Cookie Policy
COOKIE POLICY
1. THIS COOKIE POLICY
This cookie policy is issued on behalf of the Kontor group of companies, all registered in England and Wales and each with their registered office at 33 Gresse Street, London, United Kingdom, W1T 1QU, and includes Kontor Group Limited (company registration number 14645692) ("Kontor", "we", "our", or "us").
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies and other similar tracking technologies are small text files or code placed on your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognise a particular device.
3. OUR USE OF COOKIES
We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on our website and in our marketing emails. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit our website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
Our website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies:
Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within the website and any information you enter to be remembered. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser or after a short time.
Persistent cookies allow our website to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our website in the future. Persistent cookies expire after a set period of time
4. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary (or essential) cookies. These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that remember if you have consented to other (non-strictly necessary or non-essential) cookies.
Analytics cookies. These allow us to recognise 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. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Functionality or performance cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make (such as username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
Advertising 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 so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites and / or platforms.
5. COOKIE TABLE
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Analytics | 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 on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. Further information can be found here. | The _ga cookie is set to expire 2 years from the time it was last refreshed. Every time a user visits the site, this is reset. |
_gcl_au | Analytics Advertising | Google Adsense | For experimenting with advertisement efficiency. Further information can be found here. | 3 months. |
_gat_gtag_UA_ | Performace | Google Analytics | Limits the number of requests to Google Analytics to manage high-traffic load efficiently. | 1 minute |
_gid | Analytics | Google Analytics | Tracks user behavior by assigning a unique ID to each user to analyse website usage patterns. | 24 hours |
_hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Analytics | Hotjar | Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. Further information can be found here. | 1 year |
_hjSession_{site_id} | Analytics | Hotjar | Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session | 30 minutes |
_hs_cookie_cat_pref | Functional | HubSpot | Manages user consent to specific categories of cookies, ensuring compliance with preferences. | 13 months |
_hssc | Analytics | HubSpot | Tracks sessions to know if a new session should be started or continued, used in analytics. | 30 minutes |
_hssrc | Analytics | HubSpot | Determines if a visitor starts a new session after closing and reopening their browser. | Session |
_hstc | Analytics | HubSpot | Main tracking cookie for users, tracking their visits, sessions, and timestamp data. | 13 months |
hubspot uk | Functional | HubSpot | Keeps track of the user's consent or preference to be tracked by HubSpot cookies. | 13 months |
__cf_bm | Security | Cloudflare | Differentiates between bots and humans, ensuring security and preventing bot access. | 30 minutes |
_cfuvid | Functional | Cloudflare | Applies security and performance settings for trusted web traffic, tracking visitors across sessions. | Session |
bcookie | Functional | Used for identifying the browser ID and improving the performance and security of LinkedIn services. | 2 years | |
cid | Functional | Heroku | Used to manage user sessions, track user activity, and personalise user experiences. | Session |
li_gc | Functional | Stores user consent to LinkedIn cookies, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. | 6 months | |
lidc | Functional | Used to ensure efficient routing for data centres, enhancing performance for LinkedIn services. | 1 day | |
test_cookie | Functional | Google Ads | Checks if the browser supports cookies, ensuring proper advertising functionality. | 15 minutes |
JSESSIONID | Functional | Various | Maintains user sessions across pages, ensuring consistent navigation and interaction. | Session |
6. OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WE USE IN EMAIL MARKETING
We also use pixels or web beacons in direct marketing emails that we send to you. These pixels track whether our email was delivered and opened, the links within the email were clicked and which pages of our website you have visited. They also allow us to collect information such as your IP address, browser, email client type and other similar details. We use this information to measure the performance of our email campaigns, and for analytics.
You can always opt-out of our marketing communications. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.
7. CONSENT TO USE COOKIES
We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar tracking technologies on your device, except where these are "strictly necessary" for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.
There is a notice on the website which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent before we place any non-essential cookies on your device.
8. HOW TO TURN OFF COOKIES
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the site.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, you can visit the third-party website: www.allaboutcookies.org
9. UPDATES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY
We may update this cookie policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. The date at the bottom of this cookie policy indicates when it was last updated.
10. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this cookie policy, you can contact us using one of the following methods:
By post:
FAO Data Protection Officer
33 Gresse Street
London
United Kingdom
W1T 1QU
By email: hello@kontor.com
Find the full version and annex here. This cookie policy was last modified on 18 October 2024.
