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Why required?
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Why required?
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This cookie is used to store your preferences regarding language.

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Why required?
We use your browser language to determine which language to show on our website. When you change the default language, this cookie makes sure your language preference is persistent.

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With your consent, this website will load Google Analytics to track behavior across the site.

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With your consent, this website will load the Google Advertising tag which enables HSO to report user activity from HSO.com to Google. This enables HSO to track conversions and create remarketing lists based on user activity on HSO.com.

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With your consent, we use IPGeoLocation to retrieve a country code based on your IP address. We use this service to be able to trigger the right web technologies for the right people.

Purpose
With your consent, we use Leadfeeder to identify companies by their IP-addresses. Leadfeeder automatically filters out all users visiting from residential IP addresses and ISPs. All visit data is aggregated on the company level.

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With your consent, this website will load the LinkedIn Insights tag which enables us to see analytical data on website performance, allows us to build audiences, and use retargeting as an advertising technique. Learn more about LinkedIn cookies here.

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• lidc
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With your consent, this website will load the Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking tag which enables HSO to report user activity from HSO.com to Microsoft Advertising. HSO can then create conversion goals to specify which subset of user actions on the website qualify to be counted as conversions. Similarly, HSO can create remarketing lists based on user activity on HSO.com and Microsoft Advertising matches the list definitions with UET logged user activity to put users into those lists.

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Purpose
With your consent, this website will load the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing tag which enables HSO to score leads based on your level of interaction with the website. The cookie contains no personal information, but does uniquely identify a specific browser on a specific machine. Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing cookies here.

Cookies

• msd365mkttr
  Identifies a website visitor/ end user (by browser). When a Microsoft Dynamics 365 form is submitted by a web visitor, a new contact/lead is created and we leverage the cookie available in the browser to associate previous visits with the newly generated contact/lead. This cookie expires after 2 years.
  
  
• msd365mkttrs
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Technologies Used
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Purpose
With your consent, we use Spotler to measures more extensive recurring website visits based on IP address and draw up a profile of a visitor.

Cookies

• wow.anonymousId
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With your consent, this website will show videos embedded from Youtube.

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Purpose
With your consent, this website will load the Meta-pixel tag which enables us to see analytical data on website performance, allows us to build audiences, and use retargeting as an advertising technique through platforms owned by Meta, like Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about Facebook cookies here. You can adjust how ads work for you on Facebook here.

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Purpose
With your consent, we use LeadInfo to identify companies by their IP-addresses. LeadInfo automatically filters out all users visiting from residential IP addresses and ISPs. These cookies are not shared with third parties under any circumstances.

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With your consent, we use TechTarget to identify companies by their IP address(es).

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