Cookie Policy

Linking & Identification · Company practice

Affiliate cookies identify referred customers for commission

Affiliate cookies let Surfshark identify customers referred to its Website by partners so it can grant the referrers their commission.

Supporting quotations

Affiliate cookies allow us to identify the customers referred to our Website by our partners so that we can grant the referrers their commission.

Linking & Identification · Company practice

Marketing and referral parameter cookies, 30 days

Six first-party cookies last 30 days. Five are categorized Marketing and store the parameter of a previous visit (sf-af, sf-ap) or the prior page URL (sf-lu, sf-la, sf-fi); sf-rf stores referral program information and is categorized Functional.

Supporting quotations

sf-af 30 days Surfshark Stores the parameter of the previous visit Marketing

sf-ap 30 days Surfshark Stores the parameter of the previous visit Marketing

sf-lu 30 days Surfshark Stores the prior page URL Marketing

sf-la 30 days Surfshark Stores the prior page URL Marketing

sf-fi 30 days Surfshark Stores the prior page URL Marketing

sf-rf 30 days Surfshark Stores referral program information Functional

Qualifications & exceptions

• All six list Surfshark as provenance and a 30-day expiry.

Not stated here

• Section 2 describes marketing cookies as set by third parties, but these Marketing-labeled cookies list Surfshark as provenance; the policy does not explain the difference.
• The table does not say what the stored 'parameter of the previous visit' contains or whether it is shared with partners.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): Marketing cookies track activity and are set by third parties — Section 2 says marketing cookies are set by third parties, while the first-party table lists cookies with provenance Surfshark that carry the Marketing category. The policy does not explain how first-party cookies fit that description.