Cookie Policy
IDHL Web Limited t/a Fostr
Our website, www.fostr.io, is operated by IDHL Web Limited t/a Fostr (company number 14218662).
Where we use “we”, “our” or “us” in this notice, we mean IDHL Web Limited t/a Fostr unless we say otherwise.
Where we use “our site” in this notice, we mean www.fostr.io.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognise you.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (and details of how to do this are signposted at the end of this notice), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit our site.
How and why we use cookies
We use cookies on our site to:
- recognise you whenever you visit our site
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
- allow you to navigate between pages efficiently
- measure how you use our site so it can be updated and improved to give you the best possible experience on our site.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name. However, we may collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.
In most cases, we will need your consent to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service you have requested.
When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. A record of your acceptance will be stored in a functional cookie for 1 year, after which the cookie will expire, and the cookie pop up message will be displayed again.
You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.
We use the following cookies on our site
Essential Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are used to provide important functionality to our site, as well as collecting anonymous user data for analysis.
Functional Cookies
These non-essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
Third Party Performance Cookies
These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Cookies
Name / What is the purpose of this Cookie / Expires on
_gat# / Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session. / 1 minute
_ga / It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years. / 1 year 11 months 29 days
_gid / Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session. / 1 day
collect# / Sends data such as visitor’s behavior and device to Google Analytics. It is able to keep track of the visitor across marketing channels and devices. It is a pixel tracker type cookie whose activity lasts within the browsing session. / Session
OptanonConsent / This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. / 1 month
OptanonAlertBoxClosed / This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. / 1 month
__hssrc / This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. / Session
__hstc / This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. / 5 months
__hssc / This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. / Session
hubspotutk / 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. / 5 months
_cfuvid / This domain is owned by Hubspot. This company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services. / Session
li_gc / This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. / 5 months
bcookie / This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. / 1 years
__cf_bm / This is a CloudFoundry cookie / Session
lidc / This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. / Session
Where to find more information
You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether (all) sites can set cookies on your computer. More information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser, can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies notice or how we use cookies on our site, and if you wish to submit a Subject Access Request, please contact us at DPO@idhl.co.uk.
This version was last updated on 9 December 2022.