Cookie Information
1. Introduction
Cookies are small text files that can be used by our website to make a user's experience more efficient. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Functionality cookies enable or maintain certain functionality on the website. Without these cookies, certain features of the website will not function.
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
2. Cookies in use on TheEverLearner.com
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Contains | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Used by the website to store a unique identifier which references all the session data on the server for your session. | theeverlearner.com | Unique session identifier | Session | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| _ga | Used to distinguish, but not identify, users to Google Analytics. | google.com | Google Analytics identifier | 2 years | HTTP Cookie Statistic |
| _ga_1Z73T7SDLT | Used to persist session state. | google.com | Google Analytics container identifier |
2 years | HTTP Cookie Statistic |
| isCookieAgree | Site cookie preferences. | theeverlearner.com | true if exists | 1 year | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| accessibility-color | Used to maintain accessibility color settings between pages/sessions. | theeverlearner.com | access-color-1 access-color-2 access-color-3 |
13 months | HTTP Cookie Preference |
| accessibility-size | Used to maintain accessibility text-size between pages/sessions. | theeverlearner.com | access-size-1 access-size-2 access-size-3 |
13 months | HTTP Cookie Preference |
3. Cookies provided by HubSpot (customer chat and tracking) and in use on TheEverLearner.com
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Contains | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __hs_opt_out | Opt out cookie. | HubSpot | It contains the string "yes" or "no". |
390 days | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. | HubSpot | It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. | 30 minutes | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | HubSpot | It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. | 13 months | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | HubSpot | 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). | 13 months | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode | HubSpot | It contains the string "yes" or "no". | 7 days | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| __hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. | HubSpot | It contains the value "1" when present. | Session | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| hs-messages-is-open | This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It is set in your visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity. If your visitor manually closes the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes. | HubSpot | It contains a boolean value of True if present. | 30 Minutes | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| messagesUtk | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. | HubSpot | It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current chat user. | 13 months. | HTTP Cookie Functionality |
4. Additionally in the subdomain pages.hubspot.com, the following cookies are in use
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Contains | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites. | Facebook.com | Combination of subdomain index, creation time and a random number. | 90 days. | HTTP Cookie Necessary |
| _fbc | When a user clicks on an ad on Facebook, the link sometimes includes a fbclid query parameter. When the user lands on the target website, if the website has a Facebook pixel that uses first-party cookies, the pixel automatically saves the fbclid query parameter to an _fbc cookie for that website domain. | Facebook.com | Combination of subdomain index, creation time and the unique click id. | 90 days | HTTP Cookie. Necessary. |
| __cfruid | Used by CloudFlare (a Content Delivery Network) to enforce their rate-limiting policy. | CloudFlare.com | Unique, opaque identifier. | Session | HTTP Cookie Necessary |