Our cookie policy

The Floow Ltd is providing the following information regarding cookies installed on the site: www.thefloow.com. We have provided the below information to ensure transparency with regards to the privacy of users on The Floow’s website.

The Floow’s website (www.thefloow.com) makes use of cookies to ensure that you get the best experience when you are visiting our website. 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.

What are cookies?

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. The cookies will be saved and read again by the same page when you next visit the website.

When you visit our website you will see an immediate prompt regarding your cookie settings and an option to ‘Accept All’ cookies or amend your cookie settings.

Some cookies are necessary for the operation of our website and if you continue to use our website without changing the cookies settings in your browser, we will see this as consent to receive these cookies.

Use of our website will also allow the use of non-necessary cookies, which we believe will be beneficial to you and us and allow us to tailor your experience when using our website and therefore improve functionality. The non-necessary cookies are optional and can be prevented with a short few clicks when you first visit our website.

Cookie settings

If you want to remove cookies from your browsing experience, you can change your browser settings to block or remove cookies at any time. You can visit the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) website – www.ico.org.uk – for straightforward information on how to do this. The ICO website also contains detailed and regularly updated information on a range of different browser types.

You can refuse the placement of cookies on your device by changing your browser settings. You can do this by following the indications provided by your browser to disable the use of cookies.

Please be aware that if you choose to change your browser’s cookie settings, some of our website functions may not work correctly on your browser.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These 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.

How does The Floow use cookies?

www.thefloow.com uses the following categories of cookies:

  1. Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.

  2. 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 (for example, your choice of language or region). Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

  3. Performance and Analytics cookies. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. 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.

  4. Advertisements 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. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns.

  5. Other cookies. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

As part of our advertising profile on the social media site LinkedIn we will be engaging with this platform to link to a web form hosted on our website. As part of the linking service between Linkedin and the Floow we will track user activity and engagement on the form by use of JavaScript code and the cookies mentioned below. This will be used for functionality, performance and analytics and advertisement.

Description and duration

The above categories of cookies are set out in further detail below:

Necessary Cookies

Cookie Duration Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement 1 year The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional 11 months The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”.
PHPSESSID Session This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
viewed_cookie_policy 11 months The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Functional Cookies

Cookie Duration Description
__atuvc 1 year and 1 month This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.
__atuvs 30 minutes This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.
bcookie 2 years This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
lang session This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
lidc 1 day This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.

Performance and analytics cookies

Cookie Duration Description
_ga 2 years This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid 1 day This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.
uvc 1 year and 1 month The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service.

Advertisement cookies

Cookie Duration Description
bscookie 2 years This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags.
loc 1 year and 1 month This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.

Other cookies

Cookie Duration Description
_gat_gtag_UA_31825044_1 1 minute No description
AnalyticsSyncHistory 1 month No description
li_gc 2 years No description
UserMatchHistory 1 month Linkedin – Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences.
xtc 1 year and 1 month No description