The Pinnacle List Cookies Notice

This Cookies Notice explains how The Pinnacle List (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website at https://www.thepinnaclelist.com (the “Website”).

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

How we use cookies

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our Website. We use cookies for the following purposes:

Necessary: To enable certain functions of the Website
Analytics: To provide analytics and understand how the Website is being used
Preferences: To store your preferences
Advertising: To enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising

Specifically, we use the following cookies:

Cookie Name	Type	Purpose	Expiration
_ga	Persistent	Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users	2 years
_gid	Persistent	Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users	24 hours
_gat	Persistent	Google Analytics cookie used to throttle request rate	1 minute
metrika_enabled	Persistent	Yandex Metrica cookie that registers statistical data on users’ behavior on the website	1 year
_ym_uid	Persistent	Yandex Metrica cookie that is used to identify users	1 year
_clck	Persistent	Microsoft Clarity cookie used for recording behavioral data	1 year
MUID	Persistent	Microsoft Clarity cookie used for user identification	1 year

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

We also use Microsoft Clarity and Yandex Metrica for website usage analytics. These services also use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Website.

Our Website uses Google AdSense to show advertisements to our visitors. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our Website and/or other websites on the Internet.

Your choices regarding cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish by adjusting your browser settings. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our Website and some services and functionalities may not work.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To opt out of personalized advertising delivered by Google, visit https://www.google.com/settings/ads.