Last Updated: September 1, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how CleanlyGeek (“CleanlyGeek,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.
CleanlyGeek is a website focused on home cleaning, indoor air quality, cleaning tools, vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, and related product information.
This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the third-party services that may place or access cookies on our website, and the choices available to you.
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device and can be used to remember preferences, measure website usage, provide functionality, support advertising, and track referrals.
Cookies may be:
- First-party cookies, which are set by CleanlyGeek or by services operating on our behalf.
- Third-party cookies, which are set by external companies or services operating on or through our website.
- Session cookies, which are generally deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
We may also use technologies similar to cookies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and other identifiers.
2. How CleanlyGeek Uses Cookies
Depending on the services and features available on the website, CleanlyGeek may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes.
2.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate properly.
These may be used to:
- Provide basic website functionality.
- Maintain website security.
- Prevent fraudulent or abusive activity.
- Remember essential technical settings.
- Maintain website performance.
- Process or remember your privacy and cookie preferences.
Because these technologies may be necessary to provide services you have requested or to operate the website, applicable law may allow them to be used without consent.
2.2 Analytics and Performance Cookies
CleanlyGeek uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Number of visitors.
- Pages viewed.
- Sessions and interactions.
- Approximate geographic location.
- Browser and device information.
- How visitors arrive at and navigate through the website.
- Website performance information.
Google Analytics commonly uses first-party cookies, including cookies such as _ga, to distinguish users and maintain session information.
We use analytics information to:
- Understand which content is useful.
- Improve website navigation.
- Identify technical problems.
- Measure traffic and engagement.
- Improve our articles and resources.
- Understand how visitors interact with CleanlyGeek.
Where required by law, analytics technologies will only be activated after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
2.3 Advertising Cookies
CleanlyGeek may display advertising through advertising and monetization partners, including Google AdSense, Ezoic, and/or Mediavine, depending on the advertising configuration active on the website at a particular time.
These services may use cookies, pixels, identifiers, or similar technologies to support activities such as:
- Serving advertisements.
- Measuring advertising performance.
- Frequency capping.
- Preventing fraudulent advertising activity.
- Reporting and analytics.
- Understanding interactions with advertisements.
- Providing personalized or interest-based advertising where permitted and where applicable consent has been obtained.
Google states that AdSense may use cookies to help target advertising, measure campaign performance, and avoid repeatedly displaying the same advertisements.
Google also requires publishers using its advertising services to disclose the use of advertising cookies and third-party vendors.
The specific advertising partners and technologies used on CleanlyGeek may change over time.
2.4 Personalized and Non-Personalized Advertising
Depending on the user’s location, consent choices, applicable law, and our advertising configuration, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Personalized advertising may use information about previous browsing activity or other signals to make advertisements more relevant.
Non-personalized advertising is generally based on contextual information rather than a user’s previous browsing behavior.
Google provides publishers with controls for personalized and non-personalized advertising, and applicable consent requirements may apply to advertising-related cookies and identifiers.
Where required, CleanlyGeek will use appropriate consent mechanisms before enabling advertising-related storage or processing that requires consent.
3. Google Analytics
CleanlyGeek uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google.
Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish users and sessions and to generate website usage statistics.
Depending on our configuration, Google Analytics may process information such as browser and device information, approximate location, session information, and interactions with the website.
Google’s analytics technologies may also interact with other Google advertising services depending on how our website is configured.
For more information about Google’s handling of data and cookies, please review Google’s applicable privacy documentation.
4. Google AdSense
CleanlyGeek may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google AdSense may place or access cookies and similar technologies when advertisements are displayed or interacted with.
According to Google, advertising cookies can be used for purposes including ad targeting, advertising measurement, frequency management, and fraud prevention.
Google also provides users with controls for managing personalized advertising through its advertising settings.
The advertisements displayed on CleanlyGeek may be personalized or non-personalized depending on applicable settings, user choices, location, and legal requirements.
5. Ezoic
CleanlyGeek may use Ezoic as an advertising, website optimization, and monetization service.
Ezoic may use cookies and similar technologies in connection with advertising, website optimization, analytics, performance measurement, and other services provided to publishers.
Ezoic’s services may involve technologies operated by Ezoic and by third-party advertising and technology partners.
Because Ezoic’s services and associated technology may change over time, the specific cookies and third parties involved may vary.
For more information, please review Ezoic’s applicable privacy and cookie documentation.
6. Mediavine
CleanlyGeek may use Mediavine as an advertising and publisher monetization service.
Mediavine and its advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, identifiers, or similar technologies for purposes including advertising delivery, measurement, personalization, frequency management, and related advertising functions.
The specific technologies used may depend on the advertising configuration, the visitor’s location, applicable law, and consent choices.
Mediavine also provides consent-management functionality for publishers and has documented integrations involving Google Analytics Consent Mode.
7. Affiliate Cookies
CleanlyGeek participates in affiliate marketing programs, including the Amazon Associates Program.
Some links on CleanlyGeek may be affiliate links. This means that we may earn a commission when you click an affiliate link and subsequently make a qualifying purchase or complete another qualifying action.
Affiliate networks and merchants may use cookies or similar technologies to identify referrals and attribute qualifying transactions to CleanlyGeek.
For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link, Amazon or its applicable affiliate technology may use information and cookies to determine that you were referred from our website.
Affiliate tracking cookies are controlled by the relevant affiliate network or merchant and may be subject to that company’s privacy and cookie policies.
For more information about our affiliate relationships, please see our Affiliate Disclosure.
8. WordPress Cookies and Plugins
CleanlyGeek is powered by WordPress and may use WordPress plugins and other third-party website tools.
WordPress itself and individual plugins may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Website functionality.
- Security.
- Login or authentication.
- Comment functionality.
- Spam prevention.
- Performance optimization.
- Caching.
- Analytics.
- Forms.
- Social media integration.
- Website administration.
The specific cookies used by WordPress plugins depend on the plugins installed and enabled on the website at any particular time.
We may add, remove, replace, or update plugins as the website develops.
Where a plugin places non-essential cookies or collects information requiring consent, we will seek consent where required by applicable law.
9. YouTube and Embedded Content
CleanlyGeek may embed videos from YouTube, a service provided by Google.
When you visit a page containing an embedded YouTube video, YouTube or Google may use cookies and similar technologies depending on how the video is embedded, your browser settings, your interaction with the video, and applicable privacy controls.
These technologies may allow Google or YouTube to:
- Deliver video content.
- Remember video-related preferences.
- Measure interactions.
- Improve services.
- Support advertising or personalization where applicable.
Third-party embedded content may therefore introduce technologies that are not controlled directly by CleanlyGeek.
You should review Google’s and YouTube’s applicable privacy information for additional details.
10. Third-Party Advertising and Technology Partners
Our advertising and monetization partners may work with additional third-party vendors and demand partners.
These companies may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, device identifiers, IP addresses, or similar technologies to provide advertising, measurement, fraud prevention, analytics, or related services.
Third-party vendors may include, depending on the services active on CleanlyGeek:
- Google and Google advertising services.
- Ezoic.
- Mediavine.
- Amazon and Amazon Associates.
- Analytics providers.
- Advertising networks.
- Demand-side and supply-side advertising partners.
- Website performance and security providers.
- Embedded content providers.
The list of third parties may change over time as we change advertising, analytics, affiliate, hosting, security, or website functionality providers.
11. Cookie Consent and Your Choices
Where required by applicable law, CleanlyGeek uses a consent mechanism to allow visitors to manage non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Depending on your location and the technologies active on the website, you may be able to:
- Accept all cookies.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Accept or reject specific categories.
- Manage advertising preferences.
- Change your consent choices later.
For websites receiving visitors from the European Economic Area and other jurisdictions where consent requirements apply, Google’s Consent Mode provides signals for advertising and analytics storage and related consent choices.
Your consent choices may affect how certain features, analytics, and advertisements operate.
Changing Your Preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the Cookie Settings or equivalent privacy controls available on our website.
If the website provides a cookie-preference link or button, you can use it to revisit your choices.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your withdrawal.
12. Browser Cookie Controls
You can also control cookies through your browser.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device.
- Delete cookies.
- Block cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Allow cookies from selected websites.
- Delete cookies when closing the browser.
Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of CleanlyGeek and other websites.
Please note that browser-based controls may not provide the same level of control as a dedicated consent-management tool.
13. What Information May Be Collected
Depending on the technologies being used, cookies and similar technologies may be associated with information such as:
- IP address.
- Browser type.
- Device type.
- Operating system.
- Approximate location.
- Pages visited.
- Referring website.
- Website interactions.
- Session information.
- Advertising identifiers.
- Analytics identifiers.
- Cookie identifiers.
- Information about advertisements displayed or interacted with.
The exact information collected depends on the specific service and how it is configured.
Google states that its standard Google Analytics implementation can collect information such as users, session statistics, approximate geographic location, and browser/device information.
14. Do Cookies Identify You Personally?
A cookie itself generally contains an identifier rather than your name or other information that directly identifies you.
However, information associated with cookies or other identifiers may, depending on the circumstances and the applicable law, constitute personal information or personal data.
We do not intentionally use CleanlyGeek’s analytics or advertising technologies to collect information that directly identifies you unless specifically disclosed and permitted by applicable law.
Google’s publisher policies also restrict publishers from passing information to Google that Google could use or recognize as personally identifiable information except where Google’s requirements are satisfied.
15. Cookie Duration
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods.
Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others may remain for a specified period or until you delete them.
For example, Google documents default Google Analytics cookies such as _ga as having a default expiration of two years, subject to browser restrictions and the actual implementation.
The actual duration of cookies used by CleanlyGeek may change as our services and third-party providers change.
16. Cookie Categories
For general reference, cookies used on CleanlyGeek may fall into these categories:
| Category | Main Purpose | Consent May Be Required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary | Security, functionality and essential website operation | Generally no where genuinely necessary |
| Preferences | Remember settings and choices | Depending on purpose and applicable law |
| Analytics | Measure traffic, usage and performance | Yes, where required |
| Advertising | Display, measure and optimize advertising | Yes, where required |
| Affiliate | Attribute referrals and qualifying purchases | Depending on purpose and applicable law |
| Embedded Content | Support services such as YouTube videos | Depending on purpose and applicable law |
| Third-Party | Support external services and technologies | Depending on purpose and applicable law |
17. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
Changes may be necessary when we:
- Add or remove analytics services.
- Change advertising providers.
- Add or remove affiliate programs.
- Install or remove WordPress plugins.
- Add new embedded content.
- Change our website technology.
- Change our cookie-consent system.
- Respond to changes in applicable laws or regulations.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this policy.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how CleanlyGeek uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us through the Contact Us page on our website.
Related Policies
For additional information, please review:
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Use
- Affiliate Disclosure
This Cookie Policy should be read together with those policies.