Global Edge Group LLC Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of Cookies we use
Category: Strictly necessary cookies(3)
| Cookie | Expiration | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent | 1 week | The Global Edge sets this cookie to remember your cookie consent preferences. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| cookie_consent_statistics | 1 week | The Global Edge sets this cookie to remember your cookie consent preferences for statistics based cookies. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| cookie_consent_marketing | 1 week | The Global Edge sets this cookie to remember your cookie consent preferences for marketing based cookies. | .globaledgegroup.com |
Category: Necessary(3)
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie | Expiration | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| bscookie | 1 year | This cookie is used to identify the visitor through an application. This allows the visitor to login to a websi te through their LinkedIn application for example. | .linkedin.com |
| li_gc | 180 days | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | .linkedin.com |
| test_cookie | 1 day | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | .linkedin.com |
Category: Preferences(1)
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Cookie | Expiration | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| lidc | 1 day | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | .linkedin.com |
Category: Statistics(28)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie | Expiration | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _ga_# | 2 years | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _gat | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 1 day | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjFirstSeen | 1 day | This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_# | 1 day | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | Session | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | .hotjar.com |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Session | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | .hotjar.com |
| _hjSession_# | 1 day | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjSessionUser_# | 1 year | Collects statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _hjTLDTest | Session | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 30 days | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service. | .linkedin.com |
| calltrk-_ga | Persistent | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | .cdn.calltrk.com |
| calltrk_landing | 1 year | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets a n ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing t he user’s navigation on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| calltrk_nearest_tld | 3600 days | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | .com |
| calltrk_nearest_tld | 3600 days | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets a n ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing t he user’s navigation on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| calltrk_referrer | 1 year | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| calltrk_session_id | 1 year | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets a n ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing t he user’s navigation on the website. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| calltrk-calltrk_landing | Persistent | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | .cdn.calltrk.com |
| calltrk-calltrk_referrer | Persistent | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets a n ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing t he user’s navigation on the website. | .cdn.calltrk.com |
| calltrk-calltrk_session_id | Persistent | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality used by the website operator – The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website’s support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | .cdn.calltrk.com |
| collect | Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across de vices and marketing channels. | .google-analytics.com |
| hjActiveViewportIds | Persistent | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor’s experience. | .hotjar.com |
| hjViewportId | Session | Saves the user’s screen size in order to adjust the size of images on the website. | .hotjar.com |
| ln_or | 1 day | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| td | Session | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website op erator. | .googletagmanager.com |
| traffic_source | 2 years | Used by the website’s owners to identify how the visitor accessed the website. This is used for statistical purposes. | .theglobaledgeconsultants.com |
Category: Marketing(15)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
| Cookie | Expiration | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _uetsid | Persistent | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor ‘s preferences. | .bing.com |
| _uetsid | 1 day | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _uetsid_exp | Persistent | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | .bing.com |
| _uetvid | Persistent | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | .bing.com |
| _uetvid | 1 year | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor ‘s preferences. | .globaledgegroup.com |
| _uetvid_exp | Persistent | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | .bing.com |
| ads/ga-audiences | Session | Unclassified | .google.com |
| bcookie | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | .linkedin.com |
| IDE | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking on e of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | .doubleclick.net |
| li_sugr | 3 months | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | .linkedin.com |
| MUID | 1 year | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID ac ross many Microsoft domains. | .bing.com |
| pagead/1p-user-list/686557782/ | Session | Unclassified | .google.com |
| UserMatchHistory | 30 days | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the s ecurity of the website and visitor. | .linkedin.com |
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.