Companial Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy is effective as of February 12, 2024.

As explained in our Privacy Policy, to make our website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called “cookies” on your device. This notice provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables our website to remember your actions and preferences. For example, cookies enable us to identify your device, secure your access to website, remember your preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

What types of cookies do we use and why?

Cookies are capable of storing many types of data and they help provide additional functionality to the site as well as analyse site usage more accurately. In all cases in which cookies are used, no personally identifiable information will be collected unless your explicit permission is given.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

youtube.com
YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
• YSC
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
• CONSENT
Google is responsible for setting and managing these cookies. No sensitive data is saved but if you are logged in to a Google Account your visit may be linked to that account. For more information please refer to Google Privacy Policy.
companial.com
• pll_language


Performance cookies

These cookies are used to track visits to our site and help us measure traffic sources to improve performance. They are also used to optimize the website based on how many visitors navigate through the site. All information collected is anonymized. If you disable these cookies the site should function correctly, we simply won’t know that you visited the site.

Google Analytics
These are performance cookies used to track visits to our website and movement around the site. The data which is collected is anonymous and is used for benchmarking purposes to monitor the performance of our site and to measure user engagement. We share the anonymized Google Analytics data with selected third parties to assist us in understanding the effectiveness of our website and our marketing efforts.

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• gat
• _gid
• _ga
• _gclxxxx
linkedin.com
• LinkedIn Insight Tag
We may use LinkedIn Insight Tags across our site to monitor traffic from the social media platform. The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that is added to our website to enable in-depth campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about our website visitors. We can use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to measure the performance and ROI of our LinkedIn campaigns including clicks, conversions, and more.
Type: Marketing/performance
LinkedIn is responsible for managing and setting these cookies.
hotjar.com
• _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
• _hjSessionUser_
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.


Targeting cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

google.com
There are several other targeting cookies used for market and audience segmentation and that are used to make our advertising seen on other sites more relevant.
These are:
• _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – owned by Google Analytics
• _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx – owned by Google Analytics.


How do you change cookie preferences or block cookies?

For the performance cookies and targeting cookies when starting a new session on our website, you can choose to opt-in to these. It is possible that any advertising you receive will be less targeted as a result, but the site should function correctly.

If you wish to disable the strictly necessary cookies, then within your browser you can choose whether you want to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete all cookies, third-party cookies or specific website cookies. Each browser’s website should contain instructions on how you can do this.

For further information please refer to: https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/

If you block these cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages will not work in the usual way.

Links to other websites

This cookie notice does not cover links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Contact details

Should you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy or any data protection concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Team at ITsupport@companial.com