain for a defined period or until they are deleted. Similar technologies may store information through local storage, pixels, tags, or device identifiers.
How vScrawl Uses Cookies
vScrawl uses cookies and related technologies only for defined operational, security, analytical, functional, and communication purposes.
- Website operation: To load pages, maintain sessions, remember settings, and deliver requested features.
- Account security: To support authentication, detect misuse, prevent fraud, and protect forms or sessions.
- Preferences: To remember language, consent choices, and selected website settings.
- Performance: To identify errors, measure loading behavior, and improve reliability.
- Analytics: To understand visits, navigation paths, page interactions, and general usage trends.
- Communications and campaigns: To understand whether selected content or campaigns are effective, where permitted.
- Embedded services: To support third-party videos, forms, chat, maps, or other enabled features.
Cookie Categories
The categories below describe the types of cookies that may be used on vScrawl websites. The exact technologies available depend on the page, enabled features, and user choices.
| Category | Purpose | Typical Legal Basis | User Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Required for core website operation, security, authentication, consent recording, and requested services. | Usually based on legitimate interests, contractual necessity, or another lawful basis that does not require optional consent. | These cannot normally be disabled through the consent banner. |
| Functional | Remember preferences and enable optional website features such as chat, language selection, or customized displays. | Consent where required by applicable law. | Disabling them may reduce functionality but should not prevent basic access. |
| Analytics | Help us understand website traffic, usage patterns, errors, and performance. | Consent where required by applicable law. | These can generally be accepted or rejected through cookie settings. |
| Performance | Support load balancing, diagnostics, response-time analysis, and technical service optimization. | Consent or legitimate interests, depending on the technology and jurisdiction. | Availability depends on the website configuration. |
| Advertising and measurement | Measure campaigns, attribute visits, and support interest-based or personalized advertising where enabled. | Consent where required; additional opt-out rights may apply. | These are disabled unless enabled and legally permitted. |
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support essential functions such as page delivery, authentication, security, consent recording, session management, load balancing, and protection against malicious requests.
Because these technologies are required to provide a requested service or protect the website, they are not normally optional. Blocking them through browser settings may prevent parts of the website or account services from working correctly.
Managing Preferences on the vScrawl Website
Where a cookie-consent tool is available, you can use it to accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookie categories. Your selection may be stored so that the website can remember your preference.
You can revisit cookie settings at any time by using the cookie-preference control displayed on the website. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before the preference was changed.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to view, delete, block, or limit cookies. Browser settings differ, but options are usually available under privacy, security, or site-data controls.
- Delete existing cookies and stored website data.
- Block all cookies or only third-party cookies.
- Allow cookies only for selected websites.
- Clear cookies when the browser closes.
- Use private or incognito browsing for a temporary session.
Managing Similar Technologies on Mobile Devices
Mobile operating systems and applications may use device identifiers, local storage, advertising identifiers, or similar technologies. Controls are usually available in device privacy settings or within the relevant application.
Depending on the device, you may be able to limit tracking requests, reset an advertising identifier, restrict personalized advertising, or remove stored application data. The availability and effect of these settings are controlled by the operating-system or application provider.
Legal Basis for EEA, UK, and Swiss Visitors
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, strictly necessary technologies are used where they are required to operate, secure, or provide the website and requested services.
Where required by law, analytics, functional, performance, and advertising technologies are enabled only after consent. You may reject non-essential technologies or withdraw consent through the available cookie settings.
Regional Privacy Rights
Privacy laws vary across different countries and regions. Depending on where you are located, you may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent.
vScrawl is committed to respecting applicable privacy requirements in the jurisdictions where it operates, including Pakistan, the United States, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and other regions where local privacy laws apply. Where required, we provide appropriate mechanisms to help individuals exercise their privacy rights.
- Access and request a copy of eligible personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Request deletion where permitted by applicable law.
- Withdraw consent for non-essential cookies where consent is the legal basis.
- Contact us regarding any privacy-related concern or request.
Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals
Where required by applicable law and technically supported, vScrawl may recognize valid browser-based privacy signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for relevant opt-out requests.
Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not interpreted consistently across the industry. Where no legally recognized standard applies, the website may not respond to every signal in the same manner.
Third-Party Technologies
Some website features may be provided by third parties, such as analytics platforms, embedded-video providers, payment services, social-media platforms, customer-support tools, security services, or advertising partners.
These providers may place or read cookies when the relevant service is enabled. Their processing is governed by their own privacy policies and contractual commitments. Where consent is required, non-essential third-party technologies are not enabled until the relevant choice is made.
Services That May Set Cookies
The following service categories may place cookies or similar technologies when the relevant function is enabled. This table is intended to describe the current website structure in a clear, maintainable format.
| Service Category | Purpose | Examples | Likely Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website platform and page builder | Page layout, editing, session preferences, and website functionality. | May include Elementor or WordPress-related storage. | Necessary or functional |
| Security and anti-spam services | Protect forms and website interactions against automated abuse or malicious activity. | May include reCAPTCHA or equivalent services. | Necessary |
| Analytics services | Measure visits, page interactions, errors, and general website performance. | May include Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, or an equivalent provider if enabled. | Analytics |
| Embedded-media providers | Display videos or other externally hosted content. | May include YouTube or another media service if embedded. | Functional or advertising |
| Payment processors | Process payments and reduce fraud where online billing is enabled. | May include a PCI-compliant payment provider. | Necessary |
| Chat and support tools | Provide live chat, customer support, feedback, or help-center functions. | Enabled only where the relevant feature is used. | Functional |
| Campaign measurement tools | Measure conversions and campaign effectiveness. | Enabled only where marketing measurement is configured and permitted. | Advertising or analytics |
Current Cookie Inventory
The table below lists cookies that may be used across the vScrawl website or connected services. Exact cookie names, domains, and durations may change when website features, providers, or configurations are updated.
| Cookie or Technology | Provider or Domain | Purpose | Typical Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| elementor | vScrawl website | Supports page-builder and website-layout functionality. | Persistent | Strictly necessary |
| wordpress_* / wp-settings-* | vScrawl website | Supports WordPress administration, login, preferences, or session functions where applicable. | Session or persistent | Strictly necessary |
| cookie-consent or equivalent | vScrawl website | Stores the visitor’s cookie-category selection and banner preference. | Up to 12 months | Strictly necessary |
| PHPSESSID or application session cookie | vScrawl website or application | Maintains a browser session and supports secure navigation. | Session | Strictly necessary |
| csrf / antiforgery token | vScrawl website or application | Helps protect forms and authenticated requests against cross-site request forgery. | Session or short duration | Strictly necessary |
| _GRECAPTCHA or equivalent | Security provider | Helps identify automated abuse and protect forms against spam. | Up to 6 months | Strictly necessary |
| _ga / _ga_* | Analytics provider | Distinguishes visits and helps measure website usage where analytics is enabled. | Up to 2 years | Analytics |
| _gid | Analytics provider | Supports short-term measurement of website usage where enabled. | Approximately 24 hours | Analytics |
| _clck / _clsk | User-experience analytics provider | Helps understand website interaction and session behavior where enabled. | Up to 1 year | Analytics |
| YSC / VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Embedded video provider | Supports embedded-video playback and measurement where video content is used. | Session to 6 months | Functional or advertising |
| Payment-provider cookies | Authorized payment processor | Support payment processing, fraud prevention, and transaction security where billing is enabled. | Varies by provider | Strictly necessary |
| Chat or support session cookie | Support provider | Maintains live-chat or support-session continuity where the feature is enabled. | Session or limited duration | Functional |
Consequences of Blocking Cookies
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect website functionality. For example, preferences may not be remembered, account sessions may end, forms may not submit correctly, embedded content may not display, or authentication and security features may not work as expected.
Strictly necessary cookies are required for essential functions. Non-essential categories can be managed through the available preference controls.
Data Collected Through Cookies
Depending on the technology and user choices, cookie-related data may include IP address, approximate location, browser type, device information, language, referring page, pages viewed, timestamps, interactions, campaign source, session identifiers, and consent choices.
We do not use cookies to access unrelated files stored on your device. Personal data collected through cookies is handled according to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Retention
Cookie duration depends on the purpose of the technology. Session cookies are normally removed when the browser closes. Persistent cookies remain until their expiry date, deletion, withdrawal of consent, or a configuration change.
Related analytics or security records may be retained separately for periods appropriate to operational, legal, fraud-prevention, and security needs.
Withdrawing Consent
You can change or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time through the cookie-preference control, where available. You may also clear or block cookies through browser or device settings.
After consent is withdrawn, previously stored cookies may remain until deleted through the browser, but the relevant optional technologies will no longer be enabled by vScrawl where the preference mechanism applies.
Updates to This Notice
vScrawl may revise this Cookie and Tracking Notice to reflect changes in technology, website features, service providers, legal requirements, or business operations. The effective date will be updated when material revisions are made.
We encourage visitors to review this notice periodically, particularly after changes to the website or cookie-preference interface.
Questions and Contact
Questions about this Cookie and Tracking Notice or the use of cookies may be sent to info@dictalabs.com.
We will review privacy and cookie-related inquiries and respond within a reasonable period, subject to applicable legal requirements.