1. Privacy, Cookies and our Website
The PainChek website (hosted at painchek.com ) uses cookies and other web-based tools to improve browsing experience and enhance our services. This document sets out the cookies and tools the website uses, and why. Depending on your location the website may not use all of the cookies listed in this document.
For further details about how we process your personal information (whether collected on our website or through the provision of our services) please see our [link to Privacy Policy].
Our website contains social sharing buttons and links to and from other websites we do not own or control (such as LinkedIn, FaceBook and X). These websites have their own privacy policies.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to the owners of the site.
2.1 Necessary Cookies
painchek.com uses some cookies to ensure the website operates correctly:
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Name |
Information collected |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
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_cfuvid |
IP address |
Set as part of PainChek’s use of Cloudflare Rate Limiting products to limit traffic to our website |
End of session |
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_cf_bm |
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Bot protection |
30 minutes |
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li_gc |
Cookie consent preference |
Stores your cookie consent preference for LinkedIn |
6 months |
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moove_gdpr_popup |
Cookie consent preference |
Collects your cookie consent preferences for painchek.com |
End of session |
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uncode_cookie |
Cookie consent preference |
Stores your cookie consent preferences for painchek.com |
365 days |
2.2 Analytics
Analytics cookies are used to track your website experience and collect anonymous statistical information, such as what pages you have visited or how long you have been on the website.
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Name |
Information collected |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
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Universal Analytics (Google) |
Anonymous information relating to your visits to our website including the IP address from which you accessed the website, information about your device type, operating system type and browser type, URLs you access on our website and timestamps |
Create anonymous statistics about the use our website using:
Full details of the Google Analytics security and privacy principles can be found here. |
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_hstc |
Domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
Tracks visitors to our website |
6 months |
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hubspotutk |
Opaque GUID to represent a unique visitor |
Keeps track of a visitor’s identity |
6 months |
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_hssrc |
Whether a user has restarted their browser |
Detects whether a visitor has restarted their browser to manage sessession |
End of session |
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_hssc |
Domain, viewCount (increments each pageview in a session), and session start timestamp |
Tracks sessions to determine whether HubSpot (our CRM) should increment the session number and timestamps in the _hstc cookie (see above) |
30 minutes |
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mo_has_visited |
Domain, initial timestamp (first visit) |
Used by the WordPress mailoptin plugin to track unique visitors, manage user sessions, and often to trigger or hide specific functionality (like pop-up forms) based on whether it is the user’s first visit |
400 days |
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mo_is_new |
Domain, initial timestamp (first visit) |
Used by the WordPress mailoptin plugin to count how many times a website has been visited by different users. |
End of session |
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mo_page_views |
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Used by the WordPress mailoptin plugin to count how many times a website page has been visited by different users. |
End of session |
2.3 Advertising and tracking
Advertising and tracking cookies are used to track your activity across the internet and target you with advertising.
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Name |
Information collected |
Purpose |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
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bcookie |
Browser details and device data
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As further described in LinkedIn’s Cookie Policy, data collected (e.g., device IDs) is used to recognise users and their device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where they have engaged with its services.
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365 days
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li_dc |
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Support data centre location for LinkedIn Services |
24 hours |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Browsing behaviour |
YouTube ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor’s identity, Store and track interaction. |
6 months |
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YSC |
Browsing behaviour |
Store and track interaction with YouTube |
Session |
3. Managing cookie settings
Analytics and advertising cookies are only used if you have consented to their use by accepting them or turning them on when you first visit our site. You may also access the configuration of your browser to modify and/or block the installation of our website’s cookies, without this preventing access to our content. However, if you disable the cookies some of the functions of the website may not operate correctly.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit: aboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.