Cookie Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. They are used to enable our site to function as well as providing statistical information on how our site is used. We also allow the setting of third-party cookies.

2. Types of cookie

Cookies are used for a variety of purposes. The choices you have of whether to accept them or not will depend on the purpose they are used for. Cookies will generally fall into the following categories:

Strictly necessary – these cookies are essential for our site to function. These cookies are exempt from the usual opt-in requirements.

Analytical – these cookies collect statistics on how our website is being used, such as which pages are most visited. They enable us to improve the design and functionality of our site. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

Functional – these cookies remember the choices you have made, such as saving your preferred language or region. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

Targeting or Advertising – these cookies are used to deliver adverts that are more relevant to you and your interests when you browse the internet. They will often be placed by a third party when you interact with embedded content, such as YouTube and LinkedIn videos and links. You have the option of whether to enable these cookies.

As well as the above categories, cookies can be further classified with the below information. These help to determine which domain is setting the cookie and how long it will remain on your device:

Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and are only active whilst your browser session is open. These cookie will be removed when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: These cookies have expiration dates and will stay on your device for a set period of time. Once this period has elapsed, they will be removed from your device.

First-party: These are cookies set by us directly. Only we can retrieve their data and we don’t share this information with other sites. Although we work with other third parties to provide these cookies, only we can view the contents.

Third-party: These are cookies that are set by a different domain. We can’t view or collect any information from these types of cookie.

3. Managing cookies

You can manage your cookie preferences using the embedded cookie preference tool, which can be found by clicking the logo in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, or the button below.

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Alternatively, you can also restrict cookies through the settings in your internet browser. Please note however that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. Here’s how you can do this in some of the most common internet browsers:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

You can opt-out of all Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

For further information on how to manage cookies from a variety of different browsers, please visit www.aboutcookies.org. You can also find general information on cookies.

Accepting our recommended settings will allow both ‘Analytical’ and ‘Advertising’ cookies to be set.
For other regions, all cookies will be automatically set by default. However, you are able to adjust your browser settings to reject cookies if you wish.

4. What are cookies?

Strictly Necessary:

These cookies are essential to the operation and security of our website.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expiration
OptanonConsent	linksafe.com.au	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.	First party – persistent	1 Year
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	linksafe.com.au	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 normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information.	First party – persistent	1 Year

Targeting or Advertising:

We allow trusted third-parties to place cookies through our website in order to deliver advertising to you on other websites. We may also use some of these cookies to retrieve information from web forms for our own marketing database.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expiration
_fbp	linksafe.com.au	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers	First party – persistent	6 days
_gat_UA-254359476-1	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics cookie	First party – session	End of session
_clck	linksafe.com.au	Microsoft Clarity cookie, used for heatmap and session recording	First party – persistent	1 year
_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics cookie	First party – session	End of session
TESTCOOKIESENABLED	www.youtube.com	YouTube cookie which collects user data through embedded videos, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors	Third party – session	End of session
bscookie	www.linkedin.com	Used by LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services	Third party – persistent	730 days
Facebook cookie – name not provided	www.facebook.com	Session cookie used to serve advertising to users when logged into its services.	Third party – session	End of session
li_sugr	linkedin.com	Used for routing. Used in connection with lissc	Third party – persistent	1 day
SRM_B	c.bing.com	Used by Microsoft for the Bing search engine	Third party – persistent	365 days
li_gc	linkedin.com	Used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes	Third party – persistent	365 days
bcookie	linkedin.com	Used by LinkedIn for identifying the browser ID and sharing the content of the website via social media.	Third party – persistent	730 days
MUID	bing.com	Associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.	Third party – persistent	365 days
MR	c.bing.com	Associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.	Third party – persistent	1 week
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	youtube.com	YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.	Third party – persistent	179 days
UserMatchHistory	linkedin.com	Used to track you on multiple websites, to present relevant advertisement based on your preferences.	Third party – persistent	30 days
YSC	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of videos from YouTube you have viewed.	Third party – session	End of session
AnalyticsSyncHistory	linkedin.com	Used by LinkedIn to store and track visits across websites.	Third party – persistent	30 days
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN	youtube.com	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.	Third party – persistent	179 Days

Analytics & Functional:

These cookies help us to improve the way our website works, as well as personalising it according to your preferences.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expiration
lidc	linkedin.com	Used for routing. Used in connection with lissc	Third party – persistent	1 day
SM	c.clarity.ms	Associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.	Third party – session	End of session
ANONCHK	c.clarity.ms	Associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.	Third party – session	End of session
CLID	www.clarity.ms	Associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.	Third party – persistent	1 Year
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	Estimates your bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	Third party – persistent	180 days
_ga_*	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics, used to distinguish unique users to our website

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits 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 these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Cookie name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expiration
pys_session_limit	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – session	End of session
_ga	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics, used to distinguish unique users to our website	First party – persistent	1 year
last_pys_landing_page	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – persistent	6 days
pys_first_visit	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – persistent	6 days
pysTrafficSource	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – persistent	6 days
_gid	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics, used to group user behavior together for each user	First party – session	Few mins
_clsk	linksafe.com.au	Microsoft Clarity cookie to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording	First party – session	End of session
pys_landing_page	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – persistent	6 days
last_pysTrafficSource	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – persistent	6 days
_gat	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics, used to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.	First party – session	10 minutes
pys_start_session	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – session	End of session
_ga_*	linksafe.com.au	Google Analytics, used to distinguish unique users to our website	First party – session	1 year
pys_utm_term	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_fbadid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_utm_medium	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_utm_term	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_bingid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_utm_source	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_utm_source	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_bingid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_utm_medium	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_padid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_padid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_utm_campaign	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_utm_campaign_	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_gadid	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
last_pys_utm_content	code.jquery.com	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	Third party – session	End of session
pys_gadid	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – session	End of session
pys_fbadid	linksafe.com.au	PixelYourSite cookie to manage analytics	First party – session	End of session
_gax	com.au	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.	First Party – persistent	729 Days