What are cookies and how do we use them?

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 visit our website and also assists us in making improvements.

A cookie is a small file (consisting of letters and numbers) that we store on your browser or elsewhere on your device.

We use the following flavours of cookies:

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, including (where applicable) greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, content tailored for your region or choice of language).

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Necessary Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preference Cookies

lang

Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website

Session

Ads.linkedin.com

Statistics Cookies

dc_gtm_UA-# 

Used by Google Tag.

Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.

Session

lockncharge.com 

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_ga

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

2 years

lockncharge.com 

_gid

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Session

lockncharge.com 

dtCookie 

Unclassified

Session

lockncharge.com 

vuid

Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read

2 years

Vimeo.com

 

Marketing Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_omappvp

Used by the lead generation platform OptinMonster to determine if the visitor is returning and has visited the website before.

11 years.

lockncharge.com

_omappvs

Used by the lead generation platform OptinMonster to determine if the visitor is visiting the website for the first time.

Session

lockncharge.com

ads/ga-audiences

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.

Session

google.com

bcookie

Used by the social networking service LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

LinkedIn

BizolID

Unclassified.

179 days

ads.linkedin.com

bscookie

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

Linkedin.com

Collect

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour.

Session

google-analytics.com

fr

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

3 months

facebook.com

Idc

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

Session

linkedin.com

MUID

Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.

1 year

bing.com

MUID8

Unclassified.

1 year

bing.com

visitor_id<uniquestring>

This visitor_id cookie includes the name “visitor_id” plus the unique identifier for your account which is derived from the tracking code placed on the Site. The value stored is the unique ID for the visitor.

10 years

pardot.com

visitor_id<uniquestring>-hash

This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, a unique visitor id …

10 years

Pardot.com

Pardot

This session cookie is set when a Pardot user is logged in.

 

Pardot.com

tr

Unclassified.

Session

facebook.com

UsedMatchHistory

Unclassified

179 days

ads.linkedin.com

_hjClosedSurveyInvites

Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor interacts with an External Link Survey invitation modal. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown.

365 days

Boolean true/false

_hjDonePolls

Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in.

365 days

Boolean true/false

_hjMinimizedPolls

Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site.

365 days

Boolean true/false

_hjShownFeedbackMessage

Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to show.

365 days

Boolean true/false

_hjid

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.

365 days

UUID

_hjRecordingLastActivity

This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).

Session

Numerical Value (Timestamp)

_hjTLDTest

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.

Session

Boolean true/false

_hjUserAttributesHash

User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.

Session

Hash

_hjCachedUserAttributes

This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool.

Session

JSON

_hjLocalStorageTest

This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.

Under 100ms

Boolean true/false

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit.

30 minutes

Boolean true/false

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

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.

30 minutes

Boolean true/false

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

30 Minutes

Boolean true/false

_hjFirstSeen

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.

Session

Boolean true/false

hjViewportId

This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions.

Session

UUID

_hjRecordingEnabled

This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session.

Session

Boolean true/false

_gaexp Used to determine a user’s inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. Depends on the length of the experiment, but typically 90 days. google.com
_opt_awcid Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Customer IDs. 24 hours google.com
_opt_awmid Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Campaign IDs. 24 hours google.com
_opt_awgid Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Ad Group IDs 24 hours google.com
_opt_awkid Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Criterion IDs 24 hours google.com
_opt_utmc Stores the last utm_campaign query parameter. 24 hours google.com
_opt_expid This cookie is created when running a redirect experiment. It stores the experiment ID, the variant ID and the referrer to the page that’s being redirected. 10 seconds google.com
__hs_opt_out This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_do_not_track This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_initial_opt_in This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. 7 days Hubspot.com
__hs_cookie_cat_pref This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_gpc_banner_dismiss This cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed. 180 days Hubspot.com
hs_ab_test This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. end of session Hubspot.com
<id>_key When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. 14 days Hubspot.com
hs-messages-is-open This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. 30 minutes Hubspot.com
hs-messages-hide-welcome-message This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. 1 day Hubspot.com
__hsmem This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. 7 days Hubspot.com
hs-membership-csrf This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. end of session Hubspot.com
hs_langswitcher_choice This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. 2 years Hubspot.com
__cfruid This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. end of session Cloudflare
__cf_bm This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. 30 minutes Cloudflare
__hstc The main cookie for tracking visitors. 6 months Hubspot.com
hubspotutk This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hssc This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. 30 minutes Hubspot.com
__hssrc Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. end of session Hubspot.com

  

Unclassified Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_uetsid

Unclassified

Session

lockncharge.com

gwcc

Unclassified

3 months

lockncharge.com

wfwaf-authcookie-<uniquestring>

This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. It is used to authenticate user’s login request. This cookie is persistent and expires in 1 day.

24 Hours

WordFence Security Plugin

wordfence_verifiedHuman

Cookie set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin to protect the site against malicious attacks.

24 hours

WordFence Security Plugin

wfvt_<uniquestring>

These contain information about your general geographic location (used to remember your time zone, for example). These are known as session cookies and are deleted when you leave the site.

30 minutes

WordPress Default

wordpress_logged_in_<uniquestring>

After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wordpress_sec_<uniquestring>

Execute for your security page is better

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wordpress_test_cookie

Purpose: accepts wordpress cookies on the website

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wp-settings-8

Purpose: supports optimized display and use of the wordpress website by the Administrator

8 years

WordPress Default

wp-settings-time-8

Purpose: allows optimized display and use of the wordpress website by the Administrator

8 years

WordPress Default


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