Cookie policy
We use cookies and other similar technologies to help operate our website and enhance your experience as a user of the Freddie Med website. Freddie Med Limited is the company which operates http://www.freddiemed.com/.
Freddie Med takes your privacy seriously and wants to help you to understand what technologies we use to operate our website. This Cookie Policy sets out further details about how and why we use cookies.
By using this website, you agree that we can store and access cookies on your device, in accordance with this Cookie Policy.
You should read this Cookie Policy alongside our Website Terms of Use and our Privacy Notice.
1. What are cookies and other tracking technologies?
Cookies are small pieces of data (alpha-numerical files) which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website to collect information about your use of the website. Cookies are sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow our website to remember information about you to make it easier for you to use our website. Other tracking technologies may use unique identifiers to track and facilitate your use of our Website.
You can find more information about cookies and other tracking technologies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
2. Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
We use cookies and other tacking technologies for a variety of purposes, including enabling you to navigate between pages efficiently, collecting statistical information about the usage of our website and to optimise your use of our website generally.
The Cookie Table below outlines why we use specific types of cookies.
3. What cookies and other tracking technologies do we us and how long will they stay on my device?
Where Freddie Med uses cookies, these are called first party cookies. [We also use third party cookies for marketing and advertising.]
We use different types of cookies and other tracking technologies. Some of these are strictly necessary for our website to operate effectively. Others are not necessary but are used for a variety of purposes to facilitate your experience on our Website such as remembering your preferences and analysing your use of our Website.
Some cookies, known as “session cookies”, will stay on your device only for as long as you are accessing our website during a single browsing session and so are temporary. However, others, known as “persistent cookies”, are stored on your device for longer periods to enable our website to “remember” you and your preferences.
The Table set out below contains a full list of the cookies and other tracking technologies used on our website.
| Domain | Type of cookies | Service | Name | Purpose | expiry date |
| www.freddiemed.com | Statistical/Analytical | Google Analytics | _ga | These cookies will help us gather statistics about the use of our website including estimating our audience size and usage patterns. | 2 years |
| www.freddiemed.com | Statistical/Analytical | Google Analytics | _gat_gtag_UA_132989983_1 | These cookies will help us gather statistics about the use of our website including estimating our audience size and usage patterns. | 1 minute |
| www.freddiemed.com | Statistical/Analytical | Google Analytics | _gid | These cookies will help us gather statistics about the use of our website including estimating our audience size and usage patterns. | 1 day |
| www.freddiemed.com | Strictly necessary | FreddieMed | XSRF-TOKEN | These cookies are necessary for our website to function. You may set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our website may subsequently not function if you block these. | 1 hour |
| www.freddiemed.com | Strictly necessary | FreddieMed | freddiemed_session | These cookies are necessary for our website to function. You may set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our website may subsequently not function if you block these. | 1 hour |
| doctors.freddiemed.com | Strictly necessary | Cloudflare | __cfduid | These cookies are necessary for our website to function. You may set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of our website may subsequently not function if you block these. Cloudflare per-client security settings for Outbound assets. | 1 day |
| www.freddiemed.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | messagesUtk | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they are added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. | 6 months |
| .hubspot.com | Analytical | Hubspot | hubspotutk | This cookie keeps track of a visitors identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 6 months |
| .hubspot.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by HubSpot CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. It expires in 30 minutes. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. | 30 min |
| .hubspot.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | __hssc | This cookie keeps track of sessions. | End of session |
| www.freddiemed.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | __hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | End of session |
| .hubspot.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | __hstc | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | 6 months |
| .hubspot.com | Strictly necessary | Hubspot | __hs_opt_out | This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. | 6 months |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_theme_set | Remembers which users have updated their display / theme preferences. | 6 months | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_alerts | Used to track impressions of LinkedIn alerts, such as the Cookie Banner and to implement cool off periods for display of alerts. | 1 year | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | lidc | To facilitate data center selection. | 24 hours | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 month | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_theme | Used to determine which integration traffic is coming from to render the profile namecard experience. | 1 month | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_mc | Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a members consent for use of non-essential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side. | 6 month | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | li_at | Used to authenticate Members and API clients. | 1 year | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | g_state | Stores the timestamp for the purpose of honoring the cool off period and dismiss count for Google one tap prompt feature. | 180 days | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | bscookie | Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | 1 year | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | lang | Used to remember a users language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | End of session | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely indentify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abust on the platform and diagnostic purposes. | 1 year | |
| .linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | timezone | Used to determine user timezone. | 14 days | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | JSESSIONID | Used for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection. | End of session | |
| .www.linkedin.com | Strictly necessary | G_ENABLED_IDPS | Used by Google Single Sign On. | 2 years |
4. How to change your preferences so that cookies are not set on your device
Most devices allow you to block cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies, such as those allowing you to log-in) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website or our website may not function as effectively.
For further information about how to block cookies, please refer to your browser ‘help’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will inform you of any changes to this Cookie Policy by posting them on this page and updating the Cookie Table above. By continuing to use our website after any such changes have been made you are accepting the new Cookie Policy, so please ensure you regularly check this page.
6. Contact Us
If you have any further questions in relation to this Cookie Policy, please contact us at info@freddiemed.com.