Cookie Management

1. Necessary Cookies

These cookies do not require consent.

__hs_opt_out

Validity: 6 months This cookie is set when you accept or decline cookies. It is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again.

__hs_do_not_track

Validity: 6 months This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending information to HubSpot.

__hs_initial_opt_in

Validity: 7 days This cookie is used to prevent the banner from systematically appearing when visitors are browsing in strict mode.

__hs_cookie_cat_pref

Validity: 6 months This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor has consented to.

hs_ab_test

Validity: Session duration This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they have already seen. It contains the A/B test page identifier and the identifier of the variation that was assigned to the visitor.

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Validity: 14 days When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so that future visits to the page from the same browser do not require logging in again. The cookie name is unique to each password-protected page. It contains an encrypted version of the password, so that future visits to the page will not require the password to be entered again.

hs-membership-csrf

Validity: Session duration This cookie is used to ensure that member content logins cannot be forged. It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a member's login is authentic. It expires at the end of the session.

hs_langswitcher_choice

Validity: 2 years This cookie is used to record the language choice selected by a visitor when viewing pages available in multiple languages. It is set when a visitor selects a language from the language selector and is used as a language preference to redirect them to pages in their chosen language in the future, where available.

__cfruid

This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider in accordance with its rate-limiting policies. It expires at the end of the session. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies.

__cf_bm

This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. It expires after 30 minutes. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies.

2. Analytics Cookies

These are non-essential cookies governed by the cookie banner. You may decline these cookies by withholding your consent.

__hstc

Validity: 6 months The main cookie for visitor tracking. It contains the domain, the utk, the initial timestamp (first visit), the last timestamp (last visit), the current timestamp (this visit) and the session number (incremented for each subsequent session).

hubspotutk

Validity: 6 months This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot upon form submission and is used for contact deduplication. It contains an opaque GUID representing the current visitor.

__hssc

Validity: 30 minutes This cookie keeps track of sessions. It is used to determine whether HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, the viewCount (incremented for each page view within a session), and the session start timestamp.

__hssrc

Validity: Session duration Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine whether the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, the visit is considered a new session. It contains the value "1" when present.

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