Cookie Policy
Finans Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 01 January 2025
Our Cookies:
Strictly necessary
| Cookie name | Description | Host |
| __cfruid | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | First Party |
| cf_chl_cc_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | cf_chl_cc_ | First Party |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First Party |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | First Party |
| _secure_session_id | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with navigation through a storefront. | First Party |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabledOn login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area, /wp-admin/ | First Party |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | First Party |
| cart_sig | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with checkout. | First Party |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart; woocommerce_cart_hash; wp_woocommerce_session_9d6412d571d6c361092880f5e9142b30 | These cookies are used by woocommerce and contains the end user’s cart information. | First Party |
| cookietest | This cookie checks if the user has cookies enabled on his browser | First Party |
| secure_customer_sig | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used in connection with a customer login. | First Party |
| ts; x-csrf-jwt; x-pp-s; l7_az; LANG; ts_c; enforce_policy; nsid; tsrce | These domains are owned by Paypal. The main business activity is: E-commerce Provision | Third Party |
Performance cookies
| Cookie name | Description | Host |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | First Party |
| _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar’s seeing this user for the first time. | First Party |
| _gat_UA- | 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. | First Party |
| _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | 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. | First Party |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by our site’s pageview limit. | First Party |
| zte2095 | This cookie is generally set to enhance the performance and functionality of the website. | First Party |
| _hjSession_xxxxxx | 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. | First Party |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | First Party |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. | First Party |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. | First Party |
| _hjTLDTest | This is a Hotjar cookie that’s set when the user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It creates a unique ID for your session to help tell us how you use our site. It expires after 1 year. | First Party |
| amplitude_id_2145a3131b35dd2ebe41ed786e1d7b20lingokids.com | These cookies are set by Amplitude Analytics, which helps to better understand how the website is used. | First Party |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. | Third Party |
| sc_at | Cookie associated with embedding content from Snapchat. | Third Party |
Functionality Cookies
| Cookie Name | Description | Host |
| _pin_unauth | This cookie is associated with pinterest. It is used to track the usage of services. | First Party |
| __tld__ | From Segment Analytics.js library; this cookie helps to figure out a top-level domain for a user.__tld__ | First Party |
| _help_center_session | This cookie aids in session for the Zendesk guide. | First Party |
| _zendesk_session | This cookie holds session information for root access applications. | First Party |
| __stripe_sid | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. | First Party |
| _zendesk_shared_session | This cookie holds session information for sharing across Zendesk applications. | First Party |
| pll_language | This cookie name is associated with the Polylang plug-in for WordPress powered websites. it stores a language preference for the visitor to support multi-lingual websites. When set as a persistent cookie, or with the default lifespan of 1 year, it has to e considered Functional rather than strictly necessary. | First Party |
| __stripe_mid | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. | First Party |
| localization | These cookies are set on pages with the Flickr widget. | First Party |
Targeting Cookies
| Cookie Name | Description | Host |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | First Party |
| cf_chl_rc_i | 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. | First Party |
| _scid | Cookie associated with Snapchat. Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates realtime bidding for advertisers. | First Party |
| cf_chl_2 | 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. | First Party |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | First Party |
| _schn | This cookie is associated with Snapchat. It tracks individual sessions on the website, allowing the website to compile statistical data from multiple visits. This data can also be used to create leads for marketing purposes. | First Party |
| _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie | First Party |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This YouTube’s cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | Third Party |
| fr | This Facebook’s cookie contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. | Third Party |
| NID | This domain is owned by Google Inc. and enables personalized autocomplete features in Search as you type search terms. | Third Party |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Third Party |
| GUC | This domain is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising | Third Party |
| CONSENT | Google uses the ‘CONSENT’ cookie, which lasts for 2 years, to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. | Third Party |
| B | This domain is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising | Third Party |
| test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Third Party |
| A3 | This domain is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising | Third Party |
| A1 | This domain is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising | Third Party |
| IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Third Party |
| uid-bp-xxxxx | This domain is owned by StickyAdsTV, a French company providing online video advertising services. | Third Party |
| _ttp | Used by Tiktok to track user behaviour for the purposes of serving targeted advertisements. | Third Party |
1.1 First-party cookies (set by Operator)
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _unscreen_web_session | Encrypted cookie used to store the user’s current session information. | Session | Essential | |
| __Secure-next-auth.session-token | Encrypted cookie used to store the user’s current session information. | Session | Essential | |
| __Secure-next-auth.callback-url | Encrypted cookie used to store the the OAUTH callback URL. | Session | Essential | |
| __Host-next-auth.csrf-token | Encrypted cookie used to store the CSRF token. | Session | Essential | |
| consent | Encrypted cookie used to store the user’s current session information. | 1 year | Functionality | |
| contribute | Used to store the user’s decision on whether they want to contribute content to the improvement program. | 6 months | Functionality | |
| improved_flow_demo | Used to store the user’s decision to hide the hiring banner popup. | 1 year | Functionality | |
| hiringbanner | Used to store the user’s decision to hide the hiring banner popup. | 1 year | Functionality | |
| _sp_id_xxxx | Stores user information that is created when a user first visits a site and updated on subsequent visits. | 2 years | Performance | |
| _sp_ses_xxxx | Used to identify if the user is in an active session on a site or if this is a new session for a user. | Session | Performance |
1.2 Cookies set by Cloudflare
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cfdui | Helps us detect malicious visitors to our websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. | 1 month | Essential |
1.3 Cookies set by Paddle
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| paddlejs_campaign_referrer | Used to determine which domain the user is coming from when the user completes a purchase. | 1 week | Essential | |
| paddlejs_checkout_variant | Used to select the payment variant to be used. | 1 week | Essential | |
| paddle_session | Used to give users the opportunity to continue an interrupted purchase process. | Session | Essential | |
| ljs-lang | Used to store the user’s selected language. | Session | Essential |
1.4 Cookies set by Google Analytics
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and distinguishes between different users. | 2 years | Performance | |
| _gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics to distinguish between different users. | 1 day | Performance | |
| _gat | This cookie is set by Google analytics to limit the number of requests. | 1 minute | Performance | |
| _gclxxxx | Used as a Google conversion tracking cookie. | 1 minute | Performance | |
| _ga_<container-id> | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to persist session state. | 2 years | Performance |
1.5 Cookies set by Google Ads
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NID | Used to serve and personalize ads, limit the number of times an ad is shown, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 6 months | Targeting | |
| ANID | Used to serve and personalize ads, limit the number of times an ad is shown, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 13 months (Europe), 2 years (elsewhere) | Targeting | |
| SID, HSID | Used to record a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. Used for authentication and security purposes. | 2 years | Targeting | |
| DSID | Used to identify and remember a user’s preferences on non-Google sites. | 2 weeks | Targeting | |
| _gads | Used to show Google ads on the Website and measure the performance of ads. | 13 months | Targeting | |
| _gac_, _gcl_, FPGCLAW | Used to show Google ads on the Website and measure the performance of ads. | 90 days | Targeting | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID | Used to build a profile of users’ interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | Targeting | |
| SIDCC | Used as security measure to protect users data from unauthorised access. | 6 months | Targeting | |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | Used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. | Persistent | Targeting | |
| SAPISID, SSID | Used to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. | Persistent | Targeting | |
| APISID | Used to personalize ads based on recent searches and interactions. | 2 years | Targeting | |
| 1P_JAR | Used on embedded YouTube videos to record statistical data about viewing figures. | 1 months | Targeting | |
| conversion | Used to measure the conversion from a user seeing a Google ad to becoming a Canva customer. | 30 days | Targeting |
1.6 Cookies set by Hotjar
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _hjid | This cookie is set when the user first lands on the website. It is used to identify the user and ensure that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | This cookie is setwhen a user interacts with an External Link Survey. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjDonePolls | This cookie is set when 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. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | This cookie is set when a user minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when you navigate through our website. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | This is a cookie set when the user minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if you navigate to another page where it is set to show. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | This cookie gets updated when a recording starts and when data is sent. | Session | Performance | |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | This cookie stores user attributes for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. | Session | Performance | |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | This cookie stores user attributes whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. | Session | Performance | |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. | Under 100ms | Performance | |
| hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether the user is included in the data sampling defined by the website’s pageview limit. | 30 minutes | Performance | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether the user is included in the data sampling defined by the website’s daily session limit. | 30 minutes | Performance | |
| _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 | Performance | |
| _hjFirstSeen | This cookie 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 | Performance | |
| hjViewportId | This cookie stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions. | Session | Performance | |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | This cookie 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 | Performance | |
| _hjSessionUser_xxxx | This cookie is added when a user first lands on a page and ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year | Performance | |
| _hjSession_xxxx | This cookie stores the current session data and ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | 30 Minutes | Performance | |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Set by Segment as a randomly generated ID for anonymous users. | 1 year | Performance |
1.7 Cookies set by Facebook
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fr, _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver personalized advertisements as well as tracking users when set on third-party websites with a Facebook social plugin. | 90 days | Targeting | |
| locale | Used by Facebook to deliver personalized advertisements as well as tracking users when set on third-party websites with a Facebook social plugin. | 7 days | Targeting | |
| oo | Used by Facebook to manage opt-out preferences. | 5 years | Targeting | |
| sb, datr | Used by Facebook to deliver personalized advertisements as well as tracking users when set on third-party websites with a Facebook social plugin. | 90 days | Targeting |
1.8 Cookies set by Linkedin
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lidc | Used to optimize data center selection. | 24 hours | Targeting | |
| bscookie | Used to save the state of 2FA of a logged-in user. | 2 Years | Targeting | |
| bcookie | Used to uniquely identify devices to detect abuse. | 2 years | Targeting | |
| UserMatchHistory | Used for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | 30 days | Targeting | |
| lang | Used to remember a user’s language settings. | Session | Targeting | |
| lissc | Used to ensure there is correct SameSite attribute for all cookies in that browser. | 1 year | Targeting |
1.9 Cookies set by Twitter
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| guest_id | Used for Twitter integration and sharing capabilities on social media. | 2 years | Targeting | |
| personalization_id | Used for Twitter integration and sharing capabilities on social media. | 2 Years | Targeting |
1.10 Cookies set by Braze
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ab._gd | Used to determine the root-level cookie domain which allows the SDK to work properly across subdomains. | 1 year | Targeting | |
| ab.storage.sessionId | Used to store the session to enable the Braze services. | 1 year | Targeting | |
| ab.storage.userId | Used to store a unique user id that enables the Braze services. | 1 year | Targeting |
1.11 Cookies set by hCaptcha
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Retention Period | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hmt_id | Used for strictly necessary anonymous service-related statistics, and for other technical purposes like assisting in accessibility support. | 30 days | Essential | |
| session | Used for strictly necessary technical purposes: load balancing, routing. | Varies, up to 30 days | Essential | |
| hc_accessibility | Used for strictly necessary technical purposes: enables Accessibility User use. | Varies, up to 30 days | Essential |
