Image & Video APIs

Does Cloudinary store any cookies?

Last updated: Feb-12-2026

When using Cloudinary's service to deliver assets to your website or application users, cookies aren't set or used by us.

We only use cookies on our website at https://www.cloudinary.com/ and our Media Library interface, where Cloudinary or different products and services that we use may set cookies to manage our website's security, marketing, support, etc. You can learn more about the cookies used by Cloudinary's website in our privacy policy and in our dedicated Cookie Policy page.

Third-party services may also set cookies when you use our widgets with them, such as when using a third party upload source with our Upload Widget. In that case, the third-party service sets cookies to authenticate user requests to that service, doesn't send them to Cloudinary, and subjects them to that service's privacy policy.

Cookies on asset delivery requests

If you're seeing that requests from your browser to "res.cloudinary.com" or "-res.cloudinary.com" are including one or more cookies, that's likely because we set those cookies in your browser during a previous visit to our website or Media Library, and we configured the cookies to send on requests to all subdomains of cloudinary.com.

When we receive such asset delivery requests that contain cookies, we ignore the values, don't store them, and they don't affect your account's behaviour.

Tip
If you clear all cookies for cloudinary.com and then access a site which is using Cloudinary images, you should see that those asset requests don't set any cookies.

Notes
It's also possible, depending on your plan, to deliver assets via a subdomain of your own site, in which case any cookies sent with your asset delivery requests are those scoped to your own domain, rather than to Cloudinary.com: Private CDNs and CNAMEs

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