Cookie Policy
This site uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device to help the website provide you with a better user experience. Cookies are typically used to record user preferences and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
Types of Cookies we use
Strictly necessary or functional cookies:
These cookies are vital for our website performance. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies. Functional cookies are stored temporarily on your browser.
3rd Party cookies:
These are cookies used by our 3rd party providers such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HotJar and Google Ads.
Analytical cookies:
Analytical cookies monitor user behaviour and report on how users reached the website, and how they interact with and move around once on the site. These cookies let us know what features on the website are working best and what can be improved. The information provided through analytical cookies is anonymous and does not include personal identifiable information such as name or email address.
Promotional cookies:
Promotional or advertising cookies are used for tracking visitors across websites and for serving relevant and interesting ads to users.
Below we list our 3rd Party providers along with links to their privacy policies. Please read and make sure you accept their use of cookies. You may also choose to opt out of their services. A link has been provided below where applicable.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets cookies that allow us to obtain reports and statistics on our website’s traffic and visitor’s behaviour.
Google privacy policy
Opt-out of Google Analytics cookies
Hotjar
Hotjar is a service that offers analytics and insights about website usage to help us better understand users’ needs and identify problems to improve on and provide a good user experience.
Privacy policy
Opt-out – Do not Track
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager is a tag management system that allows you to quickly and easily update marketing tags and code snippets on your website or mobile app.
Google AdWords
We use Google AdWords to track the performance of advertisements that we place on Google.
How Google uses cookies in advertising
Google ads settings
Google DoubleClick
Google DoubleClick is used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns
This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.
How Google uses cookies in advertising
opt-out of Double-click cookies
Cookies Used
Cookie | Set by | Duration | Functionality |
_gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | |
_ga | Google Analytics | 24 months | Used to distinguish users. |
_gid | Google Analytics | 1 day | Used to distinguish users. |
_hjid | Hotjar | 12 months | 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. |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar | 30 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar | 30 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. |
_hjFirstSeen | Hotjar | Session | 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. |
_hjTLDTest | Hotjar | Session | 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. |
ajs_anonymous_id | Hotjar | 12 months | This cookie is set by Segment as a randomly generated ID for anonymous visitors. |
_BEAMER_FIRST_VISIT_{product ID}
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Hotjar |
3000 days
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This cookie is set by Beamer to store the date of this user’s first interaction with insights. |
_BEAMER_USER_ID_{product ID}
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Hotjar |
300 days
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This cookie is set by Beamer to store an internal ID for a user.
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_BEAMER_LAST_UPDATE_{product ID}
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Hotjar | 3000 days | This cookie is set by Beamer to store the timestamp for the last time the number of unread posts was updated for this user. |
_BEAMER_FILTER_BY_URL_{product ID}
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Hotjar |
20 minutes
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This cookie is set by Beamer to store whether to apply URL filtering on the feed |
_BEAMER_DATE_{product ID}
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Hotjar | 300 days | This cookie is set by Beamer to store the latest date on which the feed was opened. |
moove_gdpr_popup | GDPR Cookie Compliance | To store cookie consent preferences. | |
TawkConnectionTime | Tawk.to | session | Allows the website to recognise the visitor, to optimize chat-box functionality. |
IDE | 12 months | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads, limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. ‘IDE’ is used for these purposes to show Google ads on non-Google sites |
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DSID | 2 weeks | Used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalization. It lasts for 2 weeks. | |
RUL | Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed – This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. | ||
AID | Used to activate targeted advertising. | ||
__Secure-3PSIDCC | These cookies are used to deliver ads more relevant to you and your interests | ||
NID | 6 months | This cookie contains a unique ID used to remember your preferences and other information such as your preferred language, how many search results you prefer to have shown on a results page (for example, 10 or 20), and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | |
SIDCC | 3 months | Security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorized access. | |
SEARCH_SAMESITE | This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. | ||
__Secure-3PAPISID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests to show relevant & personalised Google advertisements. | ||
SAPISID | 24 months | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | |
APISID | 24 months | ||
__Secure-3PSID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests to show relevant & personalised Google advertisements. | ||
SID | 24 months | Some cookies are used to authenticate users, helping ensure that only the actual owner of an account can access that account. 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 us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. | |
HSID | 24 months | Some cookies are used to authenticate users, helping ensure that only the actual owner of an account can access that account. 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 us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. | |
SSID | 24 months | Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website, in addition to being used to help customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results and your visits to an advertisers website. | |
CONSENT | 240 months | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | |
1P_JAR | 30 days | Collect website statistics and track conversion rates. | |
OTZ | 30 days | Cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. |
Manage cookies
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser.
Alternatively, you may choose to opt out of 3rd party cookie provider via their opt-out service – see above.
Further information on deleting or managing cookies can be found at www.aboutcookies.org.