Cookie Policy.

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Chrome

Safari

Firefox

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What cookies do we collect?

Below is a list of the cookies we collect:

Crumb
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Squarespace sets this cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
Duration: Session

RecentRedirect
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects.
Duration: 30 minutes

squarespace-announcement-bar
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
Duration: Persistent

squarespace-likes
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.
Duration: Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
Duration: Persistent

squarespace-video-player-options
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace.
Duration: Persistent

ss_cookieAllowed
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.
Duration: 30 days

ss_sd
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Duration: Session

Test
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Functional
Description: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Duration: Session

_fbp
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Advertisement
Description: This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.
Duration: 3 months

fr
Domain: .facebook.com
Purpose: Advertisement
Description: Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.
Duration: 3 months 

_ga_8BTFXJ3D82
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.
Duration: 2 years 

_ga
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
Duration: 2 years

_gid
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
Duration: 1 day

_gat_gtag_UA_72245950_9
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Set by Google to distinguish users.
Duration: 1 minute

_hjFirstSeen
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.
Duration: 30 minutes 

_hjIncludedInSessionSample
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.
Duration: 2 minutes

 _hjIncludedInPageviewSample
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.
Duration: 2 minutes

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
Duration: 30 minutes

_hjSessionUser_2839747
Domain:.capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Other
Duration: 1 year

_hjSession_2839747
Domain:.capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Other
Duration: 30 minutes 

_ttp
Domain: .tiktok.com
Purpose: Advertisement
Description: TikTok set this cookie to track and improve the performance of advertising campaigns, as well as to personalise the user experience.
Duration: 1 year and 24 days 

_tt_enable_cookie
Domain: .tiktok.com
Purpose: Advertisement
Description: Tiktok set this cookie to collect data about behaviour and activities on the website and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising.
Duration: 1 year and 24 days 

_ _hstc
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: Hubspot set this main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
Duration: 5 months and 27 days 

hubspotutk
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Analytics
Description: HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.
Duration: 5 months and 27 days 

_ _hssrc
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Necessary
Description: This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session.
Duration: Session

_ _hssc
Domain: .capitalandcentric.com
Purpose: Necessary
Description: HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie.
Duration: 30 minutres

_ _cf_bm
Domain: .hubspot.com
Purpose: Function
Description: Cloudflare set the cookie to support Cloudflare Bot Management.
Duration: 30 minutres