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COOKIE POLICY

This policy outlines how this website sets cookies on your computer.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files created by most websites to help improve your web experience. They are either stored in the memory (session cookies) or on the hard drive (persistent cookies) of your computer or other device.

Analytics Cookies we set

These cookies allow us to count page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site, using a service provided by Google Analytics.

Full details of the cookies we use for analytics can be found at Cookies & Google Analytics in documentation for Google's Analytics tracking code. You can also read Google's Privacy Policy for Google Analytics.

Third party cookies that may be set

We use a number of social media tools and external services to enhance visitor interaction on our site. If you already use these platforms their cookies may be set through our website. Data may then be collected by these companies that enables them to serve up adverts on other sites that they think are relevant to your interests.

Here is some information around the cookies that visitors will have set in their browser. I’ve included the cookies and their types in the table below:

https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser

Necessary cookies

These are essential cookies that do not require consent.

Name: __hs_opt_out

Description:
This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again.
This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.
It contains the string "yes" or "no".
It expires in 13 months.

Name: __hs_do_not_track

Description:
This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot.
It contains the string "yes".
It expires in 13 months.

Name:__hs_initial_opt_in

Description:
This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode.
It contains the string "yes" or "no".
It expires in seven days. 

Name: __hs_cookie_cat_pref

Description:
This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to.
It contains data on the consented categories.
It expires in 13 months.

Name: hs_ab_test
Description:
This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before.
It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor.
It expires at the end of the session.

Name: <id>_key

Description: 
When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again.
The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page.
It contains an encrypted version of the password so future visits to the page will not require the password again.
It expires in 14 days.

Name: hs-messages-is-open

Description:
This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits.
It is set in your visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity.
If your visitor manually closes the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes.
It contains a boolean value of True if present.
It expires in 30 minutes.

Name: hs-messages-hide-welcome-message 

Description: This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.
It contains a boolean value of True or False.
It expires in one day. 

Name:__hsmem

Description:
This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site.
It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership user when they are currently logged in.
It expires in one year. 

Name: hs-membership-csrf

Description:
This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged.
It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a membership login is authentic.
It expires at the end of the session.

Name: hs_langswitcher_choice

Description:
This cookie is used to save the visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.
It gets set when an end user selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the future, if they are available.
It contains a colon delimited string with the ISO639 language code choice on the left and the top level private domain it applies to on the right. An example will be "EN-US:hubspot.com".
It expires in two years.

Name: __cfruid

Description:
This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies.
Learn more about Cloudflare cookies.
It expires at the end of the session.

Analytics cookies

These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner. If you're a visitor to a site supported by HubSpot, you can opt out of these cookies by not giving consent.

Name: __hstc

Description: 
The main cookie for tracking visitors.
It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
It expires in 13 months.

Name: hubspotutk

Description: 
This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.
It expires in 13 months.

Name:__hssc

Description: 
This cookie keeps track of sessions.
This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie.
It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.
It expires in 30 minutes.

Name: __hssrc

Description:

Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser.
If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session.
It contains the value "1" when present.
It expires at the end of the session.

Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)

Flash Cookies are employed by Adobe Flash Player to deliver video content playback features and for saving preferences. They are stored in a similar way to standard cookies. The Adobe website provides comprehensive information on how to manage Flash cookies.

How to disable cookies

Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can set your browser to refuse cookies or show you when a cookie is set. If you choose to refuse cookies, some features of the website may not work correctly.

Find out how to manage cookies at allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies

Further Information

Please contact Little Dot Studios at legal@littledotstudios.com if you require further information about cookies set by our website.