Pretty Links uses a small number of cookies to track unique visitors, prevent duplicate counts, and support advanced features. Here's what each cookie does and why it exists, so you can document them in your privacy policy with confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
prli_visitor<\/code><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- Lifetime:<\/strong> 1 year;<\/li>\n
- Purpose:<\/strong> Identifies a unique visitor across multiple sessions and multiple links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
When a visitor clicks any pretty link for the first time, Pretty Links assigns them a random ID and stores it in this cookie. Subsequent clicks \u2014 even days or weeks later, even on different links \u2014 are recognized as coming from the same visitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what powers the Visitantes \u00fanicos<\/strong> count on your dashboard and the Visitantes \u00fanicos<\/strong> toggle in Hist\u00f3rico de cliques<\/a><\/strong>. Without it, every click would look like a brand-new person, and you'd have no way to tell repeat visitors from first-timers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe cookie is opaque (a random string) and is only read by your own site \u2014 Pretty Links never sends it anywhere or shares it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
prli_click_*<\/code><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- Lifetime:<\/strong> 30 days;<\/li>\n
- Purpose:<\/strong> Records that this visitor has already clicked a specific link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Each time a visitor clicks a pretty link, Pretty Links sets a small cookie naming that link's ID. The cookie expires after 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What it powers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Unique-visitor reporting<\/strong> \u2014 When
prli_click_<id><\/code> is absent, the click is counted as a unique visit (the link's \u00fanicos<\/code> counter or the static-uniques<\/code> meta increments). When present, it's counted as a repeat visit. The 30-day window is the unique-visitor sliding window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nA separate cookie is set per link the visitor interacts with. They're tiny (a few bytes each), but if a visitor clicks dozens of your links, they'll accumulate dozens of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
prli_dedup_*<\/code><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- Lifetime:<\/strong> 10 seconds;<\/li>\n
- Purpose:<\/strong> Prevents accidental double-counting on the same click.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Browsers sometimes fire a redirect twice in rapid succession \u2014 for example, when a user double-clicks a link, when an extension prefetches the URL, or when a network hiccup causes a retry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without protection, each of those would count as a separate click and inflate your numbers. The prli_dedup_<id><\/code> cookie blocks duplicate counts within a 10-second window.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter 10 seconds the cookie expires, so genuinely revisiting a link a minute later still counts as a new click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Pretty Links Does Not Cookie<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\nPretty Links does n\u00e3o<\/strong> set tracking cookies for advertising, profiling, cross-site tracking, or any third-party purpose. Everything above is first-party only and exists purely to make your own click reports accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt also does not use browser fingerprinting, localStorage tracking, or session storage to work around cookie controls. If a visitor clears the cookies, the prli_visitor<\/code> ID is lost and they appear as a new visitor on their next click \u2014 which is the behavior most users expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor Your Privacy Policy<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\nA typical privacy policy entry for Pretty Links cookies might read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We use Pretty Links to manage and track outbound links on this site. Pretty Links sets first-party cookies (prli_visitor<\/code>, prli_click_<id><\/code>, prli_dedup_<id><\/code>) lasting between 10 seconds and 1 year. These cookies count unique visitors and prevent duplicate click counts. They do not contain personal data and are not shared with third parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAdapt the wording to match the rest of your policy and your jurisdiction's requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Combining With Consent Banners<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIf your site uses a cookie consent banner (required in many regions for non-essential cookies), check whether your banner blocks Pretty Links cookies before consent. If it does, click counts from non-consenting visitors won't be recorded \u2014 which is the legally correct behavior in those regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can pair this with Modo de rastreamento simples<\/a><\/strong> e Anonimiza\u00e7\u00e3o de endere\u00e7os IP<\/a><\/strong> for an even lighter privacy footprint.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretty Links uses a small number of cookies to track unique visitors, prevent duplicate counts, and support advanced features. Here’s what each cookie does and why it exists, so you can document them in your privacy policy with confidence. prli_visitor Lifetime: 1 year; Purpose: Identifies a unique visitor across multiple sessions and multiple links. When…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":34280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_strive_editorial_status":"not-started","_strive_copy_of":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[711],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-18771","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-tracking-and-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t