Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 3 August 2026

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and identifiers that store or access information on your browser or device.

This policy explains how Authorised Compliance Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies on www.authorisedcompliance.com.

How We Use Cookies

We use strictly necessary technologies to operate and secure the website, support forms and remember cookie choices. With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to understand website traffic and how visitors interact with our pages so that we can improve our content, navigation, performance and user experience.

Strictly necessary technologies may be used without consent where they are required to provide the website or a service you request. Analytics and behavioural-measurement technologies are non-essential and are used on the basis of your consent.

We do not sell personal data collected through cookies or similar technologies.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies and technologies are required for website operation, security or services you request.

Examples include:

• Website security and core functionality

• Form submission support and fraud or abuse prevention

• Remembering your cookie choices

Analytics and Behavioural Measurement Cookies

These cookies and technologies help us understand how visitors find and use the website. They may measure visits, sessions, page views, referral sources, device and browser information, approximate location, clicks, scrolling, navigation and website performance.

Examples include:

• Google Analytics 4

• Microsoft Clarity

• Visitor and session statistics

• Traffic, click, scroll, heatmap and session-replay measurement

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember settings or choices that improve website features. Where a functional cookie is not strictly necessary, we will request consent before using it.

Advertising Cookies

We do not currently use advertising, retargeting or social-media advertising cookies on this website. If this changes, we will update this policy and our consent controls before those technologies are activated.

Cookies and Technologies Currently Used

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 is provided by Google. With your consent, it uses first-party cookies and related identifiers to distinguish users and sessions, produce aggregated reports and help us understand how the website is used.

• _ga - used to distinguish users; normally retained for up to 2 years.

• _ga_<container-id> - used to maintain session state; normally retained for up to 2 years. The suffix is specific to our Google Analytics configuration.

Google Analytics may receive information such as page URLs, referral information, interactions, session statistics, approximate location, IP address, and browser and device information. We do not use Google Analytics advertising features unless we first update this policy and obtain any consent required by law.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity is provided by Microsoft. With your consent, it helps us understand how visitors interact with the website through aggregated analytics, heatmaps and session recordings.

• _clck - stores a unique Clarity user identifier and preferences for this website; normally retained for up to 1 year.

• _clsk - connects page views into a single Clarity session; normally retained for up to 1 day.

• Microsoft may also use cookies such as CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, MR and SM on Microsoft domains for user or browser identification, consent handling and technical operation. Depending on the cookie and browser, these may last from the session up to approximately 13 months.

Clarity session recordings are visual reconstructions of website interactions rather than video recordings. They may include page navigation, clicks, scrolling, cursor movement, page visibility, browser and device information, and technical performance or error data. Text entered into input fields is masked by Clarity.

Microsoft generally retains Clarity playback data for 30 days. Click and heatmap data, and sessions that are labelled or favourited, may be retained for up to 9 months.

Consent and Cookie Controls

When you first visit the website, our cookie controls allow you to accept or reject non-essential cookies and to manage your preferences. Analytics and behavioural-measurement cookies remain disabled unless and until you give the relevant consent.

If you reject analytics cookies, the core website will continue to work, but we will receive less information about how it is used. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the cookie settings control on the website. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before withdrawal.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect website security, forms or other core functions.

Third-Party Providers and International Processing

Google and Microsoft act as third-party service providers for the tracking described above. Information collected through their technologies may be processed in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, the United States or other countries in which they or their service providers operate. Where required, transfers of personal data are subject to appropriate legal safeguards.

The providers process information under their own terms and privacy notices. You can review the Google Privacy Policy and the Microsoft Privacy Statement for more information.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when our website, tracking technologies, suppliers or legal requirements change. The latest version will be published on the website with a revised last-updated date.

Contact

For questions regarding cookies or the use of tracking technologies:

Authorised Compliance Ltd

Company number: 15833435

Registered office: Atlantic Business Centre, Atlantic Street, Broadheath, Altrincham, England, WA14 5NQ

support@authorisedcompliance.com

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