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This cookies policy is issued on behalf of Mind Tools Ltd. Our cookies policy explains how cookies and other tracking devices are used on our website at www.mindtools.com.
Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer or other device when you visit our website. The cookies are then used to gather information about your use of a site or in some cases, to allow you to be recognised as an existing user when returning to our website.
Cookies are commonly used to help websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners. They help our website to work in the way that you would expect so that we can provide you with a good experience when you use our website.
Note that where we provide links to other websites, such as the link we provide to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn social media page, those third-party websites may also use cookies and you should familiarise yourself with the cookies information that they provide on their own websites. We are not responsible for any cookies used on third party websites to which we may provide links.More specifically, we use the types of cookies below at www.mindtools.com. The table below also provides information about what the cookies are used for.
Necessary
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
| secure_customer_sig | https | 1 year | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. |
| cart_currency | https | 14 days | Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. |
| _orig_referrer | https | session | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. |
| cart_sig | https | 14 days | Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with store checkout. |
| shopify_pay_redirect | https | 1 hour | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. |
| __cfruid | https | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. |
| _pay_session | https | session | Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. |
Functional
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
| __cf_bm | https | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| localization | https | 1 year | Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. |
| UserMatchHistory | https | 1 month | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. |
| bcookie | https | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. |
| lidc | https | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| bscookie | https | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. |
Analytics
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
| _ga | https | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | https | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gcl_au | https | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| _ga_BZ6K0BXDBX | https | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _hjFirstSeen | https | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | https | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | https | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | https | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
| _hjTLDTest | https | session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
| CONSENT | https | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| _landing_page | https | session | Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. |
| _y | https | session | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| _s | https | session | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| _shopify_y | https | session | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| _shopify_s | https | session | This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
| _shopify_sa_t | https | session | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
| _shopify_sa_p | https | session | This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals. |
| cart_ts | https | 14 days | Shopify sets this cookie which is used in connection with checkout. |
| _gat_UA-236631-1 | https | 1 minute | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
Advertisement
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
| _fbp | https | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
| YSC | https | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | https | 5 months 27 days | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| yt-remote-device-id | https | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | https | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| fr | https | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| personalization_id | https | 2 years | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. |
Others
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
| LANG | https | 9 hours | No description. |
| keep_alive | https | 30 minutes | No description. |
| _tracking_consent | https | 1 year | No description available. |
| _shopify_tm | https | 30 minutes | No description available. |
| _shopify_tw | https | 14 days | No description available. |
| _shopify_m | https | 1 year | No description available. |
| _shopify_d | https | session | No description available. |
| _shopify_evids | http | session | No description. |
| cart | https | 14 days | This cookie is used in connection with the shopping cart. |
| cart_ver | https | 14 days | No description available. |
| _hjSessionUser_2786709 | http | 1 year | No description. |
| _hjSession_2786709 | http | 30 minutes | No description. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | http | 1 month | No description. |
| ln_or | http | 1 day | No description. |
| muc_ads | http | 2 years | No description. |
| li_gc | http | 5 months 27 days | No description. |
| _dd_s | https | 15 minutes | No description available. |
| _hjSessionUser_3196746 | http | 1 year | No description. |
| _hjSession_3196746 | http | 30 minutes | No description. |
| CognitoIdentityId-eu-west-2%3A5c392f6c-8dbf-47da-a1af-d10af2e12732 | http | 1 year | No description. |
| Nova.CurrentSession | http | 1 hour | No description. |
| _secure_session_id | https | 1 day | No description available. |
| cookietest | http | session | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_abb630bc-d3f6-4b86-ac89-adff23da2db5 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_e5b62332-83e2-4117-b0db-4cb779470137 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_b2878cc5-6f8b-47e8-90ea-ad5caca15e35 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_1c0e8f11-1e2c-4fa5-aaeb-691421901b86 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_e826ba48-1717-47bd-817d-75abf200a47b | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_8b928da1-030c-406a-b831-acd8c234299d | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_ff082d1d-8ade-4cc1-935d-a8745c7a5017 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_a342891f-3e5d-4411-b539-7a876fa72c61 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_a3e53bc1-fc36-4326-80b5-5ce52f1fdab7 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_91a6111b-26ec-4b24-8dc8-45dd4f3c246b | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_6e3bbd3f-6546-4a4d-b972-3c0a3e714929 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_03c443cd-01df-405c-9590-53cc3fe8cd80 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_090d3a63-2465-49ed-ad9a-d25dfd4f5335 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_7c3fdd3c-7093-4a32-99e1-3c3fcb87d774 | http | past | No description. |
| dd_cookie_test_c2d5255d-4138-4c1a-9bae-2917a3e1993d | http | past | No description. |
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