Cookie Policy

Improving your browsing experience and our marketing communications.

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Cookies


A cookie is a small file stored on your device when you browse our website. We do this when there is a reason to remember information from one-page view to the next. Sometimes it is necessary to do this. For example, to keep our website safe from malicious attacks, or to provide a secure sign-up process, or to remember your preferences. Sometimes it is not strictly necessary but beneficial. For example, to track your browsing history so we can improve your browsing experience and our marketing communications to you, or to improve the overall effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

We will only store cookies that are not strictly necessary if you provide your consent. We will ask for your consent by displaying a consent banner when you first visit our website. If you decline we will only place necessary cookies, we will not place non-essential cookies, nor will we track your browsing activity. If you initially accept but later wish to withdraw your consent then you can delete all the cookies we may have placed using the cookie management features of your browser. You can also use these features to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) but please be aware doing so may have a detrimental effect on the performance of the website. Please note that different browsers manage cookies independently.

The cookies that we might set, depending on your consent, are set out in the table below. We review this list regularly to check its accuracy. However, we rely on third-party technologies for some services and some details may change over time. If you believe any information here is inaccurate then please do contact us to let us know by emailing us at privacy@mindfoundry.ai and we will correct it. Please be aware that third parties (mostly advertising networks) may also use cookies that appear to be associated with our website according to your browser. We do not have any control over these.

Cookie Name

Cookie Expiry

Cookie Purpose

__cf*

Session

Our website uses CloudFlare to provide content delivery services and protection against malicious attacks. CloudFlare may place various cookies to maximize network resource utilization, manage traffic, and detect and mitigate malicious traffic. The cookies start with the __cf prefix and usually expire at the end of the session. They may be set on the mindfoundry.ai or hubspot.com domain. They contain no personal information and are necessary for our website to function effectively.

__hs_opt_out

13 months

Our website is hosted using Hubspot. This is one of a number of possible Hubspot cookies depending on the level of consent you give to us. This persistent cookie is necessary to remember your answer when we showed you the cookie consent banner. The value will be "yes" if you consent to our use of non-essential cookies, otherwise it will be "no".

__hs_initial_opt_in

7 days

This Hubspot cookie is used to prevent the cookie consent banner from always displaying if you are browsing in strict mode. The value will be "yes" or "no".

__hstc

13 months

This is one of a number of possible Hubspot cookies if your cookie consent permitted the use of analytical tracking. As well as hosting our website pages, Hubspot can provide us with useful information about your usage of them. This cookie is the primary cookie that distinguishes you from other site visitors. It contains no personal information.

__hssc

30 minutes

This is another Hubspot cookie that is used to recognize when you start a new browsing session. It encodes information about when the session started and how much content has been seen.

__hssrc

Session

This Hubspot cookie is used in combination with __hssc to keep track of sessions. If this cookie exists then it will always have the value 1.

hubspotutk

13 months

When you submit a form on our site this Hubspot cookie is used to recognize if you have already submitted this or any other form. It contains a unique identifier that distinguishes you from other visitors but contains no personal information.

_gid

24 hours

One of a number of possible cookies placed by Google Analytics if your cookie consent permitted the use of analytical tracking. We use Google Analytics to generate statistics on how well our campaigns perform at attracting people to our website and how those people go on to comsume content. This cookie contains a unique identifier and is used to distinguish you from other visitors to our website. It contains no personal information.

_ga

2 years

Another Google Analytics cookie. This is similar in purpose to _gid but this cookie is intended to remember you over a longer period of time.

_gat

1 minute

Google Analytics uses this cookie to throttle the number of requests to their servers from our website.

_gac_UA-117514818-1

3 months

If you land on our website having followed a promotional link then Google Analytics may set a cookie with this name (or similar) to remember some details about the marketing campaign.

_GRECAPTCHA

Session

This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA, which is necessary to protect our site against spam enquiries on contact forms.

_fbp

90 days

This cookie is used by the Facebook advertising network. It will be set if your cookie consent permits it. It contains a unique identifier that distinguishes you from other visitors but contains no personal information.

_fbc

90 days

Another cookie set by Facebook if your cookie consent permits it. It will only be set if you landed on our website via a Facebook ad that we have placed.

bcookie and bscookie

2 years

We include LinkedIn Insight Tag on our website to help us understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns we run on LinkedIn. The tag will place various session and persistent cookies as part of its function provided your cookie consent permitted the use of analytical cookies. These particular cookies are Browser Identifier cookies that uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform.

lang

Session

Also set by LinkedIn Insight Tag and used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings.

li_gc

2 years

Set by LinkedIn Insight Tag and used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes

lidc

1 day

Set by LinkedIn Insight Tag and used to facilitate routing of information to the correct data center for processing.

UserMatchHistory

30 days

Set by LinkedIn and used for Ads ID synchronization.

AnalyticsSyncHistory

30 days

Set by LinkedIn and used to store information about the time synchronization with other LinkedIn analytics cookies took place.

 

This cookie policy was last updated on 4th May 2023.