Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit one of our websites or apps. We, and some third-party service providers, use cookies on our websites and apps. Some are persistent cookies (cookies that remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time) and some are session ID cookies (cookies that expire when you close your browser).
We also use other tracking technologies like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking beacons” or “clear gifs”) and local storage. These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our websites or apps, or opened an email that we have sent them.
You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and www.youronlinechoices.com/.
We use cookies to collect information, including personal data. To find out more about personal data and how we respect your data see our Privacy Policy. This document sets out more about the types of cookies we use, and why.
Cookies help us to operate our websites and services, enhance and customise your experience across our websites and services, perform analytics and deliver advertising and marketing that is relevant to you.
Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through our websites, apps and services, such as advertising, interactive content and analytics.
In the tables below you can see a description of each cookie that we use, what it does and when its expires.
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. | 4 weeks | Necessary |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | Necessary | |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_171684922_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| __hstc | This cookie is set by Hubspot and is used for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 1 year | Analytics |
| hubspotutk | This cookie is used by HubSpot to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to Hubspot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 1 year | Analytics |
| __hssrc | This cookie is set by Hubspot. According to their documentation, whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. | Necessary | |
| __hssc | This cookie is set by HubSpot. The purpose of the cookie is to keep track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. | 30 minutes | Functional |
We also use Google Analytics to monitor how our websites and apps are used. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and generates reports detailing information such as the number of visits to the website or app, where visitors generally came from, how long they stayed on the website or app and which pages they visited. Google Analytics places several persistent cookies on your device’s hard drive. These do not collect any personal data. If you do not agree to this you can disable persistent cookies in your browser. This will prevent Google Analytics from logging your visits.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on our websites and apps that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the relevant social media sites (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) will set cookies through our websites and apps which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
You can accept or reject cookies by amending your web browser controls. But if you choose not to allow the use of cookies, your experience of our websites and apps will be limited and many integral aspects might not work at all.
To change your cookie settings, or if you want to be notified each time a cookie is about to be used, you should amend the settings provided in your web browser to prevent us from storing cookies on your computer hard drive.
Most advertising networks also offer you the option to opt out of targeted advertising. For more info, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
You can manage your cookie settings by following your browser's instructions. Here are some links that might be of assistance:
If you have any questions on this Cookie Policy you can contact us [email protected]
Last updated: July 2019