Last updated: 6th June 2024
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Those cookies are set by us and called first party cookies. We also use third party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our functional/performance, marketing, statistical purposes.
How do we use cookies?
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
- to enable certain functions of the website,
- to provide analytics,
- to store your preferences ad, personalize the content,
- to improve the user experience
- to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising
- to share on social networks
You will find below a list as accurate as possible of the cookies we use on our website. The cookies may be classified in the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies;
- Preferences cookies;
- Analytical cookies;
- Targeting cookies;
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to determine the number of unique users of the site or provide certain features.
| Name | Function | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
cookiehub .wearemci.com CookieHub | Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site. | 365 days |
__cf_bm .hubspot.com Cloudflare, Inc. | The __cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. | 1 hour |
_cfuvid .hubspot.com | Used by Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address and apply rate limits | Session |
_cfuvid .hsforms.com | Used by Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address and apply rate limits | Session |
__cf_bm .hsforms.com Cloudflare, Inc. | The __cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. | 1 hour |
Preferences Cookies
These cookies enables our website to remember information to customize how the website looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language, or coloc them. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all these functionalities may not function properly.
Name | Function | Expiry |
lidc .linkedin.com | Used by LinkedIn for routing. | 1 day |
li_gc .linkedin.com | Used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 180 days |
Analytical Cookies
We use analytical cookies across the mci group website for internal purposes to help us to provide you with a better user experience by collecting and reporting information on your usage. Information supplied by cookies helps us to understand how our visitors use the mci group website so that we can improve how we present our content to you. We generally contract with independent measurement and research companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third-party company (third party cookies).
| Name | Function | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
_ga .wearemci.com | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 400 days |
_gid .wearemci.com | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 1 day |
bcookie .linkedin.com LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | 365 days |
_ga_ .wearemci.com | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 365 days |
__hstc .wearemci.com HubSpot | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. This is the main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 180 days |
hubspotutk .wearemci.com HubSpot | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. This cookie is used to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 180 days |
__hssrc .wearemci.com HubSpot | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. | Session |
__hssc .wearemci.com HubSpot | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. | 1 hour |
_hjSessionUser_ .wearemci.com Hotjar | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days |
_hjSession_ .wearemci.com Hotjar | Used by Hotjar to hold current session data. | 1 hour |
_dc_gtm_ .wearemci.com | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager. | 1 hour |
Targeting and Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites.
| Name | Function | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
_fbp .wearemci.com Meta Platforms | Facebook Pixel advertising first-party cookie. Used by Facebook to track visits across websites to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 90 days |
_gcl_au .wearemci.com Google Advertising Products | Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data. | 90 days |
UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | Contains a unique identifier used by LinkedIn to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | 30 days |
AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | Used by LinkedIn to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. | 30 days |
bscookie .www.linkedin.com LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 365 days |
IDE .doubleclick.net Google Advertising Products | Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. | 390 days |
li_sugr .linkedin.com | Used by LinkedIn to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries. | 90 days |
What are your choices regarding cookies?
When you visit MCI website for the first time, you will be asked to set your cookies preferences. You can modify your preferences at any time on our website.
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser:
- For Internet Explorer™: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
- For Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- For Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
- For Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/
- etc…
However please note that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, some features of the MCI website may not work properly, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Where can you find more information about cookies?
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
- AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
- Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
Contact
For more information regarding processing of your data, please consult our MCI Group Privacy Statement. If you need further assistance or if you have any kind of question regarding cookies or concerns about your Personal Data, please contact us at: privacy@mci-group.com or MCI GROUP Holding SA, Data Protection Officer, 9 rue du Pré-Bouvier, 1242 Satigny, Switzerland.