What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that hold information; they're placed or 'dropped' on your computer when you access websites on your device. The data contained in the cookie can be retrieved by the website that placed them there. They can also be accessed by websites that have been authorised to use them by the site that first dropped them.
Cookie duration
Some cookies only exist for a short period of time and are then automatically deleted by your device. Others last for longer – these are called 'persistent cookies' – and some exist for years unless manually deleted. These can be used to analyse multiple site visits over time or customise the content that's displayed.
First and third-party cookies
Some cookies are set by the website you're visiting; these are called 'first party' cookies. Others may be set by a third party when you use a site – for example, by a tool built into the website.
Neulandlabs and cookies
How we use cookies is outlined below. This cookie notice applies to The Neulandlabs website directly which is managed by Investis on our behalf.
Read more about cookies on the site of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (who regulated data usage).You can also read our privacy notice and get in touch with us about privacy, cookies or data protection.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to make sure you get the best experience from your visit. As well as enabling certain features to work better, cookies also let us collect feedback and information about how you’ve used the site – so we can keep improving it for you. By visiting and using this site, you agree to our use of cookies and other similar technologies.
The 2 main types of cookie we use on our site:
1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential – without them you might not be able to get the information or service you've asked for. They're needed for things like logging whether you see error messages – so we can make improvements and fix bugs. Technologies that we use (and that use cookies) to make sure the website functions correctly for you include, at the time of writing, are provided by for example Google Analytics and AWS.
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | A few seconds | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. | End of session | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| __CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | 180 days | Strictly Necessary Cookies |
| cf_clearance | The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents issuing the challenge again and is needed to access the origin server. | 1 Year | Strictly Necessary |
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2. Performance cookies
These cookies remember choices you've made to personalise the site or are used by us to test site content and functionality with different groups of visitors. They may remember where you are in the site so you can get tailored information, or changes you've made to help you browse, such as increasing the text size. Technologies we use for personalisation or testing include Google Analytics and AWS.
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| _clsk | Used by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 0 days | Performance Cookies |
| _ga | 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 1 year | Performance Cookies |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | 0 day | Performance Cookies |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 day | Performance Cookies |
| _gcl_au | Google conversion tracking cookie | 3 months | Performance Cookies |
| _ga_QFYSWXJPNX | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 year | Performance Cookies |
| _ga_CKFRDGLDBS | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 year | Performance Cookies |
| YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. |
0 day | Performance Cookies |
| SM | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. | 0 day | Performance Cookies |
| MR | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. | 0 day | Performance Cookies |
| __hssrc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 1 year | Performance Cookies |
| __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 | Performance Cookies |
| __hssc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 0 day | Performance Cookies |
| _clck | This cookie is related to Microsoft Clarity analytics service. It is used to collect information about how visitors interact with the website, which helps in creating reports and improving the site. | 1 year | Performance Cookies |
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3. Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSID | This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. | 9 months | Functional Cookies |
| CLID | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics service that provides insights into user behavior on websites. | 1 years | Functional Cookies |
| SM | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance. | 1 years | Functional Cookies |
| SRM_B | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | 0 days | Functional Cookies |
| MR | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance. | 6 days | Functional Cookies |
| MUID | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics service that provides insights into user behavior on websites. | 1 years | Functional Cookies |
| lidc | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | 0 days | Functional Cookies |
| ANONCHK | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance. | 0 days | Functional Cookies |
| OTZ | This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. | 1 years | Functional Cookies |
| ACCOUNT_CHOOSER | This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. | 1 years | Functional Cookies |
| 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 | Functional Cookies |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 1 year | Functional Cookies |
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4. Targetting Cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
| Name | Description | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. |
1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| SID | This cookie is used by Google in combination with HSID to verify a Google user account and most recent login time. | 9months | Targeting Cookies |
| UserMatchHistory | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences. Used to track usage of the embedded video player. |
1 months | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | This cookie is used by Google to help protect user data and prevent fraudulent activity. It also supports the delivery of relevant advertising by enabling secure sign-in and user verification across Google services. | 7 months | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | This cookie name is associated with Google which is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 1 year | Targeting Cookies |
| _uetsid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 1 year | Targeting Cookies |
| SIDCC | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 7 months | Targeting Cookies |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 5 months | Targeting Cookies |
| bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| ANONCHK | This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance. | 0 days | Targeting Cookies |
| SRM_B | This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-1PSID | This cookie is set by Google to store user preferences and interaction data, enabling personalized advertising and improving the relevance of ads shown across Google services. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| lidc | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | 0days | Targeting Cookies |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | This cookie name is associated with LinkedIn which is used to store information about the synchronization of analytical data between different LinkedIn domains and measure the performance of page content using A/B split testing. | 1 months | Targeting Cookies |
| 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. Â For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 5 months | Targeting Cookies |
| MUID | This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. Â It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Â Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| NID | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| APISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| bcookie | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | This cookie name is associated with Google DoubleClick which is used to create a profile of the user based on his interests, in order to be presented with relevant ads. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| li_sugr | This cookie name is associated with LinkedIn which is used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity and track the use of embedded services. | 2 months | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | This cookie is set by Google to enhance security and integrity of advertising services, helping to prevent fraud and ensure ads are delivered securely and appropriately across third-party websites. | 7 months | Targeting Cookies |
| OTZ | This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. | 1 years | Targeting Cookies |
| __Secure-3PSID | This cookie is used by Google to build a profile of website visitors’ interests in order to display relevant and personalized advertisements on third-party websites. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's site. | 0 days | Targeting Cookies |
| SAPISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| SSID | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| HSID | Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time | 9 months | Targeting Cookies |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 months | Targeting Cookies |
| MR | This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 6 days | Targeting Cookies |
| _lfa | This cookie is used by Leadfeeder to track visitor behavior on the website to build visitor profiles for improving site analytics and marketing effectiveness. | 0 days | Targeting Cookies |
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What about links to other websites and their cookies?
We often link to other sites to give you extra information or services. Where these are provided by a third party, you may leave our website by clicking through to theirs. In this case, the cookies policy set out on the third party's website will also apply. As this won't be controlled by us, you should read their policy to find out what information is being collected and how it's used.
How to control cookies
You can restrict, remove or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, visit Your Online Choices.eu. You can also opt out of some advertising-related cookies at Your Ad Choices, the NAI site and at Google.
