The Clearway Group Limited (“Clearway“, “us“, “we“, “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies on its websites. This Cookie Notice explains how these cookies and similar technologies are used when you visit our website at https://www.clearway.co.uk/, what they are and why they are used, as well as your rights in this respect.
It is important that you know what cookies our websites use and for what purposes – so please read this notice carefully.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small, simple text files (i.e. numbers and letters) that may be placed on your device by websites that you visit in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information about your use of the site so that we can distinguish website visitors. We may use similar techniques, such as pixels, web beacons and other online data collection tools, and for the sake of consistency all of these techniques will be referred to in this notice as ‘cookies’.
Information gathered by cookies can, particularly when combined with other information, be considered personal data. Our privacy policy sets out full details of the other information we may collect and how we may use your personal information, and can be accessed here.
If you have questions about this notice, please contact us at: dpo@theclearwaygroup.co.uk
What cookies do we use and why?
There are different types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies are used by Clearway to support the essential operations of our website, such as authentication, security, network management, site navigation aids and accessibility. These are set by default (but you can block them). However, without these cookies, we may not be able to provide the services you have asked for and we can’t guarantee your use or the security of our websites during your visit.
- Functional cookies these are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences such as user-selected options, so you have a more personal experience (e.g., to remember the region you are in). They will be used only upon your consent. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of the services may not function properly.
- Performance / Analytical cookies are used by Clearway and our service providers to manage our websites where you give permission, so we can collect analytics about visitors to our websites and collect information about website usage. We use the information to compile reports to help us improve our websites, optimise our website’s performance, and support your experience. These cookies are also used to help us understand how effective our advertising is; for instance, these cookies tell us which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages.
- Advertising cookies are used by Clearway, with your permission, to enable social sharing and to deliver interest-based and personalised ads to you on our site and other sites e.g. by tracking pages you have visited / links you have followed. We also work with social media platforms to deliver ads to you when you use our sites and other social media platforms. These cookies collect data about your online activity and allow ads to be displayed that may be of relevance to you by recording which ads you have seen and whether you engaged with the ad. This helps to ensure that the ads you see are valuable to you and not repetitive. Some of these cookies are managed by third parties.
In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes, and to help improve the overall experience on our website. Google Analytics, a third-party web analysis service provided by Google Inc, uses “performance cookies” and “advertising cookies” to analyse how you use our websites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use the information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as described further below. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB#. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control: Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, which are advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, read the section below on how to control your cookie settings.
More detail on the cookies used is set out below:
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | |
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | First Party or Third Party |
| quform_session | Quform | Required by the contact forms on the website to enable submission handling. | Session | First party |
| wt_consent | WebToffee cookies plugin | Used for remembering users’ consent preferences to be respected on subsequent site visits. | 1 year | First party |
| Functional cookies | |
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | First Party or Third Party |
| li_gc | LinkedIn | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 months | Third party |
| lidc | LinkedIn | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | 1 day | Third party |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. | Persistent | Third party |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. | Persistent | Third party |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos | Persistent | Third party |
| yt-remote-session-app | YouTube | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. | Session | Third party |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | YouTube | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | Third party |
| yt-remote-session-name | YouTube | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | Third party |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | YouTube | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. | Session | Third party |
| rc::a | Google reCAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. https://policies.google.com/privacy | Persistent | Third Party |
| rc::c | Google reCAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google ReCAPTCHA service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. https://policies.google.com/privacy | Persistent | Third Party |
| Analytical Cookies | |
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | First Party or Third Party |
| CLID | Microsoft Clarity | Microsoft Clarity set this cookie to store information about how visitors interact with the website. The cookie helps to provide an analysis report. The data collection includes the number of visitors, where they visit the website, and the pages visited. | 1 year | Third party |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | First party |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser’s Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID. | 1 year | Third party |
| MR | Bing | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | Third party |
| SM | Microsoft Clarity | Microsoft Clarity cookie set this cookie for synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. | Session | Third party |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user’s pageviews into a single session recording. | 1 day | Third party |
| _ga | Google Analytics | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | First party |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | First party |
| Performance Cookies | |
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | First party or Third party |
| _uetsid | Bing Ads | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 day | First party |
| _uetvid | Bing Ads | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 year 24 days | First party |
| SRM_B | Bing Ads | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. | 1 year 24 days | Third party |
| Advertising Cookies | |
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration | First party or Third party |
| bcookie | LinkedIn | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | 1 year | Third party |
| MUID | Bing | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | 1 year 24 days | Third party |
| ANONCHK | Bing | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user’s session ID and verify ads’ clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. | 10 minutes | Third party |
| YSC | YouTube | YSC cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on YouTube pages. | Session | Third party |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 6 months | Third party |
| Visitor_Privacy_Metadata | YouTube | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months | Third party |
| yt.innertube::requests | YouTube | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Persistent | Third party |
| yt.innertube::nextId | YouTube | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Persistent | Third party |
| MSPTC | Bing | This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimise advertisement relevance. | 1 year 24 days | Third party |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Youtube | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | 6 months | Third party |
How to control your cookie settings
You have the option to consent to non-essential cookies by clicking ‘Customize’ in the cookie banner that is presented to you when you visit our website. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by navigating to the cookie preferences centre in the footer of our websites – which also enables you to withdraw any consent you have previously given to us. Please note that disabling the cookies settings on our websites won’t result in the deletion of any cookies that have already been set – however, you can delete these at any time by accessing the browser settings on your device.
The cookie preferences centre includes a list of all performance (including advertising/analytical cookies). If you simply disable all cookies in your browser settings, you may find that certain sections or features of our websites will not work, because your browser may prevent us from setting functionally required cookies. Therefore, it is recommended to use the cookie preferences centre instead of disabling all cookies via your web browser. The following links may assist you in managing your cookies settings, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
- Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042
It is important to know the method of blocking cookies varies from browser to browser and even version to version so the instructions above may not remain accurate.
Other Information
The following links contain further information about cookies:
- http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
- http://www.aboutads.info
The most recent version of this notice is dated 17 July 2025. We will keep this notice under review and may make updates to it from time to time. Any changes will be posted on our website. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email at dpo@theclearwaygroup.co.uk who will be pleased to help you.
