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Cookies
Effective Date: 14-Mar-2024
Last Updated: 26-Mar-2024
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
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Cookie Name |
Source |
Duration |
Purpose |
| Necessary Cookies | |||
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__cfuvid |
Hubspot |
Session |
Rate limiting. |
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__cfruid |
Cloudflare |
Session |
Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| checkForPermission | Beeswax | 10 minutes | This cookie is set by Beeswax to determine whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. |
| JSESSIONID | New Relic | Session | New Relic uses this cookie to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
| AWSALBCORS | AWS | 7 days | Amazon Web Services set this cookie for load balancing. |
| _help_center_session | Zendesk | session | Zdassests sets this cookie to hold preferences and session settings for customer support management, and it will be deleted when we leave the web browser. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | |
| cookieyes-consent | CookieYes | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users' consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. |
| __hssrc | Hubspot | Session | This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session. |
| __hssc | Hubspot | 1 hour | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. |
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rc::a rc::f rc::c rc::b |
Permanent | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | |
| Functional Cookies | |||
| __q_state | Qualified | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Description is currently not available. |
| ar_debug | DoubleClick | 1 month | Description is currently not available. |
| _dc_gtm_UA-* | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie to load the Google Analytics script tag. |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | |
| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | |
| li_gc | 6 months | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube | Permanent | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| yt-player-headers-readable | YouTube | Permanent | The yt-player-headers-readable cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences related to video playback and interface, enhancing the user's viewing experience. |
| yt-remote-session-app | YouTube | Session | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
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yt-remote-cast-installed yt-remote-session-name yt-remote-cast-available yt-remote-fast-check-period |
YouTube | Session | These cookies are used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-player-bandwidth | YouTube | Permanent | The yt-player-bandwidth cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences and settings, particularly related to bandwidth and streaming quality on YouTube. |
| Analytics Cookies |
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| slireg | Salesloft | 7 days | No description available. |
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sliguid slirequested |
Salesloft | 1 year | No description available. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
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| _omappvp | OptInMonster | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The _omappvp cookie is set to distinguish new and returning users and is used in conjunction with _omappvs cookie. |
| _omappvs | OptInMonster | 20 minutes | The _omappvs cookie, used in conjunction with the _omappvp cookies, is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | 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. | |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | |
| _gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | |
| _hjSessionUser_* | HotJar | 1 year | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| _hjSession_* | HotJar | 1 hour | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
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__q_domainTest events_distinct_id _g2_session_id |
Qualified | Session | Description is currently not available. |
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_hjTLDTest |
HotJar | Session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
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_gat_gtag_UA_* |
1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | |
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_gh_sess |
Github | Session | GitHub sets this cookie for temporary application and framework state between pages like what step the user is on in a multiple step form. |
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__hstc |
Hubspot | 6 months | Hubspot set this main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
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hubspotutk |
Hubspot | 6 months | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
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vuid |
Vimeo | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos on the website. |
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Performance Cookies |
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tuid |
SpeedTest | 1 year | No description available. |
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tt |
MNTN | 1 year 1 month 4 days | No description available. |
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_uetsid |
Bing | 1 day | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
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_uetvid |
Bing | 1 year 24 days | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. |
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_gat |
1 minute | Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. | |
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AWSALB |
AWS | 7 days | AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. |
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Advertisement Cookies |
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kickfire_api_session_cookie |
1 hour | No description available. | |
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guid |
MNTN | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Stores the global unique identifier that corresponds to each unique user in the MNTN platform. Used for retargeting purposes. |
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site_identity |
Salesloft | 1 year | This cookie is set when the email recipient clicks through a Live Web Tracking tracked link. |
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personalization_id |
X (Twitter) | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. |
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muc_ads |
X (Twitter) | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. |
| _rdt_uuid | 3 months | Reddit sets this cookie to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads. | |
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li_sugr |
3 months | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | |
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bcookie |
1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | |
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bscookie |
1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | |
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MUID |
Bing | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
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bito |
Beeswax | 1 year 1 month | Beeswax sets this cookie as a unique ID for the visitor, which allows third-party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisements. This pairing service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
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bitoIsSecure |
Beeswax | 1 year 1 month | Beeswax sets this cookie to display the user relevant content and advertisements. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
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test_cookie |
DoubleClick | 15 minutes | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
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__kriya_utm |
Kriya.ai | Session | Description is currently not available. |
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YSC |
Youtube | Session | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Youtube | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
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VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
Youtube | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
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IDE |
DoubleClick | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. |
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yt-remote-device-id yt-remote-connected-devices |
Youtube | Permanent | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
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yt.innertube::nextId yt.innertube::requests |
Youtube | Permanent | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
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fr |
3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites with Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | |
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_gcl_aw |
DoubleClick | 3 months | DoubleClick sets this cookie to understand user interaction with the site and advertising. |
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NID |
6 months | Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. | |
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_fbp |
3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | |
Manage cookie preferences
Cookie SettingsYou can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.