Cookie Policy

Cookie policy

This Cookie Policy forms part of our overall Privacy Policy and relates to our website www.thescalers.com. This Policy was last reviewed and updated in May 2020.

What are Cookies?

For a better experience while using our website, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

What types of cookies do we use and why?

For clarity we have split our use of cookies into three distinct purposes:

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies – provide a service that is explicitly requested by you, the device user. These cookies also enable core functionality of the website such as security, network management and accessibility. We do not offer the ability to ‘turn off’ strictly necessary cookies as you land on the site. However, you can do so, locally, with your own browser settings. If you do so, this may affect the functionality of the website.

Cookie Type Duration Description
__cfduid https 1 month This cookie collects and anonymizes End User IP addresses using a one-way hash of certain values so they cannot be personally identified
NID https 1 year Google
_gat_UA-63310166-1 https 1 day Google Analytics

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies – helps to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.

Cookie Type Duration Description
__hssrc https 1 year Hubspot
_fbp https 1 day Facebook
fr https 3 months Ads targeting cookie for Facebook
lidc https 1 day Linkedin used for routing
lang https session This cookie is set by LinkedIn to set default locale/language
bscookie https 2 year A secure browser cookie set by LinkedIn
IDE https 2 years Ads targeting cookie for Doubleclick

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies — helps to improve your user experience of our website, such as providing and analysing relevant content. We give you the option to actively consent to these cookies as you land on our website, with the option to change your mind anytime in the future.

Cookie Type Duration Description
__hssc https 30 min. This cookie keeps track of sessions
hubspotutk https 13 months This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity
__hstc https 13 months The main cookie for tracking visitors
_gcl_au https 2 months Google Analytics
_hjid https 1 year 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
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress https 30 min This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user
_gid https 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics used to distinguish users
_ga https 2 year This cookie is set by Google Analytics used to distinguish users
signals-sdk-user-id https 1 year This cookie is set by Common Room to assign a unique identifier to each user, enabling the tracking of user interactions across the website. It refreshes on every visit.
signals-sdk-session-id https 30 minutes This cookie is set by Common Room to identify individual sessions on the website. It refreshes with user activity.

How to delete cookies?

If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our website, you can do so through your browser setting. Alternatively, you can visit www.internetcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices. You will find general information about cookies and details on how to delete cookies from your device.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this cookie policy or our use of cookies, please contact us. deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.