This page explains what cookies are, which ones studycli.org uses, and how to change your choices.
Cookies are small text files that a website saves in your browser. A website can also save small pieces of information in your browser's local storage or session storage, which work in much the same way. This page covers both, and the tables below say which is which.
This website is run by the Chinese Language Institute (CLI). We use three groups of cookies. One group is always on: payments, security, remembering your cookie choices, and a few small jobs the site does for itself, such as keeping you on one version of a page we are testing. The "Always on" table below lists each one. The other two are optional: Google Analytics, which counts visits, and videos, maps and posts from other companies, such as YouTube, Google Maps and Instagram. Those companies set their own cookies when their content loads, and some use them for advertising. We show no ads of our own on this site.
If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we ask first, and the two optional groups stay off until you allow them. Anywhere else we do not ask, and they are on unless you turn them off. Either way, you can change your choice at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.
We keep your choice for one year. After that we start over: we ask again in the places named above, and elsewhere the optional groups are on again unless you turn them off.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with personal information and what rights you have. The company behind this site is The Chinese Language Institute, LLC, in the United States. Questions about cookies or your data: info@studycli.org.
Payments, security and remembering your choices, plus a few things the site does for itself: keeping you on one version of a page we are testing, noting how you reached us on this visit, and remembering which pop-ups you have seen. None of them shows you ads or follows you to other sites.
| Name | Set by | Kept for | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
cli_consent | studycli.org | 1 year | Remembers your cookie choices. |
cli_geo (local storage) | studycli.org | 1 day | Remembers the country of your connection, so we know whether to ask for your cookie choices. |
cli_xb, cli_x_hi (session storage) | studycli.org | 3 months | A random ID that keeps you on the same version of a page while we compare two versions, and lets us count which version led to more inquiries. We do not share it. |
cli_src (session storage) | studycli.org | Until you close the tab | How you reached the site on this visit (for example, a search or a link). It is saved with a form if you send us one. |
cli_popups_…, oxy-modal-…-last-shown-time (local and session storage) | studycli.org | Until you clear it | Remembers which pop-ups you have already seen or closed, so they are not shown again too often. |
cli_viewed_… (local storage) | studycli.org | Until you clear it (used for 1 hour) | Stops one reader from being counted twice in an article's view count. |
cliHeroHintsShown (session storage) | studycli.org | Until you close the tab | Remembers that the hints on a program page's video have played, so they play once. |
cliResLevel, cliResPlan, mahjongGuideTheme and similar (local storage) | studycli.org | Until you clear it | Remembers settings you choose in one of our tools or pages, such as a level filter or a color theme. |
__stripe_mid | Stripe | 1 year | Fraud prevention on our payment pages. |
__stripe_sid | Stripe | 30 minutes | Fraud prevention on our payment pages. |
m | Stripe (m.stripe.com) | Up to 2 years | Fraud prevention on our payment pages. |
__cf_bm, __cflb, hmt_id | hCaptcha (used by Stripe) | 30 minutes to 1 month | Tells people from bots on our payment pages. |
_pxvid, _px3, _pxde, pxcts | Stripe (stripecdn.com) | 5 minutes to 1 year | Tells people from bots on our payment pages. |
Turnstile (no cookie) | Cloudflare (challenges.cloudflare.com) | Nothing is kept | Checks that a person, not a bot, is sending a form. Cloudflare sees your IP address and browser details to do this. |
Optional. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland these are off until you allow them. They come from other companies, which set their own cookies when the content loads. Some of them use those cookies for advertising.
| Name | Set by | Kept for | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN, __Secure-YNID | YouTube | 6 months | Set when a YouTube video loads. YouTube uses them to play the video, count views and choose ads. |
YSC | YouTube | Until you close the browser | Set when a YouTube video loads. Counts views of the video. |
yt-remote-device-id and similar (local and session storage) | YouTube | Until you clear it | Set when a YouTube video loads. Keeps the player's settings. |
mid | 1 year | Set when an Instagram post loads in one of our articles. Instagram uses it to recognize your browser. | |
UID, XID | comScore (scorecardresearch.com), through TED | Up to 2 years | Set when a TED talk loads in one of our articles. Used to measure audiences. |
NID | Google (Maps) | 6 months | Google sets this when one of its maps or tables loads, to remember preferences and protect against abuse. |
Optional. In the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland these are off until you allow them.
| Name | Set by | Kept for | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Up to 2 years | Gives your browser a random ID, so we can count visits. |
_ga_ZXP29Q3251 | Google Analytics | Up to 2 years | Keeps the pages of one visit together. |
cli_src (local storage) | studycli.org | 90 days | Remembers how you first reached the site, so we can see which sources bring learners to us. It is saved with a form if you send us one. |
If you turn a group off, we remove our own cookies for it and reload the page. Cookies that YouTube, Instagram, Google or TED have already set stay in your browser until they expire or you clear them in your browser settings.
Some parts of our pages load from other companies' servers and set no cookies: typefaces from Google Fonts, author photos from Gravatar, and code libraries from jsDelivr and cdnjs. Like any web server, they see your IP address.
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