Cookie Policy
COING uses cookies on the Website, Services and mobile application.
This Cookie Policy makes an integral part of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below. Concepts written in capital letters in this Cookie Policy have the same meaning as defined in the Privacy Policy or in the Terms of Use.
1. WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. They serve the purpose of making our Service more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies also make it possible for our systems to recognize your browser and offer you the best possible configuration.
We use cookies to collect information about the use of the Website and the Services.
Each cookie distinguishes you from other Users and Website visitors. Some other techniques, such as web beacons or pixels, have similar purposes to cookies. In this Cookie Policy, the word "cookie" designates the objects delivered by those techniques as well.
While we do our best to keep this table updated, please note that the number and names of cookies, pixels and other technologies may change from time to time.
2. TYPES OF COOKIES
In general, there are three different ways to classify cookies: how long they endure, their provenance and what purpose they serve.
DURATION
Session cookies – These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser (or once your session ends).
Persistent cookies — This category encompasses all cookies that remain on your hard drive until you erase them, or your browser does, depending on the cookie"s expiration date. All persistent cookies have an expiration date written into their code, but their duration can vary.
PROVENANCE
First-party cookies — As the name implies, first-party cookies are put on your device directly by COING.
Third-party cookies — These are the cookies that are placed on your device, not by COING, but by a third party like an advertiser or an analytic system. Some third-party cookies (for example, Google Analytics) gather information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites, which may result in advertisements or other messages being displayed to you based on your browsing history.
Information on whether these are first-party or third-party cookies please check the category "provider" below. Please read the privacy policies of such third parties to understand their processing of personal data.
PURPOSE
There are several types of cookies on the Website, which have different purposes:
NECESSARY COOKIES
Necessary cookies help make a site usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website, as well as enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | PROVIDER | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| __cfruid | This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load balancing, the deliverance of web site content and serving DNS connection for Website operators. | clockify.zendesk.com | Session | HTTP |
| __stripe_mid | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the Website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | clockify.me | 1 year | HTTP |
| __stripe_sid | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | clockify.me | 1 day | HTTP |
| AWSALB | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize the user experience. | zopim.com | 7 days | HTTP |
| AWSALBCORS | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize the user experience. | zopim.com | 6 days | HTTP |
| m | Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. | m.stripe.com | 2 years | HTTP |
| ZD-suid | A unique id that identifies the user's session. | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
google.com | 179 days | HTTP |
| _grecaptcha | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| CONSENT | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website. |
youtube-nocookie.com | 2 years | HTTP |
| rc::a | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.This is beneficial for the Website, in order to make valid reports on the use of the Website. | google.com | Persistent | HTML |
| rc::b | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | google.com | Session | HTML |
| rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | google.com | Persistent | HTML |
| rc::d-# | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | google.com | Session | HTML |
PREFERENCE COOKIES
Preference cookies enable the Website to remember information that changes the way the Website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you are in.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | PROVIDER | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| ZD-settings | Arbitrary settings for the user's preferences when browsing a Zendesk knowledge base. | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| ZD-store | Registers whether the self-service-assistant Zendesk Answer Bot has been displayed to the website user. | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
STATISTICS COOKIES
Statistics cookies, also known as "performance cookies," and "analytical cookies" help us understand how visitors interact with the Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our Website. They help us know which pages are the most and the least popular and see how visitors move around the Website. All information collected by these cookies is collected anonymously and none of this information can be used to identify you. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited. If these cookies are blocked, we will not know when someone visits the Website.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | PROVIDER | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | clockify.me | 2 years | HTTP |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | clockify.me | 1 day | HTTP |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | clockify.me | 1 day | HTTP |
| ZD-buid | A unique id that identifies the user on recurring visits. | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| _ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. |
clockify.me | 2 years | HTTP |
| _ga_M4LX3NPKDG | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. | clockify.me | 2 years | HTTP |
| _gclxxxx | This cookie is the Google conversion tracking cookie. It allows us to count visits and traffic sources, to measure and improve the performance of the Website. | clockify.me | 3 months | HTTP |
MARKETING COOKIES
Marketing cookies help us provide you with a good user experience, tailored content, and also allow us to continually improve our Website. Marketing cookies are set up through our location and set by our advertising partners. They can use these companies to create a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements in other locations. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted ads on other websites.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | PROVIDER | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| VISITOR_INFO1 _LIVE |
This cookie tries to estimate the user"s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | youtube.com | 6 months | HTTP |
| YSC | This Cookie registers a unique ID to track statistics of what videos from YouTube the User has seen. | youtube.com | Session | HTTP |
| _gcl_au | This cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency actress websites using their services. | clockify.me | 3 months | HTTP |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube-nocookie.com | Session | HTML |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube-nocookie.com | Persistent | HTML |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube-nocookie.com | Persistent | HTML |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube-nocookie.com | Session | HTML |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube-nocookie.com | Session | HTML |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube-nocookie.com | Session | HTML |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | youtube-nocookie.com | Persistent | HTML |
| yt.innertube::requests | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | youtube-nocookie.com | Persistent | HTML |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube-nocookie.com | Session | HTML |
| _clck | Persists tde Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to tdat site, on tde browser. This ensures tdat behavior in subsequent visits to tde same site will be attributed to tde same user ID. | microsoft.com | Session | String |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | microsoft.com | Session | String |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | microsoft.com | Session | String |
| ANONCHK | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. | microsoft.com | Session | Flag |
| MR | Indicates whether to refresh MUID. | microsoft.com | Session | Flag |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | microsoft.com | Session | GUID |
| SM | Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | microsoft.com | Session | Character Flags |
UNCLASSIFIED COOKIES
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | PROVIDER | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| environment | Unknown | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| redirectTo | Unknown | clockify.me | Persistent | HTML |
| COMPASS | Unknown | docs.google.com | A few seconds | HTTP |
| S | Unknown | docs.google.com | A few seconds | HTTP |
3. USE OF EXTERNAL TOOLS ON OUR WEBSITE
3.1. GOOGLE ANALYTICS
COING has integrated Google Analytics on the Website (with an anonymization function). Google Analytics is a website analysis service. Website analysis refers to the collection, recording and analysis of data regarding the behavior of Users of Clockify. In other words, Google Analytics uses cookies to remember a User's behavior and provide COING with reports on the visits of the Website and User"s activity.
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA, is the operator of the Google Analytics component.
How Google processes personal data via Google Analytics please see here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google Analytics uses cookies, as described in the table above. The information about your use of Clockify generated by the Google Analytics cookies is normally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might disclose these personal data collected via the technical procedure to third parties.
COING has activated IP anonymization, which means that Google shortens User"s IP addresses within the Member States of the European Union or in other countries that are parties to the European Marketing Area Treaty. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google uses this information to analyze your use of the Website in order to compile a report about your Website activities and provide COING with other services associated with the Website and Services.
We have also set the use of Google Analytics to comply with the highest privacy protection standards.
If you wish to find out more on how Google uses information collected via this Website and the Service, please see here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk
Apart from the instructions in Section 5 of the Cookie Policy, You may furthermore prevent the disclosure of the data generated by the cookie which refer to the use of the Website (incl. your IP address) to Google as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
This browser add-on notifies Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data or information about website visitors may be transmitted to Google Analytics.
In addition, a cookie left behind by Google Analytics may be erased at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Google Analytics is explained in more detail under this link: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/, while information how Google processes data the User may find under this link https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245#zippy=%2Cour-privacy-policy%2Cgoogle-analytics-cookies-and-identifiers
3.2. GOOGLE TAG MANAGER
COING uses Google Tag Manager. This service allows us to administer so-called website tags centrally via an interface. Google Tag Manager implements only tags. No cookies are used and no personal data are collected.
Google has a suitable privacy policy for such data collection by third-party providers: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/de/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/
However Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If certain domains/websites or cookies were deactivated, it remains in place for all tracking tags provided that they are implemented using Google Tag Manager.
4. LEGAL BASIS FOR USING COOKIES
COING is not allowed to use cookies unless a User agrees to it via Cookie banner. Therefore, the legal basis for using cookies is the User"s consent as described in our Privacy Policy.
We assume the device you are using is yours. If this is not the case, (for example, if you are using the Service or displaying a Website on your employer"s computer or smart device), we expect you to have the authorisation of the owner of the device to agree on their behalf with our storing cookies on the device and retrieving information from it as described in the Cookie Policy. By using the device you are confirming to us that you are so authorised.
5. HOW TO BLOCK COOKIES?
The only type of cookies you may not block are the necessary cookies.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may use your browser settings or you may refuse cookies via the cookie banner and cookie settings (see the button below).
To disable cookies via the cookie banner, please choose the option "Reject all" on the cookie banner.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking RESET COOKIES.
You can then adjust the available checkboxes to "On" or "Off", then clicking "Save". You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
To disable cookies via browser, please note that most internet browsers are set up by default to accept cookies. If you want to refuse or delete them (or similar technologies) please refer to the help and support area on your browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. For example, some of the relevant links are:
- — Google Chrome
- — Internet Explorer
- — Mozilla Firefox
- — Safari (Desktop)
- — Safari (Mobile)
- — Android Browser
- — Opera
- — Opera Mobile
Keep in mind that each browser has a different procedure for managing and configuring cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or some parts of our Website or Service.
For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/.
6. CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.
If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy, we will notify you through a pop-up on the Website in a reasonable time period prior to and following the change.
Effective as of 01/20/2022