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This allows you to accept or reject cookies or similar technologies. Cookie Settings takes you to our Privacy Preference Center. There you can adjust your consents and make granular settings. This gives you control at all times over whether and which cookies we set on your device. ### What are Cookies?  Cookies are small text files that websites you visit store on your computer via your web browser. Each time you visit a website after that, your browser returns these cookies to the website so that your device can be recognized again. Cookies cannot run programs or infect your computer with viruses. Some cookies are required to store your preferred usage when visiting our website. They are only active during the respective website session and end as soon as you close your browser. Other cookies collect information that helps us customize our website to your preferred usage and to make it more interesting. NetLync uses "session cookies" and "persistent cookies". A "session cookie" is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes his browser. A "persistent cookie", on the other hand, remains stored on the user's device until a specified cookie expiration date. Please note that certain functionalities of our websites may no longer be available or may not be fully available without cookies. ### What do we use cookies for? According to their function and purpose, cookies can be assigned to different categories: - Strictly Necessary Cookies - Functional Cookies - Performance Cookies - Targeting Cookies ### What cookies do we use?  We utilise first-party analytics cookies to assess the number of distinct visitors to our website, enhance our website and our merchants' websites, and identify frequently searched words on search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not utilised for targeting you with online marketing but are used to assess the performance of our websites and our merchants' websites, and make appropriate improvements to enhance your browsing experience. We have provided a list of cookies we use, so you have the option to opt-out of cookies, if you desire. |  Cookies | Lifespan  | Description  | | --- | --- | --- | |  li\_gc | 6 months |  Used to store guest consent for the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | | AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms\_analytics cookie | | \_\_cf\_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. Learn more about[Cloudflare cookies](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/cloudflare-cookies). | | \_hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | Identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | | \_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. | | \_\_cfruid | Session | As part of our Rate Limiting solution, this cookie is required to manage incoming traffic and to have better visibility on the origin of a particular request. | | \_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 2 minutes | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | | \_\_cf\_bm | 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 our website. | | \_\_cfruid | Session | The \_\_cfruid cookie is strictly necessary to support Cloudflare Rate Limiting products. As part of our Rate Limiting solution, this cookie is required to manage incoming traffic and to have better visibility on the origin of a particular request. | | \_\_hstc | 6 months | The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains our domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | | \_\_hssrc | Session | 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. | | \_ga | 2 years | 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. | | \_ga\_23YP5QCDWN | 2 years | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | | \_\_hssc | 30 minutes | 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 our domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. | | bcookie | 1 year | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform | | hubspotutk | 6 months | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | | \_hjIncludedInSessionSample\_3334563 | 2 minutes | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | | \_hjSession\_3334563 | 30 minutes | Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | | ln\_or | 1 day | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain | | \_hjSessionUser\_3334563 | 1 year | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |   ### Head of Data Protection Email: [dataprotection@netlync.com](mailto:dataprotection@netlync.com) ### Updates This Policy was last updated in March 2023 ![](https://www.netlync.com/hubfs/netlync-logo.svg) #### The Next Evolution in Entitlements NetLync was specifically created to revolutionise the world of eSIM and entitlements. We solve challenges for global carriers and are headquartered in Ireland with our teams based across the world. 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