Last Update - November 11th 2018

CPM Ireland (part of the “Global CPM Group”) ("us", "we" or "our") uses a) "cookies" to help us remember details of your visits to our blog which can be found at a) www.blog.cpmire.com  (the “Site”) and b) Hubspot to help us remember details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to technical information about your visit e.g. traffic data, location data, browser language, your IP address, the previous website from which you reached us and the type of browser you use. Accordingly, our Privacy Statement will apply to our treatment of the information we obtain via our cookies and trackers.

 

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (e.g. your phone or your computer) which collects information, including personal information about you. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of websites. For example, a cookie could allow the Site to recognise your browser/login details, while another could store your preferences and other information and let you navigate the Site effectively. Cookies can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Statistical and analytical information from cookies and trackers provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this Site; the number of people who return to this Site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this Site and the page in the Site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our Site so that we can manage the Site's capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this Site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site.

We may partner with or receive services from third parties which you can visit from our Site. We may also embed external content and features from such third parties within our Site (e.g. Social Media networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter). We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy statements and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

 

CHANGES TO OUR COOKIE POLICY

We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Cookie Policy, we will let you know either by posting the changed Cookie Policy on the Site or by sending you an email.

It is important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Cookies Policy, then we cannot continue to provide the Site to you, and your only option is to stop accessing the Site.

 

TYPES OF COOKIES

We may place our cookies on your device via our website. Our Privacy Statement will apply to how we treat the information we collect through cookies. The following are the main types of cookies used on the Site:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the Site 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, filling in forms or serving contextual ads. The types of essential cookies used are:

GDPR Consent Cookie

A simple cookie to track whether you have reviewed and consented to the latest version of our privacy policies.

Registration cookies

When you opt in to receiving communications from CPM via downloading an e-book on our site or signing up to our blog or other newsletters, we generate cookies that signal when you are on our site. It also allows us to tailor information most relevant to you based on the pages you view on our site.

 

COOKIES USED ARE:

We use cookies across two different third party systems integrated with our website: Hubspot and Lead Forensics. Below is an outline of what cookies are used with both systems:

Hubspot

HubSpot's tracking code sets the following cookies when someone visits your site. These cookies fall into two general categories: 

  • Essential/necessary cookies: these cookies do not require consent. 
  • Consent banner cookies: there are cookies included in the consent banner under GDPR.

Specific cookie names and descriptions are listed below, as well as tracking information for the ads tool and cookies from third-party systems: 

 

ESSENTIAL/NECESSARY COOKIES

__hs_opt_out
This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies
(Expires: 2 years)

__hs_do_not_track
This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. Setting this cookie is different from opting out of cookies, which still allows anonymized information to be sent to HubSpot.
(Expires: 2 years)

__hs_testcookie
This cookie is used to test whether the visitor has support for cookies enabled. 
(Expires: Session cookie)

hs_ab_test
This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page that they’ve seen before.
(Expires: Session cookie

hs_lang_switcher_choice
This cookie is used to consistently redirect visitors to the language version of a page in the language they’ve selected on this top-level private domain in the past (if such a language version exists).

<id>_key
When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login. The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page.   

hs-messages-is-open (TTL 30 minutes)
This cookie is used on the visitor UI side so HubSpot can determine/save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It resets after 30 minutes to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity

hs-messages-hide-welcome-message (TTL 1 day)  

When you dismiss the welcome message in your messages tool, a cookie is set to prevent it from appearing again for one day.

 

CONSENT BANNER COOKIES 

__hstc
The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
(Expires: 2 years) 

hubspotutk
This cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.
(Expires: 10 years) 

__hssc
This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. 
(Expires: 30 min) 

__hssrc
Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session.
(Expires: None. Session cookie) 

messagesUtk
This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor. 

If you are logged in to HubSpot, HubSpot will set additional authentication cookies. You can see a complete list of cookies set by HubSpot's app here

 

ANALYTICS COOKIES

Every time a user visits our Site, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the Site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the Site. Unless you have previously downloaded content or subscribed to one of our newsletters on our Site, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you have previously subscribed or downloaded content from our site, we will know the details you gave to us for this, such as name and email address.

Cookies used include:

The expiration date is varying on different analytics tools between 1 and 3 years

User data tied to cookies and advertising IDs is also used to detect and prevent ad fraud and ensure that users don’t see ads that they’ve blocked in the past. In these cases, or in cases where Google stores this data on behalf of its customers (e.g. in Google Analytics), data may be stored for periods longer than those specified above.

 

SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES

Social Media providers use electronic tools including ‘Cookies’, ‘Social Plugins‘ and ‘Tracking Pixels’ to track your browsing habits, likes and social interactions across the internet in order to build up a profile about you. We enable these on our site to facilitate social sharing.

Cookies utilised on the Site are from:

The expiry date for Twitter cookies is 30 days and 90 days for Facebook cookies.