1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites operate, remember choices, secure sessions, and understand how visitors use pages.
This Cookie Policy should be read with our Privacy Policy.
2. How We Use Cookies
- To keep the website working and secure.
- To remember cookie choices and other preferences.
- To understand website performance and visitor navigation where analytics is enabled.
- To measure the effectiveness of campaigns where marketing cookies are enabled.
We do not use cookies to sell personal information.
3. Categories of Cookies
| Category | Purpose | Can you opt out? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Required for the website to function, including security and preference storage. | No |
| Analytics | Helps us understand traffic, pages visited, and performance. | Yes |
| Functional | Remembers choices and improves website experience. | Yes |
| Marketing | Measures campaign performance where enabled. | Yes |
4. Cookies in Detail
The exact cookies depend on which tools are active on the website. This table should be updated whenever analytics, scheduling, live chat, or marketing tools are added or removed.
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
sm_cookie_consent | Strictly necessary | Stores cookie preference choices. | Up to 12 months |
_ga, _ga_* | Analytics | Google Analytics visitor and session measurement, if enabled and accepted. | Up to 2 years |
_gid | Analytics | Google Analytics short-term visitor distinction, if enabled and accepted. | 24 hours |
hubspotutk, __hstc, __hssc, __hssrc | Analytics / Marketing | HubSpot: recognises returning visitors and links website visits to contact form submissions, if accepted. | Up to 6 months |
| LinkedIn or YouTube cookies | Functional / Marketing | May be set when interacting with third-party content or outbound social links. | Varies |
5. Managing Cookie Preferences
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Where our website presents a cookie banner or preference centre, you can use it to accept, reject, or adjust optional categories.
Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality on Simple Mind and other websites.
6. Third-party Cookies
Third-party services such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Analytics, scheduling tools, or embedded media may set their own cookies. Their cookies are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our tools, website features, or legal requirements change. If the categories of cookies change materially, we will ask for consent again where required.