Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that may be downloaded to your device by websites 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 website.

This website uses different types of cookies to help us to provide you with a good experience and also to allow us to improve our site.  Some cookies are placed by third party service providers that appear on our pages.


The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

We use the following types of cookies: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that are essential for the security of the website and visitor.
  • Analytics 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 and analyse how you interact with our website after we’ve emailed you.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

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

Cookie Type Description Duration
_ga Analytics This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 2 years
_gid Analytics This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. 1 day
_gat_gtag_UA_174011209_2 Analytics This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. 1 minute
__hstc Analytics This cookie is set by Hubspot and is used 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). 1 year 24 days
hubspotutk Analytics This cookie is used by HubSpot to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to Hubspot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. 1 year 24 days
__hssc Necessary This cookie is set by HubSpot. The purpose of the cookie is to keep 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. 30 mins
__hssrc Functional This cookie is set by HubSpot. According to their documentation, 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. Session

How to control and delete cookies

We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.  

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our website, or any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

For more information about cookies (including how to disable them) please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.

Further Information

To learn more about who we are, how we protect your privacy and how you can contact us, please see our Privacy Notice.

We hope this has clarified our use of cookies on this website.  However, if you are still looking for more information, then please email nic.mason@gurusystems.com.