What are cookies?

 

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the site remember your actions and preferences, so you don’t need to re-enter them each time you visit or navigate between pages.

 

What Cookies does ValueMomentum use and why?

 

Some of the cookies used by ValueMomentum are required for navigating the Website and utilizing its features, including access to secure areas designated for registered users.

 

ValueMomentum and its service providers use analytics, web beacons, and performance cookies to measure website effectiveness, track user interests, and monitor usage statistics. This data is used only for statistical purposes and not to identify users personally. However, if you are a registered user, ValueMomentum may combine this data with other analytic information to better understand your website usage.

 

Use of Cookies

 

ValueMomentum website uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, improve site functionality, and support analytics and personalization. The specific cookies that may be set on your device can vary depending on the features enabled on our site (for example, membership areas, A/B testing, live chat, language preferences, or third-party pixels).

 

Please note that cookie names, categories, and retention periods may change over time in accordance with updates made by our service providers, including HubSpot. For the most current details, you may refer to HubSpot’s official cookie documentation

 

The cookies used on the ValueMomentum website are described below. For details on how third parties collect and use information on behalf of ValueMomentum, please refer to their respective privacy and cookie policies and related documentation.

 

Necessary Cookies

The cookies that are categorised as “Necessary” are essential cookies that do not require consent. These are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site.

 

__hs_opt_out

  • This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policyto remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again.
  • This cookie is set when you give visitors the choice to opt out of cookies.
  • It contains the string “yes” or “no”.
  • It expires in 6 months.

__hs_do_not_track

  • This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot.
  • It contains the string “yes”.
  • It expires in 6 months. 

__hs_initial_opt_in

  • This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode.
  • It contains the string “yes” or “no”.
  • It expires in seven days. 

__hs_cookie_cat_pref

  • This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to.
  • It contains data on the consented categories.
  • It expires in 6 months.

hs_ab_test

  • This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test pagethey’ve seen before.
  • It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor.
  • It expires at the end of the session.

<id>_key

  • When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again.
  • The cookie name is unique for each password-protected page.
  • It contains an encrypted version of the password so future visits to the page will not require the password again.
  • It expires in 14 days.

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.
  • It contains a boolean value of Trueif present.
  • It expires in 30 minutes.

hs-messages-hide-welcome-message

  • This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.
  • It contains a boolean value of True or False.
  • It expires in one day. 

__hsmem

  • This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site.
  • It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership userwhen they are currently logged in.

It expires in seven days. 

 

hs-membership-csrf

  • This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged.
  • It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a membership login is authentic.
  • It expires at the end of the session.

hs_langswitcher_choice

  • This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.
  • It is set when a visitor selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the future if they are available.
  • It contains a colon delimited string with the ISO639 language code choice on the left and the top level private domain it applies to on the right. An example will be “EN-US:hubspot.com”.

It expires in two years.

__cfruid

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. It expires at the end of the session. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies

 

__cf_bm

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. It expires in 30 minutes. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies

 

Analytics Cookies

These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner. If you’re a visitor to a site supported by HubSpot, you can opt out of these cookies by not giving consent.

 

__hstc

  • The main cookie for tracking visitors.
  • 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).
  • It expires in 6 months.

hubspotutk

  • This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
  • It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.
  • It expires in 6 months.

__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.
  • It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.
  • It expires in 30 minutes.

__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.
  • It contains the value “1” when present.
  • It expires at the end of the session.
 Functionality Cookies

 

Chatflow cookie

 

This is the cookie used for the chatflows tool. If you’re a visitor, this allows you to chat with a representative on the site.

 

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.
  • With the Consent to collect chat cookiessetting turned on:
  • If you chat with a visitor who later returns to your site in the same cookied browser, the chatflows tool will load their conversation history.
  • The messagesUtk cookie will be treated as a necessary cookie.
  • When the Consent to collect chat cookies setting is turned off, the messagesUtk cookie is controlled by the Consent to processsetting in your chatflow.
  • HubSpot will not drop the messagesUtk cookiefor visitors who have been identified through the Visitor Identification API. The analytics cookie banner will not be impacted.
  • This cookie will be specific to a subdomain and will not carry over to other subdomains. For example, the cookie dropped for example.comwill not apply to the visitor when they visit www.example.com, and vice versa.
  • It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current chat user.
  • It expires after 6 months.
Chatflow cookie consent text


With the Consent to collect chat cookies setting enabled, HubSpot will prompt visitors for consent to drop a cookie in their browser before the start a chat or when they attempt to the leave the page during a chat conversation. This cookie is used to interact with website visitors and provide a visitor’s chat history.


If you choose to display the banner before the visitor starts a chat and the visitor does not give consent, they will not be able to start the chat.


If you choose to display the banner upon exit intent, however, the visitor can start the chat, but if they don’t consent to cookies before navigating away from the page, the chat widget will reset and the conversation will end.

 

With this setting disabled, a visitor can start a chat and give consent to process their information via the Consent to process setting

 

Visitors can also accept or decline cookies on the HubSpot cookie banner if it is enabled on your pages. 

  • If a visitor accepts the cookie when they start a chat, but then clicks Decline on the HubSpot cookie banner, the cookie will be removed. 

If a visitor clicks Decline on the HubSpot cookie banner before starting a chat, HubSpot will not drop a cookie or prompt them to consent to cookies in the chat widget. 

 

Advertisement Cookies

Advertisement cookies are ad pixel cookies (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google) that you can opt to install using the HubSpot ads tool.

 

If you have the Facebook pixel code installed on your website, Facebook may set a cookie in a visitor’s browser.

 

If you use the HubSpot ads tool to select and install your Facebook pixel on pages with the HubSpot tracking code, HubSpot will link the placing of that pixel code to the cookie notification banner. If you require opt-in consent via this banner, the Facebook pixel will not be able to set any cookies until the visitor has have opted in. 

 

If you manually placed the pixel code on pages (e.g., by editing your site header HTML), HubSpot will not be able to control the visitors Facebook is able to set cookies on.

 

For additional information, refer to Facebook’s business tools terms and Facebook’s cookie consent guide

 

How to Control Cookies?

By using this Website, you agree that ValueMomentum can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking cookies can impact user experience and parts of this Website may no longer be fully accessible.


Browser Controls

 

Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies as this itself requires an opt-out cookie to have been set. 

 

Social Buttons

The Website contains ‘social buttons’ to enable users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.

External Web Services

ValueMomentum sometimes uses external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. As with the social buttons, ValueMomentum cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content.