TMT FINANCE
COOKIES STATEMENT
Last updated: 4 November 2025
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website to ensure it functions correctly, enhance your browsing experience, and gather analytical insights to help us improve our services.
1. Types of Cookies We Use
Our website uses the following categories of cookies:
- Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website and cannot be switched off. They are typically set in response to actions taken by you such as logging in, setting your privacy preferences, or filling out forms. You can set your browser to block these cookies, but some parts of the site may not function properly.
Learn more about the necessary cookies we use here. - Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, including how they navigate and which pages are most popular. We use them to monitor performance and improve user experience. Some of these cookies may also support advertising features by enabling us to measure ad engagement.
Learn more about the necessary cookies we use here. - Advertisement Cookies
These cookies may be set by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads across other websites. While they do not store directly identifiable information, they uniquely identify your browser and device.
Learn more about the necessary cookies we use here. - Functionality Cookies
These optional cookies support enhanced features and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party service providers whose tools or services we have embedded into our site.
Learn more about the necessary cookies we use here.
2. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, a banner will allow you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can update your preferences at any time by visiting ‘Cookie Settings’.
Please note that if you disable certain types of cookies, it may affect your experience on the site and the services we are able to offer.
3. Future Use of Cookies
We may from time to time update the list of cookies used on our site or replace them with substantially similar technologies that serve the same purpose. We are committed to maintaining transparency and will ensure these updates are reflected in our cookie disclosures.
4. Detailed Cookie Information
The specific cookies used on our site, including their name, host, duration, and function, are detailed below. This list will be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect any changes:
| Cookie Name | Provider | Duration | Category & Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSID | Google Analytics, Google Advertising | 2 weeks | Functional: Used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites. |
| test_cookie | Google Analytics, Google Advertising | 15 minutes | Functional: Used to check whether the user’s browser accepts and stores cookies. |
| AMP_TOKEN | Google Analytics | 30 seconds to 1 year | Functional: Used to assign a unique client ID to each user visiting our websites. |
| GA_OPT_OUT | Google Analytics | 10 Nov 2030 (all cookies) | Functional: Enables users to opt out of Google Analytics tracking on our websites. |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | Analytics: Used to distinguish users and collect website usage data (GA4). |
| _ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics | 2 years | Analytics: Stores session state for GA4 properties. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 1 day | Analytics: Used to store and count pageviews. |
| _gat_ | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Functional: Used to read and filter requests from bots. |
| gat_gtag_UA_ | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Analytics: Used to store a unique user ID. |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Google Advertising | 1 minute | Functional: Used to test whether the website’s cookie functionality is enabled appropriately. |
| Id | Google Advertising | OPT_OUT: fixed expiration (year 2030/11/09), non-OPT_OUT: 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere | Functional: Used to remember user preferences when the personalisation ads option has been disabled. |
| pm_sess | Google Advertising | 30 minutes | Functional: Used to detect spam, fraud and abuse requests. |
| pm_sess_NNN | Google Advertising | 30 minutes | Functional: Used to detect spam, fraud and abuse requests. |
| aboutads_sessNNN | Google Advertising | 30 minutes | Functional: Used to maintain user preferences for ad personalisation. |
| NID | Google Advertising | 6 months | Functional: Used to remember user preferences. |
| _gcl_au | Google Advertising | Persistent | Marketing: Used to store and track conversions. |
| mp_* | Mixpanel | 1 year | Analytics: Used to analyse user behaviour on the site to improve user experience. |
| __cfruid | HubSpot | End of session | Necessary: Used to support Cloudflare Rate Limiting products. |
| _cfuvid | HubSpot | End of session | Necessary: Used to help the Cloudflare WAF distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. |
| __cf_bm | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Necessary: Used to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect our websites from bad bots. |
| __hs_opt_out | HubSpot | 6 months | Necessary: Used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. |
| __hs_do_not_track | HubSpot | 6 months | Necessary: Used to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. |
| __hs_initial_opt_in | HubSpot | 1 week | Necessary: Used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref | HubSpot | 6 months | Necessary: Used to record the categories a visitor consented to. |
| __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss | HubSpot | 180 days | Necessary: Used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed. |
| __hs_notify_banner_dismiss | HubSpot | 180 days | Necessary: Used when the website uses a Notify consent banner type. |
| hs_ab_test | HubSpot | End of session | Necessary: Used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. |
| hs-messages-is-open | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Necessary: Used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. |
| hs-messages-hide-welcome-message | HubSpot | 1 day | Necessary: Used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. |
| __hsmem | HubSpot | 7 days | Necessary: Used when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. |
| hs-membership-csrf | HubSpot | End of session | Necessary: Used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. |
| hs.superstore.laboratory.<id> | HubSpot | 48 hours | Necessary: Contains an offline cache of cohorts that a user got assigned for HubSpot Product experiments. |
| <id>_key | HubSpot | 14 days | Necessary: When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. |
| __hssc | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Analytics: Keeps track of sessions to determine whether HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. |
| __hssrc | HubSpot | End of session | Analytics: Used to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. |
| __hstc | HubSpot | 6 months | Analytics: Contains the domain, hubspotutk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot | 6 months | Analytics: Keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
| _hjSessionUser_{site_id}* | Hotjar | 1 year | Analytics: Persists the Hotjar user ID unique to that site. |
| _hjSession_{site_id}* | Hotjar | 30 minutes | Functional: Holds current session data to ensure subsequent requests are attributed. |
| _hjTLDTest | Hotjar | End of session | Functional: Used to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | Hotjar | 1 year | Functional: Used when a user interacts with a Link Survey invitation modal to ensure the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. |
| _hjDonePolls | Hotjar | 1 year | Functional: Used when a user completes an on-site Survey to ensure the same Survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Hotjar | 1 year | Functional: Used when a user minimizes an on-site Survey to ensure that the Survey stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. |
| _hjHasCachedUserAttributes | Hotjar | End of session | Preferences: Used to determine whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is current. |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | Hotjar | 2 minutes | Preferences: Used to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| _hjUserAttributes | Hotjar | Persistent | Analytics: Used to store User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API. |
| hjViewportId | Hotjar | End of session | Analytics: Used to store user viewport details such as size and dimensions. |
| hjActiveViewportIds | Hotjar | Active until browser closure | Analytics: Used to store user active viewports IDs. |
| _hjCookieTest | Hotjar | Deleted almost immediately after it is created | Analytics: Used to determine whether the Hotjar Tracking Code can use cookies. |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | Hotjar | 100ms or less | Analytics: Used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Local Storage. |
| _hjSessionStorageTest | Hotjar | 100ms or less | Analytics: Used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use Session Storage. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar | 2 minutes | Analytics: Determines if a user is included in the sample for session recording. |
| cookie-agreed | TMT Finance | 3 months | Functional: This cookie is set when a visitor saved his cookie preferences. It is used to not show the cookie banner again on consecutive pageviews. |
| cookie-agreed-version | TMT Finance | 3 months | Functional: This cookie is used to keep track of the cookie banner version to which consent has/has not been given. |
| cookie-agreed-categories | TMT Finance | 3 months | Functional: This cookie is set when a visitor saved his cookie preferences. It is used to keep track of the cookie categories for which consent has been given. |
| cp_sessionid | TMT Finance | 1 year | Functional: This cookie is used to maintain a user session by the server for store information about the user's page activities during the session. No personal information is stored in this cookie. |
| tmtwawards_modalBlock, world_modalBlock, usa_modalBlock, usa_awards_modalBlock, asia_modalBlock, asia_awards_modalBlock | TMT Finance | 1 day | Functional: Used to determine whether modal popup has been seen by the user. |