Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 08/11/2021

Talent Hacks (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies on https://www.talenthacks.com/ (“our website”). By visiting our website, you consent to the use of cookies. Via our cookie policy, we explain what cookies are, how they are used by us and third-party partners, your choices regarding cookies and extra information about them.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing amounts of information that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit and which your computer or mobile device downloads. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The information in cookies can be used to track your internet usage. Under the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications of 12 July 2002 , all visitors to a website with cookies must have access to information stating that the website contains cookies and the purpose for which cookies are used. They must also approve such cookies being used.

What types of cookies do Talent Hacks use?

Our website uses both first-party cookies and third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are created by us and exclusive to our website. Their intent is to help provide a better user experience.
Third-party cookies are created by our partners. The intent of third-party cookies is primarily for tracking and advertising purposes as well as allowing us to offer our Live Chat option.

The cookie types that we use are:

These cookies are essential in order for users to seamlessly experience our website. E.g., they include cookies that allow users to login. If these cookies are blocked, users may encounter issues while browsing our website.

These cookies are used for analytical purposes. They collect information that allows us to get a better idea of how users engage with our website. This allows us to improve our website and provide a better overall experience. These cookies include third-party cookies that collect information such as pages visited, session times and actions taken.
These cookies are used to collect information that allow us to tailor messages to your preferences. These cookies include third-party cookies which collect information collected includes content viewed, time per page, and browser used.

Cookie List

The complete list of cookies on our website along with their type, description, and duration can be seen below.

Third-Party cookies on our website are:

Type: Performance


Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to track the session of a user. It does contain any identifiable information.


Duration: 30 minutes

Type: Performance


Description: This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.


Duration: 2 minutes

Type: Performance

Description: This cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency.

Duration: 90 days

Type: Performance


Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to track the session of a user. It does contain any identifiable information.


Duration: 1 year

Type: Functional

Description: This cookie is used to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users.

Duration: Session

Type: Functional

Description: This cookie stores information about your cookie consent state.

Duration: 1 year

Type: Functional

Description: This cookie stores information about your cookie consent state.

Duration: 1 year

Type: Performance


Description: This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.


Duration: 1 day

Type: Performance

Description: This is a Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page using the Hotjar script.

Duration: 1 year

Type: Performance


Description: 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.


Duration: 2 years

Type: Advertisement


Description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.


Duration: 3 months

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies" to help us analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. To find out more about Google Analytics, Google's privacy policy and opting out of its cookies please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We use Youtube cookies to track the performance of the embedded Youtube videos on our website. Given our videos also exist on our Youtube channel, we use cookies to seamlessly integrate their performance on our website with our the analytics provided by Youtube. We may track metrics such as number or views, viewing duration, actions taken and other videos viewed.
We use Hotjar to better understand our users 'needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users' experience (eg how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don't like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users' behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
We use Zoho Sales IQ for the purposes of identify and track our website visitors for the purposes of improving visitor engagement and for general statistical purposes. Zoho Sales IQ is a real-time monitoring and customer engagement service. We can collect information via our Chat function, adapt information on our website according to previous visitor sessions and/or URL parameters. Information collected includes Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referring URL, files accessed, time zone and operating system.
We use Zoho CRM to directly integrate any relevant information collected via our website with our customer relationship management database. Visitor behavior such as file downloads and form filling links directly with user profiles, by creating new profiles or updating existing ones. This information is never shared beyond our company. It is strictly for processing and administrative tasks. Information collected includes name, job title, email, country and company.
We use Facebook Pixel for both Performance and Advertisement purposes. Our website collects information based on visitor behavior to enable to use advertising features from Facebook including audiences, conversions and targeting. Information collected can include location, files downloaded, and pages visited.

How to avoid cookies

You can opt out of cookies by visiting our cookie settings and modifying the settings to your preferences. If you would prefer cookies to be rejected, change the settings in your web browser so that you either automatically refuse cookies to be downloaded or are prompted each time a website requests to save a cookie. Cookies that have been previously downloaded can also be deleted through the web browser. Rejecting or deleting certain cookies may however, prevent you from taking full advantage of the features of the website.