Cookie Policy
HomeViews Platform Limited (HomeViews, we, us, our)
Our website (homeviews.com and business.homeviews.com) uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies, such as pixels, plugins, scripts, tags and device fingerprinting (which we collectively refer to as “cookies” in this Cookie Policy).
We use cookies for many reasons, for example to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
This Cookie Policy describes:
- what cookies are;
- our use of cookies;
- how you can manage cookies used on our website;
- privacy;
- further information; and
- changes to this Cookie Policy.
By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, smart phone, tablet or other electronic device. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive and some cookies may collect personal data about you. You can find more general information about cookies at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that are used on our website. We use a variety of types of cookies for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies strictly necessary for the performance of our website, for example cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and use your Google sign in.
- Statistical cookies: these cookies 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, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Advertising and Tracking cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so that when you are on another website or social media platform, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website. We may also show you advertising on our website based on your browsing patterns on other websites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.
In addition to cookies, local storage allows us to use a tiny bit of space on your machine to store information, in much the same way as cookies. We use this to store information which, we feel, enhances your journey through the site by remembering previous actions and making them default for the future. All local storage is persistent, with no expiry.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Title / Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| G_ENABLED_IDPS | This cookie is used as part of allowing visitors to log in to homeviews.com using their Google Account, if they wish. Required for use of Login with Google functionality. If a visitor logs in to the website using their Google Account additional secure cookies will be stored for the duration of the session to provide verification that the visitor is logged in. | 395 days |
| lidc | To provide load balancing services. Click here for LinkedIn Cookies and opt out. | 1 day |
| cf_ob_info | Signals that a request was unable to be served from the underlying resource but that could be available via Cloudflare Always Online | 30 seconds |
| cf_use_ob | Informs Cloudflare to fetch from the Cloudflare Always Online service if the underlying resource is unavailable | 1 hour |
| ppwp_wp_session | General purpose platform session cookie. | Session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | To read if cookies can be placed. To identify if the users browser is capable of storing cookies because if it isn't then the backend will need to manage the session or prompt the user to allow cookies to be set. | Session |
| review_{{id}}_upvoted | Maintain upvotes on reviews between sessions. | Local Storage (no expiry) |
| _GRECAPTCHA | To protect our site from spam and abuse by detecting bots. | 1 Year |
| hubspotutk | Tracks a user's identity from HubSpot form submissions. | 6 months |
| JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | 1 Year |
| messagesUtk | To recognise users who chat via the chat flows tool. | 6 Months |
| bcookie | Used by LinkedIn to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. Click here for LinkedIn Cookies and opt out. | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | 30 minutes |
| _cfuvid | To identify users originating from the same IP address for the purposes of rate limiting. | Session |
Statistical Cookies
| Cookie Title / Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Universal Analytics (Google) _ga _ga_NHQN35S1TQ _ga_Y88EY1NKYB _gid _ga_B3S1VS7S3F | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our website, where visitors have come to our website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data. | _ga: 2 years _ga_NHQN35S1TQ: 2 years _ga_Y88EY1NKYB: 2 years _ga_B3S1VS7S3F: 2 years _gid: 24 hours |
| Hotjar _hjSession_1531047 _hjSessionUser_1531047 _hjSession_3680388 _hjSessionUser_3680388 | We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. You can opt out of HotJAr here. | 356 days |
| __hssc | To store anonymised statistics. | 30 Minutes |
| __hssrc | To determine whether a visitor has restarted their browser. | Session |
| __hstc | To store information about the session including the time of visit. | 30 Minutes |
| mp_ef606292b23178d9ba59f5677ef67b45_mixpanel | Used to identify individual users to our professional developer's area. | 365 Days |
Functionality Cookies
| Cookie Title / Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gat_UA-123160244-3 | To provide technical monitoring. | Session |
| li_gc | To store cookie consent preferences for LinkedIn. | 6 months |
| bscookie | LinkedIn Secure Browser Cookie. Used by LinkedIn to remember that a user is verified by two factor authentication and has previously logged in to LinkedIn. | 1 year |
| __wpdm_client | To enable downloads across multiple pages. | Session |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 6 months |
Advertising and Tracking Cookies
| Cookie Title / Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | To store and track conversions for advertisements in order to assess effectiveness of adverts. | 90 days |
| Doubleclick.net IDE | To provide advert delivery or retargeting. Google uses one or more cookies for advertising they serve across the web. One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is named ‘IDE‘ and is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. | 2 years |
Facebook Pixel _fbp | Remarketing cookie - This cookie will help deliver our advertising to people who have already visited our website when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising. Facebook Pixel allows organisations to implement JavaScript code on their sites to track and dynamically provide content to site visitors. Site visitors are matched to their respective Facebook accounts and identified by the Facebook cookies on their devices. The Facebook Pixel tracks URLs and domains visited, as well as the devices used by site visitors. Click here for details on how to control advertising served to you on Facebook. | 3 months |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing to provide advert delivery or retargeting.Click here for LinkedIn Cookies and opt out. | 30 days |
| li_sugr | To store and track a visitors identity. | 90 days |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | To store and track visits across websites in order to present relevant advertisements based on the visitor's preferences. | 1 month |
| test_cookie | Used to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | To provide advert delivery or retargeting, store and track a user's identity, store and track interaction and preferences for YouTube embed videos. | 6 months |
| vuid | To store the user's usage history. | 2 Years |
| YSC | To store and track interactions with You Tube embedded videos. | Session |
*Duration means the period that our cookies are installed on your device. Please note your browser may automatically delete cookies sooner than our set duration.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- DoubleClick
- Hotjar
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant third party’s website to manage the use of these types of cookies.
Profiling
We may use data gathered from cookies for profiling. Please visit our Privacy Policy to find out more about how we use data gathered from cookies for profiling.
How to manage cookies on our website
Cookies do lots of jobs on our website. However, most browsers allow you to disable them if you would like to. If you disable cookies, you may find that you have a less personalised experience on our website and that certain parts of our website do not work at all or do not work correctly.
Each browser is configured differently. To disable cookies via your browser settings, you should follow the instructions given by the publisher of your browser. Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org for comprehensive instructions for various desktop browsers. Except for essential cookies, our session cookies will expire after your browsing session.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy can be accessed here.
Further information
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Policy please info@homeviews.com with “Cookie Policy” in the subject line.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
If this Cookie Policy changes, the revised policy will include a new effective date and will be posted on this page. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 17th November 2024