Cookies

This website uses cookies to manage certain user features and functions, as well as to monitor website performance and traffic.

User Cookies & Site interactions

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Marketing Cookies

We use Microsoft Clarity (which uses cookies), to help us understand what users want, care about, and do on our site by visually representing their clicks, taps, and scrolling behaviour.

For more information, see Microsoft’s cookie list, sharing information of the cookies Clarity sets, cookie consent, how to opt-out & data collection.

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive while they are visiting a particular website. It contains simple information about the user’s identity but no personal information. The benefit of using cookies is that it allows us to monitor website traffic and record users’ preferences.

Chinese Search News acknowledges and complies with the recent changes to the rules and regulations in regards to using cookies and similar technologies for storing information. Chinese Search News will ensure that the use of cookies is managed in accordance with national and legal guidelines, such as those that require the consent of website visitors for their use.

The cookies used on the Chinese Search News website include:

  • Microsoft Clarity cookies: _clck, _clsk, CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID, SM

None of these contain any personal information about you, only your browser and device. It is not possible for us to tell you what information we have about your browser or device, as we cannot identify you from the data we receive.