Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookes contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We, from time to time, use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. 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).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
- PHP Session Cookie – PHPSESSID – Session Cookie
- The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to store and retrieve data during the session on a given website. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed.
- AddThis – __atuvc – Social Sharing
- This cookie is created by AddThis social sharing site and helps us display sharing options, and the amount of times something has been shared. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies may stop the ability for users to share content.
- Google – __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, __utma – Analytics
- __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, and __utma cookies allow us to gather and count page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on various Google Servers worldwide. 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 therefore not identifiable.
- LinkedIn – linkedin__oauth_id – Login
- This cookie is installed by LinkedIn to detect if you are currently logged in with a LinkedIn account.
- HubSpot – __hstc, __hssrc, __hssc, hsfirstvisit, hubspotutk – Analytics
- Similar to Google Analytics, we use these cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customers. The cookie is also used to identify if a user has visited or interacted with GrowthFunders previously. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You 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. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire within 30 days.
Contact us
To contact us, please email support@growthfunders.com.