CloudNine Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These files are there for many reasons including:
- To track your use across the website to see what pages you are visiting and how often you return.
- To provide you with a good experience when you browse our website.
For further information about what cookies are visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Category | Cookie Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Strictly Necessary | First-party | Used by Cloudflare to distinguish humans from bots, helping protect the site and keep analytics reports valid. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Strictly Necessary | Third-party | Stores the visitor’s consent and privacy choices for YouTube interactions so preferences persist across sessions. |
| CookieScriptConsent | Strictly Necessary | First-party | Remembers visitor cookie consent preferences; required for the CookieScript banner to function correctly. |
| _ga_W62V8REQYF | Performance | First-party | Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _clsk | Performance | First-party | Microsoft Clarity cookie that stores session info and combines multiple pageviews into a single session for analytics. |
| _ga | Performance | First-party | Google Analytics cookie that distinguishes unique users via a random ID and is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data. |
| _clck | Performance | First-party | Tracks user interactions and engagement to help improve user experience and site functionality. |
| YSC | Targeting | Third-party | Set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Targeting | Third-party | Set by YouTube to keep track of preferences for embedded videos; also helps determine whether the visitor sees the new or old YouTube interface. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Functionality | Third-party | Used by YouTube to manage feature rollouts and experiments, so users may see different versions of YouTube features. |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Choices about cookies
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by changing your preferences under ‘Customise’ in our cookie consent banner.
You can also choose to ‘Reject All’ cookies in our cookie consent banner. However, if your browser setting to block all cookies (including essential ones), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected].
We will update this policy from time to time. If we make important changes, like how we use your personal information, we will let you know, it might be a notice on this site, or an email.