The fine print
Cookies
Every cookie and browser storage item this site uses, what it's for, and how to change your choices.
Cookies and browser storage are small pieces of information a website keeps in your browser. We use as few as we can.
Necessary items keep the site working and are always on. Analytics and Marketing items are off until you say yes, and you can change your mind at any time. Saying no doesn't stop anything on the site from working.
The table below is generated from the list of everything the site and its tags can store, so it stays current. Google's, Microsoft's and Meta's cookies only appear once you've said yes to that category. Microsoft Clarity, an analytics tool, also records how pages are used (taps, clicks and scrolling), with what you type hidden; our privacy policy explains it.
To find out more about how we use what's collected, read our privacy policy.
Necessary
Always on. They keep the site working and store nothing about you that leaves your device unless you send an enquiry.
| Name | Set by | Type | What it’s for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tx_consent | Tinting Xperts | Local storage | Remembers your cookie choices, so we don't ask on every page. | Until you clear it, or we change this policy and ask again |
| tx:branch | Tinting Xperts | Local storage | Remembers which workshop you picked (Revesby or Condell Park), so its number and hours show. | Until you clear it |
| tx:shade | Tinting Xperts | Local storage | Remembers the tint shade you last chose in the tint preview. | Until you clear it |
| tx_attr | Tinting Xperts | Local storage | Remembers how you first and last arrived (a search, an ad, a link). It stays on your device and reaches us only with an enquiry you choose to send, so we know how you found us. | Until you clear it |
| __Host-tx_session(staff only) | Tinting Xperts | Cookie | Keeps staff signed in to the admin. | Up to 30 days |
| tx-draft:*(staff only) | Tinting Xperts | Session storage | Keeps unsaved admin edits if the page reloads. | Until the tab is closed |
Analytics
Off until you say yes. Set by Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, through Google Tag Manager. Clarity records how the page is used (scrolling, taps, clicks) with what you type hidden.
| Name | Set by | Type | What it’s for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Cookie | Tells visits apart, so Google Analytics can count visitors and which pages help them. | 2 years |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics | Cookie | Keeps the state of a visit for Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Cookie | Keeps a random Clarity ID for your browser, so your visits to this site are recognised as the same visitor. | 1 year |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Cookie | Joins the pages of one visit into a single Clarity session recording. | 1 day |
| CLID | Microsoft Clarity (on clarity.ms) | Cookie | Records when Clarity first saw this browser on any site that uses Clarity. | 1 year |
| MUID | Microsoft (on clarity.ms and bing.com) | Cookie | Microsoft's identifier for this browser across Microsoft's sites. Clarity doesn't use it for advertising. | 1 year |
| MR | Microsoft (on clarity.ms and bing.com) | Cookie | Tells Microsoft whether to refresh MUID. | 7 days |
| SM | Microsoft (on clarity.ms) | Cookie | Keeps MUID in step across Microsoft's domains. | Until you close the browser |
| ANONCHK | Microsoft (on clarity.ms and bing.com) | Cookie | Notes whether MUID is passed to Microsoft's advertising ID. Clarity doesn't use that, so it is always 0. | 10 minutes |
Marketing
Off until you say yes. Set by Google Ads and the Meta Pixel, through Google Tag Manager.
| Name | Set by | Type | What it’s for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_* | Google Ads | Cookie | Links an enquiry to the Google ad that was clicked, so we can tell which ads work. | 90 days |
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook, Instagram) | Cookie | Identifies the browser to Meta, to measure our ads and show them to people likely to need us. | 90 days |
| _fbc | Meta (Facebook, Instagram) | Cookie | Records that you arrived from a Facebook or Instagram ad. | 90 days |