Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Duration | Purpose |
| _ga | 2 years | Google Analytics: 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 site’s analytics reports. Main purpose is performance |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google AdSense: This cookie is used to experiment with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_92955009_1 | 1 minute | Google Analytics: Stores a unique user ID |
| __hstc | 6 months | HubSpot: Measure the duration of session visits |
| __hssc | 30 minutes | HubSpot: Analytics session cookie to determine sessoin number and time stamps |
| __hssrc | Session duration | Used to determine if a session is a new session |
| __hs_do_not_track | 6 months | HubSpot: Designates a user has opted out of tracking, preventing tracking codes from sending any information to HubSpot |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | 6 months | HubSpot: Records cookie categories a visitor consented to. |
| hubspotutk | 6 months | HubSpot: authenticates user identity |
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn: Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | LinkedIn: Store information about the time a sync with lms_analytics cookie took place for users in designated countries |
| IDE | 1 year | DoubleClick (owned by Google): Used for targeting, analyzing and optimization of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
| lang | Session duration | LinkedIn: Used to remember a user’s language setting |
| li_sugr | 3 months | LinkedIn: Used to make a probabilistic match of a user’s identity outside the Designated Countries |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn: Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | DoubleClick (owned by Google): determines if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies |
| U | 3 months | LinkedIn: Browser Identifier for users outside the Designated Countries |
| hs-membership-csrf | Session duration | HubSpot: Ensures content membership logins cannot be forged. |
| hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | 1 day | HubSpot: This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget (if used by the site) welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. |
| hs-messages-is-open | 30 minutes | HubSpot: Determines whether the chat widget (if used on the site) is open for future visits and saves chat information for open sessions. |
| hs_ab_test | Session duration | This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. |
| hs_langswitcher_choice | 2 years | HubSpot: Save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. |
| _key | 14 days | HubSpot: 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. |
| __cfruid | Session duration | HubSpot: This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. It expires at the end of the session. |
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | HubSpot: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| __hsmem | 7 days | HubSpot: This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. |
| li_gc | 6 months | LinkedIn: Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | LinkedIn: This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor’s preferences. |
| messagesUtk | 6 months | HubSpot: This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool (if used on the site). |
| ln_or | 1 day | LinkedIn: Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You have a variety of tools to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit are able to use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.
Updated as of December 15, 2022
