What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, optimise user experience and enable the website to deliver information more efficiently.
Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
How do I manage my cookie preferences?
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are strictly necessary or required for the function of the website.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage your cookie preferences at any time by clicking here: Manage cookie settings
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Strictly necessary and functional cookies
The following is a list of cookies that are strictly required for the operation of the website and cannot be turned off.
| Cookie | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Cookie control | 30 months | This cookie is set to remember the user’s preferences about cookies. |
| Cfc.country and Cfc.locale | 1 year | This is a website cookie that ensures the country region picker works. |
| ASP.NET_Sessionld | Session | This is a platform session cookie, used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | This cookie is provided by Google and is used to protect our website from fraud and abuse, and is subject to its own privacy policy which can be found here. |
| _ _ cf _bm | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots and is loaded within any Vimeo videos used on the site. |
| vuid | 2 years | This cookie is required for the Vimeo video player on the website to function. More information on Vimeo can be found here. |
Analytic cookies
The following is a list of cookies that allow us to count the number of visitors to the site and to see how visitors access the site. We use the information gathered here to improve user experience. These are cookies which a user can turn off.
| Cookie | Expiry | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _gat_UA-20546559-20 | 1 minute | We use Google Analytics to determine how visitors use our website. This allows us to compile reports and improve the user experience. All data is anonymised so that the cookies carry no personally identifiable information. More information on Google Analytics cookie usage can be found here. |
| _ga_0CRZR7J8V4 | 13 months | ||
| _gid | 1 day | ||
| _ga | 13 months | ||
| Hotjar | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 2 minutes | We use Hotjar to better understand user experience (i.e. how much time users spend on which pages, which links users choose to click, what users do and don’t like), this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. For more information on Hotjar’s cookie usage click here. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | ||
| _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | ||
| _hjSessionUser | 1 year | ||
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | 2 minutes | ||
| _hjSession | 30 minutes | ||
| Hubspot | _ _ hstc | 6 months | We use Hubspot to track when our visitors access our site, keeping track of their timestamps, sessions, and sharing the visitor’s identity on form submission and when de-duplicating contacts. For more information on Hubspot click here. |
| hubspotUK | 7 months | ||
| _ _ hssrc | Session | ||
| _ _ hssrc | 30 minutes |
Marketing cookies
These cookies enable us to provide an enhanced user experience and help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage. If you turn these cookies off, some of these services may not function properly.
| Cookie | Expiry | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|---|
| li_gc | 6 months | LinkedIn Ad analytics uses cookies to record information on browser sessions to improve LinkedIn’s advertising. For more info on LinkedIn click here. | |
| bcookie | 1 year | ||
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | ||
| lidc | 13 day | ||
| Bscookie | 1 year | ||
| In_or | 1 day | ||
| Google Doubeclick | IDE | 13 months | Used by Google DoubleClick to report on a user’s actions after viewing or clicking on an advertisers as, with the purpose of measuring efficacy of an ad and presenting targeted ads to the user. For more info on DoubleClick click here. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes |
From time to time we may invite our website visitor or our customers to participate in an online survey about our online services or our products and related services. Your participation is optional, and any information we collect is only used to improve the products and services we offer to our website users or customers. These online surveys are provided by Typeform.
The cookies we use will only be accessed by CFC and those third parties named in the tables above for the purposes referred to in this Notice. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this cookie notice or the information we hold about you, please do email us at dataprotection@cfc.com.
Changes to this notice
This notice was published on 01.05.2024 and last updated on 01.05.2024.
We may change this notice from time to time, when we do we will update this site.
If you have any questions or would like to know more about this Notice, please contact us as dataprotection@cfc.com.