Cookie Policy
We use cookies to improve the experience of using ProdPad. Cookies help provide capabilities such as remembering your logged in status and analysis of site usage to improve your experience. ProdPad and our partners may also use cookies and similar technologies to personalize contents and ads.
Our privacy policy is detailed here.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.
Cookies can be broadly split into three categories:
- Functional Cookies – These cookies are essential for operation of the website and application. They also allow us to personalize your experience and recognize when our users return to our website and application. They may provide services which include, for example, choice of layout.
- Statistics Cookies – These cookies allow us to monitor the behavioral activity of our users. We use these cookies to help us to improve the way our website and application works for you. Types of information they collect include, for example, how many visitors to the website or which pages they had come from previously.
- Marketing Cookies – These cookies record a user’s visit to a website, the individual pages visited and links followed. These cookies may be set by a third party and may be used to target users for online advertising.
What cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies:
Functional Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | .hubspot.com | 3rd | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Info |
| cmplz_banner-status | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 year | Used by Complianz to store if the cookie banner has been dismissed. | Info |
| cmplz_policy_id | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 year | Cookie is used by Complianz to store accepted cookie policy ID. | Info |
| cmplz_consented_ services cmplz_functional cmplz_marketing cmplz_preferences cmplz_statistics | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 year | Cookie is used by Complianz to store cookie consent preferences. | Info |
| ajs_anonymous_id | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 year | These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. | Info |
| hubspotutk | .prodpad.com | 1st | 6 months | This cookie is used by HubSpot for user authentication. | Info |
| __hstc | .prodpad.com | 1st | 6 months | We use Hubspot to monitor our website, this cookie is used for website analytics. | Info |
| __hssc | .prodpad.com | 1st | 30 minutes | We use Hubspot to monitor our website, this cookie is used for website analytics. | Info |
| _hssrc | .prodpad.com | 1st | Session | We use Hubspot to monitor our website, this cookie is used for website analytics. | Info |
Statistics Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | .prodpad.com | 1st | 2 years | Google Universal Analytics. 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. | Info & More info |
| _gid | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. | Info & More info |
| _gat | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 minute | This cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Info & More info |
Marketing Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Type | Expiration | Description | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | .prodpad.com | 1st | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Info |
| UserMatch History | .linkedin.com | 3rd | 1 month | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor’s preferences. | Info |
| bscookie | .linkedin.com | 3rd | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | Info |
| _gcl_au | .prodpad.com | 1st | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | Info & More info |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | 3rd | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. | Info & More info |
| bcookie lidc | .linkedin.com | 3rd | 1 year | Cookie is placed by LinkedIn to store browser details for marketing/tracking | Info |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | 3rd | 1 year | 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 | Info & More info |
| ln_or | .prodpad.com | 1st | 1 day | This LinkedIn cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor’s preferences. | Info |
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | 3rd | 6 months | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | Info |
| __cf_bm | .g2crowd.com | 3rd | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Info |
| AnalyticsSync History | .linkedin.com | 3rd | 1 month | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | Info |
| _session_id | tracking. g2crowd.com | 3rd | 14 days | This cookie creates an interim session ID used as an in-session user ID. | Info |
How can I remove cookies?
You can remove the ProdPad cookies (please understand it will lessen the experience of using ProdPad and you may not be able to login). You specifically opt-out of Google Analytics here. You can opt-out of FullStory here. Otherwise you will need to manually remove the cookies.
To manually remove the cookies, search for prodpad.com and www.prodpad.com in your browser privacy settings. Highlight the cookies that are shown and press delete. This will remove the cookies from your machine until the point you visit ProdPad again.
Last Updated: Nov 2023