Cookies
Consent
By using this website www.mainconcept.com (the "Website") you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy. You will have seen a pop up to this effect on your first visit to this website; although it will not usually appear on subsequent visits you may withdraw your consent at any time by following the instructions below.
Disabling cookies
Please note that some of the services will not function as well if cookies are disabled.
You can manage your cookie settings here:
Where the organization setting the cookie on your device provides an automated disabling tool in respect of its cookie(s) we list the name of that organization, the category of cookies it sets together and a link to its automated disabling tool. In all other cases, we list the names of the cookies themselves and their source at the date of this Cookie Notice so that you can easily identify and disable them through your browser controls.
If you have previously agreed to accept cookies but wish to Opt Out, you can disable cookies by going to your browser settings. For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org. Some browsers make it possible for you to signal that you do not want your internet browsing activity to be tracked however using this may have an impact on cookies that are used to remember you when returning to websites and other essential user functionality.
To opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
After your initial visit to the Website we may change the cookies we use but we will always ask for your consent if we change the cookies by showing you our cookie banner. This Cookie Notice will be updated from time to time to allow you to know who is placing cookies via the Website, for what purpose and give you the means to disable them. We indicate the date this Cookie Notice was last updated at the top.
If you are a resident in the EU:
For more information on managing cookies, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating web domain on your subsequent visits to that domain. The Website, like most web pages, contains elements from multiple web domains so when you visit the Website, your browser may receive cookies from several sources.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember preferences and generally improve the user experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests through tracking your browsing across websites.
Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed (for example to remember your user preferences when you return to the site).
What types of cookies does MainConcept use?
We describe the categories of cookies MainConcept and its affiliates and its contractors use below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (such as navigating between pages) cannot be provided.
Analytics and Performance: We make use of analytic cookies to analyze how our visitors use our Website and to monitor Website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the Website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.
Website Functionality: We make use of cookies to provide you with certain functionality. For example, to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in), or to recognize the platform from which you access the Website, and to provide enhanced and more personal features. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.
Advertising: Advertising cookies (also known as Third Party or targeting cookies) collect information about the browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. Advertisers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and others may have buttons embedded on our webpage that such as ‘Like' or ‘Share' buttons in addition to providing the requested functionality or if you click on an advertiser’s ad on our website and are taken to the advertiser’s website (these are Third Party Cookies).
The Third parties operating these buttons or click ads can access and use your data at the time you push the button and you are taken to their website and your act of clicking on these means that you have given these Third Parties your consent to process your information and send you advertising according to their privacy policy. These third parties will thereafter have your permission to send advertising cookies to your device both when you visit our Website and when you use their services and navigate away from our Website. You can opt out of most Third Party Advertising cookies at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
This Website currently uses the following strictly necessary cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Further Information |
| __cfruid | mainconcept.com | This cookie is part of Cloudflare's services - including load balancing, provision of website content and provision of a DNS connection for website operators. | TYPE: HTTP Expiration: Session https://www.cloudflare.com/cookie-policy/ |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 1 day |
Analytics/Statistics Cookies
We make use of analytic cookies to analyze how our visitors use our Website and to monitor Website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the Website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.
The Website currently uses the following analytic cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Further Information |
| _ga | Google Tag Manager | Google (www.google.com) operates the Google Display Network a collection of millions of websites and mobile applications that are powered by display advertising, including many Google services like YouTube. Google also operates the DoubleClick digital advertising platform: the ad technology foundation to create, transact, and manage digital advertising for the worlds buyers, creators, and sellers. The DoubleClick platform includes the DoubleClick Advertising Exchange and Double Click Bid Manager. To learn more about how we collect and use information for online advertising, please visit www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html |
TYPE: HTTP https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html |
| _ga_# | Google Analytics | Collects data on how many times a user has visited a website, as well as data for the first and last visit. Used by Google Analytics. To learn more about how we collect and use information for online advertising, please visit www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html |
TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 2 years http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409 https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to restrict the request rate. To learn more about how we collect and use information for online advertising, please visit www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html |
TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 1 day http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409 https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html |
| _utma | mainconcept.com | This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit to your site from that web browser. If the cookie has been deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits your site, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to your site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure. | |
| _utmb | mainconcept.com | This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with your site. When a user views a page on your site, the Google Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different page on your site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals. |
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| _utmc | mainconcept.com | This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. | |
| _utmz | mainconcept.com | This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach your site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within your own site. The cookie is updated with each page view to your site. |
Website Functionality Cookies
We make use of cookies to provide you with certain functionality. For example, to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in), or to recognise the platform from which you access the Website, and to provide enhanced and more personal features. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.
This Website uses the following functional cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Further Information |
| _gid | mainconcept.com | Personlization and Visitor Analytics. | TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 1 day www.mainconcept.com |
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Advertising cookies (or targeting cookies) collect information about the browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used by services provided by third parties on this Website, such as 'Like' or 'Share' buttons in addition to providing the requested functionality. Third parties provide these services in return for recognizing that you (or more accurately your device has) have visited a certain website. These third parties put down advertising cookies both when you visit our Website and when you use their services and navigate away from our Website. Their privacy practices are set out below:- AddThis (the service that runs some of our social sharing buttons): http://www.addthis.com/privacy#.T6j--usS0bw
- YouTube video player cookie policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/faq/#toc-cookies (Google's standard terms).
- Facebook's data use policy: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other
- Twitter's privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy
| Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Further Information |
| __ptq.gif | hubspot.com | Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | TYPE: Pixel Expiration: Session www.mainconcept.com |
| _gcl_au | mainconcept.com | Used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising efficiency on websites that use use their services. | TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 3 month www.mainconcept.com |
| ads/ga-audiences | ads.google.com | Used by Google AdWords to reengage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | TYPE: Pixel Expiration: Session www.mainconcept.com |
| embed/v3/counters.gif | forms.hsforms.com | Collects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web -campaign content – This is used on CRM-campaign-platform used by web site owners for promoting events or products. | TYPE: Pixel Expiration: Session www.mainconcept.com |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the web site user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | TYPE: HTTP Expiration: 1 year http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409 https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Used by Google to register and report the web site user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | TYPE: Pixel Expiration: Session http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409 https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.html |
Local Shared Objects ("Flash cookies")
In addition to the above cookies, we use Local Shared Objects, also referred to as "Flash cookies," on our Website. These are used to enhance your user experience, for example, by storing your user preferences and settings, [such as your volume/mute settings, and in connection with animated content on our Website]. Local Shared Objects are similar to browser cookies, but can store more complex data than simple text. By themselves, they cannot do anything to or with the data on your computer. Like other cookies, they can only access personally identifiable information that you have provided on this Website, and cannot be accessed by other websites. To find out more about Flash cookies or how to disable them, please click here http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.
HTML email web beacons
Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique "web beacon pixel" to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to you, to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.
Use of IP addresses and web logs
We may also use your IP address and browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Website and to improve the services we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. Your IP address might also be used to gather broad demographic information.
We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users' demographics.
Cookies policy does not cover third party websites
Please note that this Cookies Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third party websites which may be linked to this Website.
Changes to the Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies. This Cookies Policy was last updated on July 22, 2021.