# Cookie Policy

> URL: https://www.atlantic.net/cookie-policy/ | Updated: 2026-09-16

**Last Updated:** September 12, 2026

Atlantic.Net, Inc. (“Atlantic.Net,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on atlantic.net and related Atlantic.Net web properties to operate our website, protect our services, improve performance, support analytics, and provide relevant communications.

## Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit our website, interact with our services, use customer-facing tools, or access related online resources.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, AI Policy, and other applicable Atlantic.Net service policies.

## 1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your computer, browser, mobile device, or other internet-connected device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help a website remember information about your visit, such as your preferred settings, session status, consent choices, and how you interacted with pages or services.

For purposes of this Cookie Policy, “cookies” also includes similar technologies, such as tracking pixels, web beacons, tags, local storage, session storage, and similar online identifiers.

Cookies may be set directly by Atlantic.Net or by third-party service providers that support website functionality, analytics, advertising, security, communications, or embedded content.

## 2. Why We Use Cookies

Atlantic.Net may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

- To operate and secure our website and online services.
- To remember user preferences and cookie consent choices.
- To support account login, customer portal functionality, and session management.
- To monitor website performance and improve the user experience.
- To analyze website traffic and understand how visitors use our content.
- To help detect fraud, abuse, suspicious traffic, and malicious activity.
- To support customer support tools, contact forms, and communication features.
- To measure marketing performance and improve campaign relevance.
- To support embedded content, such as videos, forms, chat tools, or third-party integrations.
- To comply with legal, regulatory, security, and operational obligations.

**Security note:** As a cloud infrastructure and hosting provider, Atlantic.Net may also use certain security and operational technologies to help protect our website, network, customer portals, and related infrastructure from unauthorized access, abuse, malicious automation, and other security threats.

## 3. Types of Cookies We Use

Atlantic.Net may use the following categories of cookies, depending on your location, consent choices, browser settings, and the services or pages you access.

### Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website and services to function properly. These cookies may be used for security, fraud prevention, consent management, load balancing, session management, account access, and basic website functionality.

These cookies generally cannot be disabled through our cookie consent tool because they are required to provide the website or services requested by the user.

Examples may include cookies used for website security, login authentication, customer portal sessions, cookie consent storage, network traffic routing, abuse prevention, and form submission protection.

### Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help provide enhanced website features and remember choices you make.

These cookies may support language or region preferences, display preferences, form-related preferences, chat or support settings, accessibility preferences, and previously selected website options.

If functional cookies are disabled, certain website features may not work as intended.

### Analytics and Statistics Cookies

Analytics and statistics cookies help Atlantic.Net understand how visitors interact with our website and content.

These cookies may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, referring websites, approximate geographic region, browser and device information, website performance data, and error or diagnostic information.

Atlantic.Net may use analytics tools to improve website performance, usability, accessibility, content quality, and service information.

Where required by law, analytics or statistics cookies will only be used after consent is provided.

### Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing and advertising cookies may be used to measure advertising performance, support remarketing, improve campaign relevance, and understand the effectiveness of Atlantic.Net marketing efforts.

These cookies may be set by Atlantic.Net or third-party advertising and marketing platforms.

Marketing cookies may track browsing activity across websites and over time. Where required by law, these cookies will only be used after consent is provided.

### Embedded Content and Third-Party Cookies

Some pages may include embedded content or third-party integrations, such as videos, maps, forms, social media features, analytics tools, chat systems, advertising platforms, or support tools.

These third parties may place their own cookies or similar technologies. Their use of cookies is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

## 4. Cookies Placed on This Website

Atlantic.Net manages cookie consent, regional consent settings, and cookie-policy disclosures with its own consent tool, built into this website.

The cookie list below is generated from this website’s own configuration rather than from a scan, so it reflects what the site is actually set up to use and changes whenever an integration is switched on or off.

Where enabled, the following third-party services may also set cookies through our tag manager: Google (Analytics and Ads), Microsoft Advertising (Bing), HubSpot, Hotjar, Improvely, Simpli.fi, and OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads). Embedded media such as YouTube and Wistia may set cookies when you play a video. Each service is governed by its own privacy and cookie policy.

### Strictly necessary

| Cookie | Set by | Retention | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `anet_consent` | Atlantic.Net (first party) | 180 days | Stores your cookie consent choices so we do not ask again on every page, and so consent-gated scripts know whether they may run. |

### Marketing and advertising

| Cookie | Set by | Retention | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `hubspotutk` | HubSpot | 6 months | Identifies a returning visitor to HubSpot so a form submission can be matched to earlier visits. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__hstc` | HubSpot | 6 months | Records the visit that brought you to the site, for campaign measurement. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__hssc` | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Tracks the current session so repeat page views are not double counted. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__hssrc` | HubSpot | Session | Detects whether the visitor restarted their browser, to keep session counts accurate. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__oppref` | OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads) | 1 year | Remembers which ChatGPT ad you arrived from, so a later enquiry can be credited to that ad. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__obref` | OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads) | 1 year | An opaque reference to this browser, used to match a conversion to the visit that led to it. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__oaiq_consent` | OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads) | 1 year | Records whether ad measurement is permitted, so the pixel stays silent when you decline. Set only after marketing consent. |
| `__oaiq_domain_probe` | OpenAI (ChatGPT Ads) | 60 seconds | A momentary check of which domain the pixel may write cookies on. Set only after marketing consent. |

### Embedded third-party content (loads only when you click)

| Cookie | Set by | Retention | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `_calendly_session` | Calendly | Session | Keeps your place in the booking calendar while you pick a time. Set only after you load the calendar on the contact page. |
| `__cf_bm` | Cloudflare, on behalf of Calendly | 30 minutes | Bot protection for the Calendly booking service. Set only after you load the calendar. |
| `__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid` | Stripe, on behalf of Calendly | 1 year, 30 minutes | Fraud prevention for Calendly's payment platform, loaded by the calendar even though our bookings are free. Set only after you load the calendar. |
| `NID` | Google (docs.google.com) | 6 months | Set inside the Google Slides presentation frame on the sales demo page, only after you load the presentation. |

## 5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie banner or preference center available on our website.

Where applicable, you may choose whether to accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookies by category.

You can review or update your consent settings at any time using the consent management tool below.

You may also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow users to block cookies, delete cookies, restrict third-party cookies, or receive alerts before cookies are placed.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality, login access, customer portal features, support tools, form submissions, security protections, and user experience.

## 6. Consent by Region

Cookie and privacy requirements may vary depending on where you are located.

Atlantic.Net’s consent tool supports region-based consent handling, including jurisdictions where consent may be required before non-essential cookies are placed.

Depending on your location, the cookie banner or preference center may provide different options, disclosures, or consent settings.

## 7. Do Not Track and Browser Signals

Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” or similar signals.

Because there is not a single uniform legal or technical standard for responding to these signals, Atlantic.Net may not respond to all browser-based tracking signals in the same manner.

Where required by applicable law or supported by the website’s consent management configuration, Atlantic.Net may honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals through supported consent tools or browser mechanisms.

## 8. Security and Infrastructure Monitoring

Atlantic.Net may use necessary cookies, logs, and similar technologies to support security, service reliability, infrastructure monitoring, and abuse prevention.

These technologies may help us detect malicious traffic or suspicious activity, prevent unauthorized access, maintain website availability, protect customer-facing systems, investigate security incidents, and support compliance and operational obligations.

These activities are important to the secure operation of Atlantic.Net’s website, hosting services, and infrastructure-related platforms.

## 9. Relationship to the Privacy Policy

Information collected through cookies may be considered personal information under certain privacy laws.

For more information about how Atlantic.Net collects, uses, discloses, protects, and retains personal information, please review our Privacy Policy.

## 10. Updates to This Cookie Policy

Atlantic.Net may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, website functionality, third-party providers, analytics tools, marketing platforms, or service operations.

When this Cookie Policy is updated, the “Last Updated” date above will be revised.

Users are encouraged to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

## 11. Contact Information

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, Atlantic.Net’s use of cookies, or our privacy practices, please contact us through the contact methods provided on our website.

**Atlantic.Net, Inc.**

**Website**
 [https://www.atlantic.net](https://www.atlantic.net/)

**Support**
 [https://www.atlantic.net/support/](https://www.atlantic.net/support/)

**Contact**
 [Contact us](https://www.atlantic.net/about-us/corporate-contact/)

## 12. Related Policies

For additional information, please review the following Atlantic.Net policies and resources:

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.atlantic.net/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.atlantic.net/service-policies/)
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://www.atlantic.net/acceptable-use-policy/)
- [AI Policy](https://www.atlantic.net/ai-policy/)
- [Service Policies](https://www.atlantic.net/service-policies/)