Yes. Analytics cookies are used as a measuring tool for websites, including to provide information on the number of unique visitors and the pages they browse during their visits. Some analytics tools are ‘first party’ tools, that is, the data from them is processed only by the website operator, for its own purposes.

Third-party analytics are provided by parties other than the website operator and those third parties may use the data for their own purposes, unless there is a contract in place which only permits the third party to process the data on behalf of the operator. Third-party analytics may be considered to represent a greater privacy risk to the user.