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TEMPLATE cookies policy. Confirm the cookie list matches what your build actually sets, and review before launch.
About this policy
This is the cookies policy for jfkairport-info.com, in force from the date in the footer above. It sits alongside the privacy policy, which covers the wider data picture, and the legal notice, which covers the rest of the terms. All three are linked from the footer of every page.
What cookies the site sets
Four cookies, from two sources, plus a clear statement of what is not here.
Google Analytics: two first-party cookies
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are used. It is configured for measurement only: Google's advertising features and cross-site signals are switched off, so it sets no advertising cookies. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store your IP address either, which is a property of the product rather than a setting this site chose: the address is used briefly to derive a coarse, city-level location and then discarded. It does set two first-party analytics cookies:
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Tells one visitor from another using a randomly generated ID, so a return visit is not counted as a new one. Holds no name or personal detail. | About 2 years |
_ga_<id> | Google Analytics 4 | Holds session state for GA4. The <id> is the site's own measurement stream identifier. First-party. | About 2 years |
Cloudflare: two strictly-necessary cookies
The site is served through Cloudflare, so every request passes through its security layer, which sets a small number of strictly-necessary cookies to keep the site safe from automated abuse:
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm | Cloudflare | Bot management. Holds a one-way encrypted bot score for the current session. Site-specific and not used to track you between sites. | About 30 minutes from your last request |
cf_clearance | Cloudflare | Challenge passage. Set only if Cloudflare has issued a challenge to your browser, for example after an unusual request pattern, and you have passed it. | Up to 30 minutes, conditional |
Both Cloudflare cookies are first-party, encrypted, and carry no profiling or marketing data. The __cf_bm cookie is the only one most visitors will see; cf_clearance appears only if a challenge has been issued.
Advertising and social trackers: none
The site sets no advertising cookies and embeds no third-party trackers. There is no Google Ads or DoubleClick tag, no Facebook Pixel, no X (Twitter), LinkedIn, TikTok or Pinterest tracking, no marketing-automation tag, and no social-share widget or embedded video player that loads a tracking script. If an embed is ever added that changes this, the policy is updated in the same change.
Consent and how US law treats cookies
There is no cookie banner on this site, and US law does not require one. The consent pop-up you meet on European sites comes from an EU and UK rule that has no direct American equivalent. No US state statute requires a site to obtain opt-in consent before setting a cookie.
What US state privacy law does instead is treat the data a cookie carries as personal information, and regulate what may be done with it. Under California's law, identifiers of this kind count as personal information, and the obligations that follow are about disclosure, about honoring an opt-out of sale or sharing, and about not deceiving you. This page is the disclosure. The site sells and shares nothing, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front, and the analytics opt-out below is offered because it is the right thing to give a reader rather than because a statute compels it.
Applied to the specific cookies: the Cloudflare __cf_bm and cf_clearance cookies are strictly necessary, because the site cannot be served safely without bot protection at the network layer. The Google Analytics _ga cookies are not necessary, which is exactly why the switch below turns them off, and why turning them off changes nothing about how the site works for you.
If you are reading from the EU or the UK, the site's footprint is the same as it is for everyone: first-party aggregate measurement with advertising features off, no IP address stored by GA4, and no advertising or social trackers of any kind. The opt-out below works wherever you are.
How to control cookies
The switch on this page
The quickest route is the switch below. It covers this site only, takes effect at once without reloading the page, and is remembered in this browser so it holds on later visits. It works by setting Google Analytics' own documented off switch, so from the moment you turn it on nothing is sent.
The switch needs JavaScript, and it is per browser: if you use another browser or device, or clear your site data, set it again there. The browser-level controls below work regardless.
Browser-level controls
There are two further ways to switch off the analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on stops Google Analytics on every site you visit. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser removes the _ga cookies and stops GA4 recognizing a return visit; many browsers and privacy extensions also block analytics scripts outright. Either way, the site itself loads and works exactly the same.
Blocking the Cloudflare cookies is possible too, but they are there to serve the site safely, so the main effect is that you may see a Cloudflare verification step on some visits before the page loads. The major browsers publish their own cookie controls:
- Google Chrome cookie controls
- Apple Safari cookie controls
- Mozilla Firefox cookie controls
- Microsoft Edge cookie controls
For a question about any cookie described here, use the route on the contact page.
Changes to this policy
The date at the foot of this page is the effective date of the current version. The policy is updated whenever the cookies the site actually sets change, or whenever the US legal position moves. State privacy statutes are still being passed and amended, so this page tracks them alongside the privacy policy.