Last Updated: August 16, 2019
This Cloudflare Cookie Policy (“Policy”) outlines the general policy, practices, and types of cookies that Cloudflare, Inc. (“Cloudflare”, “we”, “us” or “our”) may use to improve our services and your experience when visiting our Website. For the purposes of this Policy, “Website” refers to www.cloudflare.com as well as the other websites that Cloudflare operates and that link to the Cloudflare Website Terms of Use.
Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. They are used by many websites to store and receive identifiers and other information on devices, such as a handheld phone or computer. Our Website and Service use cookies and other similar technologies (collectively in this Policy, "cookies"), in order to provide a better service to you and to generally improve our Website and Service. For example, we may use cookies to help direct you to the appropriate part of our Website, by indicating that you are a repeat visitor. We also may use information to present you with services that are matched to your preferences and to manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
We also may include tracking pixels, which are small graphic images, in our marketing communications to determine engagement. These cookies may be set by us or by third parties with whom we have partnered to assist in our marketing efforts.
Some portions of our Website are functional without cookies, and you may generally choose whether to accept cookies. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, however, you may be able to delete cookies yourself through your browser's cookie manager. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your web browser. Please note that disabling cookies will reset your session, disable auto-login, and may adversely affect the availability and functionality of our Website and the services we can provide to you.
We detail below the cookies used our Website. If you wish to opt-out of cookies that collect information to serve you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union, click here).
Functional cookies are necessary to help our Website and Service to work as intended. Some of these cookies include, but are not limited to:
userLoggedIn - Determines if you have logged in before and, if so, forward you to the product dashboard.
meerkatBannerHidden - Determines if you have dismissed a notification banner for Cloudflare features.
userCookiesAllowed - Determines if the user has accepted the ability to load cookies.
userLangRedirect - Determines your preferred language for viewing the Website.
vses2 - Determines if you have an active session.
You may disable any of these functional cookies as described above; but if you do, various functions of the Website or Service may be unavailable to you or may not work as intended.
In addition, as part of our Service, we may place "_cfduid" cookies and bot detection cookies (such as "_cf_bm" and Google’s reCaptcha) on the computers of End Users (as that term is defined in our Privacy Policy). We do this in order to identify malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites, web-traffic filtration, to reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users, and to provide customized services.
We use third-party cookies and similar tracking technologies to help us understand how you use our Website and Service and improve your experience. For example, we may use cookies to understand what pages you browsed before submitting a sales request form. You can delete these cookies through your browser settings or through the links listed below.
The analytics cookies we use include:
Google Analytics - Web traffic tracking. Learn more at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, and to opt out, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google Tag Manager - Web traffic tracking. Learn more at https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6102821?, and to opt out, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7519794.
Marketo (Munchkin) - Analyzes browsing activity across Website to establish user profile. Learn more at http://legal.marketo.com/cookies/, and to out opt, visit http://developers.marketo.com/javascript-api/lead-tracking/#opt_out.
Bizible - Analyzes browsing activity across Website to establish user profile. Learn more at http://www.bizible.com/privacy-policy, and to opt out, visit https://www.bizible.com/cookie-opt-out.
TechTarget - Analyzes browsing activity across Website to establish user profile. Learn more at https://www.techtarget.com/privacy-policy-may25/ and to opt out, visit https://www.techtarget.com/individual-rights-request/. Please note that TechTarget will not collect any data when a user is identified by IP address as being based in the EU.
In addition, we also may include tracking pixels, which are small graphic images, in our email messages to determine whether the messages were opened and if the links were clicked. If you do not want to receive tracking pixels in emails we send you, you will need to disable HTML images in your email client, but that may affect your ability to view images in other emails you receive.
These third-party cookies are placed by third-party advertising platforms or networks to collect information about your visits to and actions on certain pages of our Website so that they can deliver ads for relevant Cloudflare products and services to you later, such as when you are on certain third-party sites. These cookies also track ad performance.
Bing Ads - Advertising platform. Learn more at https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/microsoft-bing-adsprivacy-policy, and learn how to opt out at https://help.bingads.microsoft.com/#apex/3/en/53056/1/#exp151.
Twitter - Analyzes browsing activity to establish user profile and advertising platform. Learn more at https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514, and learn how to opt out at https://help.twitter.com/en/personalization-data-settings.
Facebook Custom Audience - Analyzes browsing activity across our Website to track advertising effectiveness, customize audiences, and improve ad retargeting. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel, and learn how to opt out at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ whether you are a Facebook user (via your ad preferences) or not (via the Digital Advertising Alliance for your jurisdiction).
AdRoll - Advertising focused on retargeting. Learn more at https://www.adrollgroup.com/privacy, and learn how to opt out at https://app.adroll.com/optout/safari.
LiveRamp - Tracking anonymous user characteristics for ad retargeting. Learn more at https://liveramp.com/privacy/, and to opt out, visit https://liveramp.com/opt_out/.
OpenX - Advertising platform. Learn more about and learn how to opt out at https://www.openx.com/legal/privacy-policy/.
Yahoo Ad Exchange - Advertising platform. Learn more at https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/index.html, and to opt out, visit https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/us/en/optout/.
AppNexus - Advertising platform. Learn more at https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy, and to opt out, visit https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy#choices.
BidSwitch - Advertising platform. Learn more and opt out at http://www.bidswitch.com/policies/.
DoubleClick - Provides Internet ad-serving services. Learn more at https://policies.google.com/privacy and learn how to opt out at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922.
LinkedIn Insights - Analyzes browsing activity across Website to establish user profile and advertising platform. Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy, including how to opt out whether you are a LinkedIn user (via your ad preferences) or not (via the Digital Advertising Alliance for your jurisdiction). LinkedIn account holders can opt-out specifically from LinkedIn's uses of certain categories of data to show more relevant ads. Visitors to LinkedIn can opt out here.