COOKIE POLICY
What’s a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. [We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.]
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
- 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.
- First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use only first party cookies on this website
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Title
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
| Universal Analytics
google.com 1P_JAR |
These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. 1P_JAR. .gstatic.com. It ends 30 days after the end of the session. These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. |
| NID | The ‘NID’ cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users, while the ‘ANID’ and ‘IDE’ cookies are used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. |
| SIDCC | The “SIDCC” cookie is used as security measure to protect users data from unauthorised access. Persistent. Expires after 6 months. |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. |
| SSID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. |
| AEC | For example, the ‘pm_sess’, ‘YSC’, and ‘AEC’ cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. |
| HSID | For example, cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. |
| SID |
This cookie is to provide ad delivery or retargeting, provide fraud prevention. |
| _Secure-1PSID | Google. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| _Secure-1PAPISID | Google. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| SAPISID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. HSID, SSID, APISID and SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. |
| LOOM.COM | |
| ajs_user_id | This cookie helps track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and can also measure application performance and stability. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. ajs_group_id. These cookies track visitor usage and events within the website. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. ajs_anonymous_id. These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. |
| __hssrc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. It expires in 30 minutes |
| _gcl_au | It’s the first party cookie for “Conversion Linker” functionality – it takes information in ad clicks and stores it in a first-party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside the landing page. |
| mkjs_user_id | Enables Segment to track user activities. |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). It expires in 6 months. |
| _uetvid |
This cookie is used by Bing to store and track visits across websites. Expiration 16 days. |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. It expires in 6 months. |
| _gid | registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie expires after 1 day. collect: is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. |
| _ga | Google Analytics identifies unique users across GA sessions through client ID. The client ID is stored in the Google Analytics cookie. The GA cookie is set when a person visits your website for the first time. Google Analytics sends the client ID with each hit to associate hits with a user. |
| _fbp | When the Facebook pixel tracking is implemented on your website, two cookies are set: “_fbp” is used to distinguish and keep track of your unique users. “_fbc” is only set when a user arrives at your website from an Ad, and the destination URL includes the click identifier “fbclid”. |
| mkjs_group_id | Enables Segment to track user activities. |
JetPack |
|
| tk_r3d | The cookie is installed by JetPack. Used for the internal metrics for user activities to improve user experience. |
| tk_lr | This cookie is set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analyzing referrer behavior for Jetpack. |
| tk_or | This cookie is set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analyzing referrer behavior for Jetpack. |
| _gid | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie expires after 1 day. collect: is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. |
| _ga | Google Analytics identifies unique users across GA sessions through client ID. The client ID is stored in the Google Analytics cookie. The GA cookie is set when a person visits your website for the first time. Google Analytics sends the client ID with each hit to associate hits with a user. |
| Mailchimp | |
| mailchimp_landing_site |
This cookie is used to store which page was visited first. |
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You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at joanne@pushbikeb2b.co.uk