Cluing Cookie Policy
Cluing Cookie Policy
We use cookies to help improve your experience of our website at https://www.cluing.io. This cookie policy is part of Cluing's privacy policy. It covers the use of cookies between your device and our site.
We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service. This policy does not cover their cookies.
If you don’t wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from https://www.cluing.io. In such a case, we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on your device when you visit. It typically contains information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognize your web browser when you return, additional data that serves the cookie’s purpose, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.
Cookies are used to enable certain features (e.g. logging in), track site usage (e.g. analytics), store your user settings (e.g. time zone, notification preferences), and to personalize your content (e.g. advertising, language).
Cookies set by the website you are visiting are usually referred to as first-party cookies. They typically only track your activity on that particular site.
Cookies set by other sites and companies (i.e. third parties) are called third-party cookies They can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.
Types of cookies and how we use them
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts, and payment processing.
We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.
Performance cookies
Performance cookies track how you use a website during your visit. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated, with information tracked across all site users. They help companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving their audience’s overall website experience. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. They do not collect personal information about you.
We use performance cookies on our site.
| Platform | Name & Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | _clsk This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | session |
| ln_or Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain | 1 day | |
| _ga_ ID used to identify users | 2 years | |
| _ga ID used to identify users | 2 years | |
| Microsoft | _clck This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 year |
| Microsoft | CLID The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording. | 1 year |
| Microsoft | SM This is a Microsoft cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics | session |
| Trustpilot | ajs_anonymous_id Used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before | 1 year |
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies are used to collect information about your device and any settings you may configure on the website you’re visiting (like language and time zone settings). With this information, websites can provide you with customized, enhanced, or optimized content and services. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services.
We use functionality cookies for selected features on our site.
| Platform | Name & Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| AnalyticsSyncHistory Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 30 days | |
| Hotjar | _hjSessionUser_ Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days |
| Hotjar | _hjSession_ A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | 30 minutes |
| YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | |
| Cloudflare | __cf_bm Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | session |
| test_cookie This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | 1 year |
Targeting/advertising cookies
Targeting/advertising cookies help determine what promotional content is most relevant and appropriate to you and your interests. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to you. These cookies may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party) or by third-party services. Targeting/advertising cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.
| Platform | Name & Description | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 4 months | |
| li_sugr Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | 90 days | |
| bcookie Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | |
| lidc Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 day | |
| UserMatchHistory These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | session | |
| bscookie Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | |
| Microsoft | MUID Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
| Microsoft | MR Used to collect information for analytics purposes. | 6 months |
| Adform | SR Unique value that records info about consecutive ads - includes: total impressions, daily impressions, total clicks, daily clicks, and last impression date | 1 day |
| Microsoft | ANONCHK Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation | 10 minutes |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 179 days | |
| NID This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 1 year | |
| _gcl_au Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |