What are cookies and how do we use them?

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 visit our website and also assists us in making improvements.

A cookie is a small file (consisting of letters and numbers) that we store on your browser or elsewhere on your device.

We use the following flavours of cookies:

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, including (where applicable) greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, content tailored for your region or choice of language).

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

Necessary Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preference Cookies

lang

Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website

Session

Ads.linkedin.com

Statistics Cookies

dc_gtm_UA-# 

Used by Google Tag.

Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.

Session

pclocs.com.au 

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_ga

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

2 years

pclocs.com.au 

_gid

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Session

pclocs.com.au 

dtCookie 

Unclassified

Session

pclocs.com.au 

vuid

Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read

2 years

Vimeo.com

__hs_opt_out This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_do_not_track This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_initial_opt_in This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. 7 days Hubspot.com
__hs_cookie_cat_pref This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. 6 months Hubspot.com
__hs_gpc_banner_dismiss This cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed. 180 days Hubspot.com
hs_ab_test This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. end of session Hubspot.com
<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. 14 days Hubspot.com
hs-messages-is-open This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. 30 minutes Hubspot.com
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. 1 day Hubspot.com
__hsmem This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. 7 days Hubspot.com
hs-membership-csrf This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. end of session Hubspot.com
hs_langswitcher_choice This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. 2 years Hubspot.com
__cfruid This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. end of session Cloudflare
__cf_bm This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. 30 minutes Cloudflare

 

Marketing Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_omappvp

Used by the lead generation platform OptinMonster to determine if the visitor is returning and has visited the website before.

11 years.

pclocs.com.au

_omappvs

Used by the lead generation platform OptinMonster to determine if the visitor is visiting the website for the first time.

Session

pclocs.com.au

ads/ga-audiences

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.

Session

google.com

bcookie

Used by the social networking service LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

linkedIn

BizolID

Unclassified.

179 days

ads.linkedin.com

bscookie

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

linkedin.com

Collect

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour.

Session

google-analytics.com

fr

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

3 months

facebook.com

Idc

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

Session

linkedin.com

MUID

Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.

1 year

bing.com

MUID8

Unclassified.

1 year

bing.com

visitor_id<uniquestring>

This visitor_id cookie includes the name “visitor_id” plus the unique identifier for your account which is derived from the tracking code placed on the Site. The value stored is the unique ID for the visitor.

10 years

pardot.com

visitor_id<uniquestring>-hash

This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, a unique visitor id …

10 years

Pardot.com

Pardot

This session cookie is set when a Pardot user is logged in.

 

Pardot.com

tr

Unclassified.

Session

facebook.com

UsedMatchHistory

Unclassified

179 days

ads.linkedin.com

__hstc The main cookie for tracking visitors. 6 months Hubspot.com
hubspotutk This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. 6 months Hubspot.com
__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. 30 minutes Hubspot.com
__hssrc Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. end of session Hubspot.com

  

Unclassified Cookies

Cookie

Description

Expiry

Provider

_uetsid

Unclassified

Session

pclocs.com.au

gwcc

Unclassified

3 months

pclocs.com.au

wfwaf-authcookie-<uniquestring>

This cookie is set by the WordPress security plugin “Wordfence”. It is used to authenticate user’s login request. This cookie is persistent and expires in 1 day.

24 Hours

WordFence Security Plugin

wordfence_verifiedHuman

Cookie set by the Wordfence Security WordPress plugin to protect the site against malicious attacks.

24 hours

WordFence Security Plugin

wfvt_<uniquestring>

These contain information about your general geographic location (used to remember your time zone, for example). These are known as session cookies and are deleted when you leave the site.

30 minutes

WordPress Default

wordpress_logged_in_<uniquestring>

After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wordpress_sec_<uniquestring>

Execute for your security page is better

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wordpress_test_cookie

Purpose: accepts wordpress cookies on the website

When the browsing session ends

WordPress Default

wp-settings-8

Purpose: supports optimized display and use of the wordpress website by the Administrator

8 years

WordPress Default

wp-settings-time-8

Purpose: allows optimized display and use of the wordpress website by the Administrator

8 years

WordPress Default


How to control and delete cookies

The majority of web browsers accept cookies, but you can usually change the web browser’s settings to refuse new cookies, disable existing ones or simply let you know when new ones are sent to your device.

In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility) or you can click on the links below to access instructions from some of the most popular browsers:

For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm.

However, please be aware that, if you refuse or disable cookies, some of the website’s functionality may be lost.

In addition, disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser.

Changes to our use of cookies

Any changes to our use of cookies for this website will be posted here and if appropriate, signposted from our web pages highlighting any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any queries in relation to this notice, please contact us at [email protected].