Your Privacy Choices
How to opt out of advertising cookies that may count as a sale, sharing or targeted advertising under California, Texas and other state laws.
Last updated: November 2, 2026
This page is our "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" and "Opt out of targeted advertising" notice. It is operated by {{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}} for CloudAPIcredits (https://www.cloudapicredits.com). The fastest way to opt out is the "Privacy choices" link in the footer of every page, which opens the consent banner and lets you switch off advertising cookies in one click.
1. What we do that may count as a sale or sharing
We never hand your personal information to anyone in exchange for money. We do run advertising pixels from Google and Meta, and we send click data to affiliate networks and provider referral systems so cloud and AI providers can pay us a commission. State privacy laws define "sale", "sharing" and "targeted advertising" broadly enough that some of this activity can fall inside those terms:
- Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ah), "sharing" means disclosing personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising. When the Meta Pixel or Google Ads tag runs on our pages with your consent, the identifiers and page-view data they collect are shared in that sense.
- Under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 541.001(32), "targeted advertising" means showing you ads based on your activity across non-affiliated websites over time. Google and Meta remarketing does this.
- The laws of Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Oregon, Montana, Utah and other states use similar definitions.
Affiliate click tracking is different. The click identifier we pass to a network or a provider is used to pay us for a signup or spend, not to build an advertising profile, and the network's cookie is set on the provider's or network's domain, not ours. We do not treat it as a sale or sharing, and opting out here does not break it. If you want to avoid it entirely, you can type the provider's address into your browser instead of clicking our link; you will receive the same credit and pay the same rates.
Sign-in data is also different. If you sign in with Google, we store your profile and saved offers to show you your account page and for nothing else. We never pass that data to an advertising platform.
2. How to opt out
2.1 Consent banner
Click "Privacy choices" in the footer. Switch off "Advertising cookies" (and "Analytics cookies" if you wish) and save. We record the choice in a first-party cookie named sph_consent and stop loading the Google Ads and Meta tags for that browser. The setting is per browser and per device, so repeat it on each one you use. If you clear cookies, the banner will ask again.
2.2 Global Privacy Control
If your browser or an extension sends the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as an opt-out of sale, sharing and targeted advertising for that browser automatically, as 11 CCR § 7025 and Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 541.055 require. You will see the advertising toggle already switched off when you open the banner. GPC is built into Firefox, Brave and DuckDuckGo and available as an extension for Chrome, Edge and Safari. Learn more at globalprivacycontrol.org.
2.3 Email
If you cannot use the banner or GPC, email {{PRIVACY_EMAIL}} with the subject line "Opt out of sale or sharing" and tell us the state you live in. The data we can link to you by email is the correspondence itself, any offer submission you made under that address and, if you signed in with Google using that address, your account record; we will mark those records as opted out and confirm by reply within 15 business days. Browser-level tracking can only be stopped at the browser, so we will also walk you through the banner or GPC setting.
2.4 Platform-level controls
You can also stop Google and Meta from using your data for personalized ads across all sites, not just ours, through Google's ad settings at adssettings.google.com and Meta's ad preferences at facebook.com/adpreferences.
3. Authorized agents
You may have another person or a business submit an opt-out request for you. Email it to {{PRIVACY_EMAIL}}. We will ask the agent for proof that you gave them signed permission, or a copy of a power of attorney under Cal. Probate Code §§ 4121 to 4130, and may contact you directly to confirm, as 11 CCR § 7063 allows. We do not require more than that. For browser-level opt-outs, the agent can send the GPC signal from your browser and no verification is needed.
4. Verification
Opt-out requests made through the banner or GPC need no verification; they apply to the browser that made them. For requests by email we verify only that the request came from the email address it concerns, by replying to that address. We will not ask you to create an account or give us more personal information to opt out. If we have reason to believe a request is fraudulent, we may ask for more and will explain why.
5. What happens after you opt out
- The Google Ads, Meta Pixel and remarketing tags stop loading for that browser within the same page load.
- Cookies those tags already set remain in your browser until they expire or you delete them; we cannot delete third-party cookies for you.
- Data already received by Google or Meta is governed by their policies and your settings with them.
- Analytics cookies continue only if you left that category on.
- The Site works exactly the same. Offers, comparison pages, your account and outbound links are unaffected.
We will not ask you to opt back in for at least 12 months after you opt out, as California regulations require, except by showing the ordinary consent banner if your consent cookie has been cleared.
6. No discrimination
We will not deny you access to any part of the Site, show you different offers, charge you anything, or otherwise treat you differently because you opted out, as Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.125 and Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 541.101(b)(4) require. We offer no financial incentives for personal information.
7. Minors
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly process the data of anyone under 18 for targeted advertising. You must be 18 to use the Site.
8. Metrics
California regulations require some businesses to publish request statistics. We publish them in our Privacy Policy if we ever meet the 10,000,000-consumer threshold in 11 CCR § 7102. We do not currently meet it.
9. Contact
{{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}}, Attn: Privacy, {{STREET_ADDRESS}}, {{SUITE_OR_UNIT}}, {{CITY}}, TX {{ZIP}}, United States Email: {{PRIVACY_EMAIL}}