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17.11.2021

What are the Digital Challenges Facing the Retail Sector in 2021?

With mass closures throughout 2020 and 2021 resulting in a reduction of the footfall of nearly 50% at its peak,...

11.11.2021

How Technology Can Improve Operational Efficiency

Being able to deliver a quality service, in as little time, and using as few resources as possible. That’s the...

23.09.2021

Infographic: The Benefits of Team Augmentation

One of the biggest challenges in the world of software development today is recruitment. Finding the right candidates, with enough...

17.09.2021

Going Places: How Tech is Transforming Travel and Hospitality

Practically no industry was hit harder in 2020 than travel and hospitality. Yet, while the global pandemic shut schools for...

06.08.2021

What is Team Augmentation?

Outsourcing is often hard to get right – and in some cases the outsourcing process can end up delaying the...

26.07.2021

Ones and Zeroes: How Banking is Doing Digital

The impact of digital transformation in the banking sector has, in recent years, been enormous. The growth in online connections...

30.06.2021

DCSL GuideSmiths Achieves Microsoft Gold Partnership Status for Application Integration

We are proud to have recently achieved the Microsoft Gold partnership status for Application Integration. This accreditation is in addition...

15.06.2021

Going Digital: The Changing Face of Healthcare

The health sector finds itself in a third age of technological revolution. Some 70 years ago, health companies, in line...

18.05.2021

Our Top Tips for SaaS Start-Ups

If you’re wondering ‘how can I make my SaaS business successful?’ – this is the blog for you. Below you’ll...

11.05.2021

How Technology is Transforming the Retail Sector

The way the world buys and sells is constantly changing. Where owning the high street was once the goal for...

19.04.2021

The Impact of Digital Transformation on the Construction Industry

The second instalment in our regular series about digitising industries focuses on the construction industry and digital transformation. Like the...

04.02.2021

Digital Transformation in Education & Training

In a recent blog entry, we covered the typical barriers to digital transformation faced by enterprises of all sizes, the...

22.01.2021

Tech 101: What is Programming?

The world of programming has shifted dramatically over the last decade. There are now an ever-increasing number of options for...

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aqcamp	1 month	This cookie is used to customize the application behavior to user preferences.
bcookie	2 years	LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID.
bscookie	2 years	LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website.
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Cookie	Duration	Description
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_ga	2 years	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
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_gat_UA-3669062-1	1 minute	A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.
_gcl_au	3 months	Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
_gid	1 day	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
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_hjTLDTest	session	To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails.
ajs_anonymous_id	20 years	This cookie is set by Segment to count the number of people who visit a certain site by tracking if they have visited before.
ajs_user_id	never	This cookie is set by Segment to help track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and also measure application performance and stability.
CONSENT	2 years	YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data.
hubspotutk	1 year 24 days	HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.

Cookie	Duration	Description
_fbp	3 months	This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.
_opt_expid	past	Set by Google Analytics, this cookie is created when running a redirect experiment. It stores the experiment ID, the variant ID and the referrer to the page that is being redirected.
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MUID	1 year 24 days	Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.
test_cookie	15 minutes	The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
YSC	session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
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_dc_gtm_UA-3669062-1	1 minute	No description
_gaexp_rc	past	No description available.
_hjSession_1933882	30 minutes	No description
_hjSessionUser_1933882	1 year	No description
_obid	1 year	No description
adzab_all	1 month	No description
adzuna_epoch	1 year	No description
adzuna_in_your_inbox	1 month	No description
adzuna_session_ads	1 hour 30 minutes	No description
alr	30 minutes	No description
AnalyticsSyncHistory	1 month	No description
aqcamplast	session	No description available.
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cass	2 hours	No description available.
cebs	session	No description
cebsp	session	No description
cookietest	session	No description
dcid2	2 years	No description
gdId	10 years	No description
gdsid	6 hours	No description
GSESSIONID	2 hours	No description available.
li_gc	2 years	No description
SameSite	past	No description available.
session	session	No description available.
trs	1 year	No description available.

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