Cookies Policy

Tax Cloud ("we", "us", "our") and its affiliates are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy as described in our Privacy Notice, of which this Cookie Policy forms a part.

By consenting to this cookie policy ("Cookie Policy"), you acknowledge and consent to our website using cookies and other similar technologies (as described below) to distinguish you from other users of our website and for analytics. This helps us to provide you with a good experience during your visit to our website. This also allows us to improve our website and provide you with tailored content and advertising. For example we can recognise and remember important information that will make it more comfortable browsing our website such as preferred settings.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store via your browser on the hard drive of your computer or your mobile device, if you [consent].

We may automatically collect and store certain information about your interaction with our website, including IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps, and related data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users , solely to improve the quality of our products and services.

Purposes of collection

You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them set out below.

First party cookies

Session Cookies (Technical Cookies): Their use is strictly limited to sending the session identifiers (random numbers generated by the server) needed for secure and efficient Website browsing. They are not permanently stored on the user’s computer and are deleted upon browser closing. In particular, the use of the session cookies aims at ensuring security and improving of the offered service; and
Technical Cookie: It is required to keep track of the consent given by the user.

The described cookies do not require your consent to be installed and used.

Category: Neccessary (6)

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookie Name	Provider	Type	Expiry	Description
ARRAffinity	taxcloud.co.uk	HTTP	Session	Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. Data is sent to United Kingdom
acceptCookies	taxcloud.co.uk	Local Storage	1 year	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain Data is sent to United Kingdom
ARRAffinitySameSite	taxcloud.co.uk	Other	session
JSESSIONID (Not used????)	.nr-data.net	Necessary	session	Used by sites written in JSP. General purpose platform session cookies that are used to maintain users' state across page requests
__atuvc	.www.taxcloud.co.uk	Functional	1 year 1 month	This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.
__atuvs	.www.taxcloud.co.uk	Functional	30 minutes	This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.

Category: Statistics (11)

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie Name	Provider	Type	Expiry	Description
uvc	addtoany.com	HTTP	1 year 1 month	Updates the counter for the website's social sharing features. Data is sent to United States
_ga	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	taxcloud.co.uk	HTTP	1 day	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Data is sent to United States
_gcl_au	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	3 months	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.
_hjid	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	1 year	This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_hjFirstSeen	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	30 minutes	This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	2 minutes
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	30 minutes
_uetsid	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	1 day	This cookies are used to collect analytical information about how visitors use the website. This information is used to compile report and improve site.
_uetvid	taxcloud.co.uk	Other	1 year 24 days
_gat_gtag_UA_89243858_1	taxcloud.co.uk	Analytics	1 minute	This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users.

Category: Marketing (13)

Cookie Name	Provider	Type	Expiry	Description
lang	ads.linkedin.com	Functional	session	This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
bcookie	.linkedin.com	Functional	2 years	This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
lidc	.linkedin.com	Functional	1 day	This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.
lang	linkedin.com	Functional		This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
UserMatchHistory	.linkedin.com	Other	1 month	Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
AnalyticsSyncHistory	.linkedin.com	Other	1 month
li_gc	.linkedin.com	Other	2 years
MUID	bing.com	Advertisement	1 year 24 days	Used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking.
truffle	taxcloud.co.uk	Other	1 year
loc	.addthis.com	Advertisement	1 year 1 month	This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.
intercom-id-mtin3vpv	.www.taxcloud.co.uk	Other	8 months 26 days 1 hour
intercom-session-mtin3vpv	.www.taxcloud.co.uk	Other	7 days
at-rand	.www.taxcloud.co.uk	Other	never

You also acknowledge and consent to the use of third party cookies (including, for example, those provided by operators of advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services). You acknowledge that where we allow advertising networks, external services, and other third-party services on the website, we have no control over cookies they collect.

Refusing or deleting cookies

Most internet browsers are set up by default to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies (for example: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari). Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Website, including certain personalised features, if you delete or refuse cookies.

To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org

If you are a resident in the EU:

For more information on managing cookies, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.

Changes to our Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time.

If we change anything important about this Cookie Policy we will notify you through a pop-up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change. You may review the Cookie Policy by visiting the website and clicking on the “Cookie Policy” link.