Cookies are small files a website asks your browser to store. We use them sparingly - essential cookies keep the site working; page-view statistics and anything else run only with your consent. This page lists every cookie we set and lets you change your mind at any time.
Required for the site to function - session, security, basic UI state. These cannot be switched off and do not require consent.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ms_admin_session | Admin authentication (HMAC-signed). Only set after a successful staff login.Duration: 30 days |
| cookie_consent | Remembers your cookie preferences so the banner does not reappear every visit.Duration: 12 months |
Usage statistics and on-page behavior via Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity - which pages get visited, how visitors arrive, what bounces, plus aggregated heatmaps and masked session recordings. Helps improve the site. No identifiers are sold.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics - distinguishes unique visitors.Duration: 2 years |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 - session state per property.Duration: 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics - distinguishes visitors within 24h.Duration: 24 hours |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity - persists the Clarity user ID and preferences for this site.Duration: 1 year |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity - links page views from one visitor into a single session recording.Duration: 1 day |
Personalized advertising and remarketing. Measures ad campaign effectiveness and surfaces relevant motion-platform content on partner sites.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook) Pixel - identifies the browser to measure ad campaigns and build remarketing audiences.Duration: 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Google Ads (Conversion Linker) - stores and attributes ad-click information for conversion measurement.Duration: 3 months |
| li_sugr | LinkedIn - browser identifier used for probabilistic ad matching.Duration: 3 months |
| bcookie | LinkedIn - browser identifier for the Insight Tag and embedded social features.Duration: 1 year |
| lidc | LinkedIn - assists data-center selection when loading the Insight Tag.Duration: 1 day |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads - syncs the LinkedIn Ads identifier and manages ad frequency.Duration: 30 days |
We apply the same strict opt-in default everywhere - optional cookies stay off until you say yes. That covers the most demanding regimes, but specific local rights also apply:
You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or port your personal data, the right to object to processing, and the right to withdraw any consent you previously gave. The lawful basis for non-essential cookies is your consent; you can revoke it at any time via the controls below.
California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas and a growing list of US states give you the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, the right to know what we hold, the right to delete, and the right to correct. Our banner respects the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal automatically: if the browser sends it, all optional cookies stay off and no banner appears. If you did not set GPC, use the controls below to opt out manually.
The global strict opt-in we apply covers consent-based regimes in these jurisdictions. Specific access, correction and deletion requests can be sent to the contact on our privacy policy page - we will respond within the timeframe your local law requires.
Your preferences live only in your own browser - we do not link them to an account or a profile. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time:
The audit log we keep server-side stores only an anonymized IP fragment (last octet zeroed), the consent action, browser string and page path - never an account identifier. Because the records are not linked to an identifiable individual, there is nothing personal in them to delete.
