This website uses cookies. Please read this cookie policy alongside our privacy policy. We last updated this cookie policy February 2021.
Who we are
The pages on the website (“the Website”) are published by Halma plc, a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 00040932, whose registered address is at Halma plc, Misbourne Court, Rectory Way, Amersham, Bucks HP7 0DE (“Halma plc”).
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites save to your device or browser’s memory. When you visit the Website, to make it work effectively we use cookies and similar technologies.
Below we use the word “cookies” for both cookies and other similar technologies which also rely on information stored on your computer or mobile device.
Please see Further Information On Cookies below for links that provide more details about cookies, including how to manage them with your browser settings.
We use two types of cookies –
- Strictly necessary
- Optional
Strictly necessary cookies
Some of the cookies we use are essential to operate the Website. Unless your browser settings block cookies we will automatically set these essential cookies on your device.
Please see Further Information On Cookies below for links that provide details of how to block cookies with your browser settings.
The table below lists the essential cookies we use as well as explaining what they do and how long they will stay on your device.
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | 7 Days |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | Session |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer. | 7 Days |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer creates load balancing cookie: used to map the session to the instance. | 1 Day |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: The ASWALBTG cookie is a load balancer-generated cookie for Weighted Target Groups. It is used to honor sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, it generates an encrypted cookie named AWSALBTG that encodes information about the selected target group and includes the cookie in the response to the client. When the load balancer receives a request from the same client that matches a rule with target group stickiness enabled and contains the cookie, the request is routed to the target group specified in the cookie. | 7 Days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for Weighted Target Groups associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. With CORS requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the elastic load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSALBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSALBTG, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies in response. | 7 Days |
| AWSELBCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for sticky sessions associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. With CORS requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the elastic load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSELBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSELB, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies in response. | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Session |
| JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Session |
| m | This domain is associated with Stripe, a company that provides payment processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. | 1 Year |
| lang | This cookie stores your language preference for the session selected by the user. This is so that, where possible, we can show you content in your preferred language during your session. | Session |
| __CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | 180 Days |
Performance
We also use the performance cookies in the table below to measure website analytics and performance. We will only use these cookies if you consent to them when you first visit the website.
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Session |
| _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Session |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Session |
| _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. | Session |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | A few seconds |
| _hjSessionUser_2790794 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 Year |
| _hjSession_2790794 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Session |
Functionality
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| lidc | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | 1 Day |
| ajs_anonymous_id | These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. | 356 Days |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on the devices of their customers' end users when they visit their sites that are using Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches the criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. This encrypted file contains Cloudflare’s proprietary bot score and helps manage incoming traffic that matches specific criteria. | Session |
| csrftoken | Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | 1 Year |
Marketing
| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| _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. | 730 Days |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 Day |
| _gat_UA-11735642-1 | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Session |
| bcookie | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | 1 year |
| bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 1 Year |
| test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 1 Day |
| lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Day |
| YSC | 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. | Session |
| UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Month |
| bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 year |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 30 Days |
| li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 90 Days |
| U | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 3 Months |
| rtc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 120 Seconds |
| 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. | 6171 Days |
| bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 730 Days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 180 Days |
| SESSION | Cookie from recruitingbypaycor.com | Session |
| _lfa | Used in context with identifying company visitors to the website. The Leadfeeder cookie collects the behavioral data of all visitors from companies. The cookie registers data such as IP addresses, visitor sources, time spent on the website, and page requests for the visit. Data is processed where it pertains to company visitors and is not processed further for individual visitors. | 730 Days |
| _lfa_test_cookie_stored | Leadfeeder cookie, stored only untill they find out if cookies can be stored. | 1 Second |
| li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 6 Months |
| lissc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. It is used to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | 365 Days |
| BNI_new_persistence | This is a third-party cookie placed by recruitingbypaycor, and is used on our Careers webpage to enable functionality for viewing and submitting information about open positions at Halma. | Session |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Session |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxx, _ga_xxxxxxxxxx |
Google Analytics Cookies | Session |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 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. | 180 Days |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | 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 Day |
| _ptref | Targets ads based on behavioural profiling and geographical location. | 1 Day |
| __putma | Targets ads based on behavioural profiling and geographical location. | 20 Years |
Further information on cookies
To learn how to clear your cookie data and for more information about how to manage cookies with your browser settings we recommend you visit - the Information Commissioner's Office or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Contact
If you need more information, you can contact us by email at [email protected]
