The Cookies Notice explains how Sprouts (“Sprouts”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is uses cookies and similar technologies in the course of our business, through our website Sprouts. It explains what these technologies are, and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
Cookies are small text files that a website asks the user’s browser to save on the user’s system/device, when a user visits the website, to remember the user’s device upon revisiting the website or during the session. Cookies set up by the domain Sprouts, are called first-party cookies and cookies set by other domain(s) than the website(s) you are visiting are termed as third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are generally used for marketing and advertising purposes.
Our website Sprouts (“Sprouts” or “We” or “Our” or “Website”) uses cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
The table below provides additional details on the specific cookies used on Sprouts:
Strictly Necessary Cookies – Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our websites to support functions such as logging in, and payment transactions.
| Cookie Provider | Name of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Purpose | Duration (days) |
| .linkedin.com | Analytics Sync History | Third-Party | Used to store information about the time sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 1 Month |
| .www.Sprouts | __cfruid | First-party | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. | Sessional |
| linkedin.com | li_gc | Third-party | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for nonessential purposes | 12 months |
| .hubspot.com | __cf_bm | Third-party | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
Targeted Cookies – These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store direct personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.
| Cookie Provider | Name of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Purpose | Duration (days) |
| .Sprouts | _gcl_au | First-Party | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 3 Months |
| .Sprouts | _lfa | First-Party | Leadfeeder cookie collects the behavioral data of all website visitors. This includes; pages viewed, visitor sources and time spent on the site | 2 Years |
| .linkedin.com | bcookie | Third-Party | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media | 2 Years |
| .www.LinkedIn.co m | bscookie | Third-Party | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 2 Years |
| .linkedin.com | lidc | Third-Party | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. | 24 Hours |
| .doubleclick.net | IDE | Third-Party | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end-user uses the website and any advertising that the end-user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 2 Years |
| .linkedin.com | UserMatchHistory | Third-Party | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor’s preferences. | 1 Month |
| .Sprouts | messagesUtk | First-party | This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the chat flows tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they’re added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. | 1 Year |
Functionality Cookies- Functionality cookies enable us to provide additional functions to you on our site
such as personalization and remembering your saved preferences.
| Cookie Provider | Name of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Purpose | Duration (days) |
| .linkedin.com | lang | Third-party | There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. | Sessional Cookie |
| .Sprouts | hubspotutk | First-Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
Performance Cookies- Performance cookies are cookies used specifically for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies monitor only the performance of the site as the user interacts with it. These cookies don’t collect identifiable information on visitors, which means all the data collected is anonymous and only used to improve the functionality of a website.
| Cookie Provider | Name of Cookie | Type of Cookie | Purpose | Duration (days) |
| .Sprouts | __hssc | First-Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 30 Minutes |
| .Sprouts | __hssrc | First-Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | Session |
| .Sprouts | __hstc | First-Party | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 1 Year |
Any cookie, whose purpose has not been identified by us or is unknown to our current understanding, is classified together as “Unclassified Cookies”. Such cookies may or may not adhere to our policy and we cannot take ownership of said cookies, however, we would periodically and actively try to investigate them and categorize them in their respective cookie categories for the benefit of our users, partners and customers.
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors on a website. We may use other similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our websites or opened an e-mail including these. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and hence, declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you may remove or reject cookies in your browser’s settings. Removing or rejecting the cookies may affect the performance of the website. You may opt-out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/. Or you may opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out page: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on the Policy.