Cookie Notice
Ver. 2.0 Updated on: April 15, 2024
This website uses cookies to better the user experience of its visitors. Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system, allowing users to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device on their first visit to the website. This complies with recent legislative requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.
Cookies are small files saved to a user’s computer/device hard drive that track, save, and store information about the user’s interactions and website use. They allow a website, through its server, to provide users with a tailored experience within the site.
Users are advised to take necessary steps within their web browser security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website to their computer’s/device’s hard drive.
Cookie Groups by Function
Necessary Cookies
- Also known as "essential" cookies, these are required for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They are typically set in response to actions made by the user, such as setting privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
- Function: Ensure proper website functionality
- Lifespan: Session-based or persistent, depending on the function.
- Necessity: Mandatory for website operation.
- Impact: Minimal privacy impact as they do not track personal information beyond essential function.
Preference Cookies
- These cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you are in. They are set to improve the user experience by personalizing content.
- Function: Store user preferences to provide personalized content.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to remember settings between visits.
- Necessity: Enhance user experience but not essential.
- Impact: Low privacy impact, improves usability.
Analytics Cookies
- Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They track things like how long a visitor stays on a page and which pages are visited.
- Function: Collect data on user behavior for analysis and site improvement.
- Lifespan: Can be session-based or persistent for longitudinal analysis.
- Necessity: Important for website optimization but not essential.
- Impact: Moderate privacy impact; should be used transparently.
Marketing Cookies
- Used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
- Function: Track users across websites for targeted advertising.
- Lifespan: Usually persistent to track users over time.
- Necessity: Non-essential but important for marketing strategies.
- Impact: High privacy impact, requires explicit consent.
Cookie Groups by Duration
Session Cookies
- These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. They’re used for various reasons, such as tracking a user’s session to facilitate transactions on a website.
- Function: These cookies are designed to collect and store information while the user accesses a web page. They are used to manage user sessions, perform transactions, and ensure smooth navigation through the site. Session cookies help remember selections and choices made during the visit (like login status or form inputs) and are critical for functionalities such as e-commerce shopping carts.
- Lifespan: Session cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when the browsing session ends—this occurs when the user closes the browser.
- Necessity: Essential for the functionality of many websites, providing seamless user experiences during a single session.
- Impact: Minimal privacy impact, as they do not track user behavior across multiple sessions or websites. They are generally considered privacy-friendly because they cannot gather data over time.
Persistent Cookies
- These remain in the cookie file of the browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). They’re used for purposes such as remembering your preferences and choices when visiting a site.
- Function: Persistent cookies help websites remember your information and settings for future visits. This results in faster and more convenient access since you don’t have to log in again every time you visit. They are used for a variety of purposes, including user preference storage, targeting/advertising, and analytics.
- Lifespan: These cookies remain in the user’s device for the period specified in the cookie (which could be minutes, days, or years after the browser session ends) or until manually deleted by the user.
- Necessity: Not essential for website functionality but important for enhancing user experience, conducting analytics, and delivering personalized advertising.
- Impact: Higher privacy impact compared to session cookies, as they track user behavior over time and across sessions. Their use requires clear notification and often consent due to their potential to build detailed profiles of user activity.
Cookie Groups by Origin
First-party Cookies
- These are set by the web server of the visited page and share the same domain. Primarily used for the smooth functionality of the site.
- Function: These are set by a domain other than the one visited by the user. Used primarily for tracking and online-advertising purposes, they allow advertisers to track a user’s browsing history across multiple websites and deliver targeted advertisements that are relevant to the user’s interests.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to enable long-term tracking across sessions and websites.
- Necessity: Non-essential for a website’s basic functionality but crucial for advertising networks to deliver personalized marketing content.
- Impact: High privacy impact, as they enable the creation of detailed profiles of users’ browsing habits and histories. Their use is subject to strict regulations in many jurisdictions, and they require explicit consent from users in places like the European Union under GDPR.
Third-party Cookies
- These are set by a domain other than the one visited by the user. Used for cross-site tracking, retargeting, and ad-serving.
- Function: These are set by a domain other than the one visited by the user. Used primarily for tracking and online-advertising purposes, they allow advertisers to track a user’s browsing history across multiple websites and deliver targeted advertisements that are relevant to the user’s interests.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to enable long-term tracking across sessions and websites.
- Necessity: Non-essential for a website’s basic functionality but crucial for advertising networks to deliver personalized marketing content.
- Impact: High privacy impact, as they enable the creation of detailed profiles of users’ browsing habits and histories. Their use is subject to strict regulations in many jurisdictions, and they require explicit consent from users in places like the European Union under GDPR.
Additional Cookie Groups/Sub-categories
Security Cookies
- Used specifically for enhancing the security of a website and its users. They help in authentication, preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and protecting user data from unauthorized parties.
- Function: Security cookies are essential for protecting user data and preventing fraudulent use of login credentials. They help to secure user authentication sessions and protect against unauthorized access to user accounts. These cookies play a critical role in enforcing security measures on a website, including those that prevent fraudulent activities and enhance web security.
- Lifespan: Can be session-based for short-term security measures or persistent for ongoing security preferences.
- Necessity: Essential for websites that require user login and authentication to ensure the security and privacy of user interactions.
- Impact: Minimal privacy impact since they are designed to protect user data. Their use is generally viewed as beneficial and necessary for security reasons.
Social Media Cookies
- These cookies are set by social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests.
- Function: Social media cookies are set by social media platforms on websites that include social media features like share buttons or embedded content. They enable users to share content across social platforms and can provide tracking that social media services use for targeting advertisements or analyzing platform usage.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to track users across sessions and provide consistent social media integration and personalization.
- Necessity: Non-essential for the basic functionality of a website but important for integrating social media features that enhance user experience and engagement.
- Impact: Can have a moderate to high privacy impact due to their ability to track users across websites and gather data on user preferences and social interactions.
Functional Cookies
- While often grouped with preference cookies, functional cookies deserve a separate mention as they enable additional website functionality beyond the basic operation. This can include video playback, live chat services, and more personalized features beyond what preference cookies cover.
- Function: Social media cookies are set by social media platforms on websites that include social media features like share buttons or embedded content. They enable users to share content across social platforms and can provide tracking that social media services use for targeting advertisements or analyzing platform usage.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to track users across sessions and provide consistent social media integration and personalization.
- Necessity: Non-essential for the basic functionality of a website but important for integrating social media features that enhance user experience and engagement.
- Impact: Can have a moderate to high privacy impact due to their ability to track users across websites and gather data on user preferences and social interactions.
Content Personalization Cookies
- These are used to gather data on your browsing behavior to tailor content and media to your interests. While they can overlap with marketing cookies, their primary function is to enhance the content experience on a site rather than to promote third-party marketing efforts.
- Function: These cookies track browsing habits and are used to deliver more relevant content to the user. By understanding the user’s preferences and interactions with the site, these cookies tailor the web experience to each user, displaying content or offers that are more likely to be of interest.
- Lifespan: Typically persistent to allow for long-term personalization of content across multiple visits.
- Necessity: Not essential for website functionality but important for providing a customized and relevant user experience.
- Impact: Moderate privacy impact, as they involve tracking user preferences and content engagement to personalize the experience. Transparency and user consent are important for their use.
Performance Cookies
- Separate from analytics cookies, performance cookies specifically focus on collecting data related to the performance of the website, like page loading speeds and error messages. This information is used to improve website functionality.
- Function: Performance cookies collect information about how users interact with a website, like which pages are visited most frequently and if error messages are received from web pages. These cookies are used exclusively to improve the performance of the website and the user experience they provide by optimizing content and functionality.
- Lifespan: Can be session-based to analyze specific visit data or persistent to measure performance over time.
- Necessity: Important for website owners looking to monitor and enhance their site’s performance and user experience but not essential for website use.
- Impact: Low privacy impact since they are designed to collect data anonymously without identifying individual users. They focus on improving website functionality and efficiency.
Considerations for Further Classification
- Regulatory Requirements: Depending on the jurisdiction of your operation or your users, there may be a need to classify cookies in a way that aligns with specific legal requirements or consumer protection standards.
- Technical Distinctions: Beyond purpose, cookies can also be classified based on their technical attributes, such as whether they are HTTP-only (restricting access to cookie information by scripts) or Secure (ensuring transmission of cookie data over secure protocols).
- Industry-Specific Needs: Certain industries may have unique needs or conventions for cookie classification, reflecting the specific privacy concerns or user expectations in those sectors.
Name, types and purpose of cookies we use:
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_rg_session
Necessary
2 days
The website session cookie is set by the server to maintain the user’s session state across different pages of the website. This cookie is essential for functionalities such as login persistence, ensuring a seamless and consistent user experience. The session cookie does not store personal data and is typically deleted when the browser is closed, enhancing privacy and security.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_gat_UA-*
Analytics
1 minute
The _gat_UA-* cookie is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the Google Analytics account or website it relates to. This cookie is a variation of the _gat cookie and is used to throttle the request rate, limiting the amount of data collected by Google Analytics on high traffic websites. It helps manage the volume of data recorded, ensuring efficient performance and accurate analytics reporting.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_ga
Analytics
1 year 1 month 4 days
The _ga cookie is set by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. It helps track how users interact with the website, providing insights into site usage and performance.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_ga_*
Analytics
1 year 1 month 4 days
The _ga_* cookie is set by Google Analytics to store and count page views on the website. This cookie helps track the number of visits and interactions with the website, providing valuable data for performance and user behavior analysis. It belongs to the analytics category and plays a crucial role in generating detailed usage reports for site optimization.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_gid
Analytics
1 day
The _gid cookie is set by Google Analytics to store information about how visitors use a website and to create an analytics report on the website's performance. This cookie collects data on visitor behavior, including pages visited, duration of the visit, and interactions with the website, helping site owners understand and improve user experience. It is part of the analytics category and typically expires after 24 hours.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_dc_gtm_UA-*
Analytics
1 minute
The _dc_gtm_UA-* cookie is set by Google Analytics to help load the Google Analytics script tag via Google Tag Manager. This cookie facilitates the efficient loading of analytics tools, ensuring that data on user behavior and website performance is accurately collected and reported. It is categorized under analytics and assists in the seamless integration and functioning of Google Analytics on the website.
rubygarage.org
First party.
First party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
m
Necessary
1 year 1 month
The m cookie is set by Stripe and is used to help assess the risk associated with attempted transactions on the website. This cookie plays a critical role in fraud detection by identifying and analyzing patterns of behavior to distinguish between legitimate users and potentially fraudulent activity. It enhances the security of online transactions, ensuring that only authorized payments are processed while minimizing the risk of fraud.
m.stripe.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
__cf_bm
Necessary
1 hour
The __cf_bm cookie is set by Cloudflare to support Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie helps to identify and filter requests from bots, enhancing the security and performance of the website. By distinguishing between legitimate users and automated traffic, it ensures that the site remains protected from malicious bots and potential attacks. This functionality is crucial for maintaining the integrity and reliability of the site’s operations.
.pipedrive.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_GRECAPTCHA
Necessary
6 months
The _GRECAPTCHA cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA to ensure that interactions with the website are from legitimate human users and not automated bots. This cookie helps protect forms, login pages, and other interactive elements from spam and abuse by analyzing user behavior. It is essential for the proper functioning of reCAPTCHA, providing a critical layer of security to maintain the integrity and reliability of the site's interactive features.
recaptcha.net
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
__cf_bm
Necessary
30 minutes
The __cf_bm cookie is set by Cloudflare to distinguish between humans and bots. This cookie is beneficial for the website as it helps in making valid reports on the use of the website. By identifying and managing automated traffic, it ensures that analytics and performance metrics accurately reflect human user interactions, thereby enhancing site security and performance.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
__cfruid
Necessary
During session
The __cfruid cookie is associated with websites using Cloudflare services. This cookie is used to identify trusted web traffic and enhance security. It helps Cloudflare manage and filter legitimate traffic from potentially harmful requests, thereby protecting the website from malicious activities such as DDoS attacks and ensuring reliable performance for genuine users.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
OptanonConsent
Necessary
1 year
The OptanonConsent cookie determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box, ensuring that the consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry to the site. This cookie helps maintain the user's consent preferences and compliance with privacy regulations by storing information about the categories of cookies the user has consented to and preventing unnecessary repetition of consent requests.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
OptanonAlertBoxClosed
Necessary
1 year
The OptanonAlertBoxClosed cookie is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and, in some cases, only when they actively close the notice. It ensures that the cookie consent message is not shown again to the user, enhancing the user experience by preventing repetitive notifications. This cookie helps manage user preferences and ensures compliance with privacy regulations by recording when the notice has been acknowledged.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
referrer_user_id
Necessary
14 days
The referrer_user_id cookie is set by Calendly to support the booking functionality on the website. This cookie helps track the source of referrals to the booking page, enabling Calendly to attribute bookings accurately and enhance the user experience by streamlining the scheduling process. It assists in managing user sessions and preferences during the booking workflow, ensuring efficient and reliable operation.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
Cookie’s name
Type
Retention period
Description
Domain. Cookie’s provider
_calendly_session
Necessary
21 days
The _calendly_session cookie is set by Calendly, a meeting scheduling tool, to enable the meeting scheduler to function within the website. This cookie facilitates the scheduling process by maintaining session information, allowing visitors to book meetings and add events to their calendars seamlessly. It ensures that the scheduling workflow operates smoothly, providing a consistent and reliable user experience.
.calendly.com
Third party.
Third party.
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Explanation of Cookie Groups
In terms of data collected and purposes, cookies can be categorized into several groups:
- Analytics Cookies: Collect data on how you use the website, helping site owners understand and improve the site’s performance. Examples include _ga, _gid, and _gcl_au from Google Analytics.
- Marketing Cookies: Used to track your browsing habits to provide targeted ads that are more relevant to you. LinkedIn’s li_sugr and bcookie fall into this category.
- Functional Cookies: Enhance your browsing experience by remembering your preferences and settings. Examples include LinkedIn’s lidc cookie for data center selection.
- Necessary Cookies: Essential for the website’s operation, enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the site. Cookies like __cf_bm from Cloudflare and _GRECAPTCHA from Google reCAPTCHA are necessary cookies.
You may choose to delete cookies based on their group to better manage your privacy while retaining some functionalities, like necessary cookies for site operation. Be aware that deleting cookies can log you out of websites and reset saved preferences.