Last Updated: March 1st, 2024
At https://activateprivacy.com (the "Website"), we use cookies to make your overall experience on our Website better. Specifically, we use cookies to:
- Store information for the time you are on the Website (called "Session Cookies")
- Store information to recognize your browser or device each time you visit (called "Persistent Cookies")
- Store your login and password information, if you choose to
- Analyze your behavior on our Website, so we can continue to improve
- Allow others to advertise on our Website or track information about you to improve advertising to you
By using our Website or any of our services, you consent to our use of cookies. This Cookies Policy will explain what cookies are, how we use them, and what your rights are in relation to our use of cookies. We'll also discuss our third-party cookies and what they mean for you.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are placed on your device to store information. Specifically, cookies are small strings of text used to store information that may concern you, your behavior on the web, your preferences, or your device. Cookies are mainly used to adapt the operation of the Website to your expectations, offering a more personalized browsing experience and memorizing the choices you made previously.
There are various types of cookies. Cookies do not record or store any personal data from your device.
How we use cookies
Technical cookies, which can also sometimes be called HTML cookies, are used for navigation and to facilitate your access to and use of the site. They are necessary for the transmission of communications on the network or to supply services requested by you. The use of technical cookies allows the safe and efficient use of the Website.
You can manage or request the general deactivation or cancelation of cookies through your browser. If you do this though, please be advised this action might slow down or prevent access to some parts of the Website.
We also use cookies that are retransmitted by an analytics or statistics provider to collect aggregated information on the number of users and how they visit the Website. These are also considered technical cookies when they operate as described.
Analytics may collect information through log data, such as:
- internet protocol (IP) address;
- type of browser and device;
- operating system;
- name of the Internet Service Provider (ISP);
- country information
- date and time of visit;
- web page of origin (referral) and exit;
- possibly the number of clicks.
We don't use this information to identify you, but rather to understand usage trends on our Website.
We use session cookies to keep track of how you browse on your visits to the Website. Temporary session cookies are deleted automatically at the end of the browsing session - these are mostly used to keep track of what you do from page to page, such as with online shopping, keeping track of what is in your cart.
Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain active longer than just one particular session. These help us recognize you.We also use them to store your login and password info, if you choose.
Third-party cookies: We also utilize third-party cookies, which are cookies sent by a third-party to your computer. Persistent cookies are often third-party cookies. The majority of third-party cookies consist of tracking cookies used to identify online behavior, understand interests and then customize advertising for you.
We use remarketing cookies, which place files on your browser or device to allow us to display advertisements to you on other websites.
When these types of cookies are used, we will ask for your explicit consent.
We also use additional tracking technologies, named below, for the following purposes:
Tracking pixels and beacons are used to track and attribute product sales.
Our full list of cookies
The full list of cookies we use on our Website is below:
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
Essential website cookies:
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
| Name: | rc::a |
| Purpose: | Used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. |
| Provider: | www.google.com |
| Service: | reCAPTCHA View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | html_local_storage |
| Expires in: | persistent |
Performance and functionality cookies:
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
| Name: | MR |
| Purpose: | This cookie is used by Microsoft to reset or refresh the MUID cookie. |
| Provider: | .c.clarity.ms |
| Service: | Microsoft View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 7 days |
| Name: | yt-remote-device-id |
| Purpose: | Stores a unique ID for the user's device for YouTube |
| Provider: | www.youtube.com |
| Service: | YouTube View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | html_local_storage |
| Expires in: | persistent |
| Name: | MR |
| Purpose: | This cookie is used by Microsoft to reset or refresh the MUID cookie. |
| Provider: | .c.bing.com |
| Service: | Microsoft View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 7 days |
| Name: | yt-remote-connected-devices |
| Purpose: | Stores a list of connected devices for YouTube |
| Provider: | www.youtube.com |
| Service: | YouTube View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | html_local_storage |
| Expires in: | persistent |
| Name: | SM |
| Purpose: | Session cookie used to collect anonymous information on how visitors use a site to help improve their experience and for better target ads. |
| Provider: | .c.clarity.ms |
| Service: | ChanelAdvisor View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | session |
| Name: | ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY |
| Purpose: | Stores the last result entry key used by YouTube |
| Provider: | www.youtube.com |
| Service: | YouTube View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | html_local_storage |
| Expires in: | persistent |
Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
| Name: | MUID |
| Purpose: | Sets a unique user id for tracking how the user uses the site. Persistent cookie that is saved for 3 years |
| Provider: | .clarity.ms |
| Service: | Bing Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
| Name: | _clck |
| Purpose: | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID |
| Provider: | .activateprivacy.com |
| Service: | Microsoft Clarity View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 11 months 30 days |
| Name: | MUID |
| Purpose: | Sets a unique user id for tracking how the user uses the site. Persistent cookie that is saved for 3 years |
| Provider: | .bing.com |
| Service: | Bing Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
| Name: | _ga_# |
| Purpose: | Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions |
| Provider: | .activateprivacy.com |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| Name: | _ga |
| Purpose: | Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user |
| Provider: | .activateprivacy.com |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| Name: | _clsk |
| Purpose: | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording |
| Provider: | .activateprivacy.com |
| Service: | Microsoft Clarity View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 23 hours 59 minutes |
| Name: | CLID |
| Purpose: | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity |
| Provider: | www.clarity.ms |
| Service: | Microsoft Clarity View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 11 months 30 days |
| Name: | c.gif |
| Provider: | c.clarity.ms |
| Type: | pixel_tracker |
| Expires in: | session |
Advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
| Name: | SRM_B |
| Purpose: | Atlast Adserver used in conjunction with Bing services. Expires after 180 days |
| Provider: | .c.bing.com |
| Service: | Atlas View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 24 days |
| Name: | ANONCHK |
| Purpose: | Used by Bing as a unique user identifier for users seeing bing ads |
| Provider: | .c.clarity.ms |
| Service: | Bing View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 10 minutes |
| Name: | YSC |
| Purpose: | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time. |
| Provider: | .youtube.com |
| Service: | YouTube View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | session |
| Name: | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
| Purpose: | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time. |
| Provider: | .youtube.com |
| Service: | YouTube View Service Privacy Policy |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 5 months 27 days |
How can I control cookies on my browser?
As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
Consent
When you arrive to our Website, we will request your consent for cookies as follows:
We will request your consent via a pop-up.
What can you do about cookies?
If you want, you can prevent the use of cookies, but then you may not be able to use our Website as we intend. To proceed without changing the options related to cookies, simply continue to use our Website.
For our Website, this is how you can adjust your settings and, if desired, opt-out of cookies completely:
Visit the user settings page to adjust your cookie consent settings.
You can also manage cookies through the settings of your browser on your device. However, deleting cookies from your browser may remove the preferences you have set for the Website, as well as preferences you've set for other websites.
For further information and support, you can also visit the specific help page of the web browser you are using:
- Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-us/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Safari: http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
- Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
How to contact us
For any questions on our cookies policy, you can reach us at the following email: https://activateprivacy.com/contact.