Policy covers cookies, pixels and similar technologies used by Anthropic and partners
This Cookie Policy describes how and when Anthropic, its service providers and its business partners use cookies, beacons, pixels or similar technologies, which the policy calls “cookies” collectively. Terms the policy leaves undefined take their meaning from Anthropic’s Privacy Policy, which the policy says also contains additional details about collection and use at Anthropic. The Privacy Policy is linked but is not part of this supplied document, so its definitions are not reproduced here.
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This policy provides information about how and when we, our service providers, and our business partners use cookies, beacons, pixels, or similar technologies (“cookies”).
which also includes additional details about the collection and use of information at Anthropic.
Qualifications & exceptions
The policy’s “cookies” label covers beacons, pixels and similar technologies, not only HTTP cookies.
Undefined terms take their meaning from the linked Privacy Policy.
Not stated here
The Privacy Policy’s definitions and its additional collection details are not supplied here.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Anthropic uses cookies to manage the Services and collect information about use
Anthropic states that it uses cookies to manage the Services and to collect information about the user and the user’s use of the Services. “Services” is not defined in this policy; undefined terms take their meaning from the Privacy Policy.
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We use cookies to manage the Services and to collect information about you and your use of the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
“Services” is not defined here; the Privacy Policy supplies undefined terms.
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The supplied text does not identify which products or websites the Services cover.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Cookies are used to recognize users, personalize experience, market and analyze use
Anthropic says cookies help it recognize the user, customize or personalize the user’s experience, market additional products or services to the user, and analyze use of the Services to make them more useful. These are stated purposes for using cookies, not a promise that every purpose applies to every user or service.
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Cookies help us to recognize you, customize or personalize your experience, market additional products or services to you, and analyze the use of our Services to make it more useful to you.
Not stated here
The paragraph does not say which cookies or third parties serve each purpose.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Demographic and statistical data may be provided to service providers
The policy says cookies may also allow Anthropic to collect demographic and statistical data and to provide that information to its service providers to help deliver their services. “May” describes what cookies can enable rather than a routine practice, and the recipients named in this sentence are service providers.
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Cookies may also allow us to collect demographic and statistical data and provide this information to our service providers to help deliver their services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Framed as what cookies “may” allow, not as a stated routine disclosure.
The stated recipients are service providers, for delivering their services.
Not stated here
The policy does not identify the service providers, the data fields or the retention involved.
Data Access & Collection · Context
Purpose table lists necessary, analytics and marketing cookies and links a fuller table
The policy says it uses cookies for the listed purposes and presents them in a two-column table headed Purpose and Description. The rows describe necessary, analytics and marketing cookies. Anthropic also directs readers to a separate cookies table on its support site to learn more; that table is not part of this supplied document.
The linked support-site cookies table is not supplied here, so its cookie names and vendors are not covered.
Not stated here
The linked cookies table’s contents are not supplied.
The table does not state how the three categories are configured or whether other categories exist.
Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Necessary cookies are described as needed to use the Services
The table’s Necessary row says these cookies are necessary to use the Services, giving examples: cookies that help detect and prevent malicious activity or fraudulent usage, and, when the user signs in, cookies that help show the correct information and preferences associated with the account. The examples are introduced by “for example”, so the row is not an exhaustive list of necessary cookies.
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These are cookies necessary to use our Services, for example: cookies to help us detect and prevent malicious activity or fraudulent usage, and when you sign in to use our Services, cookies that help us show you the correct information and preferences associated with your account.
Necessary
Qualifications & exceptions
The row’s examples are illustrative (“for example”), not a complete list.
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The policy does not name the necessary cookies, their providers or their lifetimes.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Analytics cookies measure general usage and may collect technical information
Anthropic uses analytics cookies to understand general usage of and improve the Services, for example to measure how many people interact with them. The policy says Anthropic may collect technical information such as pages visited and how the web browser interacts with the Services.
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We use cookies to understand the general usage of, and to improve, our Services (for example, to help us measure how many people interact with our Services).
We may collect technical information, such as pages visited and how your web browser interacts with our Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Technical information is described as something Anthropic may collect.
Pages visited and browser interaction are given as examples of that technical information.
Not stated here
The policy does not say which analytics providers or cookie names are used.
Use & Processing · Company practice
Marketing cookies target users believed interested and measure ad exposure
Marketing cookies help Anthropic market its Services more effectively to users that Anthropic, its service providers and its business partners believe may be interested in using the Services. The policy adds that these cookies provide aggregated reporting and help Anthropic know when marketing content has been shown to the user. The stated basis is a belief that a user may be interested; the policy sets no further targeting standard.
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Cookies help us market our Services more effectively to users that we, our service providers, and our business partners believe may be interested in using our Services.
They also help provide us with aggregated reporting and help us know when marketing content has been shown to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Marketing is described as directed at users believed possibly interested, not at a defined audience.
Anthropic, its service providers and its business partners are all named in the marketing purpose.
Not stated here
The policy does not identify the advertising partners, the cookies or the data shared for this purpose.
Cross-references
qualifies (model-proposed): Privacy Choices link and global privacy controls limit advertising use — qualifies: The marketing row describes cookies used to target users believed interested, and the Privacy Choices card supplies the stated limit on that use: users can control sharing or use of personal data for advertising about Anthropic’s AI services through the Privacy Choices link or global privacy controls. The marketing purpose should be read subject to that route.
Data Access & Collection · User right or choice
Browser settings can manage cookies, and disabling all may limit the Services
The policy says most browsers let users remove or manage cookie functions and adjust privacy and security preferences, pointing to the browser’s help menu and an external control-cookies page. It notes that differences between websites and other technologies may require additional opt-out steps, and warns that disabling all cookies may mean the user cannot take full advantage of the Services.
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Most browsers allow you to remove or manage cookie functions and adjust your privacy and security preferences.
Due to differences between websites and other technologies, you may need to take additional steps to opt out.
Please note, however, that disabling all cookies may mean that you may not be able to take full advantage of our Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
The controls described are browser controls, not an Anthropic account setting.
Additional opt-out steps may be needed because of differences between websites and technologies.
Disabling all cookies may, not will, prevent full use of the Services.
Not stated here
The policy does not describe any cookie preference centre for the Services in this section.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Anthropic does not currently respond to browser Do Not Track signals — contrast: The policy points users to browser settings to manage cookies and privacy preferences, yet states that it currently does not respond to the browser Do Not Track signal. The two provisions pull in different directions: browser-level control is offered as the ordinary route, while one browser-level signal is expressly not honoured. This is a tension in the text, not a finding that either statement is unlawful.
qualifies (model-proposed): Necessary cookies are described as needed to use the Services — qualifies: The warning that disabling all cookies may prevent full use of the Services is explained by the Necessary row: those cookies are described as necessary to use the Services. Browser controls therefore operate against a stated functional floor rather than a purely optional set of cookies.
Data Access & Collection · User right or choice
Privacy Choices link and global privacy controls limit advertising use
Anthropic says users can control how and when their personal data is shared or used for advertising about Anthropic’s AI services by clicking the Privacy Choices link at the bottom of the page or by enabling global privacy controls. The policy does not describe what each route changes in practice.
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You can control how and when your personal data is shared or used for purposes of advertising about Anthropic’s AI services by clicking on the Privacy Choices link at the bottom of the page or enabling global privacy controls.
Qualifications & exceptions
The stated routes are the Privacy Choices link at the bottom of the page and global privacy controls.
The control is described for advertising about Anthropic’s AI services.
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The policy does not list which global privacy controls qualify or what data each route stops.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Anthropic does not currently respond to browser Do Not Track signals
The policy notes that some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” option and states that Anthropic currently does not respond to those browser signals. “Currently” limits the statement to the policy’s present text; the policy states no change commitment here.
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We currently do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement is limited to current practice by the word “currently”.
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The policy does not say whether another mechanism honours Do Not Track.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company commitment
Anthropic may update the policy and will notify material changes as appropriate
Anthropic may update the Cookie Policy from time to time. It says it will notify users of material changes, as appropriate, and update the Effective Date at the top of the page, and it encourages users to review the page when they access the Services. The supplied text contains no Effective Date.
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Anthropic may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
We will notify you of any material changes to this Cookie Policy, as appropriate, and update the Effective Date at the top of this page.
Qualifications & exceptions
Notification is stated for material changes, “as appropriate”.
The policy points to an Effective Date at the top of the page; the supplied text does not include that date.
Not stated here
The current Effective Date is not stated in the supplied text.
The policy does not define what counts as a material change.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure
Cookie questions and comments go to privacy@anthropic.com
The Contact Us section asks users with questions or comments to contact Anthropic at privacy@anthropic.com.
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