What a Cookie Is
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser when you visit. It holds a small piece of information, such as a session identifier or a setting you selected, so that the site can recognize your browser when required.
Cookies are a standard part of how the web operates. Websites use them to maintain sessions, remember preferences, count visitors, and measure which pages are read. Crawl Compass uses them for the limited purposes set out below.
A "session cookie" is deleted when you close your browser. A "persistent cookie" remains for a defined period (from a day to a number of years) until it expires or is cleared. Crawl Compass also uses similar technologies that perform comparable functions, including browser storage and tracking pixels. References to "cookies" in this Policy include all such technologies.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Cookies are commonly grouped into four categories according to their function. Each category, and its application to the Website, is set out below.
Strictly necessary (essential). These cookies enable the Website to operate and remain secure, including loading pages, basic security, and remembering the cookie choice made on the consent banner. The Website cannot function as requested without them; they do not require consent and cannot be disabled through the consent banner.
Preferences (functional). These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience, such as your language. They are not essential and are treated as optional; you can control or remove them through your browser settings.
Analytics (performance). These cookies enable Crawl Compass to understand, in aggregate, how the Website is used, including which pages are visited and how visitors arrive. They are used to improve the Website, not to identify you personally. They are not essential, and you can control or remove them through your browser settings.
Marketing (advertising). These cookies track browsing activity to display or measure advertising, and are often set by third-party advertising networks. Crawl Compass uses certain of these cookies, including the Meta Pixel and Google Ads tags; you can control or remove them through your browser settings.
The main cookies the Website uses are set out below. The exact names and durations can change as the tools that set them update:
- a session cookie (essential): maintains your session as you move between pages; expires when you close your browser;
- a consent cookie (essential): records the choice made on the consent banner so that you are not asked on every visit; typically persists for several months to a year;
- Google Analytics (analytics), for example the
_gaand_ga_<id>cookies: distinguish one visitor from another to measure usage; persist for up to two years; - Microsoft Clarity (analytics), for example the
_clckand_clskcookies: measure how pages are used; persist for up to a year; and - Meta Pixel (marketing), for example the
_fbpcookie: measures and retargets advertising; persists for around three months; - Google Ads (marketing), for example the
_gcl_aucookie: measures advertising conversions; persists for around three months.
Your Choices
When you first visit the Website, a notice informs you that cookies are used. Essential cookies are necessary for the Website to operate and cannot be turned off. You can control, block, or delete the other cookies (preferences, analytics, and marketing) at any time through your browser settings, as described below.
Crawl Compass serves visitors in Indonesia and internationally. Where the law applicable to you requires a particular cookie consent mechanism, Crawl Compass aims to meet that requirement; if you have any question about the cookies used or the options available to you, contact Crawl Compass.
Controlling Cookies in Your Browser
Beyond the consent banner, your browser provides control over cookies. You can generally:
- view the cookies a site has stored, and delete them;
- block third-party cookies while retaining a site's own cookies; and
- block all cookies, or require a prompt before any are set.
These controls are found in the privacy or security settings of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge. Each browser's help pages explain the exact steps.
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the functioning of a website. Essential cookies enable core features, so disabling all cookies may cause pages to behave unexpectedly on this Website and elsewhere. Blocking only optional or third-party cookies is a more limited option.
Third-Party Cookies
Certain cookies are set by other companies whose tools the Website uses, rather than by Crawl Compass directly. For a website of this kind, these commonly include analytics (for example, Google Analytics), advertising and retargeting networks (for example, Meta or Google Ads), and embedded content (such as a video player or social media widget), which may set its own cookies when it loads.
These third parties process the data they collect under their own privacy and cookie policies, which Crawl Compass does not control. The third parties whose cookies may appear on the Website are Google (Analytics and Ads), Microsoft (Clarity), and Meta (the Meta Pixel). Each processes the data it collects under its own privacy policy. Crawl Compass also uses Ahrefs Web Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics tool that measures traffic without setting cookies or identifying you.
Changes to This Policy
Crawl Compass may update this Policy as its tools or the law change. Where a material change is made, the "Last updated" date will be revised and, where appropriate, the change may be brought to your attention through the cookie banner. You are encouraged to review this Policy periodically.
Related Information
This Policy concerns cookies specifically. For a full account of the personal data Crawl Compass collects, the purposes, the recipients, and your rights, see the Privacy Policy.