Cookie Policy
How and why the Cyber-Duck website uses cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer when you visit a website and provide consent. Cyber-Duck uses cookies to personalise content, provide social media features, and help us analyse our website traffic.
List of cookies used
There are four types of Cookies that we use on our website:
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies allow our website to work. These type of Cookies do not transmit your data to any third party. Under GDPR, we do not need to seek authorisation to use these cookies on our website.
| Provider | Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _cfduid | 1 year | Used by Cloudflare (the content network) to identify trusted web traffic. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | CookieAcceptanceStatus | 3 months | Used to store and control the user’s cookie consent. |
| google.com | _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Required by Google reCAPTCHA to help identify spam form submissions. |
Preference Cookies
These cookies enable a website to remember information that changes how the website behaves e.g. the preferred language.
| Provider | Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
|
linkedin.com |
lang | Session | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website. |
|
ads.linkedin.com |
lang | Session | Set by LinkedIn when a website contains an embedded 'follow us' panel. |
Third Party Reporting Cookies
These type of Cookies transmit your non-personal data to third parties for the purposes of analytics and statistical research. These Cookies will anonymise your data. Under ePrivacy and GDPR, we provide instructions on how to disable these Cookies below, where possible.
| Provider | Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _dc_gtm_UA-# | Session | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gid | Session | As above. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gat | Session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | gwcc | 3 months | Unclassified. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gali | Session | Unclassified. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gat_UA-223315-1 | 3 months | Used by GTM to specify the Google Analytics account ID. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gid | 1 day | Unclassified. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | lfuuid | 10 years | Used by LeadForensics. |
| google-analytics.com | collect | Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. This tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | SECSESSID | Session | Unclassified. |
| twitter.com |
personalization_id |
2 years | This cookie is set by Twitter to allow the visitor to share content from the website on their Twitter profile. |
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track visitors across websites to enable a better user experience, personalise advertising content and allow providers to analyse user behaviour by anonymous identifiers such as IP address and geographic locations. Under ePrivacy and GDPR, we provide instructions on how to disable these Cookies below, where possible. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further information.
| Provider | Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| ortto.com |
47823c3108fe4144b3e 0202ebcf1c0b0c850cef31 cf545018558b3e3e6dc109b ap3c |
1 year | Used for page visit tracking. |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| doubleclick.net | r/collect | Session | Unclassified. |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | Session | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| doubleclick.net | RUL | 1 year | Unclassified. |
| google.com | ads/userlists/# | Session | Unclassified. |
| twitter.com | personalization_id | 2 years | Unclassified. |
| t.co | i/adsct | Session | Unclassified. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google Adsense for experimenting with ad efficiency. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk |
__ss __ss_referrer __ss_tk |
1 day 1 day 25 years |
Unclassified. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _fbp | 3 months | Unclassified. |
| linkedin.com |
bcookie bscookie lidc |
2 years | Used to track the use of embedded services. |
|
linkedin.com |
BizoID UserMatchHistory |
29 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites to present relevant ads. |
|
linkedin.com |
AnalyticsSyncHistory |
30 days | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. |
|
linkedin.com |
li_gc |
2 years | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| facebook.com | fr | 3 months | Unclassified |
| google.com | pagead/1p-user-list | Session | Unclassified |
| hotjar.com | _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | 1 year | Used to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| hotjar.com | _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes, extended on user activity |
Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
| hotjar.com | _hjHasCachedUserAttributes | Session |
Used to let Hotjar know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not. |
| hotjar.com | _hjUserAttributesHash | 2 minutes, extended every 30 seconds |
Used to let Hotjar know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| hotjar.com | _hjUserAttributes | No explicit expiration | Used to store User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API. |
| hotjar.com | hjViewportId | Session |
Used to store user viewport details such as size and dimensions. |
| hotjar.com | _hjSession_{site_id} | 30 minutes, extended on user activity |
Used to ensure subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. |
| hotjar.com | _hjSessionTooLarge | Session |
Used to tell Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the server if the session size exceeds the limit. |
| hotjar.com | _hjSessionResumed | Session |
Used when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. |
| hotjar.com |
_hjCookieTest |
Under 100ms |
Used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use cookies. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
| hotjar.com | _hjLocalStorageTest | Under 100ms |
Used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Local Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set.Data stored in _hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
| hotjar.com | _hjSessionStorageTest | Under 100ms |
Used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Session Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in _hjSessionStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
| hotjar.com |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample _hjIncludedInSessionSample_{site_id} |
2 minutes, extended every 30 seconds |
Used to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. |
| hotjar.com | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes, extended on user activity |
Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. |
| hotjar.com | _hjTLDTest | Session |
Used to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. Enables Hotjar to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| hotjar.com | _hjRecordingEnabled | Session |
Used when a Recording starts. Read when the Recording module is initialised to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
| hotjar.com | _hjRecordingLastActivity | Session |
Updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent to the server (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| youtube.com | YSC | Session | Used to store and track user interaction. |
| youtube.com | GPS | Session | Used to store user location data. |
| youtube.com | Yt-Player-Bandwidth | Session | Used to provide bandwidth estimations. |
| youtube.com | Yt-Player-Headers-Readable | 17 days | Used to store configuration data. |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | Used to provide bandwidth estimations. |
| youtube.com | PREF | 8 months | Used to store information such as a user’s preferred page configuration and playback preferences like autoplay, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay. |
| cyber-duck.co.uk | _webeo_trk | 2 years | Users to identify visitors in order to allow personalisation of website content. |
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Cyber-Duck
12 High Street, Elstree
Herts, WD6 3EP, United Kingdom
+44 (0) 20 8953 0070
dataprotection@cyber-duck.co.uk
This document was last updated on 14th March 2023.