Cookie Policy
This page lists every cookie and similar technology that elevanatours.com sets, what each one is for, and how to switch it off. The list is not a general description — each name below is one that this website actually sets.
Last updated: 21 September 2026
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. It lets the site recognise the same browser on a later page or a later visit. Two related technologies do the same job in a different place in your browser: local storage, which persists between visits, and session storage, which is erased when you close the tab. Both are covered here.
What this site does not do
We do not set advertising or tracking cookies for Meta/Facebook, TikTok or LinkedIn, and we do not sell your browsing data. Two companies receive anything at all from this site: Google, for the two purposes described below, and Microsoft, for the session recording described under “How pages are used”.
The cookies we set
Analytics — how the site is used
These tell us which pages are read, how people move through the site and where they leave. They are about pages, not about you as a person.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google Analytics | Tells one browser apart from another so two visits are not counted as one person twice | 2 years |
_ga_9B4JXL9ZGH |
Google Analytics 4 | Holds the state of your visit for our main analytics property | 2 years |
_ga_2FWGVEXFST |
Google Analytics 4 | The same, for our second analytics property | 2 years |
Advertising — whether an advert led to an enquiry
We advertise on Google. When someone arrives from one of our adverts and then sends an enquiry, these let us count that enquiry once against the advert that brought them. They are what stops us paying for adverts that bring nobody, and they are not used to build a profile of you or to show you adverts elsewhere on this site.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au |
Google Ads | Records that an advert brought you here, so an enquiry can be matched back to it | 90 days |
_gcl_aw |
Google Ads | Stores the Google click identifier attached to the advert you clicked | 90 days |
crm_gclid |
Elevana Tours, through our tag manager | Keeps the same click identifier on our own side, so an enquiry can be attributed without asking Google again | 90 days |
_gcl_ls (local storage) |
Google Ads | Does the same job as _gcl_au in browsers that restrict cookies |
Until cleared |
ev_gclid (session storage) |
Elevana Tours | Carries the click identifier from the page you landed on to the enquiry form within one visit | When you close the tab |
Session recording and heatmaps — how pages are used
We use Microsoft Clarity to see how pages are actually used: where people scroll, what they click, and where a page confuses them. It records the movement of the pointer and the taps on a page, and plays them back as an anonymous session.
What it does not record: Clarity masks text typed into form fields by default, so what you write in an enquiry form — your name, e-mail, telephone number and message — is not captured in the recording. We have not turned that masking off.
| Name | Set by | What it does | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
_clck |
Microsoft Clarity | Keeps one identifier for your browser so two page views are seen as one session | 1 year |
_clsk |
Microsoft Clarity | Joins the pages of a single visit into one recording | 1 day |
CLID |
Microsoft Clarity | Set on clarity.ms; tells a returning browser from a new one | 1 year |
ANONCHK, MR, MUID, SM |
Microsoft | Set by Microsoft’s own network while Clarity loads | Up to 1 year |
Services that set them
- Google Tag Manager — loads the two services below. It does not itself collect anything about you.
- Google Analytics 4 — measures how the site is used.
- Google Ads — measures whether our adverts lead to enquiries.
- Microsoft Clarity — records anonymous sessions and builds heatmaps so we can see which parts of a page work and which do not.
What Google does with the data is governed by its own privacy terms, at policies.google.com/privacy. What Microsoft does with the Clarity data is governed by the Microsoft privacy statement, at privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.
How to turn them off
- In your browser. Every major browser can block or delete cookies for a single site from its settings, usually under “Privacy” or “Site settings”. Blocking ours will not stop you reading any page, browsing tours or sending an enquiry.
- Analytics only. Google publishes a browser add-on that stops Google Analytics on every site you visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Advertising only. You can turn off ad personalisation across Google at myadcenter.google.com.
- Session recording only. Microsoft lets you opt out of Clarity on every site that uses it, at privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement. Browsers that send a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal are also honoured by Clarity.
Changes
If we add or remove a cookie, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. It is written from what the site actually sets, so it does not go stale quietly.
Questions
Write to info@elevanatours.com and a person will answer. See also our Privacy Policy.