HighOnDigital Cookie Policy
Version 2.0 · 20.10.2026
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 20.10.2026 | New wording, with the declaration of cookies by category. The main website highondigital.net is now covered by the policy, with its cookies (wp-postpass_…, elementor) and with Google Analytics and Google Ads. |
Previous versions are kept by the Controller and are available on request.
This Cookie Policy forms an integral part of the HighOnDigital Privacy Policy and describes the Trackers used on the pages of highondigital.net and its subdomains, including the main website highondigital.net, the pages of the agency's services (with the confirmation pages and the confidential pricing pages) and the pages for the selection of collaborators.
Controller: HighOnDigital di Peter Ishiodu & Veronica Motta, Via Canova 15, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland · hello [at] highondigital [dot] net.
1. What cookies and Trackers are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in the User's browser and reads again on later visits. The other Trackers perform similar functions: the browser's local storage, which remains until it is deleted; session storage, which is emptied when the tab is closed; the pixel, a script that informs a third party that a page has been opened.
Legal framework. In Switzerland, Art. 45c of the Telecommunications Act (TCA) allows the processing of data on the User's device if the User is informed about it and can refuse it; the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) also applies. For Users located in the European Union, Art. 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 apply.
2. Categories and consent
| Category | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Enable the pages to work, keep the choice on cookies and, on the selection pages, the answers being filled in. They do not track browsing | Not required: always active |
| Statistics | Measure visits and the use of the pages | Required |
| Marketing and personalisation | Together with Statistics, link visits to the data of people already in contact with the Controller, measure ads and enable remarketing: Meta and Google on the pages of the agency's services, Google on the main website | Required |
The consent banner shows three buttons of equal prominence (Accept, Refuse, Customise); with «Customise» the User chooses by category and no box is pre-ticked. The choice applies to the subdomain on which it is made: each subdomain asks separately.
Before the response. On the pages of the agency's services, until the User has responded, the tools of the Statistics and Marketing and personalisation categories are activated as in the case of acceptance, except for the transmission to Google of the hashed email of the person booking; from the moment of the response, the User's choice applies. On the main website and on the selection pages, before the response, no Trackers that recognise the User and no third-party statistics or advertising tools are used.
Anonymous measurement. On these pages, even before the response and in the event of refusal, the Controller collects anonymous daily totals on the use of the pages and, on the selection pages, on progress through the questionnaire. This measurement stores nothing in the browser, uses no codes that recognise the User and does not record the IP address (Privacy Policy, section 6.3.3).
3. Cookie declaration
Type: cookie · local storage · session storage. First party: set by highondigital.net or one of its subdomains, including when it is written by a provider's script. Pages: «All» = all pages of highondigital.net and its subdomains; «Website» = main website highondigital.net; «Services» = pages of the agency's services; «Selection» = pages for the selection of collaborators.
The durations indicated are maximums; the browser may shorten them (Safari, for example, deletes cookies created by scripts and browser storage after 7 days without a visit).
3.1 Necessary
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nx_c | HighOnDigital | Keeps the choice made in the banner (categories, text version, button, time, random identifier of the choice) | 12 months | Cookie, first party | All |
nx_i | HighOnDigital | Excludes from the statistics visits from devices of the Controller's staff; not set in visitors' browsers | Until removed from the device | Cookie, first party | All |
hod-jobs-video-v2, hod-jobs-videomaker-v1 | HighOnDigital | Keep the answers to the search questionnaire until submission. Only the step from which the questionnaire is resumed is read, for the anonymous measurement. The previous key hod-jobs-video is no longer used and may be deleted | 24 hours from the last save; deleted on submission | Local storage | Selection |
hod_session | HighOnDigital | Counts the clicks of the visit and the start time; contains no identifiers | Until the tab is closed | Session storage | Services |
hod_hero | HighOnDigital | Keeps the same version of the first section of the page during the visit | Until the tab is closed | Session storage | Services |
hod_lead_sent_* | HighOnDigital | Prevents the same booking from being counted twice if the confirmation page is reloaded; contains only the last 8 digits of the booking code | Until the tab is closed | Session storage | Services |
wp-postpass_… | HighOnDigital (WordPress) | Remembers that the User has entered the password of a protected page | 10 days | Cookie, first party | Website |
elementor | HighOnDigital (Elementor) | Counts page views and sessions to decide whether to show a notice of the website; contains no identifiers | Until deleted | Local storage | Website |
3.2 Statistics
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nx_v | HighOnDigital | Random code to count visits and link the pages viewed | Up to 180 days, with a fixed expiry | Cookie, first party | All |
nx_f | HighOnDigital | Keeps the expiry date of nx_v | As nx_v | Cookie, first party | All |
hod_vid | HighOnDigital | Random code that recognises repeat visits; transmitted to Google Analytics as an identifier; never linked to name or email | Cookie: 6 months from the last visit; local storage: until deleted or withdrawn | Cookie and local storage | Services |
hod_visits | HighOnDigital | Number of visits, date of the first and the last | As long as hod_vid exists; deleted on withdrawal | Local storage | Services |
hod_landings | HighOnDigital | The Controller's pages already visited (at most the last 20) | As above | Local storage | Services |
hod_first_touch, hod_last_touch | HighOnDigital | Campaign, channel and referring website of the first and the last visit | As above | Local storage | Services |
hod_hero | HighOnDigital | Version of the first section seen, kept between visits | Until deleted or withdrawn | Local storage | Services |
_ga | Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) | Distinguishes users | 2 years | Cookie, first party | Services, Website |
_ga_5S1YKTC1NF | Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) | Keeps the state of the visit for the Controller's property | 2 years | Cookie, first party | Services, Website |
With Statistics, on the selection pages the individual person's path through the questionnaire is also recorded (Privacy Policy, section 6.7.4); if it is linked to an application, it is deleted three months after submission (Privacy Policy, section 9). On the pages of the agency's services and on the main website, with Statistics alone, Google Ads measures conversions without advertising cookies. Google sets _ga and _ga_5S1YKTC1NF on the highondigital.net domain: visits to the main website and to the pages of the agency's services flow into the same Google Analytics property.
3.3 Marketing and personalisation
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nx_e | HighOnDigital | Keeps, for the visit, the recognition of a person arriving through a personal link contained in an email from the Controller; also requires Statistics | Until the tab is closed | Session storage | All |
nx_m_* | HighOnDigital | Remembers which personalised messages have already been shown, so as not to repeat them | Until the tab is closed | Session storage | All |
_gcl_au, _gcl_aw | Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC (Google Ads) | Link the booking to the ad of origin (_gcl_aw only if arriving from an ad) | 90 days | Cookie, first party | Services, Website |
_gcl_ls | Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC (Google Ads) | Keeps the identifier of the click on the ad | No expiry of its own | Local storage | Services, Website |
_fbp | Meta Platforms Ireland Limited / Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta Pixel) | Browser identifier for ad measurement and campaign audiences | 90 days | Cookie, first party | Services |
_fbc | Meta Platforms Ireland Limited / Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta Pixel) | Keeps the identifier of the click on a Facebook or Instagram ad | 90 days | Cookie, first party | Services |
lastExternalReferrer, lastExternalReferrerTime | Meta Platforms Ireland Limited / Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta Pixel) | Last external referring website and its time | No expiry of its own | Local storage | Services |
The Meta Pixel and Google Ads enhanced conversions are described in section 6.4 of the Privacy Policy. When their scripts are loaded, Meta and Google may also use their own cookies on their domains, described at facebook.com/policies/cookies and policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.
3.4 Tools not used
The following are not used on the Controller's pages: Calendly cookies (booking takes place on the Calendly website, reached through a link); Vercel cookies; Google or Meta tools on the selection pages; the Meta Pixel on the main website (the _fbp and _fbc cookies set by the pages of the agency's services on the highondigital.net domain may be present, but the main website neither reads nor transmits them); cookies for file uploads; device identification techniques (fingerprinting).
4. How to refuse or withdraw consent
- In the banner, on the first visit, with «Refuse» or «Customise».
- At any time, through the «Your cookie choices» link at the bottom of every page. Refusal and withdrawal delete
nx_v,nx_f,hod_vidand the related storage,_ga,_ga_*,_fbpand_fbc; from that moment the pages no longer load the Google and Meta tools and no longer transmit data, except for the anonymous measurement. What remains in the browser isnx_c, which keeps the refusal, and_gcl_au,_gcl_aw,_gcl_ls,lastExternalReferrer,lastExternalReferrerTime, which the pages no longer transmit and which the User can delete from the browser. The Google script already loaded may send a last signal, without cookies and marked as a refusal, when leaving the page. - From the browser settings, in addition to point 2: by deleting or blocking cookies. Blocking all cookies may prevent the choice from being kept.
- Providers' tools: browser add-on to opt out of Google Analytics (tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) and Meta ad preferences (facebook.com/adpreferences).
5. Recipients and transfers
Data collected with the Controller's tools is kept in its proprietary management software, with the database in Switzerland (Zurich region). Data collected with the Google and Meta tools, including the events transmitted from the Controller's server to Meta, is processed by Google and Meta in Ireland and the United States, on the basis of their certification under the Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. and EU-U.S.). Details in sections 7 and 8 of the Privacy Policy.
6. Changes
The Controller updates this Cookie Policy when it adds or removes a Tracker, indicating the version, the date and the changes in the table at the top of the document.