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Our site relies on them (cookie policy)

Cookie policy

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.

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:

  • Strictly necessary 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
  • Targeting 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 table below:

_founder_catalyst_session
Set by the FounderCatalyst platform. This cookie is necessary for the site to function correctly as it allows the system to identify the user as they navigate the site.
Expiry: as soon as the browsing session ends.
remember_user_token & advert_seen
Set by the FounderCatalyst platform. This cookie allows us to recognise you as a user returning to the site and whether you've seen our banner before.
Expiry: 3 months.
_ga, _gid
Set by the Google Analytics service to estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
Expiry: 400 days.
lidc, li_gc & bcookie
Set by Linkedin to uniquely indentify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform and diagnostic purposes, to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes and to facilitate data center selection
Expiry: lidc 24 hours, li_gc 6 months & bcookie 1 year.

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies. We have detailed these 3rd party cookies above but this list may be changed by the 3rd party with no notice.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on 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 website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire as identified above.