Last Updated: June 14, 2026
Welcome to Ivy Socrates (https://ivysocrates.com). We believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you. In the spirit of transparency, this policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on our website.
1. What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. They cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
2. How Ivy Socrates Uses Cookies
We use cookies to ensure you get the best possible experience when visiting and navigating our website. We do not use cookies to track your behavior across unrelated third-party websites, nor do we run cross-device behavioral advertising profiles (Google Signals is explicitly disabled on our platform).
We categorize our cookies into two main buckets:
A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the core technical functions of our website to work properly. Without these cookies, basic parts of our site cannot function.
- Form & User Sessions: When you use our contact forms or download forms (powered by Fluent Forms), temporary session cookies ensure that your input data is processed safely and attributed to your submission.
- Consent Framework: When you choose to accept or reject cookies on our geolocation privacy banner, a small first-party cookie is dropped to remember your choice so you aren’t continually asked the same question on every page layout.
B. Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Google Analytics (GA4): We use Google Analytics to measure how traffic moves through our educational materials and articles. This helps us optimize site performance, ensure pages load quickly, and understand which AP Study resources are most helpful to students and parents.
- Note: All data collected via Google Analytics is anonymized, and we have entered into a formal Data Processing Amendment (DPA) with Google to protect your data infrastructure.
3. Third-Party Links & Payments
Our website links to and integrates with a secure external Merchant of Record (MoR) system (such as Paddle or Lemon Squeezy) to process payments and license distribution for our premium academic tiers.
When you transition to a checkout overlay or transaction screen, those platforms may deploy their own secure cookies necessary to process fraud prevention, complete financial transactions, and securely route payouts through platforms like Payoneer. You can review their respective privacy architectures at checkout.
4. Your Control: How to Manage, Block, or Delete Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
- On Our Site: If you visit our site from a jurisdiction requiring explicit consent (such as the EU), you can completely block analytics cookies by clicking “Reject” on our custom privacy banner.
- Through Your Browser: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can configure your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it, or you can set your browser to automatically reject or clear cookies upon closing.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org.
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our use of cookies or your data privacy on Ivy Socrates, please contact us directly via our digital contact gateway at:
Website: https://ivysocrates.com
Main Legal Portal: https://ivysocrates.com/privacy-policy/