Cookie Policy
Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They 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.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
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 | Domain | Vendor | Purpose | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | HubSpot | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | Necessary |
| __cf_bm | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hsadspixel.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hs-analytics.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hsappstatic.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hsforms.com | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hsforms.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hsleadflows.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hs-scripts.com | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hubspot.com | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | hubspot.net | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | usemessages.com | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | cloudfare.com | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfduid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __cfruid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary |
| __hs_do_not_track | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Prevents the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot | Necessary |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used to prevent always on banner display when visitors are browsing in strict mode | Necessary |
| __hs_opt_out | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used by the banner to not ask visitors to accept cookies again | Necessary |
| _cfuvid | cloudfare.com | HubSpot | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. This cookie is used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Necessary |
| _ga_6Y3Z9W53BD | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used to persist session state | Necessary | |
| _ga_7QHT72S8Y8 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used to persist session state | Necessary | |
| _GRECAPTCHA | google.com | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. | Necessary | |
| csrftoken | instagram.com | Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | Necessary | |
| hs_ab_test | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before | Necessary |
| wordpress_test_cookie | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Dolphin Square | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | Necessary |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. | Functionality |
| _hjFirstSeen | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. | Functionality |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Functionality |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | linkedin.com | Linkedln | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | Functionality |
| JSESSIONID | nr-data.net | HubSpot | JSESSIONID is a platform session cookie and is used by sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP). The cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Functionality |
| lang | ads.linkedin.com | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website. | Functionality | |
| messagesUtk | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Remembers the identity of the visitor using the chat widget | Functionality |
| rur | instagram.com | This is an Instagram cookie that enables social media functionality within the site. | Functionality | |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | Functionality | |
| urlgen | instagram.com | This is an Instagram cookie that enables social media functionality within the site. | Functionality | |
| YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Functionality | |
| __hssc | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Analytics session cookie | Analytics |
| __hssrc | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Used to determine if a session is a new session | Analytics |
| __hstc | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Analytics tracking cookie | Analytics |
| _dc_gtm_UA-35149430-2 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used to throttle request rate. | Analytics | |
| _ga | dolphinsquare.co.uk | ID used to identify users | Analytics | |
| _gat | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | Analytics | |
| _gat_UA-35149430-2 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used to throttle the number of Google Analytics request for Google Tag Manager | Analytics | |
| _gid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | Analytics | |
| _hjIncludedInSample | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | his cookie is associated with web analytics functionality and services from HotJar | Analytics |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_2120362 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Analytics |
| _hjSession_2120362 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Analytics |
| _hjSessionUser_2120362 | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Analytics |
| hubspotutk | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HubSpot | Contains visitor's identity | Analytics |
| li_sugr | linkedin.com | Linkedln | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | Analytics |
| ln_or | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Linkedln | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain | Analytics |
| _fbp | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Facebook analytics cookie | Advertisment | |
| _gcl_au | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | Advertisment | |
| _hjid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | HotJar | This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. | Advertisment |
| _uetsid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Microsoft | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | Advertisment |
| _uetvid | dolphinsquare.co.uk | Microsoft | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | Advertisment |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | Linkedln | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | Advertisment |
| BizoID | ads.linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ad analytics. | Advertisment | |
| bscookie | linkedin.com | Linkedln | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | Advertisment |
| fr | facebook.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Advertisment | |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite | Advertisment | |
| lidc | linkedin.com | Linkedln | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | Advertisment |
| MR | bing.com | Microsoft | Used to collect information for analytics purposes. | Advertisment |
| MUID | bing.com | Microsoft | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | Advertisment |
| MUIDB | bat.bing.com | Bing | This cookie is an analytics service provided that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the Website. | Advertisment |
| NID | google.com | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | Advertisment | |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | Linkedln | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | Advertisment |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | Advertisment |
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