What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other devices when you visit a website. They help the website recognise your device, remember your preferences, and improve overall functionality and performance.

Cookies are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, enhance user experience, and provide information to site owners about visitor behaviour and interaction.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, you can visit:
www.allaboutcookies.org
www.youronlinechoices.eu

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

How Everyday Communications Uses Cookies

Everyday Communications uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience and to help us understand how visitors interact with our website.

We use cookies to:

  • Improve website functionality and ensure key features operate correctly.

  • Analyse website performance and visitor patterns to optimise content and user flow.

  • Personalise your experience, such as remembering your language preferences.

  • Support marketing and analytics, including Google Analytics, to measure engagement and improve our digital services.

We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily provide it (e.g., via contact forms).

What types of cookies does Everyday Communications use?

We use 4 different types/classifications of cookies

Necessary These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Functional These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Performance These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance and user experience of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Targeting These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

 

If you have any questions now or during your visit, please submit your request through our Contact Us form. You can adjust your Cookie Settings at any time from our Cookie Settings Preference Manager.

What cookies are used by Everyday Communications?

The following tables detail each cookie currently in use as well as a description of the purpose and function and the lifespan of the cookie.

Necessary Cookies

Cookie Domain Description Lifespan
__cfduid .hubspot.com The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable  information. 1 month
__cfduid .hs-analytics.net The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. 1 month
__cfduid .hs-banner.com The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. 1 month
__cfduid .hsleadflows.net The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. 1 month

 

Functional Cookies

Cookie Domain Description Lifespan
lang .ads.linkedin.com This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next

time user visit the website.

session
__hssc .everydaycomms.com This cookie is  set by HubSpot. The purpose of the cookie is to keep track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount   (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. 30 minutes
_hjTLDTest . everydaycomms.com When the Hotjar script executes they 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
_hjid . everydaycomms.com This cookie is  set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random 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. 1 year
bcookie .linkedin.com This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. 2 years
lidc .linkedin.com This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing. 1 day
lang .linkedin.com This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that   stored language the next time user visit the website. session

 

Performance Cookies

Cookie Domain Description Lifespan
_gcl_au . everydaycomms.com This cookie is  used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. 3 months
_hjFirstSeen . everydaycomms.com This is set by Hotjar 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. 30 minutes
_ga . everydaycomms.com This cookie is  installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 2 years
_gid . everydaycomms.com This cookie is  installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. 1 day
_gat_UA-64126223-1 . everydaycomms.com This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. 1 minute
__hstc . everydaycomms.com This cookie is set by Hubspot and is used for tracking visitors.

It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).

1 year 24 days
hubspotutk . everydaycomms.com This cookie is used by HubSpot to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to Hubspot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. 1 year 24 days
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress . everydaycomms.com 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
_gat .everydaycomms.com This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. 1 minute
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample http://www.everydaycomms.com 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

 

Third Party Cookies

For more information on how third party companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to their privacy policies:

 

What are my rights?

You may disable cookies using your browser or may use our cookie management tool to manage your choices. Necessary cookies are always on but you may choose to accept or decline all other types of cookies. However your experience of the website will be affected and certain services cannot be provided without the acceptance of certain cookies.

How do I change my cookie settings?

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