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title: Cookies Policy
description: Cookie Regulations - Read about what a cookie is and how Positive Solutions use them on our website.
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## Cookies

A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, that is downloaded on to a user’s computer when they access certain websites. 

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This information helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and to help our website work more efficiently. 

If you would like to know more about cookies, including how to view cookies, manage and delete them, please visit [*www.allaboutcookies.org*](http://www.allaboutcookies.org/)

#### Website Cookies

We use the following cookies:

- **Strictly necessary cookies.** These are required for the operation of our website, including, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
- **Analytical or performance cookies.** These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and to monitor how it is used. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they are looking for.
- **Functionality cookies.** These 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).
- **Targeting cookies.** These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. 

| **Cookie Title** **Cookie Name** | **Purpose** | **Duration** | **More information** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| __hs_opt_out | - This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies. | 6 months |   |
| __hs_do_not_track | - This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. | 6 months |   |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | - This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | seven days |   |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | - This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. | 6 months |   |
| hs_ab_test | - This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an [A/B test page](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/landing-page-user-guide-v2/how-do-i-a/b-test-my-pages) they’ve seen before. | 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. | 14 days |   |
| hs-messages-is-open | - This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. | 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. | one day |   |
| __hsmem | - This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. | one year |   |
| hs-membership-csrf | - This cookie is used to ensure that [content membership logins ](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/cms-pages-editor/control-audience-access-to-pages)cannot be forged. | 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](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/cos-general/how-to-manage-multi-language-content-with-hubspots-cos). | two years |   |
| __cfruid | This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. | end of the session |   |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection | 30 minutes |   |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors | 6 months |   |
| hubspotutk | - This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 6 months |   |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions | 30 minutes |   |
| __hssrc | - Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | end of the session |   |

 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):

 Cookie Settings

Strictly essential cookies    ****

Analytical or performance cookies    ****

Functionality cookies    ****

Targeting cookies    ****

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

If you have any questions on our cookie policy, please do not hesitate to contact us on:

solutions@positive-solutions.co.uk