What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
To enhance your experience with our site, we may use cookies. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site.
When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
This site also use HubSpot to improve the user experience, identify and market to good fit leads. The following cookies may be set by HubSpot.
__hs_opt_out
- 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.
- It contains the string "yes" or "no".
- It expires in 13 months.
__hs_do_not_track
- 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.
- It contains the string "yes".
- It expires in 13 months.
hs_ab_test
- This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before.
- It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor.
- It expires at the end of the session.
<id>_key
- 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.
- It contains an encrypted version of the password so future visits to the page will not require the password again.
- It expires in 14 days.
hs-messages-is-open
- This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits.
- It is set in your visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity.
- It contains a boolean value of True if present.
- It expires in 30 minutes.
hs-messages-hide-welcome-message
- This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.
- It contains a boolean value of True or False.
- It expires in one day.
__hsmem
- This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site.
- It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership user when they are currently logged in.
- It expires in one year.
hs-membership-csrf
- This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged.
- It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a membership login is authentic.
- It expires at the end of the session.
hs_langswitcher_choice
- This cookie is used to save the visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.
- It gets set when an end user selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the future, if they are available.
- It contains a colon delimited string with the ISO639 language code choice on the left and the top level private domain it applies to on the right. An example will be "EN-US:hubspot.com".
- It expires in two years.
__cfduid
- This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider, Cloudflare. It helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to your website and minimizes blocking legitimate users.
- It may be placed on your visitors' devices 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.
- Learn more about this cookie from Cloudflare.
- It is a session cookie that lasts a maximum of 30 days.
__cfruid
This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. It expires at the end of the session.
__hstc
- 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).
- It expires in 13 months.
hubspotutk
- This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
- It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.
- It expires in 13 months.
__hssc
- This cookie keeps 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.
- It expires in 30 minutes.
__hssrc
- 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.
- It contains the value "1" when present.
- It expires at the end of the session.
If you are logged in to HubSpot, HubSpot will set additional authentication cookies. Learn more about cookies set in the HubSpot product. You can also see whether a contact accepted these cookies in their timeline.
messagesUtk
- This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows 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 chatflows tool will load their conversation history. The cookie is controlled by the Consent to collect chat cookies setting in your chatflow.
- If this setting is disabled, the cookie is controlled by the Consent to process setting in your chatflow.
- It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current chat user.
- It expires in 13 months.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, will set cookies through our site 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.
More Information
Hopefully this has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Updated May 18, 2020