Cookies Notice

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how N4 Studio Ltd ("Company," "we," "us," and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at n4.studio ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, N4 Studio Ltd) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first-and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

Essential website cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

• __cf_bm (Cloudflare): Placed on end-user devices to protect sites with Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode.

Performance and functionality cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

• _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress (Hotjar): Tracks the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count. Does not contain identifiable information.

Analytics and customisation cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

• __hssrc (HubSpot): Detects if the visitor has restarted their browser.
• __hssc (HubSpot): Keeps track of sessions.
• _ga (Google Analytics): Records unique IDs for website usage reporting (expires after 2 years).
• _gid (Google Analytics): Records unique IDs for session-based statistics.
• __ptq.gif (HubSpot): Stores anonymous page view data.
• __hstc (HubSpot): Primary tracking cookie for visitors.
• _dc_gtm_UA-# (Google Tag Manager): Controls script loading for Google Analytics.
• hjSession# (Hotjar): Holds current session data.
• hjSessionUser# (Hotjar): Set when a user first lands on a page.
• _hjIncludedInPageviewSample (Hotjar): Determines if a user is included in pageview sampling.
• _hjFirstSeen (Hotjar): Identifies a new user’s first session.
• hubspotutk (HubSpot): Tracks visitor identity and deduplicates contacts.
• _gat# (Google Analytics): Regulates request rate.
• _hjIncludedInSessionSample (Hotjar): Determines if included in daily session sampling.
• #collect (Google Analytics): Pixel tracker for visitor behaviour across channels and devices.
  

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

• ga-audiences (AdWords): Re-engages visitors likely to convert based on behaviour.
• bcookie (LinkedIn Ad Analytics): Optimises advertising range on LinkedIn.
• test_cookie (DoubleClick): Checks if the browser supports cookies (session only).
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (YouTube): Collects user data via embedded videos for targeted advertising.
• _fbp (Facebook): Identifies visitors for personalised advertising.
• __hstc (HubSpot): Main visitor tracking cookie.
• _gcl_au (AdSense): Experiments with ad efficiency across websites.
• lidc (LinkedIn): Supports LinkedIn marketing services and audience insights.
• YSC (YouTube): Tracks video views and user data for targeting.
• UserMatchHistory (LinkedIn): Enables LinkedIn marketing insights and targeting.
• AnalyticsSyncHistory (LinkedIn): Stores information about sync timing with analytics cookies.
• lang (LinkedIn): Remembers user’s language settings.
• li_sugr (LinkedIn): Probabilistic identity matching outside Designated Countries.
• DEVICE_INFO (YouTube): Tracks interaction with embedded content.
• muc_ads (Twitter): Used for advertising.
• ln_or (LinkedIn): Determines if Oribi analytics can be carried out.

Social networking cookies:

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

• personalization_id (Twitter): Used on sites with Twitter content or share plugins (persistent for 730 days).
• bscookie (LinkedIn Ad Analytics): Supports LinkedIn sign-in and follow features on third-party sites.

How can I control cookies on my browser?

• Digital Advertising Alliance
• Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
  

As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

To refuse cookies via your browser, see instructions in your browser’s help menu:

To refuse cookies via your browser, see instructions in your browser’s help menu:

• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge
• Opera

Advertising opt-outs:

Websites may also use so-called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

• Web beacons (tracking pixels, clear gifs): Tiny graphics that track page visits, ad interactions, and email opens. Often work alongside cookies.

Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser.

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

• Flash Cookies may be used for fraud prevention and site operations.
• Users can block or delete Flash Cookies through Adobe’s Website Storage Settings Panel and Global Storage Settings Panel.

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Used to record anonymous page view data and nothing about the user.

YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

Google Tag Manager uses it to control how a Google Analytics script tag loads. This is a HTTP cookie whose data is deleted after a session.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@n4.studio.