SDC.com Cookie Policy
Operated by SDC Media LLC., a US, Florida corporation
Effective Date: November 11, 2026 | Last Updated: May 22th, 2018
We value your privacy
When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. However, you can choose not to allow certain types of non-essential cookies, which may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. “Essential” cookies are required for the service to function and cannot be turned off. You can choose to accept or reject non-essential cookies and adjust your cookie preferences at all times.
1. About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how SDC Media, LLC (“we,” “the website”, “the service”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (“Cookies”) on the SDC.com website and mobile applications (the “service”), and the choices available to you. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we handle personal data.
“Cookies” in this Policy refers broadly to browser cookies, local storage, SDKs (Software Development Kit), pixels, web beacons, and mobile device identifiers (such as Apple's IDFA and Google's AAID) that perform an equivalent tracking or storage function.
2. What are cookies and how do we use them
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website or use an app. They allow a service to recognize your device, remember information about your visit, and, in some cases, track your activity across sites or apps over time. We use cookies to operate and secure the service; remember your preferences; understand how the website is used so we can improve it; and, where you have consented.
3. Categories of cookies we use
Essential - Strictly Necessary:
Purpose: Authentication, load balancing, security, prompting the cookie banner, redirect you when you log out, fraud prevention, etc. Your consent for this category is not required.
These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information and cannot be switched off in our systems.
The authentication cookies expire after 90 days.
Non-essential - Functional:
Purpose: Remembering settings such as your cookie choices and location. These cookies are also used to provide services like watching videos, livestreams, or leaving a comment.
These cookies have a duration of 90 days and require your consent.
Non-essential - Analytics:
Purpose: Understanding feature usage and app performance to improve the service with the use of Google Analytics.
These cookies have a duration for up to 400 days and require your consent.
4. Legal basis and consent — EEA/UK/US users
If you are located in the EU, UK, or Switzerland, the ePrivacy Directive (as implemented in your country) and the GDPR require us to obtain your prior, informed, freely given consent before setting any Cookie that is not strictly necessary to provide the Service you have requested. Strictly necessary Cookies (e.g., authentication, load balancing, security) do not require consent but must still be disclosed.
When you first visit the Service, we present a cookie banner allowing you to accept all, reject all (other than strictly necessary cookies), or customize your choices by category. Rejecting non-essential Cookies will not affect your ability to use the core service. You can change your choices at any time via Privacy Settings / Manage Preferences. We keep a record of consent as required by GDPR Art. 7(1) accountability.
5. US users — opt-out rights and Global Privacy Control
Our website does not use any Sharing or Targeted Advertising cookies nor sells any personal information to third parties. If in the future our use of cookies for analytics purposes constitutes a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under the CCPA/CPRA, Virginia VCDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA, or comparable state laws, we will inform users in California, Utah, Virginia, Colorado and Connecticut and any others who this applies to with the right to opt out. They may then opt out at through the Privacy Settings or, on a supported browser, by enabling the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which we treat as a valid opt-out request. Some US states additionally recognize other universal opt-out mechanisms as they become standardized; we will honor those we are legally required to honor.
6. Mobile applications
On iOS, we request permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework before accessing the IDFA for cross-app tracking purposes; if you decline, we will not use the IDFA for that purpose. On Android, you can reset or limit ad tracking via your device's advertising ID settings. In-app analytics and crash-reporting SDKs used for core functionality and security operate on a basis equivalent to strictly necessary cookies and do not require separate consent but are disclosed in Section 3.
7. How to control cookies through your browser
Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings. Because this affects all sites you visit (not just ours), refusing all cookies at the browser level may affect functionality on our Service and on other sites. Guidance for common browsers is available at: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge support pages: CHROME, FIREFOX, SAFARI, EDGE.
Some cookies are placed by third parties when you use the service, such as analytics providers like Google. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about your online activities across different websites and apps over time. We do not control these third-party cookies; please refer to each provider's own privacy and cookie policy for more information.
To learn more about cookies used by Google: https://business.safety.google/privacy/
8. Changes to this cookie policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for compliance and legal reasons. We will post the updated version with a new “Last Updated” date and, where the changes are material or add new non-essential Cookies for EEA/UK/US Users, we will request renewed consent through the cookie banner before those Cookies are set. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on Privacy Settings. You can then adjust the available sliders to “on” or “off”, then clicking “Save and close.”
You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, you can visit your preferred browser information (see section 7).
9. Contact us
Questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of Cookies: Helpdesk@sdc.com
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time in your Account Settings.