Cookie policy
SECWATCH wants you to be able to make the best possible use of the website. Cookies are needed for this.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing data that are stored on the hard drive of your computer, tablet or mobile phone. These cookies are used to improve and monitor the operation of the SECWATCH website.
What types of cookies do we use?
- Necessary cookies: necessary cookies help make the website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
- Third-party analytical cookies: these cookies can track your browsing behaviour. They are present when analytical service providers such as Google Analytics are used.
- Advertising / tracking cookies: tracking cookies are placed by an external party. By reading the cookies, the advertiser recognises you when you visit a site in which it is also involved. As you continue browsing, personalised advertisements may be displayed. These cookies can also track your browsing behaviour, allowing these parties to build a very specific profile. This profile can be detailed enough to constitute personal data.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics. This allows us to collect web statistics to monitor and improve our website. We can also see how effective our AdWords advertisements in Google search results are. The data is stored anonymously and is not shared for purposes other than analysing usage.
Personalised advertising features are activated only if you have accepted these cookies. You can read more about what this means in Google's privacy statement: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google Analytics cookies collect information about:
- Your IP address
- The number of visitors to our website
- The pages or content with the most traffic
- Approximately where in the world you visit our website from
- The browser's preferred language
- How you found our website, for example by searching directly for SECWATCH, through a link on a third-party site or through a link in one of our emails.
You can opt out of cookies by configuring your internet browser so that it no longer stores cookies. You can also delete any previously stored information through your browser settings.
Below is an overview of all the cookies we use
| Cookie name | Description | Category | Duration |
| SameSite | No description available. | non-necessary | session |
| _wp_first_time | No description available. | non-necessary | session |
| FPGSID | Description is currently not available. | non-necessary | 1 hour |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Description is currently not available. | non-necessary | 6 months |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets the cookie to store whether or not the user has consented to use cookies. It does not store any personal data. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| BIGipServer* | Marketo sets this cookie to collect information about the user’s online activity and build a profile about their interests to provide advertisements relevant to the user. | non-necessary | session |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | CookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie stores user consent for cookies in the category “Others”. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| rc::a | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | non-necessary | never |
| rc::c | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | non-necessary | session |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | non-necessary | 1 hour |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | non-necessary | 6 months |
| rc::f | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | non-necessary | never |
| rc::b | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | non-necessary | session |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. | non-necessary | 1 year 24 days |
| MUID | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | non-necessary | 1 year 24 days |
| ANONCHK | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user’s session ID and verify ads’ clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalisation as well. | non-necessary | 10 minutes |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | non-necessary | 15 minutes |
| YSC | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | non-necessary | session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | non-necessary | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | non-necessary | 6 months |
| yt.innertube::requests | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | non-necessary | never |
| yt.innertube::nextId | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | non-necessary | never |
| CLID | Microsoft Clarity set this cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. The data collection includes the number of visitors, where they visit the website, and the pages visited. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser’s Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID. | non-necessary | 1 year |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user’s pageviews into a single session recording. | non-necessary | 1 day |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | non-necessary | 3 months |
| _ga | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | non-necessary | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | non-necessary | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| FPID | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie for server-side tagging. | non-necessary | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| FPLC | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie for tracking between domains. | non-necessary | 20 hours |
| MR | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | non-necessary | 7 days |
| SM | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronising the MUID across Microsoft domains. | non-necessary | session |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | non-necessary | never |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. | non-necessary | never |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | non-necessary | never |
| yt-remote-session-app | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. | non-necessary | session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | non-necessary | session |
| yt-remote-session-name | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | non-necessary | session |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. | non-necessary | session |
| SRM_B | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | non-necessary | 1 year 24 days |
See also our privacy policy.