How we use cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files of letters and numbers that are placed and stored on your computer by the websites you use. These files can be read by website servers and can be used to help identify you when you return to a website.
They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site, for example, remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of people looking at a website.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a functional website and to give you a more personalised service.
We use the following cookies:
Analytical cookies
The other cookies we use are ‘analytical’ cookies. The analytical cookies we use contain an ID number which is used to uniquely identify your browser and track each site you visit that has Google Analytics enabled.
Our analytical cookies are operated by Google Analytics and store the following data:
- time of visit, pages visited, and time spent on each page of the website
- interactions with site-specific widgets
- referring site details (such as the URL a user came through to arrive at the website)
- type of web browser
- type of operating system (OS)
- flash version, JavaScript support, screen resolution, and screen colour processing ability
- network location and IP address
- document downloads
- clicks on links leading to external websites
- errors when users fill out forms
- clicks on videos
- ‘scroll depth’ (how far you scroll up or down on a page).
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.
If you already have Google Analytics cookies, they will be updated with the latest information about your visit to our website. We cannot access these cookies and are not the data controller for information held by Google Analytics.
Read more about the individual cookies we use and why below.
Cookies stored by theaccessgroup.com
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_biz_flagsA |
Optimizely 3rd party – Cookies are used to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. |
1 year |
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_biz_nA |
Optimizely 3rd party – Cookies are used to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. |
1 year |
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_biz_pendingA |
Optimizely 3rd party – Cookies are used to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. |
1 year |
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_biz_sid |
Optimizely 3rd party – Cookies are used to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. |
30 mins |
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_biz_uid |
Optimizely 3rd party – Cookies are used to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. |
1 year |
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_dc_gtm_UA-80817726-6 |
Google Analytics - Used to throttle request rate. |
1 min |
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_ga |
Google Analytics - Used to distinguish users. |
2 years |
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_gat_UA-80817726-6 |
Google Analytics - Used to throttle request rate. |
1 min |
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_gid |
Google Analytics - Used to distinguish users. |
24hrs |
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_hjid |
Hotjar- Used to distinguish users. |
1 year |
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_mkto_trk |
Marketo - Allows a website to link visitor behaviour to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness. |
2 years |
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_vwo_uuid_v2 |
VWO - Used to distinguish visitors for A/B and multi variant testing. |
1 year |
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internalVisitor |
Access Group - Used to identify exclude internal visitors from analytics data. |
1 year |
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__zlcmid |
Zendesk - Used to distinguish users for web chat. |
1 year |
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_gat |
Google Analytics - Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
10 minutes |
Third party cookies
Please note we allow third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) to use cookies on our website. We do not have direct control over how these third parties use cookies. We have set out below the third party cookies which we allow to be used on our website. Other cookies that may be used by third parties are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
The table below further explains the third party cookies that are used on our website and their purposes. For details about how the third party uses cookies, follow the links in the table below to the third parties’ websites.
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BizoID, lang, BizoCustomSegments, BizoNetworkPartnerIndex, BizoData, BizoUserMatchHistory, cookie, lidc, _lipt, _ga, liap |
These Cookies are stored independently by LinkedIn and The Access Group have no control over the cookies themselves. They do allow us to anonymously track conversions for our LinkedIn advertising. |
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IDE ,DSID, CONSENT, HSID, APISID, NID, OGP, 1P_JAR, OGPC, aSAPISID, SSID, SID, AID, ANID, CONSENT, HSID, SAPISID, 1P_JAR, APISID, NID, SID, SIDCC, SSID, UULE, _ga, IDE |
These Cookies are stored independently by Google and The Access Group have no control over the cookies themselves. For more details about how Google Analytics uses cookies visit |
Bizible
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_BUID, _cfduid, |
These Cookies are stored independently by Bizible and The Access Group have no control over the cookies themselves. They are used primarily for attributing enquiries with marketing campaigns and channels. For more details about how Bizible uses cookies visit |
These cookies are stored independently by the third party in question and the Access Group has no control over the cookies themselves.
If you wish to opt out of any of these cookies then please follow the links provided for information on opting out or change your browser settings as explained below.
How do I change my cookie settings?
Your consent is generally required for cookies to be placed on your computer and for the use and storage of personal information relating to you provided by the cookies. If you do not disable them but continue to use our site we will take this as your consent to the use of those cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time by updating your cookie settings.
There consent is not needed for cookies to be placed on your computer (for example, where a cookie is needed for the operation of our website or for the provision of a service to you), the use and storage of any personal information provided by the cookies will be based on legitimate interests. The legitimate interests we are pursuing are the operation of our website and promotion of our business.
Please be aware that if you decide to disable some or all cookies, you may not be able to access or use parts or all of the features of our website and you will not receive a personalised service.
We provide a simple interactive tool that allows you to manage cookies on our website. You are able to opt out of cookies by clicking the purple triangle in the bottom left hand corner of the site and then selecting ‘Information and Settings’ in the dialogue box that appears. From here you can either select to ‘Turn cookies off’ or agree to their use by selecting ‘I’m fine with this’.
Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. All browsers allow you to reject and/or delete cookies either one at a time or all at once. The procedure for this depends on the browser you use. To find out more about how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them on various common browsers, please use the following links:
- Internet Explorer - more information.
- Chrome - more information.
- Firefox - more information.
- Safari - more information.
- Opera - more information.
- iPhone, iPad and other equipment from Apple - more information.
- All phones and other equipment on Android - more information.
- All phones and other equipment on Windows 7 - more information.
- You may specifically opt-out of data being collected and used by Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Please note that where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.