Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains the cookies and similar technologies (such as browser local storage) that 1000x Digital LLC uses on its websites and applications, what each one is for, and how you can control them. It lists what we actually use: no more, no less. It forms part of our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more generally.
1. WHAT THIS COVERS
- Our websites: micrositegenerator.com, websitebuilder.studio, leadgenerationconsulting.com and 1000xdigital.com.
- Our applications: app.micrositegenerator.com and app.websitebuilder.studio.
- What our platform itself places on the websites our customers publish with it ("Customer Sites"), in section 6. Each Customer Site is run by the business that published it, and that business is responsible for any tools it adds and for telling its own visitors about them.
2. THE KINDS WE USE
STRICTLY NECESSARY: needed to sign you in, keep your account and checkout secure, and tell people from bots. They are always on, because the applications cannot work without them.
PREFERENCES: remember small choices you make, such as a display setting or that you closed a banner. They hold no information about who you are.
OPTIONAL ANALYTICS: help us understand how visitors use our websites so we can improve them. They run ONLY if you click "Accept" in our cookie banner.
We do not use advertising, retargeting or social-media tracking cookies or pixels on our websites or in our applications.
3. OUR APPLICATIONS (app.micrositegenerator.com and app.websitebuilder.studio)
| Name / technology | Kind | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| msg_session | Strictly necessary | Keeps you signed in and protects your account. | 30 days, or until you sign out |
| msg_verify_held | Strictly necessary | Completes an email-confirmation link opened while signed out. | 1 hour |
| msg_checkout_nonce | Strictly necessary | Links a checkout you start to the account that started it. | 1 hour |
| msg_mode | Preference | Remembers the display mode you chose. | 1 year |
| Browser local and session storage | Preference | Remember layout choices (such as panel widths), banners you closed, an unsaved draft of your build details, and your current conversation while the tab is open. | Local storage: until you clear it; session storage: until you close the tab |
| Cloudflare bot check | Strictly necessary | On the sign-up form, tells people from bots. Cloudflare may use cookies or similar technologies needed for that check. | Set by Cloudflare |
PAYMENT AND SIGN-IN PAGES RUN BY OTHERS. When you pay, you enter your card on Stripe's own checkout page, and Stripe may set its own cookies there to process the payment securely and prevent fraud. If you choose to sign in with Google, you do so on Google's own page. Those cookies are governed by Stripe's and Google's own policies, not ours.
The applications run no analytics tools.
4. OUR WEBSITES
WEB FONTS. micrositegenerator.com, websitebuilder.studio, 1000xdigital.com and our applications load web fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google, which receives your IP address. This happens whatever you choose in the cookie banner.
WHAT EACH WEBSITE USES
| micrositegenerator.com | strictly necessary and preference items below; Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics, only if you accept |
| websitebuilder.studio | strictly necessary and preference items below; Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics, only if you accept |
| leadgenerationconsulting.com | the cookie choice and Cloudflare's bot check on the contact form; Google Analytics, only if you accept |
| 1000xdigital.com | no analytics; Cloudflare's bot check on the contact form (strictly necessary) |
STRICTLY NECESSARY AND PREFERENCES
| Name / technology | Kind | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie choice (local storage) | Strictly necessary | Remembers whether you accepted or declined optional analytics, so we do not ask on every page. | Until you change it or clear your browser |
| Banner dismissal (local storage) | Preference | Remembers that you closed a promotional bar. | 7 days |
| Cloudflare bot check | Strictly necessary | On our contact forms and the free Compliance Grader, tells people from bots. Cloudflare may use cookies or similar technologies needed for that check. | Set by Cloudflare |
CONTACT FORMS. Our contact forms set no cookies of their own; the only technology on them that may use cookies is Cloudflare's bot check, above. What you type is delivered to us through our own platform on micrositegenerator.com, websitebuilder.studio, 1000xdigital.com and leadgenerationconsulting.com, as the privacy policy of each website explains.
OPTIONAL ANALYTICS (only after you click "Accept")
MICROSOFT CLARITY (micrositegenerator.com, websitebuilder.studio). Records how visitors use our pages (page views, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement) to produce aggregated heatmaps and session replays, which show us how a visit moved through a page. It is set to hide what you type into forms. It does not collect payment information. Cookies include _clck (up to 1 year), _clsk (1 day) and CLID (up to 1 year), and Microsoft may set cookies on its own domains, such as MUID (up to 1 year). Microsoft processes this information under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS (micrositegenerator.com, websitebuilder.studio, leadgenerationconsulting.com). Records how visitors find and move through our pages, such as page views, scrolling, outbound clicks, file downloads, site searches and whether a form was started or submitted (never what was typed into it). Cookies: _ga and a cookie beginning with _ga_ (each up to 2 years). Google processes this information under the Google Privacy Policy.
Because these tools are provided by Microsoft and Google, those companies may collect information about your activity on our websites over time and across other websites, under their own privacy policies.
5. YOUR CHOICES
- THE COOKIE BANNER. On your first visit to a website that offers optional analytics, we ask. "Accept" turns them on; "Decline" keeps them off. Nothing optional loads before you choose.
- CHANGE YOUR MIND at any time with the "Cookie settings" link at the foot of every page of a website that offers optional analytics. If you withdraw consent, the analytics stop loading from then on; you can also delete cookies already set, in your browser settings.
- GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a decision to decline: optional analytics do not load, and we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information (which we do not do in any case).
- DO NOT TRACK. There is no common standard for responding to "Do Not Track" signals, so our websites and applications do not change their behavior when they receive one. We honor Global Privacy Control as described above.
- YOUR BROWSER. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies and site data. Blocking strictly necessary cookies in the applications will stop you from staying signed in. Blocking optional analytics has no effect on your use of our websites or applications.
- GOOGLE'S OPT-OUT. You can also stop Google Analytics on every website you visit with Google's browser opt-out add-on.
6. WEBSITES OUR CUSTOMERS PUBLISH WITH OUR PLATFORM
Our platform places no cookies of its own on Customer Sites. Page views are counted on our server as totals, without a cookie and without recording the visitor's IP address with the count. What the platform does place:
- a short privacy notice; if a visitor dismisses it, that choice is remembered in the visitor's own browser storage, not in a cookie;
- where the business serves international visitors and turns on a consent banner, the visitor's choice is remembered the same way, and any analytics the business has added wait for the visitor to accept;
- on contact forms, Cloudflare's bot check, which may use cookies or similar technologies needed for that check; and
- web fonts from Google Fonts, so the visitor's browser contacts Google, which receives the visitor's IP address.
A business may add its own tools to its site, such as its own Google Analytics measurement ID, a video, a booking calendar, a map or other web fonts. The visitor's browser then contacts that company directly, and that company may set its own cookies. Those tools are the business's choice, and the business's own privacy and cookie notices cover them.
7. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If what we use changes (for example, a new analytics tool), we will update this page and its "Last updated" date before the change takes effect, and, where your consent is needed, we will ask for it again.
8. CONTACT US
1000x Digital LLC
P.O. Box 700012, Plymouth, MI 48170-9998
[email protected]