Last Updated: August 2023
This website www.sharp.eu like many others, uses cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other web tracking technologies to help us find out more about how visitors use our site and to enhance, customise and optimise your browsing experience. The website may also use cookies to understand more about you, so we can provide you with a more optimised and personalised browsing experience.
You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them in the information below. You can change your cookie settings and disable some or all cookies on the website at any time by clicking on the below button:
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What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. A “cookie” allows the website to store tokens of information (an “identifier”) in your browser in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Cookies can also ensure any adverts you see online are tailored and personalised in accordance with your interests.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
- First party cookies, served directly by us to your device.
- Third-party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time:
- Session cookies, which exist only while your browser is open and deleted automatically once you close your browser
- Permanent cookies, which remain after your browser is closed
What are web beacons?
Web beacons are pieces of script added to the source code of websites to identify, collect and, on occasion, store website user activity.
Sharp may sometimes use visitor identification technology such as “web beacons”, or similar to track the success of our marketing efforts. Web beacons anonymously count visitors who have come to the website after being exposed to Sharp ads or clicking a search engine result on a third-party site. Certain actions that you take on our site e.g., form submission, page views and clicks, allow the visitor identification technology to connect cookies to an existing profile or create a new profile which helps us to improve our marketing efforts. If you visit our site from a company related IP address, we will have visibility of the company name only. Please note, this type of performance tracking, is only enabled upon acceptance of the marketing cookies. We do not use this technology to collect or access your personal information and it is only used to compile aggregated statistics about visitors who come to the website to understand the effectiveness of our ads and search engine ranking performance.
What types of cookies do we use?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
| Name of cookie | Cookie Host | Duration of cookie | Type of cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | www.sharp.eu | 364 Days | First Party | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
| OptanonConsent | www.sharp.eu | 364 Days | First Party | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| __cf_bm | cookielaw.org | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits, events, views, and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
| Name of cookie | Cookie Host | Duration of cookie | Type of cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _clsk | sharp.eu | A few seconds | First Party | Used by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
| __hssc | sharp.eu | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| _clck | sharp.eu | 364 Days | First Party | This cookie is related to Microsoft Clarity analytics service. It is used to collect information about how visitors interact with the website, which helps in creating reports and improving the site. |
| _ga | sharp.eu | 399 Days | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
| _gid | sharp.eu | A few seconds | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
| _hjSession_xxxxxx | sharp.eu | A few seconds | First Party | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
| _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | sharp.eu | 364 Days | First Party | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| __hstc | sharp.eu | 179 Days | First Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | sharp.eu | 399 Days | First Party | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. |
| _hjTLDTest | sharp.eu | Session | First Party | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| __hssrc | sharp.eu | Session | First Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. |
| wp40865 | sharpmarketing.eu | 364 Days | Third Party |
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow us to enhance your experience (for example by remembering any settings you may have selected);
| Name of cookie | Cookie Host | Duration of cookie | Type of cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hubspotutk | sharp.eu | 179 Days | First Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. |
| ClientContinentCode | www.sharp.eu | Session | First Party | |
| ClientCountryCode | www.sharp.eu | Session | First Party | |
| __cf_bm | hs-scripts.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
| __cf_bm | hs-analytics.net | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to track your activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalised service. Marketing cookies are set by third parties with whom we execute marketing campaigns and allow us to provide marketing relevant to you.
| Name of cookie | Cookie Host | Duration of cookie | Type of cookie | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _gat_UA- | sharp.eu | A few seconds | First Party | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| _gcl_au | sharp.eu | 89 Days | First Party | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
| _cfuvid | hubspot.com | Session | Third Party | This domain is owned by Hubspot. This company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services. |
| __cf_bm | hs-banner.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | 364 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| lidc | linkedin.com | A few seconds | Third Party | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| li_gc | linkedin.com | 179 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | 179 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
| MUID | bing.com | 389 Days | Third Party | This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | youtube.com | 179 Days | Third Party | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | 179 Days | Third Party | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
| __Secure-xxxxxxx | youtube.com | 179 Days | Third Party | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
| YSC | youtube.com | Session | Third Party | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
If you have any questions in relation to the cookies we use, please contact: DPOEurope.SEE@sharp.eu
How to control or delete cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and we explain how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website.
You can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking on the button below
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Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will occasionally update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Cookie Policy, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy