The Compensation Experts Cookie Policy
Categories of cookies in use
The categories of cookies in use are described as follows:
| Category | Description of Category |
| Advertisement | Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features. |
| Functional | Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features. |
| Necessary | Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basis functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. |
| Analytics | Analytics cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provided information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source etc. |
Cookies in use
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Domain | Category | Description | Duration |
| _gcl_au | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | Advertisement | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
| atatus-aid | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | These web analytics cookies, provided by Atatus, they help to Visualize clearly how our website is performing and gain insights across different layers of our software stack with in-depth performance and error analysis. | Session |
| atatus-sid | .compensationexperts.uk | Session ID to treat multiple web pages as one session within Atatus | Session | |
| _ga | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gid | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 minute |
| _hjSessionUser_ | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Hotjar uses this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 year |
| _hjFirstSeen | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | 30 minutes |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_ | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Hotjar uses this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. | 2 minutes |
| _hjSession_1850062 | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Hotjar uses this cookie to show how users are interacting with the site. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 30 minutes |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | .compensationexperts.uk | Functional | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user’s first pageview session, which is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 minutes |
| fbp | .compensationexperts.uk | Analytics | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months |
How to change cookie settings
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