Last updated: (27 October 2021)
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What are cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.
How The Growth Hub uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising.
Some cookies are always on when you visit us, and you can’t turn them off unless you change your browser settings. We call these essential cookies. We use them to make sure our digital services work correctly and are meeting audience needs and interests.
We also use functional, performance and marketing cookies to make your experience more enjoyable. You can switch these on or off at any time and you can always change your mind. We’ll only use them if you’ve agreed.
The different types of cookies we use are as follows:
- Essential cookies. These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
- Functional cookies. Also known as “preferences cookies,” these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past.
- Performance cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organisations or advertisers.
List of essential cookies
| Cookie Name | What it's for |
|---|---|
| SSES* |
Identifies your session |
List of functional cookies
| Cookie Name | What it's for |
|---|---|
| CONSENT |
Stores cookie consent preferences |
List of performance cookies
| Cookie Name | What it's for |
|---|---|
|
_gi |
Used to count page views |
|
_ga |
Used to count page views |
List of marketing cookies
| Cookie Name | What it's for |
|---|---|
| _gcl_au |
Store and track Google Adsense conversions |
| gat_gtag_UA_*_1 |
Store and track Google Adsense conversions |
Hotjar Cookie Information
|
Name |
Description |
Duration |
Data type |
|
_hjSessionUser{site_id} |
Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
365 days |
JSON |
|
_hjSession{site_id} |
A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
30 minutes |
JSON |
|
_hjClosedSurveyInvites |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user interacts with an External Link Survey invitation modal. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjDonePolls |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjMinimizedPolls |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjShownFeedbackMessage |
Hotjar cookie that is set when a user minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjSessionTooLarge |
Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. This is determined automatically by a signal from the WebSocket server if the session size exceeds the limit. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjSessionRejected |
If present, this cookie will be set to '1' for the duration of a user's session, if Hotjar rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. This cookie is only applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjSessionResumed |
A cookie that is set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjid |
Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
365 days |
UUID |
|
_hjRecordingLastActivity |
This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). |
Session |
Numerical Value (Timestamp) |
|
_hjTLDTest |
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjUserAttributesHash |
User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
Session |
Hash |
|
_hjCachedUserAttributes |
This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. Collected attributes will only be saved to Hotjar servers if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool, but the cookie will be used regardless of whether a Feedback tool is present. |
Session |
JSON |
|
_hjLocalStorageTest |
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
Under 100ms |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
30 minutes |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjIncludedInSessionSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. |
30 minutes |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
30 Minutes |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjFirstSeen |
This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
|
_hjViewportId |
This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions. |
Session |
UUID |
|
_hjRecordingEnabled |
This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |