Last updated: October 27, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how clintoncoheniii.com, the personal brand website of Clinton Cohen III, uses cookies and similar technologies. It is written to be clear and honest about what actually happens when you visit. For more on how I handle your information overall, please see my Privacy Policy.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit. They are widely used to make sites work, to remember your preferences, and to help website owners understand how their site is being used. Cookies cannot run programs or harm your device. Some are essential for a site to function, and others are optional.
How This Site Uses Cookies
This is a simple personal brand site. It does not sell products or run user accounts. What it stores on your device depends on one choice, which you make on the banner when you first visit: Accept or Decline.
Before you choose, after you choose Decline, and if you press Esc to close the banner, the site stores only what it needs to work:
- Essential cookies. Cloudflare, the security and bot protection service this site uses, sets a cookie named __cf_bm. It helps protect the site and lasts 30 minutes.
- Essential site storage. The site’s page builder and WordPress keep a few small items in your browser so the site works, such as page counters and a check for emoji support. They hold no ID, and nothing in them is sent anywhere.
- Your banner choice. Once you choose Accept or Decline, the banner remembers it by storing the word “accepted” or “declined” in your browser’s local storage, under the name ccc_cookie_consent_v1. It has no expiry date and stays until you clear this site’s data in your browser. If you decline, nothing else is stored. If you press Esc, the banner closes without storing a choice, so it returns on your next page.
The site needs these to work and to remember your choice, so they cannot be turned off through a preference setting.
If you choose Accept, the site also uses the following. The two analytics tools run only after you choose Accept.
- Analytics cookies from Google Analytics 4. Google Analytics 4 sets two cookies on clintoncoheniii.com, _ga and _ga_YTN0B2SQ4V. Each lasts about 13 months and holds a random ID for your browser. It is not your name, but it does stay with your browser, so it is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. Page visit data is sent to Google, which processes it. I use it to understand general traffic patterns, such as how many people visit and which pages are popular, and to improve the site, not to identify you personally.
- The site’s own visit statistics (AnalyticsWP). This is a plugin that runs on this site. It sets a cookie named unique_session_id, which lasts one year, and stores the same random ID in your browser’s local storage. On each page view it sends this site’s own server the page address, the referring page, your device type, your browser details, any campaign (UTM) tags in the link, the time, and that ID. It sends nothing to any other company.
- The Substack signup form on the homepage. On the homepage, Accept also loads the signup form. You can also load it once with the button in its box. It is explained in the next section, along with the cookies it sets.
I do not use cookies to sell your personal information. You can read more about that in my Privacy Policy, which includes a section on your privacy choices.
Third-Party and Embedded Content
Some pages may include content from other services, or links that take you to them. These include my Substack, my social media profiles, and embedded or linked YouTube content. When content from these services is embedded or when you follow a link to them, those third parties may set their own cookies on your device.
The signup form on my homepage comes from Substack. It appears as two “subscribe” boxes, loaded inside a frame from letters.clintoncoheniii.com, which is Substack’s address for my newsletter, and from substack.com. The form does not load at all until you choose Accept on the banner, or click the button in the box to load it that one time. Clicking the button stores nothing and does not turn on my analytics, so the box asks again the next time the page loads. Everywhere else on the site, “Get the weekly letter” is a plain link to Substack, and it sets nothing until you go there.
Once the form loads, Substack and the services it uses set cookies and storage on your device, including:
- A/B testing IDs (ab_testing_id and ab_experiment_sampled), which last one year.
- An analytics ID from Segment (ajs_anonymous_id), which lasts one year.
- A performance session from Datadog (_dd_s), which lasts 15 minutes.
- Security cookies from Cloudflare, and cookies set on substack.com.
- A Google Ads cookie (_gcl_au), which lasts about 90 days and is written onto clintoncoheniii.com by a Google advertising tag that runs inside the Substack form.
Requests from the form also go to Google advertising servers, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Sentry, and Datadog.
I do not control the cookies set by these third parties, and they are governed by each company’s own cookie and privacy policies. If you want to understand or manage those cookies, I recommend reviewing the cookie policy of the relevant service, for example YouTube, your social platform, or Substack.
How You Can Control Cookies
You are always in control of cookies. Most web browsers let you view, manage, block, or delete cookies through their settings. You can usually:
- Delete cookies that are already stored on your device.
- Block cookies from being set, either entirely or from specific sites.
- Set your browser to warn you before a cookie is stored.
You can find these controls in the settings or preferences menu of your browser, such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge. Please note that if you block essential cookies, some parts of the site may not work as intended.
To change your choice on this site, clear the cookies and site data for clintoncoheniii.com in your browser settings. The banner comes back on your next visit, and the analytics cookies go with the cleared data. At the moment this is done in your browser, not with a button on the page.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
As my site evolves, or if I add or change tools, I may update this Cookie Policy. When I do, I will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. I encourage you to check back from time to time.
Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on this site, you can reach me at: