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. | |
| _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 | ||
| lfuuid | 3386 days | ||
| 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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