Cookie Notice
Upwing Energy Cookie Notice
1. Introduction
This Cookie Notice explains how Upwing Energy (“we”) use “cookies” on our website (“upwingenergy.com” or the “Site”). This notice applies to all individuals who enter the Site and details what these technologies are as well as your options to control them.
When you first access the Site, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept All”, closing the message or continuing to browse the Site, you signify that you agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice.
You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be drawn at anytime. View section 4 of this Notice for additional details on managing your preferences.
2. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data/text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you; they merely recognize your web browser, unless you choose to identify yourself to us (i.e. via contact form submission). Cookies are widely used to enable and/or enhance a website’s useability, make it more secure and understand how the website performs. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Upwing Energy) are called “first-party” cookies, which are mostly necessary for website functionality. Cookies set by parties other than the website’s owner are called “third-party” cookies. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be offered through the website (in this case for displaying content and for capturing analytics).
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We may use session-based and persistent-based cookies. Session based cookies exist only during one session then disappear from your computer when you close your browser and/or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and/or turn off your computer.
The following sets out the types of first-party and third-party cookies placed on the Site and your options for managing cookie settings:
A. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies enable the core functionality of the Site and are required to enable the basic features of this Site, such as adjusting your content preferences. These cookies do not track any Personal Information.
Cookie | Duration | Description |
__cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
_lfa | 1 year | This cookie, set by Google, builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
_lfa_test_cookie_stored | Less than a minute | This is a cookie that is only temporarily used to check if the browser supports cookies or not. |
1P_JAR | 30 days | The cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. |
APISID | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google may set this cookie once you click on a YouTube video player. Used to personalize Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions. |
JSESSIONID | Session | This is a general purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
rc::a | Never | This cookie is set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to differentiate between humans and bots and to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
rc::c | Session | This cookie is set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to differentiate between humans and bots. The cookie is only active for a single browser session to maintain security and filtering. |
_cfuvid | Session | This cookie is used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. Visitors who do not provide the cookie are likely to be grouped together and may not be able to access the site if there are many other visitors from the same IP address. |
B. Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to understand how visitors interact with the website. They help provide primarily aggregated analytical metrics including but not limited to the number of visitors and how they move around our site, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Cookie | Duration | Description |
__Secure-1PSIDTS | 1 year | This cookie is used by Google to collect information about interactions with Google services and ads. It contains a unique identifier. |
__Secure-3PAPISID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie, set by Google, builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
__Secure-3PSID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie, set by Google, builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
__Secure-3PSIDTS | 1 year | This cookie is used by Google to collect information about interactions with Google services and ads. It contains a unique identifier and is used to measure advertising effectiveness and deliver personalized content based on interests. |
_ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | This cookie, set by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and tracks site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
_ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and count page views. |
_ga_<container-id> | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie is used to persist session state. |
_gat | 1 minute | This cookie, set by Google Universal Analytics is used to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. |
_gid | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics to store anonymous information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages visited. |
DV | 6 hours | This cookie is used by Google to collect information about how visitors use our site. |
UULE | 1 day | This cookie is used by Google and sends precise location information from your browser to Google's servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. |
vuid | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect analytics information from videos by setting a unique ID to embed videos on the website. |
C. Functional Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance performance of our website. These are not vital for the website to run, but without them certain functions of the website may not be available.
Cookie | Duration | Description |
AEC | 6 days | This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. |
ar_debug | 30 days | This cookie is used by Google Ad Services to debug ads. |
HSID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
SID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
SIDCC | 1 year | This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. |
SSID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. |
D. Targeting Cookies
These cookies help with gathering information related to site users’ online behavior and preferences to show them more relevant, targeted advertisements.
Cookie | Duration | Description |
__Secure-1PAPISID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
__Secure-1PSID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
__Secure-1PSIDCC | 1 year | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
__Secure-3PSIDCC | 1 year | This cookie, set by Google, builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
DSID | 14 days | This cookie is used by Google to identify a logged in user on non-Google sites and to store user preferences regarding ad personalization. |
IDE | 190 Days | This cookie from Google is used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
NID | 5 months, 30 days | This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
SAPISID | 1 year, 1 month, 4 days | This cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. |
4. How to Manage Your Preferences
As noted in Section 1, when you first enter the site, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept All”, closing the message or continuing to browse the Site, you signify that you agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice.
You do not have to accept cookies and consent can be drawn at anytime. If consent to use some or all cookies are denied you will still be able to access the Site, but some features may not function property.
To manage your cookie preferences please click the "Cookie Settings" button below and toggle your preferred settings on or off:
You can manage your preferences by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse some or all non-essential cookies. Please follow the links below for more information on managing cookies for popular browsers:
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Apple Safari
5. Appendix A.
Third Party Service Providers
Drupal, for content management solutions. For more information on this service provider’s privacy practices, please review: https://drupal.org/privacy
Salesforce, for customer relationship management solutions. For more information on this service provider’s privacy practices, please review: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy
Dealfront, previously Leadfeeder, for website visitor tracking. For more information on this service provider’s privacy practices, please review: https://www.leadfeeder.com/privacy/
Google/DoubleClick, for aggregated analytics detailing site usage and for advertising targeting. For more information on this service provider’s privacy practices, please review: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Vimeo, for hosting all videos located on our website. For more information on this service provider’s privacy practices please review: https://vimeo.com/privacy
6. Upwing Energy Contact
If you have any questions about our Cookie Notice, you can e-mail us at info@upwingenergy.com
Policy last revised on September 25, 2024.
