About cookies on Shorthand
We use cookies to provide a consistent user experience, run relevant advertisements, and collect information on the use of Shorthand.
The Shorthand website uses four kinds of cookies, and you have the choice to deny or allow some or all of them. When you deny a category of cookie that you had previously allowed, all cookies assigned to that category will be removed from your browser. A list of cookies assigned to each category can be found in our cookie declaration.
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Necessary cookies
Cookies that are used to make the application function correctly. Disabling these will mean you cannot use the app.
Functionality & preference cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to the Platform. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Analytical cookies
Cookies that help us improve our service through tracking and analysis of website and product usage.
Marketing cookies
Cookies that allow us to measure and optimise the performance of marketing activities, including social media and paid advertisements.
A list of cookies assigned to each category can be found below.
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Necessary cookies
Cookies that are used to make the application function correctly. Disabling these will mean you cannot use the app.
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mp_ | .shorthand.com | 365 days | |
cookiehub | .shorthand.com | CookieHub | 365 days |
Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site. | |||
__cf_bm | .g2crowd.com | Cloudflare, Inc. | 1 hour |
The __cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. |
Functionality & preference cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to the Platform. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 1 day |
Used by LinkedIn for routing. | |||
li_gc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 180 days |
Used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
Analytical cookies
Cookies that help us improve our service through tracking and analysis of website and product usage.
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_ga | .shorthand.com | Google Advertising Products | 730 days |
Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
_gid | .shorthand.com | Google Advertising Products | 1 day |
Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
_gat_ | .shorthand.com | Google Advertising Products | 1 hour |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) | |||
bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 365 days |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | |||
MUID | .bing.com | Microsoft | 390 days |
Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. | |||
_ga_ | .shorthand.com | Google Advertising Products | 730 days |
Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. |
Marketing cookies
Cookies that allow us to measure and optimise the performance of marketing activities, including social media and paid advertisements.
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u | .adsymtomatic.com | 365 days | |
li_sugr | .linkedin.com | 90 days | |
Used by LinkedIn to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | |||
muc_ads | .t.co | Twitter, Inc. | 730 days |
This is a cookie that is set by twitter.com. It is used for optimizing ad relevance by collecting visitor navigation data. | |||
personalization_id | .twitter.com | Twitter, Inc. | 730 days |
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | |||
UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 30 days |
Contains a unique identifier used by LinkedIn to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 30 days |
Used by LinkedIn to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | |||
bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company | 365 days |
Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | |||
_uetsid | .shorthand.com | Microsoft | 1 day |
This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | |||
_uetvid | .shorthand.com | Microsoft | 390 days |
Used by Microsoft Advertising to store a unique, anonymized visitor ID to personalize marketing. |
Other cookies
The cookies in this category have not yet been categorized and the purpose may be unknown at this time.
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_session_id | tracking.g2crowd.com | 14 days |
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