1. POLICY STATEMENT
- 1. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies, including deleting and controlling cookies, by visiting: www.allaboutcookies.org; or www.aboutcookies.org
- 2. This website and its subdomains may set cookies directly, known as first-party cookies, or may trigger cookies set by other domain names, known as third-party cookies.
- 3. In this document you will find information on what cookies are used on this site and its subdomains and how to reject or delete those cookies if you wish. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
- 4. If you wish to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
2. TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
2.1. Cookies allow Climate Impact Partners to recognize devices and track how our visitors use our websites. We use cookies that are essential for you to navigate our websites or provide you with basic website features. Data collected from some cookies helps us enhance the performance of Climateimpact.com and offer you a better user experience.
2.2. We may use the following types of cookies:
2.2.1. Necessary cookies. Our website requires the use of these cookies to properly operate or provide necessary functions relating to the services you request. They include, for example, cookies that remember your language choice, record your cookie preferences, protect the site against automated traffic, and support secure payment processing.
2.2.2. Preference cookies, where used, enable the website to remember information to customize how the website looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language or color theme.
2.2.3. Analytical cookies help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage.
2.2.4. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements. By enabling marketing cookies, you grant permission for personalized advertising across various platforms.
2.2.5. Third-party cookies. Our website may contain helpful but non-essential features or plug-ins enabling third party services that use cookies, such as social network connectors, maps, advertising networks, or web traffic analysis services. We sometimes embed media content from third-party websites, such as video content from YouTube. Embedded media of this kind will be loaded only once you have accepted marketing cookies. Once loaded, these providers may set their own cookies. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time. We do not control the third party’s use of those cookies, their duration, or their ability to share information with other third parties. Please review each party’s cookie disclosure before consenting to this use category.
2.2.6. Subdomains. Some Climate Impact Partners services are provided by third parties on subdomains of climateimpact.com (for example, our marketing automation platform on explore.climateimpact.com and our digital store on store.climateimpact.com). These services may set their own cookies, which are described in the third party’s own cookie notice and privacy policy and, where they appear on our main website, in our Cookie Declaration.
2.3. Google Analytics and Google Ads operate in Google Consent Mode. If you accept analytical or marketing cookies, these tools set cookies and collect data linked to your browser. If you decline, they set no cookies and collect no data that identifies you or your device, but they still send Google a limited, anonymous signal (such as the page visited) that Google uses to estimate aggregate website and advertising activity.
2.4. For more information about the cookies we use on this site, including how long they last, please see our Cookie Declaration. Third-party cookie expiration periods are set by their respective owners.
2.5. Our Privacy Policy describes our practices for any personal data that our first-party cookies collect, store, or use, including our legal basis for processing personal data. We rely on the following legal basis to process personal data collected through our first-party cookies: your consent, which you give through our CookieHub cookie consent manager, for all analytical, preference and marketing cookies; and our legitimate interests in operating and securing our website for cookies that are strictly necessary.
3. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
3.1. The cookies we use may process, store, or transfer personal data in and to a country outside your own, with privacy laws that provide different, possibly lower, protections. We are based in the UK, and we may transfer data to third parties and within the CIP group to jurisdictions outside the UK with appropriate safeguards in place, as are described in our Privacy Policy.
3.2. Please review each third-party cookie provider’s policy to learn more about its location.
4. YOUR COOKIE CHOICES
4.1. We use CookieHub as the means to provide consent to cookies that are enabled on the main www.climateimpact.com website. Where we have subdomains, they are generally hosted by third parties and use their own cookie consent tools. You may withdraw your consent for our cookie uses that are not strictly necessary at any time by re-engaging the consent manager tool using the cog in the bottom-right corner of your screen from any page on our website.
5. LINK SHORTENING
5.1. We use Bitly (bit.ly) to shorten links that we share in emails, social media posts and other communications. When you click a shortened link, Bitly records the click and may set cookies on the bit.ly domain before redirecting you to our website. This processing takes place on Bitly’s own domain and is governed by Bitly’s privacy policy, not by the cookie settings on our website.
6. CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE USES
6.1. We will post any changes to the way we use cookies on this page or in our Cookie Declaration.
6.2. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our cookie use notice. Where we introduce a new cookie or use an existing cookie for a materially different purpose, we will update this notice and re-present our consent manager so that you can give or refuse consent to the new use before it takes effect.
7. POLICY REVIEW
7.1. This Policy is current as at 18 September 2026. It is subject to periodic review and may be withdrawn or amended or replaced at any time.
8. CONTACT INFORMATION
8.1. Please submit any questions, comments, or requests regarding this policy, including any request for previous versions of this policy, to [email protected].
