Cookies Policy

The Mindhive service uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

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: 

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. 

Analytical/performance cookies. They 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. 

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). 

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. 

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

Cookie
_ga, _gid

Name
Google Analytics

Purpose
This cookie is essential for our site to report traffic, usage data and metrics on the web-site usage. 

More information
https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/

Cookie
__stripe_sid, __stripe_mid

Name
Stripe

Purpose
Stripe provides credit-card payment facilities for the MindHive service. This includes browser fingerprinting and identification for anti-fraud purposes.

More information
https://stripe.com/en-AU/privacy

Cookie
SID, SAPISID, APISID, SSID, HSID, NID, PREF

Name
Google Maps

Purpose
Used to provide address lookup capabilities and location services.

More information
https://policies.google.com/privacy

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. 

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 1 year, or a time specified by the third-party cookie provider, outside of the MindHive service to enforce.