Last Modified: May 9, 2024
We ("Vidsy") use small files (known as, Cookie, Cookies) to see how you use our site and services. We put them on your computer when you visit our site. We use them to know it's you and store information about your visits. With Cookies we can give you a better browsing experience, make our products better, track our marketing efforts and show us where you might need help with our products.
Below, we've explained how and why we use Cookies, and what each of them do:
Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies are there for our website to work. They let us save your cookie choice, and keep the site secure. They're always on.
Functional Cookies give you a better browsing experience. These Cookies let us make the site suit your needs, like showing it in the same language as your web browser.
Analytical or Performance Cookies help us make our products better. These let us use tools that show us how you use our products. They help us find and fix problems for our customers.
Marketing Cookies make our marketing better — helping us to showcase our product and services to both Brands and Creators.
You can choose to block all or some Cookies, to do this you should go to your browser settings. However, if you block all Cookies (including essential Cookies) you may not be able to use some of the site. Your browser settings also allow you to delete all Cookies stored on your device any time you wish.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has provided the following guidance on Cookies:
You can read information on Cookies on different websites, including AboutCookies.org and AllAboutCookies.org.
The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website 'Your Online Choices': allows you to install an add-on to decline Cookies across different advertising networks. Google has developed a browser add-on to allow users to decline Google Analytics on all websites which use it. This is also available in the Chrome web store.
Some browsers include a feature known as 'Do Not Track' or DNT. This allows you to choose whether a website can track you. However, whilst DNT is available in many browsers, websites do not need to recognise this request, so it may not always work. You can get help on how to use DNT in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.
For more information on how browsing works, visit the support pages for your browser: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (IOS mobile and desktop) and Opera.
If you worry about online tracking you can:
If you have any questions about the Cookies or similar technologies in use on our website, please email privacy@vidsy.co.
The table below contains technical descriptions for each of the Cookies we use and our reasons for using them.
| Vidsy's Marketing Site for Brands and Creators | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Session or Persistent | Lifespan | Third Parties |
| Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies | ||||
| CookieConsent | This cookie is used by our cookie consent solution cookiebot to store a user's cookie preferences. | Persistent | 1 Year | Cookie Bot |
| Analytical or Performance Cookies | ||||
| mp_b1ad8fb1794e9efbb3851135d00ab809_mixpanel | This cookie is used by the Mixpanel Analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | Persistent | 1 Year | Mixpanel |
| Vidsy's Platform [Brand Users] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Session or Persistent | Lifespan | Third Parties |
| Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies | ||||
| vidsy-live-session-dashboard | Stores user session token to persist log in as well as additional application user preferences | Persistent | 1 day | N/A |
| Analytical or Performance Cookies | ||||
| _hjSession_3413385 | Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | Persistent | 30 minutes | Hotjar |
| _hjSessionUser_3413385 | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. | Persistent | 1 year | Hotjar |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Analytics.js generates a universally unique ID (UUID) for the viewer during the library's initialization phase, and sets this as anonymousId for each visitor to the site. | Persistent | 1 minute | Segment |
| ajs_user_id | Name of the cookie used to store Analytics.js user ID. | Persistent | 1 minute | Segment |
| _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages for site debugging. | Persistent | 1 minute | Datadog |
| Vidsy Platform [Creator Users] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Session or Persistent | Lifespan | Third Parties |
| Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies | ||||
| vidsy-live-session-creator | Stores user session token to persist log in as well as additional application user preferences | Persistent | 1 day | N/A |
| Analytical or Performance Cookies | ||||
| _ga, _ga_* | This cookie is used by the Google Analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | Persistent | 2 years | |
| _gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page that are being clicked. | Persistent | 10 minutes | |
| _hjSession_848775 | Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | Persistent | 30 minutes | Hotjar |
| _hjSessionUser_848775 | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. | Persistent | 1 year | Hotjar |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook as part of their embedded services on our websites (likes, sharing etc.). | Persistent | 3 months | |
| _tt_enable_cookie | This cookie is set by TikTok as part of their embedded services on our websites (likes, sharing etc.). | Persistent | 13 months | TikTok |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Analytics.js generates a universally unique ID (UUID) for the viewer during the library's initialization phase, and sets this as anonymousId for each visitor to the site. | Persistent | 1 minute | Segment |
| ajs_user_id | Name of the cookie used to store Analytics.js user ID. | Persistent | 1 minute | Segment |
| intercom-device-id-nksk6fby | Used by Intercom Messenger to store a unique user device ID, used by Intercom to prevent abuse. | Persistent | 9 months | Intercom |
| intercom-session-nksk6fby | Used by Intercom Messenger to identify and maintain a user's unique browser session. | Persistent | 1 week | Intercom |
| _dd_s | Cookie used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple pages for site debugging. | Persistent | 4 hours | Datadog |
| Marketing Cookies | ||||
| _ttp | To measure and improve the performance of your advertising campaigns and to personalize the user's experience (including ads) on TikTok. | Persistent | 13 months | TikTok |