Cookie Policy
Legal review status: this draft is based on the shared legal-pages/v1 and cookie-consent-standard.md standard. It remains review-gated until Brandon or counsel approves final legal text, and it does not authorize new tracking or production legal commitments.
Consent categories
ClickRank uses the EXC-279 standard cookie and storage categories:
- Necessary: required for site delivery, security, routing, accessibility, and remembering your cookie consent choice when local storage is available. Necessary storage cannot be disabled through the banner.
- Preferences: optional reader interface preferences, such as theme choices if a future control is added. The current site defaults to dark mode without requiring preference storage.
- Analytics: optional measurement tools that help ClickRank understand aggregate page usage after consent.
- Marketing: advertising, retargeting, or marketing automation tags. ClickRank V1 does not use this category.
Current ClickRank cookie and storage inventory
ClickRank’s current first-party inventory is intentionally small:
| Name | Category | Provider | Purpose | Stored as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
clickrank.cookieConsent.v1 | Necessary | ClickRank | Records whether analytics, preferences, and marketing categories were accepted or rejected so the banner does not reappear on every page. | Browser local storage |
The current site does not set first-party HTTP cookies for accounts, billing, sessions, checkout, comments, or admin access.
Optional analytics inventory
Analytics scripts load only after you accept the analytics category and only when the matching public environment variable is configured:
| Provider | Category | Loaded from | Configuration gate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Analytics | static.cloudflareinsights.com | PUBLIC_CLOUDFLARE_WEB_ANALYTICS_TOKEN | Page-level analytics beacon. |
| Plausible Analytics | Analytics | plausible.io | PUBLIC_PLAUSIBLE_DOMAIN | Privacy-focused analytics script with outbound-link support. |
| Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | googletagmanager.com | PUBLIC_GA4_MEASUREMENT_ID | Configured with IP anonymization in ClickRank’s loader. |
If these variables are empty, accepting analytics records consent but does not load a provider script.
Marketing inventory
ClickRank V1 does not load marketing pixels, ad retargeting tags, customer-list syncs, or marketing automation cookies. The marketing category is present in the consent model for standard compatibility and future review, but it is disabled in the current banner because there is no marketing provider to enable.
Affiliate and vendor cookies
ClickRank links to official ClickBank or vendor pages through approved outbound routes. Once you leave ClickRank, ClickBank, vendors, checkout providers, and other destination sites may use their own cookies, pixels, fraud-prevention tools, affiliate attribution, analytics, checkout, or marketing technologies. Their policies apply on their sites.
Managing consent
Use the Cookie settings control to reject non-essential categories or accept analytics. Rejecting analytics or marketing does not block access to reviews, categories, search, editorial pages, or outbound offer context. You can also clear local storage in your browser to reset the saved choice.
Changes to this policy
We may update this draft as ClickRank’s providers, product scope, or the shared legal standard changes. Adding new analytics, marketing, payments, accounts, or child/YMYL features requires a scoped issue and approval before production use.
Contact
For cookie questions, email hello@clickrank.net.