Last updated October 04, 2022
This Cookie Policy explains how heed Training Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at www.heed.org. 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, iheed Training Ltd) are called "first party cookies" es·. 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. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize 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 cook es for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary'' cookies. Other cookies 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.
The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cook es. 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. TO WITHDRAW CONSENT, PLEASE USE THE NOTIFICATION BANNER ON THE 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. 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.
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.youronlinechoices.com
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Websites 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 Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
| Name | Domain | Expiry | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | 1 month | Strictly Necessary | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries |
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | 6 months | Strictly Necessary | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
| CookieScriptConsent | www.iheed.org | 6 months 2 days | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
Performance website Cookies:
| Name | Domain | Expiry | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | .iheed.org | 2 years | Performance | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gat_UA-113451943-1 | .iheed.org | 1 minute | Performance | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _gid | .iheed.org | 1 day | Performance | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
Targeting website Cookies:
| Name | Domain | Expiry | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUID | .bing.com | 1 year | Targeting | This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | 1 year | Targeting | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | 15 minutes | Targeting | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
| _fbp | .iheed.org | 3 months | Targeting | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| _gcl_au | .iheed.org | 3 months | Targeting | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| _hp2_id.917759277 | .iheed.org | 1 year | Targeting | This cookie is used by Heap Analytics to track user behavior on the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 2 years. |
| _hp2_ses_props.917759277 | .iheed.org | 30 minutes | Targeting | This cookie is used by Heap Analytics to track user behavior on the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 2 years. |
| _uetsid | .iheed.org | 1 day | Targeting | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| _uetvid | .iheed.org | 1 year | Targeting | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | 1 year | Targeting | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | 1 day | Targeting | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | 1 month | Targeting | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences. |
| personalization_id | .twitter.com | 2 years | Targeting | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | 1 year | Targeting | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
Functional website Cookies:
| Name | Domain | Expiry | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lang | .linkedin.com | Session | Functional | There are many different types of cookies associated with this name. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. |
Unclassified website Cookies:
| Name | Domain | Expiry | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iheed-_zldp | .iheed.org | 1 year | Unclassified | This cookie identifies the unique visitors for the website and is used by Zoho SalesIQ. |
| iheed-_zldt | .iheed.org | 1 day | Unclassified | This cookie identifies the unique visitors for the website and is used by Zoho SalesIQ. |
| muc_ads | .t.co | 2 years | Unclassified | This is a cookie that is set by twitter.com. It is used for optimizing ad relevance by collecting visitor navigation data. |
| crmcsr | crm.zoho.com | Session | Unclassified | Zoho is the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) database that we use to store customer information. When you enter your details into our website the data, the data is sent securely to Zoho. |
| LS_CSRF_TOKEN | salesiq.zoho.eu | Session | Unclassified | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users’ activities across multiple websites. It expires once the browser is closed. |
| uesign | salesiq.zoho.eu | 1 month | Unclassified | A cookie from Zoho SalesIQ to collect and analyze the visitor's data when they land on the website. |
| LS_CSRF_TOKEN | salesiq.zohopublic.eu | Session | Unclassified | Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users’ activities across multiple websites. It expires once the browser is closed. |
| gclid | .iheed.org | 1 month | Unclassified | GCLID (Google Click Identifier) tracking is a unique tracking number that is added to each individual AdWords click. |