Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Synectics plc, owner of www.synecticsglobal.com and support.synecticsglobal.com

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our site. By accepting cookies on this site, you accept the terms of this policy.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.
  • Analytical cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below:

Essential

Provider Website Name Purpose Expiration Period

Cookiebot

synecticsglobal.com

CookieConsent

Stores your cookie consent preferences, ensuring the cookie banner does not reappear on subsequent visits.

One year

Cloudflare

synecticsglobal.com

cf_clearance

Proof that a visitor has successfully passed a security challenge (such as a CAPTCHA or bot check), allowing them to bypass further verification.

One year

Cloudflare

synecticsglobal.com

support.synecticsglobal.com

_cf_bm

Used by Cloudflare Bot Management to identify and mitigate automated traffic, protecting the website from "bad" bots and scrapers.

30 minutes

Microsoft

synecticsglobal.com

__RequestVerificationToken

A security cookie designed to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks by ensuring that the person submitting a form is the same person who requested the page.

Session

Zendesk

support.synecticsglobal.com

_help_center_session

Cloudflare per-client security settings for Twilio and Outbound assets. Zendesk Cookie Policy

Session

Zendesk

support.synecticsglobal.com

_zendesk_authenticated

A flag is set when a user is authenticated to ensure the most up-to-date and personalised content is displayed. Zendesk Cookie Policy

Session

Zendesk

support.synecticsglobal.com

_zendesk_cookie

Stores recognised devices and preference settings to manage your support session. Zendesk Cookie Policy

One year

Zendesk

support.synecticsglobal.com

_zendesk_shared_session

An authentication cookie that allows your login state or anonymous session to be maintained as you move across different support pages. Zendesk Cookie Policy

Eight hours

 

Analytical

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Period

Google

_ga

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated client identifier for traffic reporting. Google Privacy Policy

One year

Google

_ga_E6FF58TTE7

A specific Google Analytics 4 (GA4) cookie used to maintain session state and track your journey across different pages of the site. Google Privacy Policy

One year

Google

_gid

Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website, tracking behaviour across sessions on a daily basis. Google Privacy Policy

One day

Google

_gcl_au

Used by Google AdSense to track conversions and experiment with advertisement efficiency across websites. Google Privacy Policy

90 days

Microsoft

_clck

Stores a unique user ID for Microsoft Clarity to ensure that behaviour from the same user is connected across different visits to the same site.

One year

Microsoft

_clsk

Used by Microsoft Clarity to group all page views and actions by a single user into a single session recording.

One day

Microsoft

CLID

Used to identify the first time Microsoft Clarity recognised a user on any website that uses Clarity services.

One year

 

Marketing

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Period

Google

test_cookie

A temporary cookie used by DoubleClick (Google) to check if the user's browser supports cookies. Google Privacy Policy

15 minutes

LinkedIn

bcookie

A browser identifier cookie used to track the use of embedded LinkedIn services, such as the "Follow" button. LinkedIn Cookie Policy

One year

LinkedIn

ln_or

Used to register statistical data on users' behaviour on the website to measure the effectiveness of LinkedIn advertising campaigns. LinkedIn Cookie Policy

One day

LinkedIn

li_gc

Stores your consent for the use of cookies for non-essential purposes on LinkedIn's platform. LinkedIn Cookie Policy

Six months

LinkedIn

lidc

Used for load balancing to ensure LinkedIn services perform optimally by selecting the best data centre for your location. LinkedIn Cookie Policy

One day

Mailchimp

MCPopupClosed

Ensures that a newsletter subscription pop-up does not reappear after you close it.

One year

Mailchimp

_mc_link

Used to track the performance of links within Mailchimp marketing emails to understand which content users find most relevant.

30 days

Microsoft

MUID

A unique identifier used by Microsoft to track browsers across Microsoft sites for advertising and analytics purposes.

One year

Microsoft

ANONCHK

Indicates whether the MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising across Microsoft domains.

10 minutes

Microsoft

MR

Indicates whether the MUID cookie should be refreshed or updated.

One week

Microsoft

SM

Used by Microsoft to synchronise the MUID cookie across various Microsoft domains for consistent user identification.

Session

Vimeo

vuid

Assigns a unique ID to track video viewing behaviour and preferences for embedded Vimeo videos.

Two years

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

All cookies will expire in accordance with the expiration period.