Last Modified: September 3rd, 2025
This Cookie Notice applies for cookies and other similar technologies which may be placed when you visit different pages on www.trafficjunky.com (the “Website”) which is operated by Aylo Freesites Ltd (hereinafter “we” or “us”). In this Cookie Notice we explain what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage them.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that, when browsing a website, will ask your browser to collect and store on your computer or internet-compatible end user devices for example, smartphones and tablets (collectively “Computer”) in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference, online activity, or login credentials (collectively “cookies”).
First and Third-Party Cookies. The cookies set by us are called first party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different than our Website. Both types of cookies are text files made up of bits of information that websites use to collect your user data. First-party cookies are mostly used to improve your user experience by remembering user preferences and settings, also used to store information, such as usernames, passwords, and language preferences. Third-party cookies track your browsing history and activities so that we can show you targeted or personalized ads and marketing related to our content, products, and services.
Session and Persistent Cookies. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you quit your browser. A persistent cookie will be saved on your Computer until it expires, or until you delete your cookies. Each cookie has a different expiration date; some may expire after a few minutes while others after some years.
What are Local Storage Objects?
Local storage enables our Website to store information locally on your device. Local storage can be used to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the state or settings of a site or an app. Local storage may be used to improve your experience with our Website for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences, and improving our Website’s functionality.
The main difference between Cookies and Local storage is how they function, cookies are sent to the webserver with your requests while Local storage can only be read by your browser.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to make our Website work or to track what you've done on the Website so we can understand what you like in order to provide an enjoyable, customised experience. We also use cookies to help us develop and deliver better content, products and services tailored to your interests. Please note that some cookies are applicable only for logged-in users.
Essential Cookies
These are cookies necessary for the functioning of the Website and cannot be switched off in our systems as they enable core website functionality They are used to carry out the transmission of a communication (e.g. Load balancing cookies), provide you with the requested services or are set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms (UI customization cookies).
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Cookie Domain |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Cookies used |
Duration |
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google-analytics.com |
GA_OPT_OUT |
Used to store the user’s decision to opt out of Google Analytics tracking. |
3rd Party |
Used to store the user’s decision to opt out of Google Analytics tracking. |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
cookieConsent |
Stores user's cookie consent selection. |
1st Party |
Session |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
laravel_session |
Used for storing the user's active session (Tour area). |
1st Party |
1 hour |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
trafficjunky_session |
Used for storing the user's active session (Member area). |
1st Party |
1 hour |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
XSRF-TOKEN |
Security cookie; Used for preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
1st Party |
1 hour |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
cookieConsentMeta |
Stores user's cookie consent details for logged in members. |
1st Party |
1 year |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
ageGateShown |
Stores user's legal age confirmation. |
1st Party |
Session |
|
www.google.com |
AEC |
Google ReCaptcha |
3rd Party |
6 months |
|
www.google.com |
_GRECAPTCHA |
Google ReCaptcha |
3rd Party |
6 months |
Functional Cookies
These cookies are set to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance. These cookies help us personalize and enhance your online experience on the Website. This type of cookies also allows us to recognize you when you return to the Website and to remember your choices.
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Cookie Domain |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Cookies used |
Duration |
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doubleclick.net, google.com |
pm_sess |
This cookie is used for security and functionality purposes across Google's advertising products including Campaign Manager, Display & Video 360, Google Ads, and Search Ads 360. It maintains session information and helps authenticate users during their interaction with these platforms. The cookie has a short lifespan of 30 minutes, ensuring temporary session management and enhanced security during active use of Google's advertising services. |
3rd Party |
30 minutes |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
collapseMenu |
Used for storing the Member area collapsible menu preferences. |
1st Party |
1 year |
|
www.trafficjunky.com |
url_intended |
Used to store the URL of the page where the user will land after logging in. |
1st Party |
Session |
Targeting/Advertising cookies
These cookies enable us to make the Website more relevant to your interests and to help us serve ads that might be of interest to you. The Website and our advertising partners set these cookies to provide behavioural advertising and define the number of ads that will be displayed to you. Collected data can be any type of browsing information necessary to understand your browsing habits.
If you choose to disable this type of cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they will be less relevant and will not be tailored to your interests.
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Cookie Domain |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Cookies used |
Duration |
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doubleclick.net |
test_cookie |
Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
3rd Party |
15 minutes |
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google.com |
NID |
A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. |
3rd Party |
6 months |
|
doubleclick.net |
DSID |
Used by Google Ads to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalization. |
3rd Party |
2 weeks |
|
google.com |
__gads |
Google advertising cookie set on the website's domain (unlike the other Google advertising cookies that are set on doubleclick.net domain). According to Google the cookie "serves purposes such as measuring interactions with the ads on that domain and preventing the same ads from being shown to you too many times". |
3rd Party |
13 months |
|
doubleclick.net |
IDE |
Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. |
3rd Party |
13 months |
|
doubleclick.net |
RUL |
Used by Google DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed — often used for remarketing and measuring ad effectiveness. |
3rd Party |
12 months |
|
google.com |
FPGCLAW |
Stores click ID from Google Ads |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
FPGCLGB |
Stores click ID from Google Ads |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
_gcl_gb |
Stores campaign information for Google Ads |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
_gac_gb_<wpid> |
Contains campaign-related information for Google Ads campaigns. |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
_gcl_aw |
Used by Google Ads to store click information for conversion tracking. |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
GCL_AW_P |
Used by Google Ads to store click information for conversion tracking. |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
_gcl_gs |
Stores Google Click Identifier (GCLID) from Ad campaigns. |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
_gcl_ag |
Google Ads: campaign-specific cookie |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
google.com |
Conversion |
Used by Google Ads to track conversions |
3rd Party |
90 days |
|
youtube.com |
YSC |
This cookie is set by YouTube video service on pages with YouTube embedded videos to track views.The YSC cookie is used by YouTube to track views of embedded videos and user interactions with those videos. It helps YouTube collect statistics about the video behavior of the user, such as how long a video is watched or whether it is paused. |
3rd Party |
Session |
|
youtube.com |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Set by YouTube and used for various purposes, including analytical and advertising.This cookie is used to estimate a user's bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. It also helps YouTube detect and resolve problems with the video service and may be used to show more relevant ads or content based on user interaction. |
3rd Party |
180 days |
|
youtube.com |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k |
Is primarily used for tracking the behavior of users interacting with YouTube videos embedded on websites. |
3rd Party |
180 days |
|
youtube.com |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default |
Is primarily used for tracking the behavior of users interacting with YouTube videos embedded on websites. |
3rd Party |
180 days |
|
google.com |
pm_sess_NNN |
Associated with Google accounts for session management. Often used in consent or ad delivery contexts. |
3rd Party |
30 minutes |
|
google.com |
aboutads_sessNNN |
Tied to ad personalization or tracking opt-out statuses under the Digital Advertising Alliance. |
3rd Party |
30 minutes |
| google.com | FPAU | Identifies a user across Google Ads-linked sites. | 3rd Party | 90 days |
| google.com | ar_debug | Enable/disable attribution report debugging. Attribution reporting is a Google Privacy Sandbox feature to measure conversions without third-party cookies. | 3rd Party | 90 days |
| google.com | _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data. | 3rd Party | 90 days |
| google.com | FPLC | Used to track click-through behavior for ads across domains | 3rd Party | 20 hours |
| reddit.com | _rdt_uuid | This cookie is set by Reddit to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads. | 3rd Party | 90 days |
Analytics cookies
These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and explore the Website, for example they allow us to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions, and paths a user takes through the Website to improve the performance of our Website. This is known as ‘digital analytics,’ where this information allows us to know what content on our Website is the most and least popular. Additionally, we use third party session recording technologies that help us better understand our users’ experience, however, the recording data is pseudonymized.
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Cookie Domain |
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Cookies used |
Duration |
| google.com | __eoi | Used for security purposes by AdSense, AdSense for Search, Display & Video 360, Google Ad Manager, Google Ads | 3rd Party | 6 months |
| google.com | _ga | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 3rd Party | 13 months |
| google.com | _gid | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _gat[_<customname>] | To read and filter requests from bots. | 3rd Party | 1 minute |
| google.com | __utma | This is a persistent cookie which expires in 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It is used to track first visit, last visit, current visit, and number of visits to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | 3rd Party | 13 months |
| google.com | __utmb | Used to determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie contains the timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the website and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30-minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | 3rd Party | 30 minutes |
| google.com | __utmc | Contains a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the website. This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser to calculate how long a visit takes. | 3rd Party | Session |
| google.com | __utmt | Used to throttle the request rate for the service (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) | 3rd Party | 10 minutes |
| google.com | __utmz | This cookie keeps track of entry point into your website storing traffic source, medium, campaign, and search term used to land on your website - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 3rd Party | 6 months |
| google.com | __utmv | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to store user-defined custom variable data. It is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a custom variable. This cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics and has a standard expiration of 2 years from set/update. | 3rd Party | 13 months |
| google.com | AMP_TOKEN | Google Analytics. Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 3rd Party | 1 year |
| google.com | FPID | This cookie is used for storing the Client ID in the request to Google’s servers. | 3rd party | 13 months |
| google.com | _ga_<wpid> | Used to persist session state across pageviews for a specific property | 3rd Party | 13 months |
| google.com | _dc_gtm_<property-id> | Used to load other scripts and tags (e.g., Google Analytics, marketing pixels) efficiently and in sync with data layer events. | 3rd Party | 1 minute |
| google.com | _gaexp | Used to store ID's of experiments and sessions for A/B testing. | 3rd Party | 93 days |
| google.com | _gaexp_rc | Used to manage and store experiment (A/B test) data, such as which variation a user is exposed to. | 3rd Party | 10 seconds |
| google.com | _opt_awcid | Used to store Google Ads Customer ID (AWCID) for linking Optimize experiments to Google Ads campaigns. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _opt_awmid | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _opt_awgid | This cookie is used by Google Analytics and Google Optimize to store information about visitor interactions and help identify unique users during a session. It assists in A/B testing and website optimization experiments by tracking user behavior and preferences. The cookie expires after 24 hours, ensuring data collection is limited to a single browsing session. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _opt_awkid | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _opt_utmc | This cookie works in conjunction with Google Analytics and Google Optimize to determine new sessions and visits on a website. It stores information about the visitor's browsing session and helps measure the effectiveness of website optimization experiments. The cookie is session-based and expires after 24 hours, allowing for accurate tracking of user engagement within a single day. | 3rd Party | 24 hours |
| google.com | _gac_<wpid> | Stores campaign information to link with Google Ads when using Google Analytics | 3rd Party | 90 days |
Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies originate from a domain different to the Website. For example, when you visit the Website, some content or applications, including advertisements, may link to a third-party website.
These third parties may set cookies on your computer to collect information about you, such as your IP address or location, when you click to view, access, or use any of their features on the Website. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not share any personal information with these third parties or control how these third parties use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them. You can set your browser to refuse all third-party cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Our systems do not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals.
We also use Reddit to create and manage advertising campaigns on Reddit. You may refer to the Reddit Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time, by following the link: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
Google Analytics
We use Google as a service provider to collect and analyse information about how users use the Website, including by collecting website activity data through first-party cookies set by our domains, and third-party cookies set by Google. Because we activated IP anonymization for Google Analytics, Google will anonymize the last octet of a particular IP address and will not store your full IP address. Google will use the information only to provide Google Analytics services to us and will not use this information for other purposes. In addition, Pornhub uses Google Signals, which are also services provided by Google that help us to run remarketing campaigns, collect more accurate data, and understand in a better way how users engage with Pornhub on different devices (cross-device activity). Google Signals apply to Google users who accept personalized advertising on their Google accounts.
You can learn more on how Google uses data here. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page or by accepting only essential cookies.
To view an overview of your Google Analytics cookie please go here:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
