What are cookies?

    This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

    Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

     How do we use cookies?

    As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

    The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website. 

    Types of Cookies we use

    As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

    The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

    Necessary cookies
    Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

    Cookie cookieyes-consent
    Duration 1 year
    Cookie _GRECAPTCHA
    Duration 5 months 27 days
    Description Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

    Functional cookies
    Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

    Cookie _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
    Duration 30 minutes
    Description Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user’s first pageview session, which is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

    Analytical cookies
    Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

    Cookie _gcl_au
    Duration 3 months
    Description Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
    Cookie __ga_*_au
    Duration 1 year 1 month 4 days
    Description Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.
    Cookie _ga
    Duration 1 year 1 month 4 days
    Description Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.
    Cookie _hjFirstSeen
    Duration 30 minutes
    Description Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.
    Cookie CONSENT
    Duration 2 years
    Description YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data.

    Performance cookies
    Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

    Advertisement cookie
    Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

    Cookie test_cookie
    Duration 15 minutes
    Cookie YSC
    Duration session
    Description Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
    Cookie VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
    Duration never
    Description YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.
    Cookie _yt-remote-device-id
    Duration never
    Description YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos..
    Cookie yt.innertube::requests
    Duration 2 years
    Description YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
    Cookie yt-remote-connected-devices
    Duration 2 years
    Description YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.
    Duration 1 year 24 days
    Description Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile.

    uncategorized cookies

    Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

    Cookie _hjSessionUser_3395390
    Duration 1 year
    Description Description is currently not available.
    Cookie _hjIncludedInSessionSample_3395390
    Duration 2 minutes
    Description Description is currently not available
    Cookie _hjSession_3395390
    Duration 30 minutes
    Description Description is currently not available

    If you have any questions or concerns regarding this EU, please contact our data privacy manager at info@jostec.co.uk

    Last Updated: 10th May 2023