Effective Date: May 2026 | Last Updated: May 2026
This policy supersedes and replaces the Cookie Policy dated May 15, 2024.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, remember your preferences, analyze traffic, and in some cases identify the company or individual visiting. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by third-party services embedded in the site.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following broad purposes:
- To keep the website functioning correctly (essential/necessary cookies)
- To understand how visitors use our site (analytics cookies)
- To serve relevant advertising (advertising cookies)
- To identify companies and business contacts visiting our site for B2B sales purposes (visitor identification cookies)
The visitor identification use is specific to B2B sales and marketing. When you visit akoperations.com, third-party cookies may be placed by Swan and its data partners to associate your visit with business contact information. This is disclosed in full in the Visitor Identification Cookies section below and in Section 15 of our Privacy Policy.
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| wt_consent | 1 year | Used for remembering users’ consent preferences to be respected on subsequent site visits. It does not collect or store personal information about visitors to the site. |
| _cfuvid | session | Calendly sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| messagesUtk | 6 months | HubSpot sets this cookie to recognize visitors who chat via the chatflows tool. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | never | 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. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 1 year 1 month 4 days | This cookie is set by Segment to count the number of people who visit a certain site by tracking if they have visited before. |
| _clck | 1 year | 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. |
| _clsk | 1 day | Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user's pageviews into a single session recording. |
| RB2B Contact Data Provider Tracking | Session | Set by Retention.com (RB2B) (a registered data broker operating in multiple US states), acting as a sub-processor of our visitor identification service. Used for person-level identification of US-based business visitors. Opt-out: https://app.retention.com/optout |
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GCLB | session | This cookie is known as Google Cloud Load Balancer set by the provider Google. This cookie is used for external HTTPS load balancing of the cloud infrastructure with Google. |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. |
Others
Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
| loom_anon_comment | 1 year 1 month 4 days | No description available. |
| loom_referral_video | session | Description is currently not available. |
| __Host-psifi.analyticsTrace | 6 hours | Description is currently not available. |
| __Host-psifi.analyticsTraceV2 | 6 hours | Description is currently not available. |
| swan_loaded | Session/persistant | Set by Swan. Fires on page load to capture IP address and session behavior. For US visitors, this data is matched against B2B contact databases to identify your name, employer, and business contact information. For non-US visitors, only company-level data is returned. |
Opt-Out Options for Visitor Identification Cookies:
- Visitor Identification Provider opt-out: https://getswan.com/opt-out
- B2B Contact Data Provider opt-out: https://app.retention.com/optout
- Cookie Consent Tool: Click ‘Consent Preferences’ in our website footer to block these cookies before they fire.
- Global Privacy Control: Use a GPC-enabled browser or extension. We will honor your GPC signal as a request to opt out of visitor identification data sharing.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Cookie Consent Tool
You can review and change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the ‘Consent Preferences’ link in our website footer. This will reopen the cookie consent banner and allow you to accept, reject, or customize your choices.
Global Privacy Control
We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals. If your browser or a browser extension sends a GPC signal to our website, we will treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising and visitor identification purposes. GPC-compatible browsers and extensions include Brave Browser, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, and the Privacy Badger extension. Enabling GPC in these tools will automatically send the opt-out signal when you visit our site.
Browser Settings
You can also block or delete cookies directly through your browser settings:
Blocking all cookies will affect the functionality of our website, including embedded scheduling tools and form submissions.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or visitor identification technology, please contact us:
AK Operations, LLC
PO Box 115, Cottleville, MO 63304, United States
Full privacy rights and opt-out procedures are described in our Privacy Policy at akoperations.com/privacy-policy.