Use of Cookies
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy 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 website is operated by V4 Services Limited. We are a public sector consultancy service and for more information see our about us page.
Our website
This cookie policy relates to your use of our website, www.v4services.com.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to provide you with more information or make additional products and services available to you. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data. 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.
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 cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your 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 (e.g. Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by clicking on the paperclip icon. You can then adjust the sliders on or off. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
To find out more about our specific use of cookies please see our cookie audit table here.
Cookie Audit Table
COOKIE NAME | PROVIDER | CATEGORY | EXPIRY | DESCRIPTION |
IDE | doubleclick.net | advertisement | session | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | advertisement | session | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. |
_gcl_au | v4services.com | advertisement | session | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
bcookie | linkedin.com | advertisement | session | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. |
lidc | linkedin.com | advertisement | session | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
bscookie | linkedin.com | advertisement | session | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. |
__hssc | v4services.com | analytics | session | Analytics session cookie |
_ga_09XHS0XRF3 | v4services.com | analytics | session | Used to persist session state |
li_sugr | linkedin.com | analytics | session | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries |
_ga | v4services.com | analytics | session | ID used to identify users |
__hssrc | v4services.com | analytics | session | Used to determine if a session is a new session |
hubspotutk | v4services.com | analytics | session | Contains visitor's identity |
__hstc | v4services.com | analytics | session | Analytics tracking cookie |
li_gc | linkedin.com | functionality | session | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | linkedin.com | functionality | session | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries |
__cf_bm | hubspot.com | necessary | session | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. |
__hs_do_not_track | v4services.com | necessary | session | Prevents the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot |
__cf_bm | v4services.com | necessary | 29 minutes | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. |
_cfuvid | hubspot.com | necessary | session | This cookie is used to apply rate limits to traffic. It allows the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. |
__cf_bm | hsforms.com | necessary | session | Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. |
__hs_cookie_cat_pref | v4services.com | necessary | session | The HubSpot Cookie Banner's consent preferences cookie. |
__cfruid | v4services.com | necessary | session | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
_cfuvid | hsforms.com | necessary | session | This cookie is used to apply rate limits to traffic. It allows the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. |
Third party access to cookies
The cookies we use will be accessed by us and may be accessed by third parties for example but not limited to Google Analytics and LinkedIn, but only for the purposes referred to in our Cookie Audit Table.
How to turn off all cookies and the 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 website.
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 send an email to contactus@v4services.com or write to V4 Services Limited, Point 5, New Eden House, Fletcher Road, Gateshead, NE8 2ET.
Changes to this policy
This policy was published in April 2024 and last updated in April 2024.
We may change this policy from time to time. You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on our website.