Cookie Policy

Cookies are small files a website saves in your browser. We use them on www.elizabethcconsulting.com, on our course page (course.elizabethcconsulting.com) and in our learning portal (app.elizabethcconsulting.com).

Necessary cookies. They keep you signed in to the learning portal, keep sign-in secure and remember your cookie choice. Our website is also protected by Cloudflare, and our newsletter sign-up form (provided by beehiiv) uses security cookies from beehiiv and its bot-protection providers to block spam sign-ups. These cookies are always on.

Analytics. Google Analytics and beehiiv (the service behind our newsletter sign-up form) show us which pages and lessons people use and how they found us, so we can improve the site and the course. Google Analytics records your approximate location (down to your city, worked out from your IP address) and details about your device.

Session replay. On our website and course page only, Microsoft Clarity can record how pages are used (clicks, scrolling and mouse movement) as session recordings and heatmaps. It is off unless you turn on “Session replay” in your privacy choices, or click “Accept all” where we ask first. It never runs in the learning portal.

Google advertising features. Our Google Analytics has “Google signals” turned on, which gives us reports on age ranges and interests. When “Advertising” is on, Google can link your visits to our sites to your Google account. This only happens if you are signed in to Google and have ad personalization turned on there. For this, Google uses its own advertising cookies and identifiers along with our Google Analytics cookies. We see only grouped reports, never who you are. No Google Ads account is linked, so we do not use your visits to show you ads. In the United States and most other places, “Advertising” is on unless you turn it off or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Where we ask first, it stays off until you allow it, and until then we tell Google not to use your visits for advertising. You can opt out at any time in Google’s ad settings (adssettings.google.com) or with Google’s opt-out add-on for your browser (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

Newsletter sign-up form. The newsletter sign-up form on our website is provided by beehiiv inside a frame on our page. Inside that frame, beehiiv runs its own tools, including Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics, under its own control. They run before you make a choice on our site, and our cookie choices do not apply to them; they follow beehiiv’s privacy policy (www.beehiiv.com/privacy).

Accessibility tool. If you use the accessibility tool on our website (provided by accessiBe), it may save your settings in your browser so they stay in place as you move between pages.

Your choices. In the United States and most other places, we do not show a notice. Analytics and Google’s advertising features are on, and session replay is off, until you change them with the “Your Privacy Choices” link at the bottom of every page. In the learning portal, the “Cookie settings” item in your account menu opens the same choices.

If your device is set to a time zone in the European Union or elsewhere in Europe, in Quebec or in Ontario, or hides its time zone, we ask first on our website and course page. No analytics, session replay or advertising cookie of ours is used until you choose (the newsletter form’s own tools are described above), and “Reject all” is as easy as “Accept all”. The learning portal does not show this notice: there, no analytics or advertising cookie of ours is used until you choose with the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of the page or in your account menu, or until a choice you made on our website or course page carries over.

You can change your choice at any time with the “Your Privacy Choices” link at the bottom of every page (it reads “Cookie settings” where we ask first). There you can turn “Analytics”, “Session replay” (website and course page only) and “Advertising” on or off one by one. Your choice covers all three sites. We keep it for up to 12 months. If your browser deletes your saved choice (some, like Safari, do after 7 days without a visit), choose again; Global Privacy Control keeps advertising off automatically. Where we ask first, we ask again. In California, the “Your Privacy Choices” link shows the California opt-out icon, and the panel it opens says: “California residents: turn off Advertising, or use Global Privacy Control, to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.”

Global Privacy Control. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data. We turn advertising off, even if you allowed it before, and a note next to the link at the bottom of the page reads “Opt-out signal honored”. You can still turn advertising back on yourself in your privacy choices.

When analytics is off. Google Analytics may still receive basic signals that use no cookies, for example that a page was viewed. Google uses them to estimate traffic.

Our own page counts. We also count page views ourselves, without cookies. We keep only daily totals by site, page, referring website, campaign tags, device type (phone, tablet or computer) and country. We work out the country from your IP address, and we do not keep the IP address.

A record of your choice. When you make a choice, or when we apply a Global Privacy Control signal, we keep a record of it: a random ID (also saved in your ecc_consent cookie), what you allowed, the date, which of our sites you were on and your country. It does not include your IP address, your name or your account.

The cookies we use.

1. ecc_consent, set by us. Remembers your cookie choice. Kept up to 12 months.
2. Sign-in cookies (names start with “sb-”), set by us in the learning portal. Keep you signed in. Kept until you sign out, at most 400 days.
3. ecc_2fa_session, set by us in the learning portal. Shows you entered the sign-in code we emailed you. Kept until you close your browser.
4. ecc_2fa_device, set by us in the learning portal, only if you tick “remember this device”. Kept 30 days.
5. ecc_email_link, ecc_setup_link, ecc_setup_ref, x-auth-ok, x-user-role and x-session-valid, set by us in the learning portal. Make sign-in links and account setup work safely. Kept from 30 seconds to 1 hour.
6. _cfuvid, set by Cloudflare on our website. Security. Kept until you close your browser.
7. cf_clearance, __cf_bm, _pxvid, _px3 and pxcts, set on beehiiv.com by our newsletter sign-up form and its security providers (Cloudflare and HUMAN). Protect the form from bots. Kept from 30 minutes (or until you close your browser) up to 1 year.
8. _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID, set by Google Analytics. Analytics. Kept up to 2 years.
9. attribution_data, set by beehiiv on our website, only when analytics is on. Remembers how you found our site (campaign tags, ad click IDs, the page you came from), so newsletter sign-ups can be credited. Kept 30 days.
10. _clck and _clsk (on our website and course page) and MUID, CLID and others (on clarity.ms), set by Microsoft Clarity, only with session replay on. Session replay. Microsoft decides how long they are kept.
11. Google’s own cookies and identifiers, set by Google, only while advertising is on. Used for Google signals. Google decides how long they are kept.

Questions: email us at info@elizabethcconsulting.com.