Cookies

This Cookie Policy explains how Antares Consultancy (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on www.antaresconsultancy.co.uk.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They help websites work correctly, remember choices and understand how visitors use them.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for the website to operate. Other cookies, including analytics and marketing cookies, are optional and are used only where permitted and, where required, after you have given consent.

2. Cookies we use

The cookies that may be used depend on how you interact with the website and the choices you make through our cookie banner.

3. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies support essential functions such as security, regional settings and recording your cookie preferences. They cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tool.

Cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
_shopify_essential	Supports essential website functions, including session security, checkout information and protection against tampering.	Shopify	1 year
_shopify_test	Checks whether the visitor’s browser supports cookies.	Shopify	1 minute
_tracking_consent	Records the visitor’s cookie and privacy choices.	Shopify	1 year
localization	Remembers the appropriate country or regional setting.	Shopify	1 year

4. Analytics cookies

With your consent, these cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the website. We use this information to improve the website and its content.

Cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
_landing_page	Records the page on which a visitor first entered the website.	Shopify	2 weeks
_orig_referrer	Records the website or source from which a visitor arrived.	Shopify	2 weeks
_shopify_analytics	Stores data used by Shopify Analytics.	Shopify	1 year
_shopify_s	Identifies a browser session for Shopify Analytics. Its expiry is refreshed during use.	Shopify	30 minutes after last use
_shopify_y	Helps Shopify Analytics distinguish visitors.	Shopify	1 year
_clck	Stores a pseudonymous Clarity visitor identifier and preferences so visits can be associated with the same browser.	Microsoft Clarity	1 year
_clsk	Groups page views into a single Clarity session.	Microsoft Clarity	1 day

Microsoft Clarity may collect information about how visitors navigate and interact with the website, such as pages viewed, clicks, scrolling and technical information about the visitor’s browser and device. Clarity uses this information to provide aggregated analytics and, if enabled, reconstructed session recordings. Information entered into sensitive form fields should be masked or excluded from recordings.

5. Microsoft cookies that may be used with marketing consent

If Microsoft’s cross-domain cookie synchronisation is enabled and you give the relevant consent, Microsoft may set the following cookies on Microsoft-controlled domains:

Cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
MUID	Identifies a browser for Microsoft advertising, analytics and operational purposes.	Microsoft	Approximately 390 days
MR	Indicates whether the Microsoft browser identifier should be refreshed.	Microsoft	7 days
ANONCHK	Records whether the Microsoft browser identifier may be transferred for advertising-related purposes.	Microsoft	10 minutes
SM	Synchronises the Microsoft browser identifier across Microsoft domains.	Microsoft	Browser session
CLID	Identifies when Microsoft Clarity first saw a browser on a website using Clarity.	Microsoft	Up to 1 year

6. Form security cookies

When you interact with a protected contact form, Shopify may load hCaptcha to distinguish genuine visitors from automated submissions. hCaptcha may use the following strictly necessary cookies on its domains:

Cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
hmt_id	Supports anonymous service statistics, technical operation and accessibility support.	hCaptcha	Up to 30 days
INGRESSCOOKIE, session, sessionid	Support load balancing, routing and operation of the verification service.	hCaptcha	Session or up to 30 days
__cf_bm	Supports security and bot detection.	hCaptcha/Cloudflare	Up to 1 day
hc_accessibility	Enables hCaptcha’s accessibility option when requested by the visitor.	hCaptcha	Up to 30 days

7. Third-party services

The relevant third parties are:

Shopify International Limited and its affiliates, which host and operate the website and provide analytics and consent-management functionality.

Shopify Cookie Policy (opens in a new tab)

Consumer Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab)
Microsoft, which provides Microsoft Clarity analytics.

Microsoft Privacy Statement (opens in a new tab)

Clarity cookie information (opens in a new tab)
Intuition Machines, which provides hCaptcha for form security and bot prevention.

hCaptcha Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab)

The website also contains links to external websites, including LinkedIn. Simply displaying an ordinary link does not place that third party’s cookies through our website, but the third party may use cookies after you follow the link and visit its service.

8. Managing your preferences

You can accept, reject or customise optional cookies through the cookie banner. You can change your decision at any time by selecting Cookie preferences in the footer of the website.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, service providers or use of cookies changes. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.

10. Contact us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use personal information, contact:

Email: hello@antaresconsultancy.co.uk

For more information about how we process personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.