Cookie Policy

Last update: July 27, 2024

Please take a moment to read the Cookie Policy for this website ("Website"), owned and operated by Tekscan, Inc. ("Tekscan", "we", "us"), a Delaware corporation. Our Cookie Policy is designed to assist you in understanding what cookies are, how we use cookies along with a table displaying the cookies we use, additional information about cookies in general, and your choices regarding cookies.

By using this Website, you are agreeing to our using cookies in the manner set out in this Cookie Policy so please read it carefully.

If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of this Website, you should stop using our Website or turn off your cookies but this may affect the functionality of the Website. You can edit what Cookies are allowed via the link in the footer of our website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the browser or hard drive of your computer (or similar device) by websites that you visit. Cookies are used by practically all websites and the website is often dependent on cookies to function. Cookies can also be used to provide information to the owners of the particular website.

What cookies do we use and why?

We use several different types of cookies. Some of these are session cookies which are temporary and allow us to link your actions during a browser session. Others are persistent cookies which remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie.

This Website uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary

    These cookies are required to enable core Website functionality and are automatically enabled when you use our Website. This type of cookie allows us to remember login details or ensure that your shopping cart is saved during all the steps of the online checkout process, for example.

  • Functional

    Functionality cookies are used to tailor your Website experience. For instance, these types of cookies are used to save and remind you of what products you had in your shopping cart for an incomplete order, so it will save you time if you would like to purchase these products at another time. Another example is that our Website will recognize you if you had previously filled out a form by pre-populating certain fields.

  • Performance

    Performance cookies help us understand the behavior of our visitors and their usage of the Website. For example, these cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around on our Website when they are using it. These cookies help us to improve the way the Website works. These cookies can also used to help us measure how effective our advertising is.

    Some of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may refer to the third parties’ own website privacy notifications for further information. In particular, we use Google Analytics and Hubspot cookies to help measure how users interact with our Website content, and to help improve the overall experience on our Website.

  • Social Media

    We do not make use of social media tracking cookies used by many social networks typically to enable users to share or bookmark web pages. However, we do make use of targeting cookies for behavioral advertising on certain social media networks (see below).

  • Targeting

    Targeting cookies are used on our Website to tailor marketing to you and your interests. These cookies remember that you visited certain pages of our Website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers.

    Although these cookies can track your visits to our Website they typically cannot personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements that you see may be less relevant and interesting to you.

Below is a table detailing the cookies we use:

Name Provider Persistency Description
OptanonConsent Tekscan 1 year 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
OptanonAlertBoxClosed Tekscan 1 year 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
__cfruid Tekscan End of Session Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.
__cf_bm Tekscan End of Session The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic
web_source Tekscan End of Session Used to store the users web_source when applicable. 
__hssc Tekscan End of Session This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform.  It is reported by them as being used for website analytics.
referring_url Tekscan End of Session Used to store the users referring URL when applicable.
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx Tekscan 1 year 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 assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors
__hssrc Tekscan End of Session This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics.
__hstc Tekscan 5 Months This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics.
_ga Tekscan 1 year This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.  By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
SSESS########### Tekscan 23 days Cookie placed by Drupal CMS to provide a responsive website.
__tld__ Tekscan End of Session From Segment Analytics.js library; this cookie helps to figure out a top-level domain for a user.__tld__
hubspotutk Tekscan

5 Months

This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform.  HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary.
_uetsid Tekscan End of Session This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. 
_gcl_au Tekscan 2 Months Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
utm_medium Tekscan End of Session Stores Session medium value if present
utm_source Tekscan End of Session Stores Session source value if present
cb_anonymous_id Tekscan 1 Year  
pfjs%3Acookies Tekscan 1 Year  
cb_user_id Tekscan 1 Year  
utm_content Tekscan
End of Session  
Stores Session content value if present
cb%3Atest Tekscan 1 Year  
cb_group_id Tekscan 1 Year  
utm_campaign Tekscan End of Session Stores Session campaign value if present
lastVisitedPages 1 Year End of Session  

The third party providers listed above use cookies, but their use of cookies will not be governed by this Cookie Policy. Please familiarize yourself with their policies, as well as others that we use for behavioral advertising, on cookies and privacy:

As we develop and improve our services, we may use other third parties that are not listed above but will add them in a timely manner.

Additional information about cookies

The following links contain further information about cookies:

Your choices regarding cookies

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our Website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser's "Tools" or "Preferences" menu. The following links may assist you in managing your cookie settings:

Additionally, some companies have developed tools to help you opt out of various forms of tracking.

Contact

If you have any concerns with our use of cookies you may contact us at https://www.tekscan.com/contact-us. Alternately, you may send an email directly to info@tekscan.com.

Updates

We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our Cookie Policy.