Cookie Policy



1. Introduction
We use cookies on our Website for identification and analysis purposes. By using the Website you consent to the storing and accessing of cookies on your device.

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is intended to inform you how Start Design uses “cookies” and similar technologies and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy. This Cookie Policy should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using our Website.

Please note that third parties including, Google Analytics, HubSpot, SEM Rush, Facebook and LinkedIn may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

For more details on cookies and similar technologies please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.

2. You consent to DNL using cookies

By continuing to use our Website you are deemed to consent to our use of the cookies described in this Cookie Policy. If you do not consent to DNL using cookies then please read the next section.

3. You can block cookies

You can block the use of cookies by activating the relevant settings in your browser or by following the links below. For more information on cookie management and blocking cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.

4. What happens when you block cookies

In order to use some parts of our Website you will need to accept cookies. If you choose to withhold consent, or subsequently block cookies, some aspects of our Website may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of our Website.

5. What we do with cookies Strictly Necessary Cookies We use cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Website, for example to remember that you are signed into a blog to the Website.

Session Cookies We use cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server. Analytics we use “analytics” cookies. These, along with other information, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people using the Website and which features of our Website are most popular.

We use this information to improve the Website. We do not generally store any Information that you provide to us in a cookie. Social Media We use cookies to personalize your interaction with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Medium, Pinterest and Google. Such cookies recognize users of those social media sites when you view social media content on our Website. They also allow you to quickly share content across social media, through the use of simple ‘sharing’ buttons.

Our Website also contains features that enable you to use your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Medium, Pinterest and Google account to sign in and create/maintain an account with us and to enable us to store your content. This involves the use of cookies.

6. More information

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after five years.

Please note that there may be some links or embedded content where cookies have been used by third parties that are not in our control.

Details of cookies

Cookie Name Default Expiration Time Purpose
_hssc 30 min This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, view Count (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.
_hssrc None. Session cookie Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session.
_hstc 2 years The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
_ga 2 years Visitor identification
_gat_gtag_UA_86782558_1 10 minutes Throttling request rate
_gid 24 hours User journey
hubspotUK 10 years This cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.