Cookie Policy
Last updated February 28, 2023
This notice explains how Zero100 Community Limited (Zero100”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies on our website [https://zero100.com] / [http://zero100forum.com] / [http:// members.zero100.com].
It explains the types of cookies we use and why, and also how you can change your cookie preferences.
You should read this cookie notice alongside our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
- What is a cookie?
- A cookie is a text file which is stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. They are generally used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information about your use of the website, and to display content and advertising that is relevant to you.
- Other technologies operate in a similar way but use different names: for example, pixels, beacons, tags, scripts, social media plug-ins, device fingerprinting techniques, [and SDK tools (which are used on mobile apps)]. In this cookie notice, we use the term “cookie” to refer to all similar technology.
- Why do we use cookies?
We (and our partners, including marketing partners) use cookies for various purposes: to analyse trends, administer the services, remember your preferences, track users’ movements around our website, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, enable you to navigate between webpages more efficiently, help us understand how our website is used so we can improve it, [and record information about your visit to help target advertising and to build a profile of you]. The purpose for each cookie we use is set out below.
- What cookies do we use and how long will they stay on my device?
- We use four types of cookies: strictly necessary cookies, performance cookies, functionality cookies (including for social media), and advertising cookies. Each type of cookie has a different purpose.
- Some cookies are set by us (known as first-party cookies).
- Other cookies are set by another organisation’s website (known as third-party cookies). For third-party cookies, we do not have access or control over these technologies. We do not tie the information gathered by third parties to our customers’ or users’ personal information.
- A cookie can either be a session cookie or a persistent cookie. A session cookie is stored temporarily on your computer or device while you use the website, and is deleted when you close your internet browser. A persistent cookie remains on your computer or device after you have closed your browser, so we can remember if you have visited our website before or your preferences [or to track your actions across different websites in order to target advertising to you]. Depending on the type of cookie, the period of time the persistent cookie stays on your computer or device is set out below.
Strictly necessary cookies
- These are cookies which are essential for our website to operate, such as cookies that are used to help a webpage load quickly.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry period | Who places the Cookie? |
| Apple Communications Cookies | These cookies are used to enable network traffic to and from Apple’s systems, including by helping us detect any errors. | Apple via Zero100 | |
| Apple Strictly Necessary Cookies. | These cookies are set as required to provide a specific feature or service that you have accessed or requested. In our case, to enable users to listen to our Podcasts. | Apple via Zero100 | |
| Zero100 Privacy Policy | Acknowledgement of privacy policy. | Zero100 | |
| Zero100 Terms & Conditions | Acceptance or rejection of our Terms and conditions. | Zero100 | |
| Zero100 Cookie Policy | Acceptance or rejection of our Cookie Policy | Zero100 |
Performance Cookies
- These cookies help us to improve the way our website works. For example, they gather information that allows us to count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry period | Who places the Cookie? |
| Hotjar _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. JSON data type. | 365 Days | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjid | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. UUID data type. | 365 Days | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjSession_{site_id} | Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | 30 Minutes | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjSessionTooLarge | Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the WebSocket server if the session size exceeds the limit. | Session duration dependent | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjSessionRejected | If present, set to '1' for the duration of a user's session, when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. | Session duration | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| _hjSessionResumed | Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. | Session duration | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. | 30 Minutes | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjRecordingEnabled | Set when a Recording starts. Read when the Recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. | Session Duration | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Hotjar _hjRecordingLastActivity | Set in Session storage as opposed to cookies. Updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). | Session Duration | Hotjar via Zero100 |
| Google Analytics _ga | This cookie is used to distinguish users. | 2 Years | Zero100 |
| Google Analytics _ga_<container-id> | This cookies is used to persist a session state. | 2 Years | Zero100 |
| Google Analytics _utma Cookie | A persistent cookie – remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitors. Metrics associated with the Google __utma cookie include: first visit (unique visit), last visit (returning visit). This also includes Days and Visits to purchase calculations which afford ecommerce websites with data intelligence around purchasing sales funnels. | Persistent | |
| Google Analytics _utmb Cookie & __utmc Cookie | These cookies work in tandem to calculate visit length. Google __utmb cookie demarks the exact arrival time, then Google __utmc registers the precise exit time of the user. Because __utmb counts entrance visits, it is a session cookie, and expires at the end of the session, e.g. when the user leaves the page. A timestamp of 30 minutes must pass before Google cookie __utmc expires. Given__utmc cannot tell if a browser or website session ends. Therefore, if no new page view is recorded in 30 minutes the cookie is expired. This is a standard ‘grace period’ in web analytics. Ominture and WebTrends among many others follow the same procedure. | 30 mins from set/update (_utmb) Session duration (_utmc) | |
| Google Analytics _utmz Cookie | Cookie __utmz monitors the HTTP Referrer and notes where a visitor arrived from, with the referrer siloed into type (Search engine (organic or cpc), direct, social and unaccounted). From the HTTP Referrer the __utmz Cookie also registers, what keyword generated the visit plus geolocation data. In tracking terms this Cookie is perhaps the most important as it will tell you about your traffic and help with conversion information such as what source / medium / keyword to attribute for a Goal Conversion. This Cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months | |
| Vimeo Clicking behaviour | Which elements are clicked on the website? | Session duration | Vimeo via Zero100 |
| Vimeo Dwell time | How long does the visitor stay on the website? | Session duration | Vimeo via Zero100 |
Functionality cookies
- These cookies allow the website to remember choices you have made such as your user name, language, the region you are in, in order to provide a more enhanced and personalised experience.
- We also use HTTP cookies for customizing your user experience, remembering your settings, and monitoring use and effectiveness of our services.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry period | Who places the Cookie? |
| Vimeo IP address Browser type (e.g. Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) Operating system (e.g. macOS, Windows) | Understanding what devices, browsers and operating systems are being used to support Vimeo’s compatibility. | Session duration | Vimeo via Zero100 |
Social media plugins
- Our website also has social media plug-ins. A plug-in allows you to share our website content via your social media account or easily share information with others. We have a presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
- If you click on any of the social media icons on our website, you will be taken to our pages on those platforms.
- The platform may then start tracking your behaviour using cookies for their own purposes; for example, to better understand your interests so that they can present relevant content or advertising to you.
- Data about you may also be transmitted to the social media channel even if you don’t click on the plug-in.
- The social media platforms will provide us with statistical information, which we use to help understand how you and our other users interact with our social medial presence.
- All these platforms provide you with some control over their use of non-essential tracking technology and you can find details of how to exercise this control by reviewing their privacy and cookie notices.
- We have contractual arrangements in place with the social media channels we use. Please contact us for more information via the Contact information section below.
Advertising / targeting cookies
- These cookies record information about your visit to our website to help target advertising and to build a profile of you. For example, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed, the number of times you’ve seen an ad, the ads you have clicked on and your browsing habits and interests.
- We, and our advertising partners, use this information to make the ads you see, both on and off our website, more personalised and relevant to your interests. Our advertising partners may combine it with other information they have about you, for example information about your browsing habits on other websites or information they have obtained from data brokers. This will then be used to create a profile of you so that relevant advertising is shown to you.
- You might also see our advertisements on other websites that you visit. We and our advertising partners use locally shared objects (LSOs) or flash cookies to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing LSOs.
- Advertising cookies may also be used for other purposes such as ad click fraud detection, market research, product improvement and debugging.
- If you do not wish to have your information used to serving you targeted ads, you can opt out by contacting us at privacy@zero100.com or via the Contact information section below. You can also opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance Your Ad Choices.
- Please note that users in the European Union and the United Kingdom may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, selecting the user’s country, and then clicking “Choices” (or similarly-titled link). Please note this does not opt you out of being served all advertising and you may continue to receive generic ads.
Pixels in our marketing emails
- Our marketing emails contain a campaign-unique “web pixel” to tell us how you interact with our communications, such as whether you opened the email or clicked on a link in it. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email.
- We use this information to help determine which of our emails are more interesting to you and to help us determine if you should to continue receiving emails if you do not open them. These pixels help us to understand how effective our marketing campaigns are and your level of engagement with us.
- If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should opt-out of email marketing altogether, or configure your email to not load remote images by default or to show your emails in plaintext format.
- How to change your cookie preferences
- You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the cookies consent mechanism. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
- Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Apple Safari
- If you use a smart phone, you can usually prevent cross-site tracking and block cookies in the settings section on your device. You may also be able to visit websites without leaving a history by turning private browsing on. You should visit the support section of the browser on your device for more information on how to do this.
- Changes to this cookie notice
- We will inform you of any changes to this cookie notice by posting them on this page and updating the cookie tables above.
- This version of our cookie notice was uploaded on 28/02/2023.
- Contact Us
- If you have any questions about cookie notice, please contact us at privacy@zero100.com.