VEV Cookie Policy

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1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how VEV uses cookies and similar technologies on its websites and digital services. It describes what cookies are, the categories of cookies that may be used, why they are used, and how users can manage their preferences.

VEV Services Limited is the ultimate controller of the personal data collected through cookies on this website.

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “VEV”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to VEV Services Limited and any relevant VEV subsidiary or affiliate, each of which is a separate legal entity.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the VEV Privacy Notice, which explains more generally how and why VEV collects, uses, stores and shares personal data and describes your applicable rights.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file of letters and numbers that may be stored on your browser or the hard drive of your device when you visit a website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.

Some technologies operate only for the duration of a browsing session, while others remain on the device for a specified period or until deleted.

3. Categories of cookies we may use

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation and security of the website or digital service. They may enable core functionality such as security, network management, load balancing, fraud prevention, consent management and access controls. You cannot opt out of these cookies as the website cannot function properly without them. Your consent is not required for the use of these cookies.

3.2 Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices and settings, such as language, region or other preferences, and to provide enhanced, personalised features.

3.3 Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies help VEV understand how visitors interact with a website or digital service, including visitor numbers, traffic sources, bounce rate, navigation patterns and feature usage. VEV may use this information to improve content, structure and usability.

3.4 Performance cookies

Performance cookies help VEV understand and analyse website or service performance, including speed, reliability and user experience.

3.5 Advertising cookies

Where used, advertising cookies may record visits, pages viewed and links followed in order to measure communications or make content and advertising more relevant. Information may be shared with approved third parties for these purposes only.

4. Cookie inventory

The table below lists the specific cookies used on our website, digital services and social media pages. This table is reviewed and updated periodically.

Category

Cookie

Type

Duration

Purpose

Strictly necessary

__hssrc

Necessary

Session

Set by HubSpot to determine whether the visitor has restarted their browser and whether a new session should be created.

Strictly necessary

__hssc

Necessary

1 hour

Used by HubSpot to track sessions and determine whether to update the session number and timestamps stored in the __hstc cookie.

Strictly necessary

zfccn

Necessary

Session

Set by Zoho for website security when requests are submitted to campaigns.

Strictly necessary

cookietest

Necessary

Session

Checks whether the visitor’s browser accepts cookies so that cookie-dependent website functionality can operate.

Strictly necessary

rc::a

Necessary

Never expires

Set by Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish people from bots and protect website forms against spam and malicious activity

Strictly necessary

rc::c

Necessary

Session

Set by Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish people from bots and protect website forms against spam and malicious activity.

Strictly necessary

cookieyes-*

Necessary

1 year

Stores and manages visitors’ cookie-consent choices through CookieYes.

Strictly necessary

zalb_*

Necessary

Session

Set by Zoho for load balancing and session continuity, ensuring requests remain directed to the appropriate server during a session.

Strictly necessary

_cfuvid

Necessary

Session

Set by Cloudflare to distinguish individual visitors who share the same IP address and apply appropriate security rate limits.

Strictly necessary

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

Necessary

6 months

Set by YouTube to store the visitor’s cookie-consent state for the current domain

Functional

__cf_bm

Functional

1 hour

Set by Cloudflare to support Bot Management and distinguish legitimate traffic from automated traffic.

Functional

lidc

Functional

1 day

Set by LinkedIn to select the appropriate data centre and support reliable delivery of LinkedIn services.

Functional

li_gc

Functional

6 months

Stores a visitor’s consent choice regarding LinkedIn cookies used for non-essential purposes.

Functional

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Functional

6 months

Set by YouTube to measure bandwidth and determine which version of the video-player interface to display

Functional

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

Functional

Never expires

Used by YouTube to store the last search-result entry selected by the visitor and provide more relevant results in future.

Analytics

_ga_*

Analytics

1 year, 1 month and 4 days

Set by Google Analytics to store and count page views

Analytics

_ga

Analytics

1 year, 1 month and 4 days

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors and calculate visitor, session and campaign data for website analytics reports.

Analytics

_gcl_au

Analytics

3 months

Set through Google Tag Manager to measure the effectiveness of advertising and conversions.

Analytics

__hstc

Analytics

6 months

HubSpot’s main visitor-tracking cookie. It stores the domain, first and most recent visit timestamps, current visit timestamp and session number.

Analytics

hubspotutk

Analytics

6 months

Used by HubSpot to track website visitors. It is passed to HubSpot when a form is submitted and supports contact deduplication.

Analytics

zabUserId

Analytics

1 year

Set by Zoho PageSense to assign and store a unique identifier for each website visitor.

Analytics

zsc*

Analytics

1 hour

Set by Zoho to identify the current session and track visitor interactions for website analytics and optimisation.

Analytics

zps-tgr-dts

Analytics

1 year

Stores session-level metadata relating to Zoho PageSense triggers, supporting the tracking and management of visitor interactions.

Analytics

zft-sdc

Analytics

7 hours 18 minutes

Determines whether a request is the visitor’s first interaction with the server and records the entrance page and source information for session calculation and analytics.

Analytics

zpssr*

Analytics

session

Identifies the top-level domain during a session to support accurate tracking and analysis of interactions across domains.

Analytics

YSC

Analytics

Session

Set by YouTube to track views of videos embedded on the website.

Advertising

test_cookie

Advertising

15 minutes

Set by Google DoubleClick to determine whether the visitor’s browser supports cookies.

Advertising

IDE

Advertising

1 year, 24 days and 1 minute

Set by Google DoubleClick to store information about how a visitor uses the website and present advertising relevant to their profile.

Advertising

bcookie

Advertising

1 year

Set by LinkedIn through sharing features and advertising tags to recognise the visitor’s browser.

Advertising

__Secure-YNID

Advertising

6 months

Set by YouTube to support user security and fraud prevention, particularly during login processes.

Advertising

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

Advertising

6 months

Set by YouTube to manage feature testing and staged rollouts, ensuring a consistent interface during an experiment.

Advertising

__Secure-YEC

Advertising

13 months

Used by Google and YouTube to detect spam, fraud and abuse, including invalid advertising impressions and interactions.

Uncategorised

WG_CHOOSE_ORIGINAL

Functional

Past/expired

Associated with Weglot’s automatic language redirection and used when a visitor chooses to view the website in its original language.

Uncategorised

weglot_wp_rocket_cache

Functional

Session

Set by Weglot to support language auto-redirection and compatibility with WP Rocket’s website caching.

Uncategorised

_zitok

Analytics

1 year

Set by Zoominfo Websights to assign a unique visitor identifier, calculate unique visits and support- website – visitor analytics.

5. Third-party cookies and similar technologies

Please note that third parties (including providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also set cookies on your device when you visit our website. We do not control these third-party cookies. They are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or advertisement cookies

For more information about Google Analytics and how it processes your data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

6. How to manage and control cookies

6.1 Cookie consent banner

 When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies by category.  Your preferences will be automatically maintained for 6 months.

You can change your preferences at any time either via the banner or via this site (see below).

6.2 Browser settings

Users may also control cookies through browser settings. Most browsers allow users to accept or refuse cookies, delete existing cookies and manage preferences for particular websites.

Blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary cookies, may prevent access to parts of the website or our digital services or cause some features to operate incorrectly.

7. Data retention

Cookie and similar-technology data will be retained for the period shown in the cookie inventory above. Session cookies are generally deleted when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until expiry or manual deletion.

8. Personal data, legal bases and rights

To the extent cookie-derived information constitutes personal data, VEV will process it in accordance with the VEV Privacy Notice and applicable data protection law. Strictly necessary cookies may be processed on the basis of legitimate interest or another applicable legal basis. Non-essential cookies will be used on the basis of consent where consent is required.

Individuals have rights in relation to personal data obtained through cookies.

9. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our data practices. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

10. Contact

Questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies should be sent to cookies@vev.com