This document will inform you about how and why we use cookies. We will also tell you which cookies we use and some information about third parties that also place cookies on our website.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and which let us make your experience better and more efficient. They allow us to recognize your device and browser, and store information that we deem of importance for the improvement of our services.
Types of cookies
Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies
Session cookies are stored temporarily on the memory of your devices while you are visiting the website and are erased once you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies are stored for a predetermined amount of time, which varies from cookie to cookie. It is longer than the session cookies; however they also expire after some months. They aid us to understand whether you have previously visited our website or similar sites in the past.
First Party and Third Party Cookies
First Party cookies are set directly by the website or by any of the subdomains of the website.
Third Party cookies are set by websites not managed by us, such as our subprocessores or other technology partners.
How do we use cookies?
options for logging in that will authenticate you on the website, keep your login session active, and remember how you prefer to store your login information;
tabbed information that keeps track of the tab or specific part of the website you are looking at;
regional content to deliver material specific to a region and keep track of time zone settings;
language preferences to choose and remember the language in which material is shown;
the capability of the device to deliver various content depending on the browser device being used;
What cookies do we use?
Essential cookies
We may store cookies on your device if they are necessary to enable us to offer and provide our services. They are also required for you to navigate through the website and web application and benefit from all the available functions. These cookies cannot be switched off and are set for very basic options on the website, such as logging in, forms and set preferences such as timezone or languages.
Analytics cookies
These cookies are placed to aid us in understanding how you interact with the available options on the website, which parts you use the most, and how you engage with our services. This helps us create statistics of usage and the amount of time you spend on the website. These statistics will ultimately help us to improve our website and any services we offer on it.
Personalization Cookies
These cookies are placed by us to help us to provide you with better functionality of the website and our services and to make them more personalized to you. They can also be placed by third-party providers you specifically consent to when you accept this cookie policy. You may block these cookies, but if you do, it may be that parts of the website do not function the way we intended.
Marketing & Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant or of interest to you when you are browsing on the internet. They are mostly placed by third parties whenever you interact with content on our website.
Interest-based ads
Interest-Based Advertising – Cookies are also used to collect information about your interests and preferences for the purposes of what is called “interest-based advertising”. It is for companies to send you offers about products and services tailored to your inferred taste and needs. You may turn off these cookies; however, you may still receive advertisements, with the difference of these not being specifically tailored to you.
How to block cookies
You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixel tags. You do this by blocking them on your device or by removing them and adjusting preferences on your browser. This may vary from device to device and from browser to browser. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on the most popular browsers:
Once you correctly block cookies on your browser, parts of the website may become unavailable to you or may otherwise not function properly.
How to opt-out of third-party cookies and targeted ads
To opt out of tracking analytics placed by Google, you can opt-out by using this form. This works for all websites that use Google’s services to track and gather analytics data. To understand and responsibly manage cookies that enable interested-based ads we strongly recommend that you go to the website of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or to the website of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
To learn more, please visit YourAdChoices. Many of our third-party service providers that serve interest-based advertisements to you across our services are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), or they follow the DAA’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can choose to opt out directly from these third parties by visiting their opt-out pages on the NAI website (NAI website) and DAA website (DAA website). However, please note that if you “opt out” you will keep seeing links and online advertisements; however, they will not be specifically targeted to you or tailored to your interests.
Cookie List
Analytics Cookies (19)
Cookie Name
Cookie Source
Description
Lifespan
FPAU
Google LLC
FPAU Collects information about the users and their activity on the website through embedded elements with the purpose of analytics and reporting.
90 days
FPID
Google LLC
The FPID cookie in server-side tagging for Google Tag Manager.
2 years
FPLC
Google LLC
Collects information about the users and their activity on the website through embedded elements with the purpose of analytics and reporting.
20 hours
_ga
Google LLC
Associated with Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.
2 years
_ga_.*
Google LLC
Used to persist session state.
2 years
_gid
Google LLC
Associated with Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.
1 day
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
Hotjar Ltd
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
30 minutes
_hjCookieTest
Hotjar Ltd
Checks to see if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use cookies.
Session
_hjFirstSeen
Hotjar Ltd
This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
30 minutes
_hjHasCachedUserAttributes
Hotjar Ltd
Enables us to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not.
session
^_hjid$
Hotjar Ltd
Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar 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.
1 year
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
Hotjar Ltd
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
2 minutes
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_804588
Hotjar Ltd
Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.
2 minutes
^_hjSession.*
Hotjar Ltd
A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.
1 year
_hjTLDTest
Hotjar Ltd
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.
Session
__kla_id
Klaviyo
This cookie can track and identify site visitors through an auto-generated ID. This cookie can temporarily hold personally identifiable information. Once a visitor is identified, the cookie can pass their data into Klaviyo.
2 years
__obref
OpenAI
^_sp_id.*
Snowplow
Stores user information that is created when a user first visits a site and updated on subsequent visits. It is used to identify users and track the users activity across a domain. This cookie stores a unique identifier for each user, a unique identifier for the users current session, the number of visits a user has made to the site, the timestamp of the users first visit, the timestamp of their previous visit and the timestamp of their current visit, references to previous session and first event in the current session, and index of the last event in the session.
2 years
_sp_ses.*
Snowplow
Used to identify if the user is in an active session on a site or if this is a new session for a user (i.e. cookie doesn't exist or has expired).
30 minutes
Marketing & Advertising Cookies (37)
Cookie Name
Cookie Source
Description
Lifespan
^A3$
Yahoo
Ads targeting cookie for Yahoo.
1 year
anj
AppNexus Inc
Contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner.
90 days
^audit$
Rubicon Project Inc
No Description Available
__binsSID
__binsUID
^bkpa$
Oracle
This cookie is set by Bluekai. This cookie stores anonymized data about the users' web usage as well as aggregate anonymous activities to build a profile to provide more targeted and relevant marketing and advertising.
179 days
bku
Oracle
Used for advertising purposes
179 days
demdex
Adobe Inc
Set by Adobe Audience Manger to perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc.
180 days
dpm
Adobe Inc
Set by Adobe Audience Manager to record information around synchronisation of IDs.
179 days
_fbc
Meta
Placed by Facebook to store last visit.
2 years
_fbp
Meta
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
3 months
^fr$
Meta
Contains a browser and user unique ID combinaton and is used for targeted advertising.
3 months
guid
MNTN Digital
Stores the global unique identifier that corresponds to each unique user in the MNTN platform. The global unique identifier is generated using various hashed algorithm combinations based on time, location, ip address and persisted in the browser cache.
More detail on how we and/or other companies use cookies is available at www.cookiesandyou.com.
If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy please contact us, we will be happy to answer any questions you may have about this Cookie Policy.
