Cookie policy

î Cookie policy

Cookie Policy

At Target Internet we regard your privacy as important.

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information. This includes details anbout about browsing habits and purchasing activities by people accessing our site. This includes specifics, such as detail of pages viewed, membership products purchased and the customer journey throughout our platform.

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that, if you agree, we place on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

You can block cookies by changing the setting of your browser, which allows you to refuse all or some cookies.

If you block all cookies, which includes essential cookies, your access to all or parts of our website, together with some services of our site, may be restricted.

Cookies Consent Pop-up Banner

When you visit our site you may see the pop-up banner below, which allows us to record your consent (or not) to ensure we remain compliant with UK GDPR.

Types of cookies we use

First-Party Cookies

Origin: These cookies are set by the domain or website the user is directly visiting.

Purpose: They gather data primarily for analytical reasons and remember specific user preferences, such as login credentials, items in an online shopping cart, and website settings like language
preferences.

Privacy: First-party cookies do not track user activities on external websites.

Third-Party Cookies

Origin: These cookies are set by a domain other than the one the user is currently visiting.
Purpose: Their primary function is to monitor users as they navigate between websites and devices, ensuring that advertisements displayed are pertinent to the user.
Privacy: Third-party cookies play a significant role in tracking user activities across multiple websites.

Types of Cookies by Functionality

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Necessity: These cookies are indispensable for the regular operation of websites or for accessing specific features.
Use Cases: Examples include facilitating user sign-ins, managing online shopping carts, and processing online transactions.
Origin: Typically, they are first-party cookies.
Consent: Due to their essential nature, they usually do not require user consent.

Performance Cookies

Purpose: These cookies assess site performance and track user interactions.
Analytics: They record metrics such as the number of page visits, duration of user sessions, and site loading speeds to enhance the overall user experience.
Origin: Performance cookies can be either first-party or third-party.

Functionality Cookies

Purpose: These cookies enhance the usability of a website by remembering user preferences and settings.
Note: Absence of these cookies might render certain website features inaccessible.
Origin: They can be either first-party or third-party

Targeting Cookies

Purpose: These cookies are instrumental in developing user profiles and delivering targeted advertising.
Collaboration: They may be shared with other advertisers to evaluate and optimize the performance of advertisements.
Origin: Targeting cookies are predominantly third-party cookies.

Cookie Inventory

The table below shows the cookies we use and their purpose.

Strictly Necessary cookies

Cookie key

Domain

Cookie type Expiration Description
__cf_bm hubspot.com Third-party 30 minutes This cookie is used to distinguish
between humans and bots. This
is beneficial for the website, in
order to make valid reports on
the use of their website.
li_gc linkedin.com Third-party 6 months Used to store guest consent to
the use of cookies for nonessential purposes
AnalyticsSyncHistory linkedin.com Third-party 1 month Used to store information about
the time a sync with the
lms_analytics cookie took place
for users in the Designated
Countries

Performance cookies

Cookie key

Domain

Cookie type Expiration Description
_ga targetinternet.com First-party 1 year 1
month
This cookie name is
associated with Google
Universal Analytics - which is
a significant update to
Google's more commonly
used analytics service. This
cookie is used to distinguish
unique users by assigning a
randomly generated number
as a client identifier. It is
included in each page
request in a site and used to
calculate visitor, session and
campaign data for the sites
analytics reports.
__hstc targetinternet.com First-party 6 months This cookie name is
associated with websites built
on the HubSpot platform. It is
reported by them as being
used for website analytics.
__hssc  targetinternet.com  First-party  30 minutes This cookie name is
associated with websites built
on the HubSpot platform. It is
reported by them as being
used for website analytics
_gid targetinternet.com First-party 1 day This cookie is set by Google
Analytics. It stores and
update a unique value for
each page visited and is
used to count and track
pageviews.
_gat_UA-7557892-1 targetinternet.com First-party 54 seconds This is a pattern type cookie
set by Google Analytics,
where the pattern element on
the name contains the unique
identity number of the
account or website it relates
to. It is a variation of the _gat
cookie which is used to limit
the amount of data recorded
by Google on high traffic
volume websites.
__hssrc targetinternet.com First-party Session This cookie name is
associated with websites built
on the HubSpot platform. It is
reported by them as being
used for website analytics.
_ga_VD27S4WNQ3 targetinternet.com  First-party 1 year 1
month
This cookie is used by
Google Analytics to persist
session state.

Targeting cookies

Cookie key

Domain

Cookie type Expiration Description
_gcl_au targetinternet.com First-party 3 months Used by Google AdSense for
experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
UserMatchHistory linkedin.com Third-party 1 month This cookie is used to track
visitors so that more relevant
ads can be presented based
on the visitor's preferences
_fbp targetinternet.com First-party 3 months Used by Meta to deliver a
series of advertisement
products such as real time
bidding from third party
advertisers
bscookie linkedin.com Third-party 1 year Used by the social networking
service, LinkedIn, for tracking
the use of embedded services.
bcookie linkedin.com Third-party 1 year
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st
party cookie for sharing the
content of the website via
social media.
lidc linkedin.com Third-party  1 day This is a Microsoft MSN 1st
party cookie that ensures the
proper functioning of this
website.

Functionality cookies

Cookie key

Domain

Cookie type Expiration Description
hubspotutk  .targetinternet.com  First-party  6 months This cookie name is associated
with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary.