A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit certain websites which is used to collect information about how you browse the site.
The table below details the names of the cookies in use across the Proven website, the reason that they are used as well as the period of time that they remain in place.
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you've visited before | 2 years |
| gid | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours |
| _ga | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to our website or to a certain page | 2 years |
| _utmb | This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our website | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | This tells us how you reached our website (for example from another website or a search engine) | 6 months |
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, last_page, embed_preferences, has_logged_in, stats_start_date, stats_end_date, CAL, GAPS, N_T, S_adsense, adsenseReferralSourceId, adsenseReferralSubId, adsenseReferralUrl, adsenseReferralUrlQuery, APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SNID, SSID | Vimeo sets a number of cookies on any page that embeds a Vimeo video. While we have no control over these cookies, they include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Vimeo viewers, to hold information about current viewing video settings as well as a personal identification token, if you are logged into Vimeo. Furthermore, a set of cookies regarding Google Adsense advertising campaigns might be set, which contain identifiers that record user browsing behaviour. | There are some cookies that expire 10 years after first viewing a Vimeo video while most of them expire between a few days for up to two you close your browser |
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| Google Remarketing: There isn’t a specific cookie for Remarketing because it’s third party, but some examples of cookies that Google might use are IDE, ANID, DSID, FLC, AID, TAID, and exchange_uid. You can find out even more about the types of Google Cookies here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types | Used to distinguish users - the Google Remarketing cookie enables us to distinguish who has visited specific pages on our website so we are then able to advertise relevant content back to them. | 18 months |
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| __hs_opt_out | This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. | 13 months |
| __hs_do_not_track | This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. | 13 months |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | 7 days |
| hs_ab_test | This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. | End of session |
| 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. | 14 days | |
| hs-messages-is-open | This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. | 30 mins |
| hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. | 1 day |
| __hsmem | This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. | 1 year |
| hs-membership-csrf | This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. | End of session |
| hs_langswitcher_choice | This cookie is used to save the visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. | 2 years |
| __cfduid | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider, Cloudflare. It helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to your website and minimizes blocking legitimate users. | 30 days |
| __cfruid | 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. | - |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | 13 months |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 13 months |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. | 30 minutes |
| __hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | End of session |
| messagesUtk | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. | 13 months |
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