Cookie Notice
Cookie Notice
The Cookie Notice below applies to the website https://thisishub.com, which is administered by Hub.Son Consultancy Limited, Textile House, 1 Holly Park Mills, Leeds LS28 5QS
This notice is designed to help you understand what cookies are, how Hub uses them and the choices you have in regards to their use.
By continuing to use https://thisishub.com (the “Site”), you are agreeing to our use of cookies in the manner described in this notice.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, tablet or phone when you visit the Site. This allows the Site to recognise you as a user either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits ( a ‘persistent cookie’). They are not harmful and do not contain any information such as your home address, date of birth or credit card details.
The cookies we use fall into four broad types:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential in helping you to move around the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as setting up an account cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Expiry: 1 year
Analytical/Performance Cookies (optional)
In order to keep the Site and its services and products relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to help us understand how people use the Site. For example, we can see which parts of the Site and products are most popular, identify when errors occur, and test different versions of a page or feature to see which one works best.
Expiry: 1 year
Functional Cookies (optional)
These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised which means we can’t identify you personally. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the internet, but do help us to serve you with advertising that is more relevant to you.
Expiry: 1 year
Advertisement/Targeted Marketing Cookies (optional)
We may also use cookies to assist in targeted advertising. Without these cookies, any online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests. We may also use them to measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications, for example by telling us if you have responded to an advert that we have sent you.
Expiry: 1 year
If you would like more information on any of these types of Cookies, including how to opt-out, please visit: www.youronlinechoices.com/
What do we use Cookies for?
- They enable you to transact, whilst other non-essential cookies enable us to give you an enhanced, personalised web experience and determine relevant products to show you.
- To personalise and improve your customer experience.
- To recognise the device that you are using.
- To record the areas of the Site that you have visited, products you have viewed and time spent browsing, as well as the products you purchased. We use this information to help make the website more user friendly, develop our Site design and to continuously improve the quality of the service we provide.
- To distribute visitors to the Site evenly across platforms to ensure the content is served at the fastest possible speed.
- We also offer you the facility to share your experience on the Site through social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter. By using these features, you are consenting to allow cookies from these providers. More information about how these providers use cookies can be found at their websites.
Cookies are an essential part of how the Site works, as they remember certain information about a visitor. Hub uses First Party cookies (these are placed there and used solely by Hub) and Third Party cookies (these are placed there by third parties we work with).
Are cookies safe?
Yes. The information stored in cookies is safe and anonymous to any external third party, and your account security is never compromised. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and www.youronlinechoices.com/. For a video about cookies visit https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/technologies/cookies/
Can I turn off cookies?
Yes – but if you choose not to allow the use of cookies, your experience of the Site will be limited and many integral aspects of the Site, including (but not limited to) adding items to your shopping bag and accessing your account, will not work at all.
To change your cookie settings, or if you want to be notified each time a cookie is about to be used, you should amend the settings provided in your web browser to prevent us from storing cookies on your computer hard drive. Your browser manages the cookies. You can configure your internet browser to erase all cookies from the computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored, so that you can then refuse it. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log onto our site.
For information on how to disable cookies, please consult the “Help” tab of your browser via the menu bar. For further information on non-essential cookies used for targeting and banner advertising please see below.
Details of our Third Party Cookies
Hub allows selected Third Parties who participate with us in marketing programs to place cookies when you visit our site. These cookies enable us to monitor which adverts you see and click on to get to our site.
For details of the Third Party cookies we use please see the table below. Hub is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of Third Parties or other websites, and we advise that you check these yourself.
The following Cookies are all used for Analytical and Targeting purposes.
Google Analytics
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We work with Google to be able to view and analyse visitor information. This helps us to improve our website to make your shopping experience the best it can be. Find more information about Google’s privacy policy here: Privacy Policy
Cloudflare
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The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. This cookie is strictly necessary for Cloudflare’s security features and cannot be turned off.
Storyful
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This cookie is used by our CRM for our chat support and knowledge base. These cookies are used so that we can track and better serve support content based on browsing patterns of our knowledge base. Storyful is a social insights and content company delivering contextual insights and verified content for media and brand partners.
WordPress
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WordPress uses cookies, or tiny pieces of information stored on your computer, to verify who you are. There are cookies for logged in users and for commenters. The actual cookies contain hashed data, so you don’t have to worry about someone gleaning your username and password by reading the cookie data. A hash is the result of a specific mathematical formula applied to some input data (in this case your user name and password, respectively). It’s quite hard to reverse a hash (bordering on practical infeasibility with today’s computers). This means it is very difficult to take a hash and “unhash” it to find the original input data.
Opting Out
Website visitors who don’t want their data used by Google Analytics can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. To opt-out of Analytics for the web, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page and install the add-on for your browser. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on here.
For Storyful
Visitors can also opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings
Contact
Should you need to contact us please write to:
Data Protection Officer Hub.Son Consultancy Limited, Textile House, 1 Holly Park Mills, Leeds LS28 5QS or via [email protected]
