Cookie Policy

The WebContractor website uses cookies to help improve the experience for our visitors and give us information about how people interact with the site.

For information on how we use any information gathered through the website, please read our privacy notice.

You can control the cookies that our website adds to your browser at any time by clicking the cookie icon in the bottom right of the screen. Below, you can find out more about cookies, how we use them and how to remove them if you wish.

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Manage your cookies

You can manage the cookies that this website sets in your browser by clicking on the 'Cookie Settings' button below:




Cookies that we use

The WebContractor website is hosted with HubSpot. Below is a list of the cookies that are set by HubSpot. For more information, read their cookie information here.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable the smooth functioning of the website and do not require consent to set.

__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. It contains the string "yes" or "no".

It expires in 6 months.

__hs_do_not_track

This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. It contains the string "yes".

It expires in 6 months.

__hs_initial_opt_in

This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. It contains the string "yes" or "no".

It expires in seven days.

__hs_cookie_cat_pref

This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. It contains data on the consented categories.

It expires in 6 months.

hs_ab_test

This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor.

It expires at the end of the session.

<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 again. The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page. It contains an encrypted version of the password so future visits to the page will not require the password again.

It expires in 14 days.

hs-messages-is-open

This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits.

It is set in a visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity. If a visitor manually closes the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes. It contains a boolean value of True if present.

It expires in 30 minutes.

hs-messages-hide-welcome-message

This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. It contains a boolean value of True or False.

It expires in one day.

__hsmem

This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership user when they are currently logged in.

It expires in one year.

hs-membership-csrf

This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a membership login is authentic.

It expires at the end of the session.

hs_langswitcher_choice

This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.

It is set when a visitor selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the future if they are available. It contains a colon-delimited string with the ISO639 language code choice on the left and the top-level private domain it applies to on the right. An example will be “EN-US:hubspot.com”.

It expires in two years.

__cfruid

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate-limiting policies. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies.

It expires at the end of the session.

__cf_bm

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

It expires in 30 minutes.


Analytics and chat cookies

These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner; you can opt out of these cookies by not giving consent.

__hstc

The main cookie for tracking visitors to our website. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).

It expires in 6 months.

hubspotutk

This cookie keeps track of a website visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.

It expires in 6 months.

__hssc

This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot 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.

It expires in 30 minutes.

__hssrc

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

It expires at the end of the session.

messagesUtk

This cookie is used to recognise visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves the site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current chat user.

It expires after 6 months.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on the website. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website.

You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

_ga

Used to distinguish users.

It expires after 2 years.

_gid    

Used to distinguish users.

It expires after 24 hours.

_gat

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property- id>.

It expires after 1 minute.      
 

_gac_<property-id>

Contains campaign related information for the user. This Google Analytics cookie is read by Google Ads website conversion tags.

It expires after 90 days.

__utma

Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

It expires 2 years from set/update.

__utmt           

Used to throttle request rate.

It expires after 10 minutes.

__utmb

Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

It expires 30 mins from set/update.  

__utmz

Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

It expires 6 months from set/update.

__utmv          

Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

It expires 2 years from set/update.

Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Cookie preferences

When you visit our website for the first time, you are given the option to review and control the cookies that we set on your browser. You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website by clicking on the Cookie Settings button displayed on the page.