Last Updated: August 7, 2025
The Council of Public Relations Firms (“Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) uses cookies on the website located at https://prcouncil.net/ (collectively, the “Website”). Cookies help us distinguish you from other users of the Website, and this enables us to improve our Website and to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website. By continuing to browse the Website, you agree to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we may store on your browser or the hard drive of your device.
Cookies We Use:
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas, use a shopping cart, or make use of electronic payment services.
- Analytical/Performance cookies. These cookies allow us and our service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. They enable us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language, currency, or region).
- Marketing/Tracking cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Provider: | Cookie Name: | Cookie Type: | Purpose: |
| Google Recaptcha | rc::a | Strictly Necessary | Used to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks |
| Google Recaptcha | rc::c | Strictly Necessary | Used to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks |
| WordPress | wordpress_logged_in | Strictly Necessary | Checks whether or not the current visitor is a logged in user |
| WordPress | wordpress_test_cookie | Strictly Necessary | Checks if cookies are enabled to provide an appropriate user experience |
| WordPress | wp-settings | Strictly Necessary | Persists a user’s admin configuration |
| WordPress | wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Strictly Necessary | Checks if the user’s browser can display emojis properly |
| Stripe | __stripe_mid | Strictly Necessary | For payment processing, fraud detection, and maintaining payment session data |
| Stripe | __stripe_sid | Strictly Necessary | For payment processing, fraud detection, and maintaining payment session data |
| Cloudflare | __cf_bm | Strictly Necessary | Used to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect the website from bots |
| Cloudflare | __cfduid | Strictly Necessary | Used to manage and identify trusted web traffic |
| Cloudflare | cf_clearance | Strictly Necessary | Records and determines whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved |
| Microsoft Power BI | PBIEmbedToken | Strictly Necessary | Used to authenticate and maintain Power BI report sessions |
| Zoom | ZM_ZOOM_COOKIE | Strictly Necessary | Used to maintain Zoom meeting/webinar sessions |
| WP Engine | wpe-auth | Strictly Necessary | Used for WordPress hosting authentication |
| Gravity Forms | gform_unique_id | Strictly Necessary | Used to maintain form submission states |
| CookieYes | cookieyes-consent | Strictly Necessary | Remembers users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to the website |
| PHP | PHPSESSID | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is native to PHP applications, and stores and identifies a user’s unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website |
| Google Analytics | _ga
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Analytical/Performance | Used to distinguish visitors, and to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for analytics reports |
| Google Analytics | gat | Analytical/Performance | Used to throttle the request rate and filter requests from bots |
| Google Analytics | gid | Analytical/Performance | Used in conjunction with other Google Analytics cookies to store a unique session identifier to distinguish users within a single browsing session |
| Google Analytics | _ga_* | Analytical/Performance | Used to store and count page views |
| ActiveCampaign
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ac_enable_tracking
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Analytical/Performance
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Confirms that tracking has been enabled for the website, which is used to create reports of web traffic and to improve the user experience of the website |
| ActiveCampaign
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ac_visit_id
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Analytical/Performance | Used in conjunction with the “ac_enable_tracking” cookie to store a unique session identifier to distinguish users within a single browsing session |
| Calendly | _cfuvid | Analytical/Performance | Tracks users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
| Vimeo | vuid | Analytical/Performance | Collects tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos on the website and enhance the viewing experience |
| Lucky Orange | lo-domain-check-* | Analytical/Performance | Created temporarily to determine the top-level domain for the website and then immediately deleted |
| Lucky Orange | lo-uid | Analytical/Performance | Used in conjunction with other Lucky Orange cookies to identify visitors using a unique ID |
| Lucky Orange | lo-visits | Analytical/Performance | Keeps a count of the number of unique sessions for a visitor |
We also use analytical/performance cookies provided by Google Tag Manager (“GTM”). GTM is a Tag Management System that allows JavaScript and HTML tags to be quickly deployed and updated on our Website. Tags are activated by triggers, which can include various activities such as a page view, click, payment, or form submission. For more information about GTM, please visit https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6102821, and for additional information about GTM’s privacy practices, visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy.
To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below.
Managing Your Cookies:
Because strictly necessary cookies are needed to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them. However, you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings as described below.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, analytics services or providers of external video content) may also use cookies over which we have no control. You can block cookies by activating the settings on your browser that allow you to refuse some or all cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access some or all parts of our Website. Please see our Privacy Policy under the sections “HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION” and “YOUR CHOICES” for further information about cookies and how to delete and disable them.