Last updated: June 29, 2026
This Cookies Policy explains how Bright Security Inc. and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and related entities, as applicable, (“Bright Security”, “Bright”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) use cookies and similar technologies on our website at https://brightsec.com and related Bright Security web properties where this policy is posted.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information more broadly.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device, remember user preferences, support website functionality, improve security, measure site performance, and understand how visitors interact with website content.
Some cookies are set directly by Bright Security. These are called first-party cookies. Other cookies may be set by third-party providers whose technologies we use on our website. These are called third-party cookies.
Cookies can remain on your browser or device for different periods of time:
Session cookies – These are temporary cookies that are deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies – These remain on your browser or device for a defined period of time, or until you delete them.
2. What are similar technologies?
Cookies are not the only technologies that websites use. We may also use similar technologies such as tags, pixels, scripts, local storage, software development tools, browser storage, and related browser or network technologies.
These technologies may help us operate the website, remember preferences, understand website usage, measure engagement, protect the website from abuse, or, where consent is provided, support analytics and marketing activities.
Some similar technologies do not always create a browser cookie. For example, a tag or pixel may send a request to a third-party provider without placing a cookie in your browser. For transparency, this policy includes both a cookie table and a separate section describing similar technologies, tags, and pixels that may be used on our website.
3. How we use cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Necessary purposes – To operate the website, support security, prevent abuse, remember consent choices, and provide core website functionality.
Functional purposes – To remember preferences and support features such as language selection or form-related functionality.
Analytics purposes – To understand how visitors use our website, measure page views and engagement, identify errors, evaluate website performance, and improve our content and user experience.
Marketing purposes – Where consent is provided, to measure marketing campaigns, understand attribution, and evaluate the performance of advertising or promotional activity.
4. Consent and your choices
Some cookies and similar technologies are strictly necessary for the website to function, support security, prevent abuse, or remember your consent preferences. These are always active.
Optional cookies and similar technologies, including analytics and marketing technologies, are used only where the relevant consent has been provided through our cookie banner or preference center.
You can:
Accept all optional cookies – This allows optional analytics, functional, and marketing technologies according to the categories shown in the preference center.
Reject all optional cookies – This blocks optional analytics, functional, and marketing technologies.
Customize preferences – This allows you to choose which optional categories you want to allow.
You can change your preferences at any time by reopening the cookie preference center through the cookie settings link or banner controls available on the website.
U.S. residents may also use the Reject All button or the preference controls to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, and related marketing uses where applicable.
Where a browser or device sends a recognized Global Privacy Control or similar opt-out preference signal, we will process that signal as required by applicable law.
5. Types of cookies we use
The cookies used on our website may include the following categories.
5.1 Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of the website, such as security, bot protection, abuse prevention, and remembering consent preferences. These cookies do not require consent and are always active.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | Set by Cloudflare to support Cloudflare Bot Management and help protect the website from automated or malicious traffic. |
| cookieyes-consent | Up to 1 year | Used by CookieYes to remember the user’s cookie consent preferences and prevent the banner from repeatedly asking for the same choice. |
5.2 Functional cookies
Functional cookies help support website features and user preferences. These cookies are optional unless they are strictly required for the website to provide a requested function.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _wpfuuid | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Used by the WPForms WordPress plugin to support form-related functionality, including connecting entries by the same user and supporting certain form features such as form abandonment where enabled. |
| language | 1 year | Used to store the user’s language preference. |
5.3 Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies may provide information about page views, traffic sources, engagement, browser types, and website performance. Analytics cookies are optional and are used only where analytics consent is provided.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Set by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data and to help track site usage for analytics reporting. The cookie stores information using a randomly generated identifier. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Set by Google Analytics to store and count page views. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 1 year | Set by Segment to count visitors and determine whether a visitor has visited before. |
| ajs_user_id | Never expires | Set by Segment to help track visitor usage, events, marketing attribution where applicable, and website performance and stability. |
| __tld__ | Session | Used by Segment to detect the site’s top-level domain, enabling analytics and attribution across subdomains and helping prevent duplicate tracking. |
5.4 Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to measure campaign performance, support attribution, and understand whether marketing activity leads to website engagement or conversions. Marketing cookies are optional and are used only where marketing consent is provided.
At the time of this policy update, the CookieYes cookie scan may not show persistent marketing cookies in this category. However, marketing tags or pixels may still operate after marketing consent is provided. These technologies are described in the “Similar technologies, tags, and pixels” section below.
If additional marketing cookies are detected in future scans, this policy and the cookie table may be updated accordingly.
6. Similar technologies, tags, and pixels
In addition to cookies, we may use tags, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies. These technologies may not always create cookies, but they may send limited technical, usage, or event information to the relevant provider after consent is granted.
The following technologies may be used on our website depending on the user’s consent choices and our current configuration.
| Provider / technology | Category | Purpose |
| Google Tag Manager | Necessary / tag management | Used to manage website tags and consent-controlled scripts. Google Tag Manager is used as a tag delivery and management tool. It does not itself determine user consent. |
| CookieYes | Necessary / consent management | Used to display the cookie banner, manage user consent choices, store consent preferences, and help control when optional tags may run. |
| Cloudflare Bot Management | Necessary / security | Used to protect the website from bots, abuse, malicious traffic, and automated threats. |
| WPForms | Functional | Used to support website forms and form-related functionality. Certain form features may use cookies or scripts to remember form state or support form submissions. |
| Google Analytics | Analytics | Used to understand website traffic, page views, engagement, and site performance after analytics consent is granted. |
| Segment | Analytics | Used to support analytics, attribution, and measurement across Bright Security web properties after analytics consent is granted. |
| Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Used to understand website interaction, user experience, and site performance after analytics consent is granted. |
| Google Ads / Google Conversion Linker / GCLID-related technologies | Marketing | Used for advertising attribution, conversion measurement, and campaign performance measurement after marketing consent is granted. |
| LinkedIn Insight Tag | Marketing | Used for campaign attribution and marketing measurement after marketing consent is granted. |
| Outbrain Pixel | Marketing | Used for campaign attribution and marketing measurement after marketing consent is granted. |
| Freshworks / Freshsales-related technologies | Functional / marketing, depending on use | May be used to support website engagement, sales operations, or related website functionality where enabled and subject to the relevant consent category. |
7. How consent controls these technologies
We use a consent management platform and Google Tag Manager to control when optional tags and similar technologies may run.
For new visitors, optional analytics and marketing technologies are not intended to run before the user makes a consent choice. If a user rejects optional cookies, optional analytics and marketing technologies are blocked. If a user accepts all optional cookies, optional analytics and marketing technologies may run according to the user’s selection.
For returning visitors, the website may apply the consent preference previously stored in the user’s browser. Users can change their preferences at any time through the cookie preference center.
8. Third-party providers
Some cookies and similar technologies are provided by third parties. These third parties may process information according to their own privacy notices, terms, and technical controls.
Third-party providers used on or in connection with our website may include, depending on the current configuration and consent choices:
Cloudflare – Website security, bot protection, and abuse prevention.
CookieYes – Consent management.
Google – Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads, conversion measurement, and related services.
Segment – Analytics and attribution.
Microsoft – Microsoft Clarity analytics.
LinkedIn – Marketing and campaign attribution.
Outbrain – Marketing and campaign attribution.
WPForms – Website form functionality.
Freshworks / Freshsales – Website engagement, sales operations, or related functionality where enabled.
We may update the list of third-party providers as our website, tools, and service providers change.
9. How to control or delete cookies
You can control cookies in several ways.
Cookie preference center – You can use our cookie banner or preference center to accept, reject, or customize optional cookie categories.
Browser settings – Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or manage cookies through browser settings. The exact steps depend on your browser.
Browser-based opt-out preference signals – Our website uses a consent-first model in which optional analytics and marketing technologies are disabled by default and are used only if the user provides consent through our cookie banner or preference center. At this time, our cookie banner does not separately process Global Privacy Control or similar browser-based opt-out preference signals. Users can reject optional cookies and similar technologies directly through the Reject All button or preference center.
Please note that blocking or deleting necessary cookies may affect website functionality, security, or the ability to remember your consent choices.
10. Browser-level controls
You can usually manage cookies through your browser’s privacy or security settings. These settings may allow you to delete existing cookies, block third-party cookies, block all cookies, or receive warnings before cookies are stored.
For more information about managing cookies and privacy settings in common browsers, you may visit:
Google Chrome – Delete, allow, and manage cookies in Chrome
Mozilla Firefox – Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox
Apple Safari – Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac
Microsoft Edge – Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge
Browser-level controls may not have the same effect as the cookie preference center because some similar technologies do not rely solely on browser cookies. For the most accurate website-specific preference, use our cookie preference center.
11. Third-party websites
Our website may include links to third-party websites, platforms, resources, or services. Those third-party websites may use their own cookies or similar technologies. We do not control the cookies or technologies used by third-party websites once you leave our website.
If you interact with third-party content, social media platforms, embedded content, job application systems, documentation sites, payment providers, or other external services, their own privacy and cookie practices may apply.
12. Cookies set in the past
If you change your cookie preferences or reject optional cookies, we will stop using disabled optional cookies and similar technologies for future collection according to your updated preference.
However, cookies or information collected before your preference was changed may remain in your browser until deleted or until they expire. You can delete existing cookies through your browser settings. Where applicable, we will process your updated preference going forward.
13. Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technologies, service providers, legal requirements, or business practices.
When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes may also be communicated through the website, cookie banner, or other appropriate means.
14. Contact us
If you have questions about this Cookies Policy, our use of cookies or similar technologies, or privacy matters generally, you may contact us at:
Bright Security Inc.
Website: https://brightsec.com
Email: privacy@brightsec.com
You may also review our Privacy Policy for more information about how Bright Security processes personal information.
