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First party cookies are cookies that are set by the website you're visiting and only that website can view the cookies they have set. External websites and services may also set third-party cookies.
How do we use Cookies?
Analytical Cookies
Here at Direct Food Ingredients we use cookies for analytical purposes, so that we can monitor user numbers, acquisition channels and conversion data. We use Google Analytics to gather this data. We also use Hotjar to generate analytical heatmaps, enabling us to analyse the effectiveness of our pages. The Hotjar cookies we use are _hjIncludedInSample and _hjid.
Name
Service
Purpose
Cookie Duration & Type
_ga
Google Analytics
Anonymously recognises website visitors (no personal data is collected)
2 years First party
_gid
Google Analytics
Anonymously recognises website visitors (no personal data is collected)
24 hours First party
_hjIncludedInSample
Hotjar
A Hotjar cookie that is a session cookie that is set to allow Hotjar to determine if a user is included in a sample used to generate funnels.
1 year First party
_hjid
Hotjar
A Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first arrives to the website. The cookie is used to give the user a random ID, unique to the site and the browser used. This ensures that users behaviour are conneccted across multiple visits.
1 year First party
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