Cookie Policy
At Target Internet we regard your privacy as important.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information. This includes details anbout about browsing habits and purchasing activities by people accessing our site. This includes specifics, such as detail of pages viewed, membership products purchased and the customer journey throughout our platform.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that, if you agree, we place on your computer. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
You can block cookies by changing the setting of your browser, which allows you to refuse all or some cookies.
If you block all cookies, which includes essential cookies, your access to all or parts of our website, together with some services of our site, may be restricted.
Cookies Consent Pop-up Banner
When you visit our site you may see the pop-up banner below, which allows us to record your consent (or not) to ensure we remain compliant with UK GDPR.
Types of cookies we use
First-Party Cookies
Origin: These cookies are set by the domain or website the user is directly visiting.
Purpose: They gather data primarily for analytical reasons and remember specific user preferences, such as login credentials, items in an online shopping cart, and website settings like language
preferences.
Privacy: First-party cookies do not track user activities on external websites.
Third-Party Cookies
Origin: These cookies are set by a domain other than the one the user is currently visiting.
Purpose: Their primary function is to monitor users as they navigate between websites and devices, ensuring that advertisements displayed are pertinent to the user.
Privacy: Third-party cookies play a significant role in tracking user activities across multiple websites.
Types of Cookies by Functionality
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Necessity: These cookies are indispensable for the regular operation of websites or for accessing specific features.
Use Cases: Examples include facilitating user sign-ins, managing online shopping carts, and processing online transactions.
Origin: Typically, they are first-party cookies.
Consent: Due to their essential nature, they usually do not require user consent.
Performance Cookies
Purpose: These cookies assess site performance and track user interactions.
Analytics: They record metrics such as the number of page visits, duration of user sessions, and site loading speeds to enhance the overall user experience.
Origin: Performance cookies can be either first-party or third-party.
Functionality Cookies
Purpose: These cookies enhance the usability of a website by remembering user preferences and settings.
Note: Absence of these cookies might render certain website features inaccessible.
Origin: They can be either first-party or third-party
Targeting Cookies
Purpose: These cookies are instrumental in developing user profiles and delivering targeted advertising.
Collaboration: They may be shared with other advertisers to evaluate and optimize the performance of advertisements.
Origin: Targeting cookies are predominantly third-party cookies.
Cookie Inventory
The table below shows the cookies we use and their purpose.
Strictly Necessary cookies
| Cookie key |
Domain |
Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | Third-party | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
| li_gc | linkedin.com | Third-party | 6 months | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for nonessential purposes |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | linkedin.com | Third-party | 1 month | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries |
Performance cookies
| Cookie key |
Domain |
Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| _ga | targetinternet.com | First-party | 1 year 1 month |
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. |
| __hstc | targetinternet.com | First-party | 6 months | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| __hssc | targetinternet.com | First-party | 30 minutes | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics |
| _gid | targetinternet.com | First-party | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| _gat_UA-7557892-1 | targetinternet.com | First-party | 54 seconds | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| __hssrc | targetinternet.com | First-party | Session | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| _ga_VD27S4WNQ3 | targetinternet.com | First-party | 1 year 1 month |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
Targeting cookies
| Cookie key |
Domain |
Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| _gcl_au | targetinternet.com | First-party | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | Third-party | 1 month | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences |
| _fbp | targetinternet.com | First-party | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| bscookie | linkedin.com | Third-party | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | Third-party | 1 year | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| lidc | linkedin.com | Third-party | 1 day | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
Functionality cookies
| Cookie key |
Domain |
Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| hubspotutk | .targetinternet.com | First-party | 6 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. |