Learn more about the personal data we process in connection with our website (https://matrichem.com), and your data protection rights, please read our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server. 

First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.

Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

Cookies help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, for instance by storing information about your preferences and allowing us to recognize you when you return to our website.

Which cookies do we use?

Necessary website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website.

Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to your use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.

Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our website through third party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

We host our website on Squarespace and we have installed the HubSpot tracking code. HubSpot sets a number of tracking cookies when you land on our website to understand your behavior better.

The texts below explain in details the cookies we use and why.

Necessary Cookies

These are essential cookies that do not require consent.

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  • Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

  • It expires at the end of the session.

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  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.

  • It is persistent.

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  • Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.

  • It expires at the end of the session.

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

  • It expires at the end of the session.

__hs_opt_out

  • This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask you to accept cookies again.

  • This cookie is set when you have the choice to opt out of cookies.

  • It contains the string "yes" or "no".

  • It expires in 13 months.

__hs_do_not_track

  • This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot.

  • It contains the string "yes".

  • It expires in 13 months.

__hs_initial_opt_in

  • This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when you are browsing in strict mode.

  • It contains the string "yes" or "no".

  • It expires in seven days.

__hs_cookie_cat_pref

  • This cookie is used to record the categories you consented to.

  • It contains data on the consented categories.

  • It expires in 13 months.

hs_ab_test

  • This cookie is used to consistently serve you the same version of an A/B test page you’ve seen before.

  • It contains the id of the A/B test page and the id of the variation that was chosen for you.

  • It expires at the end of the session.

hs-messages-is-open

  • This cookie is used to determine and save whether the chat widget is open for future visits.

  • It is set in your browser when you start a new chat, and resets to re-close the widget after 30 minutes of inactivity.

  • If you manually close the chat widget, it will prevent the widget from re-opening on subsequent page loads in that browser session for 30 minutes.

  • It contains a boolean value of True if present.

  • It expires in 30 minutes.

hs-messages-hide-welcome-message

  • This cookie is used to prevent the chat widget welcome message from appearing again for one day after it is dismissed.

  • It contains a boolean value of True or False.

  • It expires in one day.

hs_langswitcher_choice

  • This cookie is used to save your selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.

  • It gets set when you select a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect you to websites in your chosen language in the future, if they are available.

  • It contains a colon delimited string with the ISO639 language code choice on the left and the top level private domain it applies to on the right. An example will be "EN-US:hubspot.com".

  • It expires in two years.

__cfruid

This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider because of their rate limiting policies. Learn more about Cloudflare cookies. It expires at the end of the session.

Analytics cookies 

These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner. 

__hstc

  • The main cookie for tracking visitors.

  • It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).

  • It expires in 13 months.

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  • This cookie keeps track of your identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts.

  • It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.

  • It expires in 13 months.

__hssc

  • This cookie keeps track of sessions.

  • This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie.

  • It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.

  • It expires in 30 minutes.

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  • Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if you have restarted your browser.

  • If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session.

  • It contains the value "1" when present.

  • It expires at the end of the session.

If you are logged in to HubSpot, HubSpot will set additional authentication cookies. Learn more about cookies set in the HubSpot product.

Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Our Website

We also use the third-party service Google Analytics. 

Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page.

 

The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP cookies to "remember" what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website. 

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  • Used to distinguish users.

  • It expires in 2 years.

_gid    

  • Used to distinguish you.

  • It expires in 24 hours.

_gat    

  • Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property- id>.

  • It expires in 1 minute.

AMP_TOKEN           

  • Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.

  • It expires in 30 seconds to 1 year.

_gac_<property-id>           

  • Contains campaign related information for you. If we have linked our Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless we/you opt-out.

  • It expires in 90 days.

__utma          

  • Used to distinguish you and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

  • It expires in 2 years from set/update.

__utmt           

  • Used to throttle request rate.

  • It expires in 10 minutes.

__utmb          

  • Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

  • It expires in 30 mins from set/update

__utmc          

  • Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether you were in a new session/visit.

  • It expires in the end of browser session.

__utmz          

  • Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how you reached our website. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

  • It expires in 6 months from set/update.

__utmv          

  • Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

  • It expires in 2 years from set/update.

You can find more details about Google Analytics cookies here.

Functionality cookies

Live chat cookie

This is the cookie used for the Live Chat tool. This allows you to chat with us on the website.

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  • This cookie is used to recognize you if you chat with us via the Live Chat tool. If you leave our website before you're added as a contact, you will have this cookie associated with your browser.

  • If we chat with you and you later return to our website in the same cookied browser, the Live Chat tool will load your conversation history. The cookie is controlled by the Consent to collect chat cookies setting in our chatflow.

  • If this setting is disabled, the cookie is controlled by the Consent to process setting in your chatflow.

  • This cookie will be specific to a subdomain and will not carry over to other subdomains. For example, the cookie dropped for info.example.com will not apply to the visitor when they visit www.example.com, and vice versa.

  • It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current chat user.

  • It expires in 13 months.

If you accept the cookie when you start a chat, but then click Decline on the cookie banner, the cookie will be removed. 

If you click Decline on the cookie banner before starting a chat, we will not drop a cookie or prompt you to consent to cookies in the chat widget.

Advertisement cookies

Advertisement cookies are ad pixel cookies (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google).

We have not activated advertisement cookies on our website.

Third-party cookies

We cannot control cookies placed by third-party scripts on our website. When you accept cookies via our consent banner, you consent to first-party and HubSpot's cookies only.

Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.

But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.

Third-party providers on our website

YouTube
Google Maps
Twitter
Facebook
Google
LinkedIn

These third-party services are outside of our control. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

How do you change your cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookie Policy link in the website footer. You then click on the Cookie Settings button and then use the toggle to activate or deactivate specific types of cookies, then clicking ‘Save selected. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, you can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing data, cookies and other site data of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

You can opt out from Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. However, please note that you may not then be able to make full use of all the website’ functions.

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, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Effect of cookie policy and changes to this cookie policy

This cookie policy does not form a contract between an individual and us. The cookie policy may also be subject to change from time to time. Whenever we change our cookie policy, we will publish the updated policy on our website. Please check this cookie policy regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the new cookie policy, but where we have already collected information about you and/or where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our cookie policy and may request that you agree to these changes. However, please be assured that if this cookie policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this cookie policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this cookie policy, without your prior consent.

Who are we?

This website is owned and maintained by MatriChem LTD, a limited liability company duly organized under the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria, registered in the Commercial Register and register of NPLE under UIC 206383810, having its business seat and registered address at zh.k. Svoboda, bldg. 28, ent. B, fl. 4, apt. 46, Sofia, 1231, Bulgaria.

Contact us

If you have any concerns or questions about how we use cookies on our website, you can contact us at office@matrichem.com.

Adopted: 01 November 2021