Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 24, 2026. CandyAI Shorts, the independent guide at candyai-shorts.net, uses this policy to explain how it treats information about its readers. “We”, “us” and “the site” mean the publisher of candyai-shorts.net. Privacy matters go to contact@candyai-shorts.net, and the contact page covers every other request.

Does CandyAI Shorts collect personal data?

Hardly any, by design. There are no user accounts, no forms and no checkout, so no guide asks for your name, email address or card details. We sell no personal information, no advertising network runs on these pages, and the site hosts no video from Candy AI or Candy Shorts.

What does the site save in your browser?

Two values, each stored in localStorage and as a first-party cookie; neither reveals who you are. Google Analytics cookies join them only if you opt in.

Sidebar and navigation preferences are not stored at all. Your browser’s site-data controls can erase every entry at any time; the 18+ screen, and the analytics banner where one is used, will then show again next time.

When does Google Analytics run?

Only once you press “Accept” on the analytics banner. Choosing “Decline”, or not answering, means no analytics code is requested and Google receives nothing. Whenever the banner is in use, a footer link labeled “Cookie settings” deletes your saved answer and shows the banner again, so you can change your mind at any time.

After you accept, Google Analytics 4 is loaded from Google LLC, with Google Ireland Limited as the provider for anyone in the European Economic Area. It logs which pages you open, the referring site, your device and browser family, and your general region, estimated from a shortened IP address. Clicking any “Watch on Candy AI” button or other platform link registers an event that shows the link and the page, but nothing that identifies you. The tag runs with IP anonymization enabled and advertising storage denied, and no user ID travels with the data. Google’s cookies can last up to two years, and Google’s own privacy policy governs how it handles the data.

What does our web host log?

Each request may be logged by our hosting provider: the originating IP address, the URL, your browser’s user-agent string and the time. These logs serve security monitoring and fault diagnosis. They are kept only briefly, are never matched with other data and are not used to identify any individual reader.

What happens to your emails?

Sending a message to contact@candyai-shorts.net or dmca@candyai-shorts.net gives us your address and whatever you wrote, which we use only to reply and to document the exchange. Takedown notices stay on file as long as reasonably needed to show how each claim was dealt with. The contact and DMCA page describes that procedure.

Which legal bases apply in the EEA and the UK?

• cas_age and cas_consent: our legitimate interest in running a publication on an adult subject, and the legal obligations such a publication carries.
• Google Analytics 4: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time via “Cookie settings” or by clearing your site data.
• Emails: our legitimate interest in replying, plus a legal obligation when the message is a copyright notice or a complaint.

What rights do you have?

Depending on where you live, the law may let you access the personal data held about you, have it corrected or erased, restrict or object to its processing, obtain a portable copy and take a complaint to a data-protection authority. As the site stores almost nothing, deleting your site data in the browser already covers most of these requests. For anything tied to an email, write to contact@candyai-shorts.net.

California residents: for the purposes of the CCPA and CPRA, this site neither sells nor shares personal information, and it does not collect or use anything those laws class as sensitive personal information.

Where is analytics data processed?

If you accept analytics, the data may be processed by Google in the United States or other countries. These transfers are covered by standard contractual clauses and by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where it applies.

Readers under 18

CandyAI Shorts covers an adult product for readers aged 18 and over; it is not meant for anyone younger. No information is knowingly gathered from anyone under 18. Should you suspect that someone under 18 has sent us information, let us know and it will be deleted. The platform’s own age rules are explained in our guide on whether Candy AI is safe.

Links to other websites

Most outbound links lead to the official platform, Candy.ai and CandyShorts, and some are affiliate links: if you subscribe after clicking one, we may earn a commission while your price stays the same. Any outside website, the platform included, sets its own cookies under its own privacy rules, which this policy does not cover. Payment details for a subscription go to the platform, never to this site; our guide to Candy AI pricing lists the plans.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be revised when the site, its tools or the applicable law change. The date at the start of this page marks the version in force, and we will point out any substantive change here. The terms of service set out how the site may be used.