Cookie Policy

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.

We use the following cookies on the domain generation.global:

1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
2. Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the list below:

• Cloudflare
  Cookie name: __cf_bm
  Purpose: The cookie is used to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect the site from bad bots. The cookie contains encrypted information related to the calculation of Cloudflare’s proprietary bot score.
  Category: Necessary
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Cloudflare
  Cookie name: cf_clearance
  Purpose: Stores proof that a visitor has passed a Cloudflare security challenge, allowing them to access protected pages without repeatedly completing the same challenge while the clearance remains valid.
  Category: Necessary
  Duration: 30 minutes by default; depends on the site's Cloudflare configuration.
• Cloudflare
  Cookie name: cf_zaraz_client
  Purpose: Associated with Cloudflare Zaraz. Specific use on this site to be confirmed.
  Category: To be confirmed based on its use on this site.
  Duration: To be confirmed.
• Civic UK Cookie Control
  Cookie name: CookieControl
  Purpose: Used to store user preferences regarding cookies.
  Category: Necessary
  Duration: 90 days
• Google Analytics
  Cookie name: _ga
  Purpose: Used to track individual users visiting the site
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 1 year
• Google Analytics
  Cookie name: _gid
  Purpose: Used to group the user behaviour together for each user
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 24 hours
• Google Analytics
  Cookie name: _gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-X
  Purpose: This cookie is used for throttling requests to Google Analytics to increase the efficiency of network calls.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 1 minute
• Google Analytics
  Cookie name: _ga_XXXXXXXXXXX
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Google Analytics GA4 to persist session state.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 6 months
• Session cookie (Drupal)
  Cookie name: SSESS
  Purpose: Only set if users log in. Used to allow access to individual accounts.
  Category: Necessary
  Duration: ~ 23 days (2000000 seconds)
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjIncludedInPageviewSample
  Purpose: This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjid
  Purpose: Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer 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 behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 1 year
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
  Purpose: This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjSession_XXXXXXX
  Purpose: This cookie holds current session data and ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjSessionUser_XXXXXXXX
  Purpose: This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page and persists a unique user ID.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 1 year
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjIncludedInSessionSample
  Purpose: This cookie is set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjFirstSeen
  Purpose: This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjFirstSeen
  Purpose: This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: 30 minutes
• Hotjar
  Cookie name: _hjTLDTest
  Purpose: When the Hotjar script executes it tries to determine the most generic cookie path it should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, Hotjar tries to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
  Category: Analytical
  Duration: Deleted at the end of the session (when browser is closed).

To deactivate the use of cookies that are not strictly necessary, simply click “I Do Not Accept” when prompted to accept cookies on our website, or click on the button below to review your preferences.

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 
All cookies will expire after not more than 12 months.

This policy was last updated 8 October 2026.