This cookie policy describes how Total Processing (“TP”) uses “cookies” and other similar technologies, in connection with our Site and Services.
1. What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in a computer’s browser directory. They help site providers with things like understanding how people use a site, remembering a User’s login details, and storing site preferences.
2. Does Total Processing use Cookies?
Yes. TP use cookies in accordance with our Privacy Notice to:
- ensure that our Services function properly,
- detect and prevent fraud,
- understand how visitors use and engage with our Site, and
- analyse and improve Services.
3. Who sets cookies when I use Total Processing’s Site?
There are a number of types of cookies that can be set:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: these cookies are placed and read by TP directly when you use our Services and provide core functionality.
- Performance: these cookies are used for collecting data on how visitors behave on the TP website;
- Functional: these cookies allow websites to remember the user’s website preferences and choices made on the website including login details, geo-location, language and enhanced content.
- Targeting (Advertisement): these are small, encrypted files that track user’s actions and are used to identify users between different websites. Targeting cookies collect user information and use it to build a profile of a user’s interests and then show personalised ads for that specific user.
4. How Total Processing Uses Cookies
Cookies play an important role in helping us provide effective and safe Services. Below is a description of the commonly used cookie types and the purposes that apply to them. Each section references TP’s Cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are essential to the operation of our Site and Services and make it usable and secure by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Site. We use those cookies in a number of different ways, including:
- Authentication. To remember your login state so you don’t have to log in as you navigate through our Site and dashboard.
- Fraud Prevention and Detection. Cookies and similar technologies that we deploy through our Site help us learn things about computers and web browsers used to access the Services. This information helps us monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of our Services. For example, in order to process payment transactions for our Users, it is necessary for TP to collect information about the transaction and the Customer. To help secure these transactions and minimise fraud, we collect additional information through the use of cookies and other technologies in helping to identify bad actors and prevent them from making fraudulent transactions. Customers should check our Users’ sites for more information about the use of TP cookies for fraud detection.
- Security. To protect user data from unauthorised access.
- Functionality. To keep our Site and Services working correctly, like showing you the right information for your selected location.
Third-party Cookies
Total Processing uses PostHog: an analytics tool which tracks live events such as page views and link clicks on the website. Through PostHog Cloud EU we gather information about how users interact with the website and also capture session recordings which allow us to see where users are getting stuck, find solutions to these obstacles and as a result create a better user experience for them. Recordings are restricted and all sensitive data is hidden. IP addresses are anonymised within the analytics tracking. For more information on PostHog and GDPR compliance, please visit https://posthog.com/docs/privacy/gdpr-compliance
Preference Cookies
Preference Cookies are designed to help the user experience without tracking behaviour or personal data.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies are used to enhance the performance of websites as without them certain functions of the website may not be available. Functional cookies help to provide TP services that a user requests. However, they are not vital for the TP website to run. They are anonymous and don’t track users’ browsing activity across other websites.
Targeting Cookies
We and our service providers will use cookies and similar technologies on TotalProcessing.com to direct TP ads to you through targeted advertisements for TP Services on other sites you visit and to measure your engagement with those ads.
5. Can I opt-out?
Yes. You can opt out of cookies, with the exception of those cookies that are necessary to provide you with our Services. Your web browser may allow you to manage your cookie preferences, including to delete and disable TP cookies.
6. Cookies we use
| Cookie Type | Host | Name | Details | Retention |
| Strictly Necessary | totalprocessing.com | OptanonConsent | This cookie stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 year |
| Strictly Necessary | totalprocessing.com | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This is set after visitors have seen a cookie notice. The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 year |
| Strictly Necessary | totalprocessing.com | vx_user | User | 9 months |
| Performance | totalprocessing.com | _gid | This is associated with Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | A few seconds |
| Performance | totalprocessing.com | _uetvid | This is associated with Google Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited._gid | 1 year |
| Performance | totalprocessing.com | _ga | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 1 year |
| Functional | totalprocessing.com | sa-user-id-v2 | 1 year | |
| Functional | totalprocessing.com | ip2location_redirection_ first_visit | A few seconds | |
| Functional | totalprocessing.com | sa-user-id | 1 year | |
| Functional | totalprocessing.com | vx_page | 9 months | |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – First Party | totalprocessing.com | _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user. | A few seconds |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – First Party | totalprocessing.com | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products. | 2 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – First Party | totalprocessing.com | _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics Cookies | A few seconds |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | srv.stackadapt.com | sa-user-id-v2 | This domain is owned by Stackadapt. The company provides marketing and advertising services to the website. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_ METADATA | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 5 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | Lidc | This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics. 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 on a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | A few seconds |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | www.facebook.com | As a third-party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. | Session | |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | bing.com | MSPTC | This domain is owned by Microsoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | www.linkedin.com | Bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where TP has placed one of its content-sharing buttons on its pages. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | bing.com | MUID | This domain is owned by Microsoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | doubleclick.net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). | A few seconds |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | AnalyticsSyncHistory | LinkedIn acts as a third-party host where TP has placed one of its content-sharing buttons on its pages. | 1 month |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | li_sugr | LinkedIn acts as a third-party host where TP have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages. | 2 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | li_gc | LinkedIn acts as a third-party host where TP has placed one of its content-sharing buttons on its pages. | 5 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn acts as a third-party host where TP have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages. | 1 months |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | youtube.com | YSC | LinkedIn acts as a third-party host where TP have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages. | Session |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | linkedin.com | bcookie | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | srv.stackadapt.com | sa-user-id-v3 | This domain is owned by Stackadapt. The company provides marketing and advertising services. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | doubleclick.net | IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google’s real-time bidding advertising exchange | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | youtube.com | CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | srv.stackadapt.com | sa-user-id | This domain is owned by Stackadapt. The company provides marketing and advertising services | 1 year |
| Targeting (Advertisement) – Third Party | zoominfo.com | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
For more information on the Cookie policy please contact [email protected]
Last updated: April 2024