1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work, to keep them secure, and to provide information to site owners about how the site is used. Similar technologies—such as local storage and tracking scripts—work in a comparable way, and in this policy we refer to all of them as “cookies.”
Cookies set by the website you are visiting are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by other companies, such as analytics or security providers, are called third-party cookies.
2. How We Use Cookies
AC TechConnect uses cookies on this website to:
- Keep the website working and secure
- Protect our contact form from spam and automated abuse
- Measure how visitors use the website so we can improve its content and usability
We do not use advertising or marketing cookies, and we do not sell information collected through cookies.
3. Cookies We Use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function and to keep it secure. They cannot be switched off in our systems, although you can block them in your browser—some parts of the site may then not work.
| Cookie |
Provider |
Purpose |
Duration |
ci_session |
AC TechConnect |
Maintains your browsing session so pages and forms work correctly. |
Up to 2 hours |
_GRECAPTCHA |
Google reCAPTCHA |
Distinguishes humans from bots to protect our contact form from spam and abuse. |
6 months |
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website—which pages are visited, how people navigate, and where they run into problems—so we can improve it. We use Microsoft Clarity for usage analytics, heatmaps, and session replays.
| Cookie |
Provider |
Purpose |
Duration |
_clck |
Microsoft Clarity |
Stores a unique visitor ID and Clarity preferences so visits by the same browser are attributed to the same user. |
1 year |
_clsk |
Microsoft Clarity |
Connects multiple page views by a visitor into a single session recording. |
1 day |
CLID |
Microsoft Clarity |
Identifies the first time Clarity saw this visitor on any site using Clarity. |
1 year |
MUID |
Microsoft |
Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft services. |
1 year |
ANONCHK, MR, SM |
Microsoft |
Support Microsoft’s measurement services, including refreshing and validating the MUID cookie. |
Session to 7 days |
4. Third-Party Cookies
Third-party providers set and control their own cookies and use the information they collect in accordance with their own privacy policies:
Our website also loads fonts, icons, scripts, and images from content delivery networks. These providers receive your IP address when your browser requests their files but, to our knowledge, do not set cookies for our website.
5. Managing Cookies
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you see which cookies are stored, delete them individually or all at once, block third-party cookies, or block cookies from specific sites. Instructions are available from your browser provider:
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the website—such as the contact form—from working. Blocking analytics cookies will not affect your ability to use the website.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add, remove, or change the tools we use on our website. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.