1. What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies and browser storage are small data records used to remember information, maintain a session or measure how a service works. Some are essential; optional technologies are subject to the permissions and regional limits described below.
2. How regional rules work
In the European Union, optional analytics remains blocked until explicit acceptance and marketing remains blocked. In every other region, optional analytics and marketing are active by default and no cookie choice is requested. A stored European Union choice lasts six months, but the current region always imposes the maximum permission.
3. Current technical inventory
The inventory includes first-party cookies and storage confirmed in the repository, plus the cookies Microsoft Clarity may create only after effective permission.
| Technology | Provider | Category | Purpose | Duration / scope | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ca_cookie_consent | Continental Assist | Necessary | Stores the explicit privacy choice and policy version. | 6 months | All regions |
i18n_locale | Continental Assist | Necessary | Remembers the selected language. | Browser session | All regions |
platform_context | Continental Assist | Necessary | Maintains WebView/mobile application context. | Browser session | All regions |
cms_auth_* | Continental Assist | Necessary | Authenticates authorized CMS administrators. | Up to 8 hours | All regions |
quoting / payment sessionStorage | Continental Assist | Necessary / operational | Preserves quote, checkout, payment attempts and transactional state. | Browser tab session | All regions |
_clck | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Persists a Clarity user identifier and preferences. | Up to 1 year | According to effective consent |
_clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Connects page views into one Clarity session. | Up to 1 day | According to effective consent |
MUID, CLID and related Microsoft cookies | Microsoft | Marketing | Campaign measurement and Microsoft domain identification. | Variable, up to 1 year | According to effective consent |
4. How to reset your choice
Preferences are requested only in the European Union and cannot be reopened after they are saved. To choose again, delete the Continental Assist cookies or site data in your browser and reload the page.
5. Necessary storage and security
Disabling necessary storage may prevent authentication, quoting, billing or payment from working. These records are not used to authorize commercial tracking. Geo-IP lookup occurs on our server; the browser never receives the private IPinfo token.
6. Questions and approval
Before production, Legal must approve this text and the team must confirm the inventory through a production network audit, including tags that might be injected outside this repository.