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These terms of use, together with this site’s privacy notice set out the terms on which you may use this site. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the website.
By using this site you indicate that you accept and agree to abide by these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please stop using this site immediately.
If you have any questions regarding this site and these terms of use, please contact us.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to enable the organisation to recognise you when you next visit. Our website uses essential cookies to help the site work and to give you the best experience. We also use cookies to help us see what content is most popular and how people are using our website. You can read more detailed information about the cookies used on this website
The table below explains the cookies we use and why. Each cookie is listed by name, along with the following information:
- Cookie Name
- If required, what is it for? A brief description of what the cookie is used for.
- How long does it last? A cookie can either be deleted after a predetermined timespan, or as soon as the user’s session ends. A session is deemed as ending when the user closes his or her browser.
- What’s the implication for site behavior? How would the site visitor’s experience change in the absence of this cookie?
(Where X is the ID of a page that has page-level authentication opt-in enabled. Where X is either “S” or “M” and where Y is the name of a field on a form Where X is the name of a metadata search page, and Y is the unique ID of the current user. Where XX is the unique id of a web form survey page on your website.)
| Cookie name | What is it for? | How long does it last? | What’s the implication for site behaviour? |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcookie | LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags | 2 years | Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature |
| BizoID | LinkedIn insights and ads tags | 1 month | The BizoID cookie stores a unique LinkedIn user ID. Note: The LinkedIn user ID does not contain personally identifiable information. |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn insights and ads tags | 1 month | This cookie stores the last time cookie IDs were synced with a given authorized network partner and is part of LinkedIn's server-to-server data integration solution |
| lang | LinkedIn insights and ads tags | Session | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website |
| lidc | Share buttons and ad tags | 1 day | Used for routing |
| Facebook - fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for individual users. |
| Facebook - _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for individual users. |
| Google - _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 year | Google Analytics helps us understand how well the website is working and how we can improve it. These tools help us collect information in general about how people use our websites, so that we can provide the best user experience. This analytics data does not identify you, it is completely anonymous |
| Google - _gat | Connects to our Google Analytics account for tracking how the visitor uses the website. | 1 session | Statistic cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. |
| Google - _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 1 day | Statistic cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. |
| Hotjar - _hjIncludedInSample | Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical placeholder | Session | Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for individual users. |
| Shopify - _shopify_fs | Collects data on visitors' behaviour and interaction with website. | 1 session | This is used to optimize the website and provide more relevant advertising. |
| Shopify - _shopify_s | Collects data on visitors' behaviour and interaction with website. | 1 session | This is used to optimize the website and provide more relevant advertising. |
| Shopify - _shopify_y | Collects data on visitors' behaviour and interaction with website. | 1 year | This is used to optimize the website and provide more relevant advertising. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | This means that user has viewed and accepted the policy on cookies. | 1 year | This confirms that the user has viewed and accepted the policy on cookies. |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 session | We use YouTube to embed videos into our website. These cookies are used by YouTube to collect analytics and tracking information. |
| PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | 1 year | We use YouTube to embed videos into our website. These cookies are used by YouTube to collect analytics and tracking information. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 6 months | We use YouTube to embed videos into our website. These cookies are used by YouTube to collect analytics and tracking information. |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | We use YouTube to embed videos into our website. These cookies are used by YouTube to collect analytics and tracking information. |
Links to third party websites
Our website contains links to third party websites that we believe may be of interest to our website visitors. This privacy notice only concerns our website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party websites, even where we have provided links to them. If you use any of the third party links on our website, we recommend that you read the privacy policy of that website before sharing any of your personal data.
Analytics
We want our website visitors to have the best and most user-friendly experience so we use third party analytical tools such as Google Analytics to help us understand how well the website is working and how we can improve it. These tools help us collect information in general about how people use our websites – for example, how many people visit each page, how long they stay, which links and search engines they use. This analytics data does not identify you, it is completely anonymous
Social media
We operate a number of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Although this privacy notice covers how we will use any data collected from these platforms, it does not cover how the social media providers will use your information. Please ensure you read their privacy policies before sharing any data and make use of their privacy settings and reporting mechanisms to control how your data is used by them.
Copyright restrictions
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If you print off, download or copy any part of this site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use this site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.