Cookie Policy
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
LK’s website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer (or internet-enabled device) by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, as well as to provide website usage information to the website owner. Cookies may store user preferences and other information.
This policy explains how LK uses cookies, when your consent is required and provides you with information as to how you can exercise your rights in relation to the cookies.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, LK Law) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”.
Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer when you visit their website and also when you visit certain other websites.
Please review our Privacy Policy for more details about how we use your personal information generally.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
LK uses cookies on its website to distinguish you from other visitors to help manage your browsing session, improve your experience and to provide LK with information about your preferences, the pages you visit and other ways you navigate the website.
The specific cookies we use and the reasons we use them are set out in more detail below.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
Cookie Types
LK uses the following cookie types on its website:
| Category | Description |
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | We use cookies that are essential for our website to function technically or for us to provide you with the service that you have requested, such as when you set your privacy preferences or fill in forms. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. |
| Analytics and 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 popular and see how visitors arrive at and move around the site. For information about the purpose of each of these, please see below. |
| Advertisements and Targeting Cookies | We use these cookies to understand what content you have viewed on our website to provide you with the most relevant information. They may be set through our site by third parties who may build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. These cookies do not directly store personal data about you but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you allow these cookies you may experience targeted advertising based on your visit to this website. |
We may also use Web Beacons, also called ‘pixel tags’ or GIFs, which are small image files, sometimes invisible, placed within webpages and web-based messaging, such as newsletters, which work together with cookies to recognise visitors and how they interact with content. These tools help website owners to identify which content is of interest to website visitors.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use the following strictly necessary cookies on our websites:
| Cookie Name | Publisher | Purpose | Duration Stored |
| CookieConsent | Third-Party – CookieBot | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | Third-Party – Hubspot | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This improves the validity of reporting on the use of the website. | 1 day |
| CONSENT | Third-Party – play.google.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website. | 2 years |
| CONSENT | Third-Party – youtube.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website. | 2 years |
| wordpress_test_cookie | LK | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Session |
Hubspot is contact relationship management software and WordPress is content management system to host and build websites. For more information on how Hubspot uses cookies see Cookies set in a visitor’s browser by Hubspot
Non-Essential Cookies
If you click through from an LK email or landing page to LK’s website we use additional cookies, which allow LK, with your consent, to collect further information about how you use our website or read our publications. These are called Analytics and Performance Cookies. All information collected in this way is used to improve the functionality of the website and value of our client services.
The following Analytics and Performance cookies are used:
| Cookie Name | Publisher | Purpose | Duration Stored |
| _ga |
Third Party – Google Analytics |
Statistics – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 24 months |
| _gid | Statistics – Used to store and count page views. | 24 hours | |
| _gat | Statistics – Does not store user information. Used to limit the number of requests made to doubleclient.net. | 1 minute | |
| __hstc |
Third Party – Hubspot |
Used for tracking visitors within marketing platform Hubspot. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 6 months |
| hubspotutk | Keeps track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. | 6 months | |
| __hssrc | This cookie is set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser whenever Hubspot changes the session cookie. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. | End of Session | |
| __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions in Hubspot. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. | 30 minutes |
The following Advertisements and Targeting cookies are used:
| Cookie Name | Publisher | Purpose | Duration Stored |
| __ptq.gif |
Third Party – Hubspot |
Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Third-Party – youtube.com | Tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 6 months |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may, from time to time, link through to third party websites which may also use cookies over which we have no control. We recommend that you check the relevant third party’s privacy policies for information about any cookies they use.
OTHER COOKIES
Where you receive a communication from us such as a marketing email, event invitation or other direct promotional electronic communication, we may collect information using cookies about you in the following ways:
- View as web page: If you click on the “view it as a web page” link, a session cookie is passed in the link so that the webpage is personalised in the same way as the email.
- Links to web pages: If you click on any web link in the communication through to LK’s website, we pass a cookie in the link to the webpage which we use to log this activity on our contact relationship database.
- Unsubscribe: If you click unsubscribe, we will automatically log this information on our database. If you unsubscribe from any email communication, invitation or alert we send to you, we will continue to store your personal data on a “marketing suppression list” to record your preference.
- Event RSVP buttons: in our event invitations and confirmations we provide buttons to allow you to accept, decline, cancel and register (if you are not the original recipient of the email) for that event. Clicking on these buttons will pass a cookie so we can record your choice in our database to help us manage the event.
You may unsubscribe from our marketing lists if you are unhappy with this approach. You can do so by clicking on the unsubscribe button in a recent email or by contacting us at dataprotection@lk.law.
CONSENT AND CONTROL
You can manage which cookies apply to you by registering your preferences upon visiting LK’s website. You may allow all, deny or allow selection to specify which cookies are to apply or not. By using our websites you agree that, unless you have set your device’s browser to deny cookies, we can place the types of cookies set out above on your device, and use that data in accordance with this policy.
You can also control which cookies you want to be stored on your computer through the settings in your web browser. You can set or amend your web browser controls to allow or deny cookies. If you choose to deny cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted or not work properly.
Additionally, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. Please note this does not mean you will not receive advertising related to all third-party cookies. LK is not responsible for these third-party cookies.
CHANGES
We may need to update this Cookie Policy in the future and so encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. This policy was last updated in January 2023.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you have any questions or comments regarding our use of cookies or other technologies, or wish to opt out of a previous election to allow cookies, please email dataprotection@lk.law.