Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Text files that store information, such as your language preference for a website. When you revisit the website later, this cookie is sent to the website again. The website then recognizes your browser and can remember your language preference, for example.

Cookies also usually have an expiry date. For example, some cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser (called session cookies), while others remain on your computer for longer periods of time, sometimes even until you delete them manually (called permanent cookies).

What are cookies used for?

Climapulse uses cookies to:

  • Improve the use and functionalities of its website;
  • Analyze how users use the website and to compile statistics;
  • Show users personalized information and advertisements.

What types of cookies do we use?

Climapulse uses the following cookies:

  • Necessary cookies
  • Preference cookies
  • Analytical cookies
  • Marketing cookies 

Name

Type

Description

Retention period

_fbp

Marketing

marketing purposes

3 months

_ga_*

Analytical

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two different hits in different browser sessions belong to the same user.

2 years

_ga

Analytic

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two different hits belong to the same user in different browsing sessions.

2 years

_gat_*

Analytic

Used by Google Analytics to reduce search speed (limits data collection on high traffic sites)

1 hour

_gid

Analytic

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two different hits belong to the same user in different browsing sessions.

1 day

_gcl_au    

Marketing

Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data.

3 months

_hjSessionUser_{site_id}

Marketing

  • Set when a user first lands on a page.
     
  • Stores the Hotjar User ID that is unique to that site.Hotjar does not track users across sites.
     
  • Ensures that data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID.  

1 year 

_hjHasCachedUserAttributes

Analytic 

  • Allows us to know if the data set in the _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is current or not.<
  •  
  • Boolean true/false data type.

Session duration

_hjUserAttributesHash

Analytical

  • Allows us to know when a User attribute has changed and needs to be updated.
     
  • Content hash data type.

Duration of 2 minutes, extended every 30 seconds.

_hjUserAttributes

Local storage 

  • Stores User attributes sent via the Hotjar Identify API.
     
  • Base64 encoded JSON data type.

No explicit expiry date.

 

hjViewportId

Session Store

  • Stores details of the user view such as size and dimensions.
     
  •  UUID data type.

Session duration

 

hjActiveViewportIds

Local storage

  • Stores user's active display IDs.
     
  • Stores an expiry Timestamp used to validate active views on script initialization.
     
  • JSON data type.

Session duration

Necessary cookies

Some cookies are required to enable core functionality of our website. The website will not work properly without these cookies; they are enabled by default and cannot be disabled.

Preference Cookies

Preference cookies allow the website to remember information about the website design or how the website behaves for the user. For example, consider saving the selected currency, region, language or color theme.

Analytical cookies

We use analytical cookies to collect information about visits to our website. We use that information to analyze your visit to our website (not to know who you are). Just think about how often the website is visited and what pages website visitors access in the process. We collect this data to improve the user experience on our website. This data will be anonymized after collection.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors on websites so that publishers can display relevant and engaging advertisements.

How can you manage your cookies?

Thanks to advertising, you can visit most websites for free. This makes the ads more responsive to your interests. If you turn off cookies, you will still see advertising, but it will no longer be tailored to your preferences. In addition, you will have to retype any login information (password, user name) each time you disable cookies that remember your preferences.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser to warn you before a cookie is placed or so that cookies are rejected.
More information on how to set your browser can be found via the ‘Help’ button on your browser or via the following links:

If you use different devices to visit this website, make sure your cookie preference is set on each device's browser.