Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for our clients
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your expressed permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your expressed permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions.
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Opt-in privacy policy cookies used to remember not to ask you to accept cookies again. These cookies are set when you choose to opt out of cookies. They expire in 1 year.
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded Vimeo video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- Vimeo. These cookies expire in 30 minutes.
- LinkedIn functional cookies. One expires in 1 day, another in 6 months
- Hubspot. One of Hubspot cookies expire after you close your browser, others – in 30 minutes, and 6 months.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties. The third party functions may set their own cookies, these details you can find in their privacy policies.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend. We use:
- Google Analytics. These cookies expire in 13 months
- Google Tag Manager. These cookies expire in 3 months
- Linkedin analytics. These cookies expire from 1 day to 1 year
- Hotjar analytics. These cookies expire from 30 minutes to 1 year.
- Hubspot. One of Hubspot cookies expire after you close your browser, others – in 30 minutes, and 6 months.
We also use technology to determine how people who phone us arrived on our website (e.g. from a search engine or by clicking on an advert). This will help us identify how people heard about us. Please be aware that if you call us, using a phone number on the website we can potentially tell how you arrived on our website. Again this ultimately helps us keep down costs for you.
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. You can learn more about online advertising at https://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn’t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see adverts, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer. We use:
- LinkedIn. These cookies expire in 1 year.
Remarketing Cookies
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves, pay for these advertisements. The technology used to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a remarketing cookie during your visit.
Turning Cookies Off
You can switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop accepting cookies (Learn how here). Your concern regarding cookies might be linked to what’s often referred to as “spyware.” Instead of disabling cookies in your web browser, you might discover that anti-spyware software can accomplish the same goal by automatically removing cookies deemed invasive.
