​1.  What are cookies

1.1  Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.

1.2  A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you. They are a useful tool as, by recording the way you use our site, they enable us to get to know you better. For example, we’re able to recognise you when you return to the site, identify your preferences so as to provide you with a more personalised service and speed up searches that you conduct when visiting.

​2.  Types of cookies

2.1  La Fosse may use the following types of cookies:

2.1.1  Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our site and include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like registering for job alerts, cannot be provided.

2.1.2  Analytical or performance cookies: these types of cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

2.1.3  Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our site and allow our site to remember choices you make (such as your username and password) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

2.1.4  Targeting cookies: these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed and are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisations.

2.2  Generally, the strictly necessary cookies and some performance and functionality cookies expire when you close the site: these are known as ‘session cookies’. The functionality cookies and some targeting and performance cookies will last for a longer period of time: these are known as ‘persistent cookies’.

Social media

2.3  If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter, those social networks will record that you have done so and may set a cookie for this purpose.

2.4  In some cases, where a page on our website includes content from a social network, such as a Twitter feed, or Facebook comments box, those services may set a cookie even where you do not click a button. As is the case for all cookies, we cannot access those set by social networks, just as those social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.

Log files

2.5  Our systems automatically gather some anonymous information about visitors, including IP addresses, browser type, language, and the times and dates of webpage visits. The data collected does not include personally information and is used, as described above, for statistical analysis, to understand user behaviour, and to administer the site.

Google Analytics

2.6  Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from http://www.google.com/privacy.html

​3.  How we use cookies

You can find more information about the individual cookies La Fosse uses and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Domain Functionality Description Retention Purpose
Google Doubleclick.ne        
DSID to store user preferences 2 weeks Marketing / Tracking
IDE to provide ad delivery or retargeting 2 years Marketing / Tracking
Ar_debug to store and track conversions persistent Marketing / Tracking
Hotjar.com  
_hjSessionUser_ .lafosse.com Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. 1 year Analytics / Statistics
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress_ .lafosse.com Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. Session Analytics / Statistics
_hjSession_ .lafosse.com Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. 30 mins Functional
_hjTLDTest Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. Session Functional
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. 30 mins Analytics / Statistics
_hjIncludedInSessionSample www.lafosse.com Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. 30 mins Analytics / Statistics
_hjFirstSeen .lafosse.com Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. 30 minutes Analytics / Statistics
Google Analytics  
_ga .lafosse.com to store and count pageviews 1 year Analytics / Statistics
_gat .lafosse.com to read and filter requests from bots 1 min Functional
_gid .lafosse.com to store and count pageviews 1 day Analytics / Statistics
_gat_UA-18468226-1 .lafosse.com 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. 1 minute Analytics / Statistics
_ga_7V1TNK3YEF .lafosse.com This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. 2 years Analytics / Statistics
lafosse.com  
__Host-_krakatoa_session www.lafosse.com Used to identify the users session on the website for authentication and authorisation purposes Session Functional
cookie_consent_level www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. Session Strictly Necessary
cookie_consent_user_accepted www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. Session Strictly Necessary
cookie_consent_user_consent_token www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. Session Strictly Necessary
google_cid www.lafosse.com to provide functions across pages 1 year Functional
siOeOa4 www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences.  100 years Other
siOeOn9U www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences.  1 hour Other
sizNMead6Y8jj www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. 1 hour Other
sizBGaIZ2gZhlmf79 www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. 1 hour Other
sizNMeajEpFRb www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. 1 hour Other
sizNMeak6mA www.lafosse.com to store cookie consent preferences. 1 hour Other
Social
LinkedIn .linkedin.com LinkedIn Pixel for marketing purposes Marketing / Tracking
Twitter .twitter.com Twitter Pixel is used for marketing purposes Marketing / Tracking
Facebook .faceook.com Facebook Pixel is used for marketing purposes Marketing / Tracking
UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. 1 month Functional
AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. 1 month Analytics / Statistics
lang .ads.linkedin.com LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting. session Functional
bcookie .linkedin.com LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. 1 year Functional
lidc .linkedin.com LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. 1 day Functional
lang .linkedin.com LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting. session Functional
bscookie .www.linkedin.com LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. 1 year Functional
li_gc .linkedin.com Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. 5 months 27 days Functional
ln_or www.lafosse.com Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website for internal analytics. 1 day Analytics / Statistics
YSC .youtube.com YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. session Advertisement
DEVICE_INFO .youtube.com No description 5 months 27 days Other
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 5 months 27 days Advertisement
CONSENT .youtube.com YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. 2 years Analytics / Statistics
_fbp .lafosse.com This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. 3 months Advertisement

4.  Third parties

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties save for as identified within the table above.

5.  Managing cookie settings

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

6.  Retention period

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 399 days.

Last updated September 2022