Most sites open with a list of cookie categories they might use. Below is the actual list of what SEOHost.net puts in your browser, named item by item, so you can check it against your own developer tools rather than take our word for it.
These exist so the site works and so your decision on this page survives. They cannot be switched off, and none of them travel to our servers.
| Item | Holds | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
sh-storage-choice |
Whether you allowed optional measurement. Written only when you press a button on this page or on the notice card. | Until you clear your browser storage or change it here |
sh_chat |
A random id for the assistant, written only if you actually send it a message. It exists so one conversation stays one conversation and so we can cap how many messages a single visitor sends per day. It is not linked to your name or account, and it never leaves our own servers. | 24 hours |
That is the whole list. The first lives in local storage, so it is never attached to a network request and never reaches us. The second is a cookie, because the assistant runs on our server and has to recognise the conversation it is answering, but it appears only if you write to the assistant and it is gone within a day.
Turning this on lets us tally which guides get opened, so we can improve the ones people reach and retire the ones nobody does, and lets us see how a page was actually used so we can find the layouts that confuse people. It is off unless you turn it on, and turning it off later removes it.
If you switch it on, these are the items that appear. Nothing here exists while it is off:
| Item | Holds | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
A random id Google Analytics uses to tell one browser from another. It is not your name and we never attach one to it. | 2 years |
_ga_BP2T1Z0Z96 |
Google Analytics session state for this site specifically. | 2 years |
_clck |
A random id Microsoft Clarity uses for the same purpose. | 1 year |
_clsk |
Ties the pages of one visit together so a session reads in order. | 1 day |
Switch measurement back off and these stop being written. Clearing your browser storage removes the ones already there.
What this actually turns on: two measurement tools, and nothing else. Google Analytics counts visits and which pages get read. Microsoft Clarity records how the page was used, so we can see where a layout confuses people. Neither is loaded, and neither is contacted, until you switch this on. Leave it off and your visit stays between you and us.
Some things are easier to describe by their absence. None of the following happen here, so there is no switch for them:
With measurement switched off there are none. Every file the page itself needs, including the typefaces, is served from our own servers, so no other company is contacted and no other company sees your address. Fonts used to come from Google's network, which meant your browser announced itself to Google on every visit. We moved those files here so that request no longer happens.
If you switch measurement on, two companies are contacted: Google, for Analytics, and Microsoft, for Clarity. Both then see your address, because any server you connect to does. That is the whole cost of switching it on, and it is why the choice is yours rather than ours.
Links to our profiles on social networks and to our reviews are ordinary links. Nothing from those companies is embedded here, so nothing loads from them until you choose to click through.
The full detail sits in our Privacy Policy. If something here does not match what you observe in your browser, tell us and we will fix the page or the behaviour, whichever is wrong.
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What this site keeps
One item keeps pages working and remembers the choice you make here. A second one, entirely optional, tallies which guides get opened at all, so we can retire the ones nobody reaches. Nothing here follows you off this site.