Cookies

Please read and store this policy

 

INFORMATION ABOUT COMPASS PLUS TECHNOLOGIES’ USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a small file of text (letters and numbers) that are downloaded and stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer and/or mobile device if you agree. They are widely used to help websites work, or work more efficiently as well as provide information to the website owners. 

Our cookies do not store sensitive or personal information, such as your name, address or card details.

We do use analytical and performance cookies that allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (further details below). This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Here is a list of the cookies we use, and what they are used for:

Category

Domain

Cookie

Purpose

Lifespan

Strictly necessary

compassplustechnologies.com

cpCookieConsent

 

This cookie remembers whether the banner explaining our use of cookies has already been shown.

6 months

PHPSESSID

799e251ff71ad4ee5372388782c791c0

These session cookies are installed automatically and used to store unique random identifiers for each visit to this website. No other information is written into these cookies on your computer/device.

7 days

google.com

_GRECAPTCHA

This cookie is set by Google’s reCAPTCHA service and is strictly necessary for its risk-analysis functionality. Its purpose is to help distinguish between legitimate users and malicious or automated traffic, enabling reCAPTCHA to generate secure tokens that assist in evaluating whether user interactions should be allowed.

6 months

youtube.com

LOGIN_INFO

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YSC_
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

PREF

These cookies are served by YouTube to support embedded video playback while ensuring a secure, personalised, and privacy-compliant experience. They help determine playback performance (e.g. bandwidth and interface version), enable session security and abuse prevention, and manage video functionality when embedded on third-party sites. Additionally, they preserve a user’s privacy preferences in embedded contexts, and assist YouTube in controlling experimental feature rollouts to ensure feature stability and user experience consistency.

 

Opt out of YouTube cookies at:

https://www.youtube.com/history_controls

 

2 years

180 days

Session

90 days

6 months

8 months

Performance

 

compassplustechnologies.com

_ga

_ga_<wpid>
_zitok

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. This information is used to improve our website. All information is collected in anonymous form. Analytics sets cookies to evaluate your use of our website and compile reports for us on activity on the site.

Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For information on how to reject or delete these cookies, please visit:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

2 years

2 years

1 year

google.com

AEC

APISID

NID

SOCS

6 months

2 years

6 months

13 months

google-analytics.com

ar_debug

This cookies is used to aid in debugging various Google services, particularly those related to advertising and analytics. It helps in identifying and resolving issues with how these services function, especially in the context of ad targeting and campaign tracking.

3 months

zoominfo.com

_cfuvid

_pxvid

OptanonConsent

These cookies are necessary for the secure and compliant operation of ZoomInfo’s services. Security-related cookies (such as _cfuvid and pxvid) are used to detect bots, manage traffic flow, and uphold site performance. The OptanonConsent cookie ensures that user consent regarding various cookie categories is remembered and respected over time, aligning with legal privacy standards.

For a specific visit

1 year

1 year

hotjar.com

_hjSessionUser_{site_id}

_hjHasCachedUserAttributes

_hjUserAttributesHash

_hjUserAttributes

hjViewportId

hjActiveViewportIds

_hjCookieTest

_hjLocalStorageTest

_hjSessionStorageTest

_hjTLDTest

_hjClosedSurveyInvites

_hjDonePolls

_hjMinimizedPolls

Hotjar sets cookies that allow it to recognise returning visitors, link their actions across different sessions, and manage basic user attributes. These cookies also perform important technical checks – such as testing whether the browser supports cookies, local storage, or session storage – to ensure Hotjar works correctly across devices and subdomains.

1 year

For a specific visit

2 minutes

For a specific visit

For a specific visit

For a specific visit

1 minute

1 minute

1 minute

1 minute

1 year

1 year

1 year

Marketing

 

google.com

__gsas

__Secure-1PAPISID

__Secure-1PSID

__Secure-1PSIDCC

__Secure-1PSIDTS

__Secure-3PAPISID

__Secure-3PSID

__Secure-3PSIDCC

__Secure-3PSIDTS

__Secure-ENID

HSID

SAPISID

SEARCH_SAMESITE

SID

SIDCC

SSID

Google uses cookies to keep its services secure and personalised. These cookies help verify your identity when you sign in, protect your account from fraud, and remember your preferences (such as language and search settings) so your experience remains consistent across Google services. They also ensure safe browsing sessions and allow Google to deliver services reliably.

 

In addition, Google’s advertising platform DoubleClick sets the IDE cookie to measure how users interact with ads and to deliver advertising that is more relevant to their interests. This helps improve the effectiveness of ads while supporting a safer, more personalized online experience.

3 months

2 years

2 years

2 years

2 years

2 years

2 years

2 years

2 years

13 months

2 years

2 years

6 months

2 years

1 year

2 years

doubleclick.net

IDE

13 months in the EEA and the UK / 24 months elsewhere

 

RESTRICTING, BLOCKING, CLEARING AND OPTING OUT OF COOKIES

If you would like to restrict the level of cookies that you store, you can use your browser to do this. However, you should be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality.

Further, 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 you will see a warning message.

If you wish to clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, select the option to clear your browsing history and check that the option to delete or clear cookies has been selected. Note that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, where you have already accepted cookies on a website.

Finally, you can opt out of any cookies in your browser settings.

 

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

If you would like to know more about cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org or wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie.

Updated: 21st August 2025