Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 2023-01-26
We use cookies on this website.
Cookies are little text files which are stored on the Internet browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Cookies work to make your experience browsing our website as smooth as possible. They are designed to improve the functionality and use of the website, also for the purposes of analysis.
We monitor traffic of the website and collect information on the number of visitors browsing the website, the domain name of internet service providers of visitors, etc.
Cookies can be stored for varying lengths of time on your Internet browser or device.
Most Internet browsers accept cookies, but you can change the Internet browser settings so that cookies would not be accepted. However, in this case, some functions may not work.
In any case, the processing of personal data with the help of non-necessary cookies is based on your explicit choice using Website’s , which you can change at any time.
All information about cookies used by this website, their purpose, validity and their provider are given in the table below:
Necessary cookies
Are absolutely essential for the website to function properly, therefore they cannot be turned off. This category only includes cookies that ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website.
| Cookie | Provider | Expiry date | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| kevin-user-has-interacted-with-cookies | kevin.eu | After 150 days | Indicated that the user interacted with the cookie banner. Show / hide cookie banner based on its value. |
| kevin-user-has-accepted-ad-cookies | kevin.eu | After 150 days | Indicated that the user accepted ad cookies. Based on its value ad related scripts will or will not be ran. |
| kevin-user-has-accepted-analytics-cookies | kevin.eu | After 150 days | Indicated user accepted analytical cookies. Based on its value analytics related scripts will or will not be ran. |
| kevin-hide-language-bar-forever | kevin.eu | After 150 days | Indicates if language suggestion should be shown if user locale doesn't match page locale. |
| optimizelyEndUserId | optimizely.com | After 6 months | Stores a visitor's unique Optimizely Experimentation identifier. It is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. No other information about visitors is stored inside. |
| optimizelyRedirectData | optimizely.com | 5 seconds | After Optimizely Experimentation has executed a redirect experiment, it stores various data from the original page so that Optimizely Experimentation still has access to it on the new page. |
| optimizelyDomainTestCookie | optimizely.com | 6 months | When Optimizely Experimentation loads a URL, the snippet places the cookie to get the current domain for determining whether cross-domain syncing is possible. If successful, the cookie is immediately removed. |
| AWSELB | optimizely.com | session | Enables "sticky sessions", which is a requirement of Optimizely RUM service. |
| optimizelyRumLB | optimizely.com | session | Controls the AWSELB cookie's attributes (e.g., SameSite and Secure). Its value is always "1". |
| __cf_bm | cloudflare.com | After 1 year | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
Analytical cookies
Are used to distinguish users and to understand how visitors interact with the website. Cookies register a unique visitor’s ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
| Cookie | Provider | Expiry date | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| ajs_anonymous_id | segment.com | After 1 year | A randomly generated id used by Segment for event calls. |
| ajs_group_id | segment.com | After 1 year | Used by Segment to assign user groups. |
| ajs_user_id | segment.com | After 1 year | User id, used by Segment. |
| _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | hotjar.com | After 365 days | Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjid | hotjar.com | After 365 days | Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjFirstSeen | hotjar.com | Session duration | Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | hotjar.com | Session duration | Enables us to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | hotjar.com | Session duration | Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. |
| _hjViewportId | hotjar.com | Session duration | Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions. |
| _hjSession_{site_id} | hotjar.com | 30 minutes duration | Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. |
| _hjSessionTooLarge | hotjar.com | Session duration | Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. |
| _hjSessionRejected | hotjar.com | Session duration | Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. |
| _hjSessionResumed | hotjar.com | Session duration | Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | hotjar.com | Under 100ms duration | Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | hotjar.com | 30 minutes duration | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | hotjar.com | 30 minutes duration | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | hotjar.com | 30 minutes duration | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. |
| _hjTLDTest | hotjar.com | Session duration | Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | hotjar.com | Session duration | Read when the Recording module is initialised to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | hotjar.com | Session duration | Updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | hotjar.com | 365 days duration | Ensures the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. |
| _hjDonePolls | hotjar.com | 365 days duration | Ensures the same Survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | hotjar.com | 365 days duration | Ensures that the Survey stays minimised when the user navigates through your site. |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | hotjar.com | 365 days duration | Ensures the Incoming Feedback will load as minimised if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. |
| _ga | google.com | After 2 years | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | google.com | After 24 hours | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. |
| _gat | google.com | After 1 minute | Google Analytics cookie used to throttle request rate. |
| OTZ | google.com | After 1 month | Used by Google analytics to track website traffic information. |
Advertisement cookies
Are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
| Cookie | Provider | Expiry date | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_ | google.com | After 90 days | Help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site. |
| fr | facebook.com | After 90 days | Used to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads. |
| datr | facebook.com | After 2 years | The purpose of the data cookie is to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook’s security and site integrity features. |
| sb | facebook.com | After 2 years | To store browser details. |
| fr | facebook.com | After 90 days | Deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads. |
| usida | facebook.com | Session | Collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users. |
| wd | facebook.com | After 7 days | Used to determine users screen dimensions do deliver appropriate content. |
| _fbp | facebook.com | After 90 days | Identifies browsers for the purposes of providing advertising and site analytics services. |
| _lfa | leadfeeder.com | After 2 years | Leadfeeder cookie registers data such as IP-addresses, time spent on the website and page requests for the visit. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | linkedin.com | After 30 days | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | After 30 days | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. |
| lang | linkedin.com | After session duration | Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure websiteLinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. |
| _guid | linkedin.com | After 90 days | Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads. |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | After 1 years | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. |
| li_gc | linkedin.com | After 6 months | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| li_mc | linkedin.com | After 6 months | Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member's consent for use of non-essential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side. |
| liap | linkedin.com | After 1 year | Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member. |
| lidc | linkedin.com | After 24 hours | To facilitate data centre selection. |
| lms_ads | linkedin.com | After 30 days | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising. |
| lms_analytics | linkedin.com | After 30 days | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising. |
| sdsc | linkedin.com | After session duration | Signed data service context cookie used for database routing to ensure consistency across all databases when a change is made. Used to ensure that user-inputted content is immediately available to the submitting user upon submission. |
| ln_or | linkedin.com | After 1 day | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain. |
| personalization_id | twitter.com | Persistent | Tracks activities on and off Twitter for a personalised experience. |
| __ncuid | twitter.com | After 2 years | Twitter integration with google analytics. |
| ct0 | twitter.com | After 4 hours | Used for authentication. |
| eu_cn | twitter.com | After 1 year | Used for cookie notices. |
| guest_id | twitter.com | After 13 months | Used for authentication. |
| muc_ads | twitter.com | After 13 months | Used for advertising. |
| MUID | bing.com | After 1 year | Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads. |
| _uetsid | bing.com | After 1 day | Session id for a unique session on the site. |
| _uetvid | bing.com | After 13 months | A unique, anonymized visitor ID. |
| 1P_JAR | google.com | After 30 days | Provides ad delivery and retargeting. |
| AEC | google.com | After 6 months | Ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. |
| CONSENT | google.com | After 2 years | Stores user’s state regarding their cookies choices. |
| IDE | google.com | After 13 months | Used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. |
| NID | google.com | After 6 months | Used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
| OGPC | google.com | After 1 month | Used to store user preferences and information while viewing Google mapped pages. |
| SOCS | google.com | After 13 months | Used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. |
| _cioanonid | customer.io | After 1 year | Identify visitors in order to send transactional and targeted email messages. |
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