Cookie notice
This website uses cookies. Further information about these cookies is set out below.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and https://youronlinechoices.eu.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. The cookies used on this website have been categorised as follows.
Strictly necessary cookies
Some of the cookies on this website are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.
Performance cookies
Some of the cookies on this website collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Functionality cookies
Some of the cookies on this website allow the website to remember choices you make (such as language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Third party cookies
This website also allows third parties to download cookies to your device.
When you use the social media sharing tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, through this website, the relevant third party websites also set a range of performance and other cookies onto your device.
Further information about these cookies is available from:
LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Twitter's privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy
YouTube's privacy policy: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
How we use cookies
We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow analytics cookies such as google. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action.
For more information on the choices you have about the cookies we use, please see the How to ‘Control and Delete cookies’ section.
Cookies table
This table summarises the cookies which may be set on your machine or other device when it is used.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly necessary | 0 day |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALB | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSELB | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 0 day |
| AWSALBTG | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| __CookieConsent | Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. | Strictly necessary | 90 days |
| __CookieConsentV200 | Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. | Strictly necessary | 90 Days |
| AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. | Strictly necessary | 0 day |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Performance cookies | 1 day |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Performance cookies | 365 days |
| _gat_UA-114182694-1 | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | Performance cookies | 730 days |
| _hjFirstSeen | This cookie is being set by Hotjar for performance and analytics purposes. | Performance cookies | 0 day |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | Functionality cookies | 730 days |
| test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Targeting cookies | 0 day |
| IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Targeting cookies | 390 days |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting cookies | 0 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | Targeting cookies | 180 days |
| GPS | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Targeting cookies | 0 day |
| __lfa | Used in context with account-based marketing, this cookie is placed by Leadfeeder to store and track audience reach. Leadfeeder cookie collects the behavioral data of all website visitors. The cookie registers data such as IP-addresses, visitor sources, time spent on the website, and page requests for the visit. Later, this information can be used for retargeting multiple users rooting from the same IP-addresses. | Targeting cookies | 730 days |
| RT | The RT cookie is instead assigned to the domain of the site being instrumented and is never sent to mPulse servers. It’s used exclusively on the client side, by Boomerang (Akamai). This is implemented by Akamai as to stay sessions to continue even if the end-user closes their browser and then returns within 30 minutes. | Unknown cookies | 7 days |
| V2.GatedContent | This is a gated content cookie, which is set when used in combination with a gated content feature. It is used to remember when a user already filled in a form. | Targeting cookies | 24 days |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | Targeting cookies | 2 years |
| bscookie | Used for saving the state of 2FA of a logged in user. | Targeting cookies | 2 years |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. | Targeting cookies | 30 days |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | Targeting cookies | 30 days |
| lidc | To optimize data center selection. | Targeting cookies | 24 hours |
| pardot | A session cookie named pardot is set in your browser while you’re logged in as a user or when a visitor accesses a form, landing page, or page with Pardot tracking code. The cookie denotes an active session and isn’t used for tracking. | Targeting cookies | 2 years |
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, should you choose to disable, reject or block our cookies, some parts of our websites will not function fully, or in some cases, our website will not be accessible at all.
For more information on how to control your cookie settings and browser settings, or how to delete cookies on your hard drive, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.