Cookies
Cookies are small files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.
We use cookies to make plan technology for your school work and to collect information about how you use our service.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our service. We do not need to ask permission to use them.
These are the essential cookies that we use.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_preference_set | Saves your cookie consent settings | 1 year |
Optional analytics cookies
With your permission, we use Google Analytics cookies and Microsoft Clarity cookies to collect information about how you use our service. We use these Google Analytics cookies within our service.
| Cookie name | Default expiration time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users |
| _ga_ | 2 years | Used to persist session state |
| ar_debug | 14 months | enables attribution report debugging |
We use these Microsoft Clarity cookies within our service.
| Name | Purpose | Value passed |
|---|---|---|
| _clck | Persists the Clarity user ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID | String |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording | String |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity | 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 zero | Flag |
| MR | Indicates whether to refresh MUID | Flag |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites – these cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes | GUID |
| SM | Used in synchronising the MUID across Microsoft domains | Character Flags |
We retain Clarity data types for different periods of time.
| Clarity data Type | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Click data – such as data shown on the Clarity portal or aggregated data per page within our service – for example, the URL, the user ID and pointer distances | 13 months |
| Playback data – such as the data captured for playing back recordings | 30 days |
| Sessions labelled or favourited | 13 months |