Cookie Policy

Cookies on this site

Cookies are small data files which are sent to a user’s computer or mobile phone from a website and are stored on the hard drive of the user’s device. They are useful because they enhance the user experience whilst browsing the website. Some cookies are required in order for certain aspects of the site to work correctly (such as form submissions and secure downloads) while others are third-party cookies for analytics purposes such as Google, LinkedIn, AdRoll etc...

The following tables outline the providers, names, lifespan and purpose of the cookies utilised on this website.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Description Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose
Cookie Consent CookieControl 180 days This cookie is set in order to remember the user's preferences in regards to controlling of cookies for the webiste.
Cloudflare Protection _cfduid Session - 30 days The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. It may be placed on the devices of our customers' End Users to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It is necessary for supporting Cloudflare's security features
_cflb Session -24 hours When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a _cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new _cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool.
_cf_bm Session - 30 mins The _cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. This encrypted file contains Cloudflare’s proprietary bot score and helps manage incoming traffic that matches specific criteria.

 

Analytics Cookies

Description Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose
Google Analytics + Google Tag Manager _ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_ <property-id>.
AMP_TOKEN 30 seconds to 1 year Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
lfuuid 3386 days Tracks the individual sessions on the website, allowing the website to compile statistical data from multiple visits. This data can also be used to create leads for marketing purposes.
_gac_<property-id> 90 days Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
IDE 30 days Doubleclick will let advertisers control how often an ad is shown to a browser, how long it is shown for and how often it will appear.
LinkedIn.com JSESSIONID Session Only General purpose platform session cookie. It is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.
lidc 24 hours This cookie is used for routing from Share buttons and ad tags
bcookie 24 hours This cookie is used for routing from Share buttons and ad tags
bscookie 1 year This cookie is used by LinkedIn to recognize a secure Browser ID.
lang Session Only General purpose language setting.
visit 1 year This cookie is used by LinkedIn as part of their embedded services on the Websites. More information can be found in their cookie policy.
Microsoft.com _uetsid 1 hour This cookie is used in association with Microsoft paid search campaigns. For more information click here
_uetvid 7 days This cookie is used in association with Microsoft paid search campaigns. For more information click here
MUID 14 days Microsoft Advertising uses the Microsoft User Identifier (MUID) to help count valid clicks. For more information click here

 

Marketing Cookies

Description Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose
HubSpot.com __hs_opt_out 13 months This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.
__hs_do_not_track 13 months This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. Setting this cookie is different from opting out of cookies, as it still allows anonymized information to be sent to HubSpot.
hs_ab_test Session This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before.
hubspotutk 13 months This cookie is used to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
__hssc 13 months The main cookie 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).
__hssrc Session 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.
messagesUtk 13 months This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you chat with a visitor who later returns to your site in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load their conversation history.
<id>_key Session (Not currently used) When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page.
hs-messages-is-open 30 minutes This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity.
hs-messages-hide-welcome-message 24 hours This cookie is used to prevent the welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.
__hsmem 12 months This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site.
AdRoll.com __adroll 1 month This cookie is used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. It is used by real-time bidding for advertisers to present relevant advertisement.
__adroll_fpc 5  years This cookie is used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. It is used by real-time bidding for advertisers to present relevant advertisement.
csrftoken 1 year Purpose: Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks
cb_user_id 1 year AdRoll user related
cb_group_id 1 year AdRoll user related
cb_anonymous_id 1 year AdRoll user related
_hp2_ses_props [app_id] 24 hours AdRoll App related
_hp2_props [app_id] Session AdRoll App related
_hp2_id [app_id] Session AdRoll App related
Lead Forensics __lotr 6 months Used as a means to identify users allowing for our team to better follow up.
lo_session_in Session
_hjid Session
__zlcmid Session
_gid 24 hours
_ga 24 hours
_fbp 24 hours
Intercom.io intercom-id- [app-d] 9 months Visitor identifier cookie used for intercom chat service
intercom-session- [app-id] Session Identifier for each unique browser session
gtm_id Session Used in collaboration with Google Tag Manager

 

Media Cookies

Description Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose
Wistia.com __hssc Session Used for the successful playback of hosted media from the Wistia platform. For more information please visit privacy policy.
_sp_id.2b40 Session
__cr_user Session
_sp_ses.2b40 Session
_gid 24 hours
optimizelyEndUserId 6 months
hubspotutk 1 month
_ga Session
__hstc 1 month
wistia-http2-push-disabled Session
YouTube.com SID 10 years This cookie is used by Google in combination with HSID to verify your Google user account, if you have one, and your most recent login time to your Google account.
HSID 10 years Used by Google in combination with SID to verify your Google user account, if you have one, and your most recent login time to your Google account.
PREF 10 years This cookie is used by Google to set each of its users’ preferred language preferences.
LOGIN_INFO 10 years Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes
NID 6 months Most Google users will have a preferences cookie called ‘NID’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
LOGIN_INFO 10 years These cookies are used by YouTube as part of their embedded services on the Websites (sharing etc.). More information about YouTube’s use of cookies can be found in their cookie policy.
SAPISID 10 years Information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users.
APISID 10 years Various unique identifiers, except for PREF which stores your options such as preferred zoom level.
YSC 10 years Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes

 

Retired cookies

These cookies are no longer in-use, but may be present for returning visitors. These cookies can be deleted. Please follow the instructions provided by your browser supplier in order to remove these from your device.

Description Cookie Name Expiration Time Purpose

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