COOKIE POLICY – HTTPS://WWW.BEINGFREELANCE.COM
Please read this Cookie Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our site. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, a copy of which is available on our site, which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Who we are
This site is operated by Being Freelance Ltd. We are a limited company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with our registered office at Launchpad, Charringtons House, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2EN in the United Kingdom.
If you wish to contact us, please email us at steve@beingfreelance.com or via the Contact page on our site.
Our site
This cookie policy relates to your use of our site, https://www.beingfreelance.com
Throughout our site we may link to other sites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. These other third party sites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party sites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (for example, computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our site. We use cookies on our site. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the site, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
We may use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical / performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site 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 site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookiespublished by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your permission (“Consent”) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences.
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
Analytical / performance cookies
The cookies we use
Name
Purpose
Expiry
Google Analytics
_ga
This is an analytical cookie used to identify users on our site
One (1) year and ten (10) months
Google Analytics
_ga
This is an analytical cookie used to identify users on our site
One (1) year and ten (10) months
Google Analytics
_gid
This is an analytical and performance cookie used to distinguish unique visitors to our site
One (1) day
YouTube
YSC
This is a performance cookie used to track views of videos embedded on our site
End of session
YouTube
LOGIN_INFO
This is a performance cookie used to track views of videos embedded on our site
One (1) year and nine (9) months
YouTube
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
This is a performance cookie used to track views of videos embedded on our site
Four (4) months
Functionality cookies
The cookies we use
Name
Purpose
Expiry
HSID
This is a functionality cookie used to protect user data from being accessed by unauthorised parties
Two (2) years
SID
This is a functionality cookie used to protect user data from being accessed by unauthorised parties
Two (2) years
__Secure-HSID
This is a functionality cookie used to protect user data from being accessed by unauthorised parties
Three (3) months
Squarespace
SS_MATTR
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors to our site
One (1) year and eleven (11) months
Squarespace
SS_ANALYTICS_ID
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors to our site
One (1) year and one (1) month
Squarespace
SS_MID
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors to our site
One (1) year and six (6) months
Squarespace
SS_SESSION_ID
This is a functional cookie used to identify users for the duration of their visit to our site
End of the session
Squarespace
ss_cpvisit
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our site
Two (2) years
Squarespace
ss_cvt
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our site
One (1) day
Squarespace
ss_cvr
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our site
Two (2) years
Squarespace
ss_cvisit
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors to our site
One (1) day
Squarespace
ss_cid
This is a functional cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our site
Two (2) years
Vimeo
_derived_epik
This is a functional cookie used to enable features and remember a user’s preferences
Ten (10) months
ZopIM
_zlcmid
This is a functional cookie used to identify devices across visits
Three (3) months
Targeting cookies
The cookies we use
Name
Purpose
Expiry
Affiliate
IR_PI
This is a targeting cookie used to track users participating in Impact Radius affiliate marketplace
One (1) year and ten (10) months
_fbp
This is a targeting cookie used to deliver third party advertising
Three (3) months
Google Analytics
_gcl_au
This is a targeting cookie used to assess advertisement efficiency across websites
One (1) month
1P_JAR
This is a targeting cookie used to track a user’s advertising preferences
One (1) month
__Secure-3PAPISID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Two (2) years
__Secure-APISID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Three (3) months
SAPISID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Two (2) years
__Secure-3PSID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Two (2) years
APISID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Two (2) years
__Secure-SSID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Three (3) months
SSID
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
Two (2) years
PREF
This is a targeting cookie used to build a profile of user’s interests for advertising purposes
One (1) year and one (1) month
_pin_unauth
This is a targeting cookie used to track how services are used
One (1) year
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our site.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please email us at steve@beingfreelance.com or via the Contact page on our site.
Changes to this policy
This policy was published in August 2020 and last updated in February 2023. We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via our site.