This Cookie Policy describes the cookies and equivalent client-side storage technologies used on coinlaw.io. It supplements our Privacy Policy and the consent mechanism presented when you first visit the site from the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, or California.
What a Cookie Is, Briefly
A cookie is a small file that the browser stores when a website asks it to. The site can read that file on later visits to recognize the same browser, retain preferences, or count visits. Other technologies, such as the localStorage API, achieve similar outcomes from a regulator’s perspective and are treated identically below.
Categories We Operate
Rather than list every cookie individually (that list shifts when a plugin updates), we describe what each category does and the lawful basis under which we set it.
Essential cookies
Required for the site to function. They cannot be opted out of without breaking core functionality such as logging in, posting a comment, or rate-limiting abusive traffic.
- WordPress session and authentication cookies, set when you log in or post a comment
- Cloudflare security cookies, set in response to abusive traffic or challenge events
Lawful basis: legitimate interest in operating a secure website. Not subject to consent under the ePrivacy Directive.
Analytics cookies
In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, these are set only after you consent on the banner. Elsewhere they are set by default. We use Google Analytics 4 in IP-anonymized mode.
Lawful basis: explicit consent where the law requires it. You can withdraw via the cookie banner or your browser controls.
Behavior analytics
We use Microsoft Clarity to see how readers use our pages, such as clicks, scrolling, and page heatmaps, so we can fix layout and reading problems. Its first-party cookies are named _clck and _clsk.
In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, Clarity sets no cookies until you accept statistics cookies on the banner, and it runs without identifiers until then. Lawful basis: consent where the law requires it.
Advertising cookies
Our advertising partners, including Sevio and Google advertising products, set cookies to deliver and measure ads. In the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, they are set only after you consent through our banner, which runs on the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The Advertising Partners section of our Privacy Policy describes what these partners process.
Push notifications
If you allow browser notifications, OneSignal stores a subscription ID and related data in your browser so we can alert you to new articles. A subscription starts only after you click Allow on your browser’s own permission prompt, and you can turn notifications off in your browser settings at any time.
Performance cookies
Set by our caching layer (FlyingPress) to track which page variants serve from cache. They contain no personal data.
Lawful basis: legitimate interest in delivering pages quickly.
Functional cookies
Set when you make a non-essential choice, such as dismissing the newsletter prompt or selecting a reading mode. Cleared on browser close unless you explicitly opt to remember the choice.
Lawful basis: implied consent through the action that sets them.
Embedded media
Pages that embed YouTube videos, X posts, or similar content load resources from those platforms. Those platforms set their own cookies in accordance with their policies. We use privacy-preserving variants where available (for example, the YouTube domain youtube-nocookie.com).
Your Controls
You have three layers of control:
- The on-site banner at first visit lets you accept analytics and functional categories independently of essentials. Your choice is recorded in a single first-party cookie and respected on subsequent visits
- Your browser settings can block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or clear cookies on close
- Browser add-ons such as uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger can block analytics and embedded resources before they load
If you disable essentials, the site cannot remember that you have signed in, and comments will fail to post.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we do not show the banner, and we keep analytics and Microsoft Clarity switched off.
Vendor Links
For completeness, the third-party services that may set cookies on the site:
- Google LLC, Privacy & Terms
- Cloudflare Inc., Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
- YouTube (Google LLC), covered by the Google policy above
- X Corp., Privacy Policy
- Microsoft Corporation, Privacy Statement
- OneSignal, Inc., Privacy Policy
Updates
We revise this document whenever our analytics or embedded-media configuration changes. The date below records the last substantive review rather than a fixed schedule, so it moves only when the policy itself does. Last reviewed: September 17, 2026.
Contact
Cookie-specific questions: media@coinlaw.io with subject “Cookies.” Broader privacy questions are handled through the Privacy Policy.