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IQCognify

Privacy Policy

This policy explains what data IQCognify collects, how we use it, who we share it with, and the rights you have over your information under laws such as the GDPR and CCPA.

Last updated · IQCognify

Overview

IQCognify ("we", "us") operates the website at https://iqcognify.com. IQCognify is run from Pakistan and serves visitors worldwide. We respect your privacy and collect only what we need to run a free IQ test and keep the service secure and improving. This policy describes our practices and your choices. For any privacy question or request, email iqcognify@gmail.com.

Your test result is saved in your browser so you can see it immediately, and a copy is stored on our servers so that certificates can be verified. That stored copy is not linked to an account and contains no name or email address. You do not need an account to take the test or to see your result.

Information we collect

Test responses and results

When you take the test we process your answers and timing to compute your score, percentile, and classification. The result is saved in your browser so you can see it straight away, and a copy is stored on our servers so that certificates can be verified and results can be checked later.

That server-side copy holds the answers you gave, how long each one took, your computed score and cognitive breakdown, and a note of which question set and scoring version produced it. It does not hold your name, your email address or your IP address, and it is not linked to a named account. Where we do use your IP address, and why, is described under Technical and security data below.

Technical and security data

Like most websites, our servers and our hosting provider record standard request information, including your IP address, so the service can be kept running and secure. We also use your IP address briefly, in memory, to limit how often the free analysis, the assistant and certificate issuing can be requested from one place. That is used to prevent abuse and is not stored alongside your result.

No user accounts

There are no user accounts on IQCognify. You never need to sign up, log in, or give us your name or email address to take the test or see your result.

AI-written analysis

When you ask for the written analysis of your result or use the assistant, your result (scores and ability breakdown, not your name, email address or IP address) is sent to an AI model through OpenRouter, a service that routes requests to AI providers, to write the text. If that service is unavailable, we write the analysis ourselves from your result instead.

Purchases (currently paused)

Sales of the optional paid profile are currently paused. If you bought it in the past, payment was handled by Paddle, which acts as the seller of record. Paddle shares with us your email address, a customer reference and the transaction details, and we keep them linked to the result you bought the profile for, so we can provide it, handle refunds and meet accounting and tax obligations. We never receive your card details.

Analytics and usage data

We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to understand how the site is used and to improve it. Google Analytics may collect information such as your approximate location, device and browser type, pages viewed, the site you came from, and actions such as starting or finishing the test. Google Tag Manager only loads that script and does not set cookies of its own. Analytics is never loaded on the private page that holds a purchased profile.

Advertising

To keep the test free, we show ads served by Journey by Mediavine and its advertising partners. Ads are never shown on the test questions, on certificates, on purchase pages or on our policy pages. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, our ad partner asks for your consent before personalised ads are shown.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
  • Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and browser storage for essential functionality, for analytics and, if ads are shown, for advertising. See our Cookie Policy for the full list and your controls.

How we use your information

  • To administer the test and compute and display your results.
  • To record how long you take on each question — measured in your browser and sent with your answers — which we use to describe your speed–accuracy style. Response times do not change any score; see our Methodology page for details.
  • To operate, secure, and improve the website and detect misuse or fraud.
  • To understand aggregate usage through analytics.
  • To respond to your inquiries and requests.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, our legal bases are your consent (for analytics and advertising cookies), our legitimate interests in running and improving a secure service, and performing a contract when you make a purchase.

How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We share data only with service providers who help us operate, and only as needed:

  • Google (Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager) for usage measurement, and Journey by Mediavine and its advertising partners, which show ads on the site.
  • Hostinger, which hosts our website and servers.
  • OpenRouter and the AI providers it routes to, for the written analysis and the assistant.
  • Paddle, for past purchases and refunds.
  • Authorities or parties where disclosure is required by law or to protect rights and safety.

We are based in Pakistan, and these providers may process data in other countries, including the United States and countries in the EU. Where the law requires it, we rely on the safeguards these providers offer for international transfers, such as standard contractual clauses.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent. If you are in the EU/EEA or UK (GDPR) or in California (CCPA/CPRA), these protections apply to you.

  • Access and deletion: request a copy of your data or its deletion by emailing iqcognify@gmail.com.
  • Finding your stored result: because it carries no name or email address, we can only locate it if you can point us to it — send us the verification link or the certificate ID from a certificate you were issued.
  • Local results: results also live in your browser, and you can clear those at any time via your browser's site-data controls.
  • Cookie choices: use the "Privacy choices" link at the bottom of every page to change your analytics and advertising choices at any time, or use your browser's settings.
  • Ads opt-out: turn off personalised ads at https://adssettings.google.com or https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
  • Do Not Sell/Share: we do not sell personal information for money. If personalised ads are shown, some US state laws may treat that as "sharing"; you can opt out through Privacy choices or by emailing us.

When we delete a stored result we erase the result itself and clear the score and date from any certificate issued from it, so its verification page stops showing them and says the certificate has been withdrawn instead. We keep only the certificate's random reference number and the fact that it was withdrawn — that identifies nobody, and without it an already-shared certificate link would keep displaying the score we had just erased.

Two things deletion cannot reach, so it is worth being plain about them. A certificate file or link you have already saved or sent to someone contains the score itself, and we cannot remove a copy we do not hold. The same applies to a result you shared using a share link (an address beginning /r/): those links carry the result inside them, are not connected to our stored copy, and continue to work after deletion. If you no longer want a share link to work, stop sharing that link.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Data retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purposes described here. Results saved in your browser remain on your device until you clear them.

Results stored on our servers are deleted automatically 90 days after the test was taken. The exception is a result you have been issued a certificate from: we keep that one for as long as the certificate exists, because a certificate has to stay verifiable. Nothing else extends the 90 days.

When you finish the test your browser also holds a short-lived token that carries your result. It is what lets the written analysis, the assistant and the certificate work without an account, and it stops working 24 hours after the test. Deleting your stored result does not reach a copy already on your own device or one you have shared with someone else.

Purchase records from Paddle are kept for as long as we need them to provide the paid profile, handle refunds, and meet accounting and tax obligations.

Children's privacy

IQCognify is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. To back this up in the product itself, the test asks for a self-reported age before it begins: anyone who indicates they are under 13 is not shown the assessment and is instead pointed to guidance for parents. If you believe a child has provided us personal data, contact iqcognify@gmail.com and we will delete it.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy as our practices or the law evolve. Material changes will be reflected by a revised 'last updated' date at the top of this page. Questions or privacy requests: iqcognify@gmail.com.