Cookie Policy
Our websites, including businesswire.com, services.businesswire.com, and newsroom.businesswire.com, use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
These cookies help us provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites, and improve our sites. By continuing to browse the sites or submitting any forms on our sites, you agree to our use of cookies.
We use the following cookies
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into Business Wire Connect or other secure areas of our website, to place press release orders, and to customize your account and news profile.
Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites. This helps us to improve the way our websites work (for example, by ensuring users easily find what they are looking for).
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expiration Date |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 Year |
| eupubconsent | This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent. | When browser is closed |
| bm_mi | Akamai bot manager / Fraud prevention | 3 Days |
| ak_bmsc | Akamai bot manager / Fraud prevention | When browser is closed |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 Year |
| bm_sv | This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. | When browser is closed |
Performance Cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expiration Date |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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 in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 1 Year |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | When browser is closed |
| __hstc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 5 Months |
| __hssrc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | When browser is closed |
| __hssc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | When browser is closed |
Functional Cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expiration Date |
| messagesUtk | This cookie is used by HubSpot to recognize visitors who chat via the chatflows tool. It is used to ensure continuity of the chat conversations and to remember the information of visitors who chat in multiple sessions. | 5 Months |
| hubspotutk | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. | 5 Months |
Targeting Cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expiration Date |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 2 Months |
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.