Cookie Policy

This website benchmarkintl.com/benchmarkintl.eu/benchmarkintl.za (collectively, “Our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, we are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the ‘Ok, Got it’ button on Our Site, or when you press the Cookie banner and have selected your preferred Cookie options and pressed the ‘Continue’ button. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

Definitions and Interpretation
- 1.1 In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:
  "Cookie" means a small file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site;
  
  "Cookie Law" means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and, where applicable, the GDPR or UK GDPR;
  
  "Personal Data" means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by the GDPR, UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “Data Protection Legislation”); and
  
  "We/Us/Our" means the relevant entity referred to in section 2 of this Cookie Policy.
Information About Us
How Does Our Site Use Cookies?
- Our Site may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve Our services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
- By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third party Cookies on your computer or device. Third party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than Us. Third party Cookies are used on Our Site for the reasons set out in section 4 below. For more details, please refer to section 4 below.
- All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookie:
  - Strictly Necessary Cookies
    A Cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of Our Site, supporting functions such as logging in.
  - Analytics Cookies
    It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.
  - Functionality Cookies
    Functionality Cookies enable Us to provide additional functions to you on Our Site such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality Cookies may also be strictly necessary Cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.
  - Targeting Cookies
    It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties.
  - Third Party Cookies
    Third party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
  - Persistent Cookies
    Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site. Please refer to the table at section 4 below.
  - Session Cookies
    Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Please refer to the table at section 4 below.
- Cookies on Our Site are not permanent and will expire as indicated in the table below.
- For more details of the personal data that We collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy https://www.benchmarkintl.com//privacy-policy
What Cookies Does Our Site Use?
- The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
  
  Name of Cookie Essential Purpose & Type Expiry Time
  
  geo_country Yes Used to store the country code of the user to allow the user to be redirected to the nearest locale version of the site. 30 days
  
  geo_selected_country Yes Used to store the selected country code of the user to allow the user to be redirected to the locale version of the site they have chosen.
  Overrides the geo_country cookie value. 1 day
  
  cookies_allowed Yes Set when the user clicks “OK, Got it” from the cookie disclaimer popup. This prevents the cookie popup being displayed. 1 year
  
  cookie_preferences Yes Stores the user’s chosen cookie preferences to enforce with type of cookies the user has allowed. 1 year
  
  vd{locale ID} No Stores the currently playing promotional video ID for the current locale version for the site so that the next video in the list can be played when the current one has finished. 1 day
- The following third party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device
  
  Name of Cookie Essential Purpose & Type Expiry Time
  
  __hs_opt_out Yes This Cookie is set when you opt out of Cookies. 6 months
  
  __hs_do_not_track Yes This Cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot. 6 months
  
  __hs_initial_opt_in Yes This Cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. 7 days
  
  __hs_cookie_cat_pref Yes This Cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. 6 months
  
  __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss Yes This Cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed. 180 days
  
  hs_ab_test Yes This Cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for the visitor. End of session
  
  [id]_key Yes When visiting a password-protected page, this Cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. The Cookie name is unique for each password-protected page. It contains an encrypted version of the password so future visits to the page will not require the password again. 14 days
  
  hs-messages-is-open Yes This Cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits. It is set in our visitor's browser when they start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity. If our visitor manually closes the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes. 30 minutes
  
  hs-messages-hide-welcome-message Yes This Cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed. 1 day
  
  __hsmem Yes This Cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership user when they are currently logged in.
  
  hs-membership-csrf Yes This Cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. It contains a random string of letters and numbers used to verify that a membership login is authentic.
  
  hs_langswitcher_choice Yes This Cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. It is set when a visitor selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the future if they are available.
  
  __cfruid Yes This Cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. End of session
  
  __cf_bm This Cookie is set by HubSpot's CDN provider and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. 1 day
Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google and Hubspot. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
The analytics services used by Our Site use analytics Cookies to gather the required information.
The analytics services used by Our Site use the following analytics Cookies:
- Name of Cookie Essential Purpose & Type Expiry Time
  
  hstc The main Cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, hubspotutk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). 6 months
  
  hubspotutk This Cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor. 6 months
  
  __hssc This Cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. 30 minutes
  
  __hssrc Whenever HubSpot changes the session Cookie, this Cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this Cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages Cookies, it is considered a new session. It contains the value "1" when present. End of session
  
  messagesUtk This Cookie is used to recognise visitors who chat with us via the chatflows tool. If the visitor leaves Our Site before they're added as a contact, they will have this Cookie associated with their browser. 6 months
  
  __ga Used to distinguish users. 2 years
  
  __ga_[container-id] Used to persist session state. 2 years
Consent and Control
- Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a Cookies banner requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of Cookie that We use. If you wish to change your preferences at any time, you will need to manually clear Our Site Cookies from your device to return to the Cookie preferences banner.
- In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.
- The links below provide instructions on how to control Cookies in all mainstream browsers:
  - Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
  - Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/278835
  - Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/microsoft-edge (Please note that there are no specific instructions at this time, but Microsoft support will be able to assist)
  - Safari (macOS): https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_GB&locale=en_GB
  - Safari (iOS): https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265
  - Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-Cookies-website-preferences
  - Android: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en (Please refer to your device’s documentation for manufacturers’ own browsers)
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of Our Site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.

In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise. This Cookie Policy was last updated on 11.10.23.
Further Information
https://www.benchmarkintl.com/privacy-policy

https://www.benchmarkintl.com/terms

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