Cookie Policy

 
 

Information on the cookies used by PeakMedicalEditing.com

Last updated May 23, 2018

By using or accessing this website, you are consenting to Peak Medical Editing's use of Cookies. We use cookies to help us run our site effectively and provide the best experience for our visitors. This page describes the cookies placed on your browsers by this site.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

When someone visits PeakMedicalEditing.com, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to determine information such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not personally identify anyone.

We use Hotjar in order 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 (e.g. 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 (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.

For more information about how we handle personal information, visit our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser when you visit a site. They serve a variety of functions and can improve visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.

Functional and Required Cookies

Peak Medical Editing uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features of this site. Generally, these cookies vary from site to site depending on the features it uses. For example, Functional and Required Cookies enable purchasing of our service and URL redirects when needed. The following information was provided by Squarespace, our website hosting company:

Cookie Name; Duration; Purpose:
Crumb; Session; Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.
RecentRedirect; 30 minutes; Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
CART; 2 weeks; Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart.
hasCart; 2 weeks; Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart.
SiteUserInfo; 3 years; Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account.
SiteUserSecureAuthToken; 3 years; Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account
Commerce-checkout-state; Session; Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal.
squarespace-popup-overlay; Persistent; Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
squarespace-announcement-bar; Persistent; Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information on how visitors interact with this site. Storing these cookies is how we review improvement data such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and cart abandonment (a feature not currently in use on PeakMedicalEditing.com). The following information was provided by Squarespace, our website hosting company:

Cookie Name; Duration; Purpose
ss_cid; 2 years; Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvr; 2 years; Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvisit; 30 minutes; Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cvt; 30 minutes; Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cpvisit; 2 years; Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.
ss_cookieAllowed; 30 days; Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.

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