Cookie Policy
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HotTopics values your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. Our Cookie Policy outlines the how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website.
Company information:
Hot Topics Ltd, registered in England and Wales under registration number 08943709. Registered office address is First Floor, National House, 60-66 Wardour Street, London, England, W1F 0TA, United Kingdom. We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Our Data Protection Registration Number is ZA390305.
Cookie Policy:
Effective date of this Privacy Policy: October 9th 2023
This policy explains the cookies and similar technologies used on hottopics.ht, what they do, and the choices you have. It works alongside our Privacy Policy — in particular Section 10, which explains how website signals are used to understand who’s interested in our community, and Section 15.
What cookies are. Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. Some are ours (“first-party”); some are set by other companies whose tools we use (“third-party”). We also use similar technologies — such as scripts and tracking pixels — and this policy covers those equally.
Your choices. When you first visit, our cookie banner asks which non-essential cookies you’ll accept. Nothing non-essential is set until you choose, declining is as easy as accepting, and your choice is remembered — you won’t be asked again unless our cookies change. You can revisit or change your choice at any time via Cookie Settings [footer link]. Strictly necessary cookies work without consent, because the site can’t function — or remember your choice — without them. You can also control cookies in your browser settings, though that affects every website you use.
The cookies we use
Strictly necessary — no consent needed:
|
Cookie |
Set By |
What it does |
Lasts |
|
__hs_opt_out, __hs_cookie_cat_pref |
HotTopics (HubSpot) |
Remember your cookie choices, so we don’t ask again and don’t set what you declined |
6 months |
Analytics — only with your consent:
|
Cookie |
Set By |
What it does |
Lasts |
|
_ga, ga* |
Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) |
Count visits and measure how our pages are used, so we can improve the site |
2 years |
Visitor identification and marketing — only with your consent:
|
Cookie |
Set By |
What it does |
Lasts |
|
hubspotutk, __hstc, __hssc, __hssrc |
HotTopics (HubSpot) |
Recognise you across visits and — if you’re a known contact — link your visits and form submissions to your record in our CRM. These are also the signals that help identify the organisations visiting our website (Privacy Policy, Section 10) |
6 months; session |
|
messagesUtk |
HubSpot (live chat) |
Recognises you across conversations in our chat widget; set when you use the chat |
6 months |
|
bcookie, lidc, UserMatchHistory, AnalyticsSyncHistory |
|
Power the LinkedIn share button on our articles; LinkedIn also uses them for its own advertising and analytics |
30 days – 1 year |
Third parties and their own purposes. Google and LinkedIn may use information their cookies collect for their own purposes, under their own privacy policies, including outside the UK — our Privacy Policy, Sections 11 and 12, explain how transfers are protected. Our web fonts load from Adobe and Font Awesome; these are content requests, not cookies, and set nothing on your device.
Where cookie data meets your record. If you’re a known contact and you’ve accepted the identification cookies, your website activity can be linked to your member record — and from that point, everything in our Privacy Policy applies to it, including your rights under its Section 14.
Changes. When we add or change cookies, we’ll update this policy and, where consent is needed, ask for it again. Last updated: .
Questions: dpo@hottopics.ht.