Cookies and Similar Technologies
Last updated: July 27, 2021. To view the current version, please click here.
Cookies are a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. They help website providers with things like understanding how people use a website, remembering a user’s login details, and storing website preferences. This page explains how we use cookies to help us ensure that our services function properly, prevent fraud, and analyze and improve the services in accordance with our Privacy Notice.
1. How We Use Cookies
Cookies play an important role in helping us provide personal, effective and safe services. We use cookies on our website. We change the cookies periodically as we improve or add to our services, but we generally use cookies for the following purposes:
- To operate our services. Some cookies are essential to the operation of our website and services. We use those cookies in a number of different ways, including:
- Functionality. We use functional cookies, for example, to remember your language preferences to save you the trouble of having to change these every time you enter our website. Without these cookies, our website would not work properly and you would not be able to use certain important features.
- Fraud prevention and detection. Cookies and similar technologies that we deploy through websites and the services help us learn things about computers and web browsers used to access the services. This information helps us monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of our services.
- To analyze and improve our services. We use cookies to help us understand how visitors arrived at our website, how and how long they use it and how we can improve their experience. This type of so-called “analytics” cookies can provide us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our website interest our visitors and if they experience any errors. We use these cookies to test different designs and features for our sites and we also use them to help us monitor how our visitors reach our sites.
2. How We Use Other Technologies
Third Party Analytics. We use Google Analytics. We have set our Google Analytics to protect your privacy to the maximum extent. For example, we have concluded a data processing agreement with Google to protect your data. We have also made sure that the last octet of your IP-address is invisible and have turned off the setting which allows sharing data with Google. We are also not using any other Google Analytics related cookie services which are offered by Google.
3. How To Manage Cookies
Your web browser may allow you to change your cookie preferences, including to delete and disable dLocal cookies. Please consult the help section of your web browser or follow the links below to understand your options, but please note that if you choose to disable the cookies, some features of our website or services may not operate as intended.
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies…
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store…
- Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
- Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy…
4. Cookie Table
Cookies that we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but describes the main reasons we typically set cookies.
Necessary
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | INFO |
| rbzid | Used for security purposes, determines that a user has passed the challenge–response authentication. | Persistent |
| checkForPermission | This cookie is set by the provider bidr.io. This cookie is used for determining whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. | Persistent |
| GCLB | CDN Load Balancer settings. | Session |
| li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | INFO |
| _gat | From google analytics : Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_ | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _ga | From google analytics : Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gid | From google analytics : Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gat_gtag_UA_*_1 | This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _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. | https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. | https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | INFO |
| APISID | Personalises Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| bito | This cookie is set by bidr.io for advertisement purposes. | Persistent |
| bitoIsSecure | This cookie is set by the provider Bidr. The main purpose is targeting and advertising. This cookie is used to serve the user with relevant advertisement based on real time bidding. | Persistent |
| tuuid_lu | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Persistent |
| bscookie | Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
Functionality
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
| COOKIE NAME | PURPOSE | INFO |
| SSID | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| SAPISID | is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| SID | These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies |
| lang | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| lidc | Facilitate data center selection | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| bcookie | This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. | https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. | https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
| __hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Hotjar cookie that is set once a user minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. | https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information |
