Effective Date: October 31, 2025
This Cookies Policy explains how Human Resources Professionals Association (“HRPA”) uses cookies and similar technologies. Whenever you use HRPA’s websites, apps, products or other technologies (“Services”), or visit a website, app or service which uses our Services, information may be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. HRPA is committed to protecting the personal information collected when you use our Services.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
A cookie is a small data file, often including a unique identifier, which is sent to your computer, mobile phone or tablet device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the webserver so the website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website. The cookie will collect information relating to your use of our Services, information about your device, e.g. the device’s IP address and browser type, broad location and, if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you have registered for any Services or you are a subscriber, it may also collect your name and email address, which may be transferred to data processors for registered user or subscriber verification purposes.
Similar technologies known as “local storage” may also be used in our Services as an alternative to cookies. This is technology which is similar to cookies and performs very similar functions, such as caching data to enable us to improve our Services, allowing you to register for our Services, tracking activity to enable us and our advertisers to advertise to you in accordance with this policy and counting the number of people who view adverts on our Services. Where we refer to “cookies” in this policy, we mean cookies or similar technologies.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and help us to tailor our Services to your interests. Information provided by cookies can help us to analyse your use of our Services and help us to provide you with a better user experience.
In addition to cookies, our Services may also use web beacons, and GIFs.. These are all types of technology implemented by websites or third party ad servers to allow them to analyse your website use and help improve your experience of the Services.
What are the different types of cookies?
- Session cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to a website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser;
- Persistent cookies are saved on your device for a fixed period of time after the browser has closed and are used where we (or a third party) need to identify you for a later browsing session. The fixed period of time is typically 30-90 days for targeting or behavioural advertising cookies and may be up to 26 months for analytical performance and measurement cookies;
- First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting; and
- Third party cookies are cookies used within our Services which are set by other organisations. These include cookies from external analytics services which help us to understand the use of our sites, or by advertisers so that they can track the effectiveness of their advertisements.
What are cookies used for?
- Functional Cookies
Functional cookies are essential to the running of our Services. They are used to remember your preferences on our websites and to provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is usually anonymised, so we cannot identify you personally. Functional cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information which could be used for selling advertising, but they do help with serving advertising. These cookies are usually session cookies which will expire when you close your browsing session.
- Essential or ‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies
These cookies are essential for the running of our Services. Without these cookies, parts of our websites would not function. These cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not remember preferences beyond your current visit and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes. These cookies are usually session cookies which will expire when you close your browsing session.
- Analytical Performance and Measurement Cookies
Analytical performance cookies are used to monitor the performance of our Services, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users a website has. Web analytics services may be designed and operated by third parties. The information provided by these cookies allows us to analyse patterns of user behaviour and we use that information to enhance user experience or identify areas of the website which may require maintenance. The information is anonymous (i.e. it cannot be used to identify you and does not contain personal information such as your name and email address) and it is only used for statistical purposes
How does HRPA use cookies?
HRPA uses cookies in combination with other information we maintain for a number of purposes, including the following:
- Essential and Functional Cookies
We use these cookies to enable certain online functionality including:
- access your information so we can provide you with customised content and experiences, or remember the last page you visited on the Services;
- identify returning users, registrants and subscribers and allow them to be presented with a personalised version of the site;
- eliminating the need for returning users to re-enter their login details;
- maintain your settings and authenticate your identity while you are logged in to the Services; and
- to support security measures and to assist in identifying possible fraudulent or abusive activities.
The following is a list of the essential and functional cookies used by HRPA:
| Name | Description | Type | Domain | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __hs_initial_opt_in | HubSpot cookie that prevents a cookie consent banner from showing repeatedly to a visitor who has already interacted with it, particularly in strict mode | Functional | .hrpa.ca | 7 days |
| __hs_opt_out | functional cookie set by HubSpot to remember a website visitor's cookie consent preferences, specifically whether they have opted out of tracking cookies | Functional | .hrpa.ca | 180 days |
| __hssc | keeps track of sessions. | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | session |
| __hssrc | keeps track of sessions. | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | session |
| __hstc | performance/tracking cookie used by HubSpot to monitor visitor sessions | Performance | .hrpa.ca | 180 days |
| _fbp | first-party cookie, meaning Facebook placed it while a consumer is on Facebook | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 90 days |
| _ga | the main cookie used by Google Analytics, | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 2 years |
| _ga_24XE0NJ3D7 | the main cookie used by Google Analytics, | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 2 years |
| _ga_54V55GEYHB | the main cookie used by Google Analytics, | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 2 years |
| _ga_WXHR47HENP | the main cookie used by Google Analytics, | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 2 years |
| _ga_Z44GZW5G5T | the main cookie used by Google Analytics, | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 2 years |
| _gcl_au | Cookie is placed by: Google Adsense. The functionality is: to store and track conversions | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 90 days |
| _gid | Session | Functional | .hrpa.ca | I day |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot Analytics | Analytics | .hrpa.ca | 180 days |
If you object to the use of essential and functional cookies, please review the “How can users manage or opt out of cookies?” section of this Policy.
- Other Third Party Cookies
You may notice on some pages of our websites that cookies have been set that are not related to Hypercharge. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third party service providers may set their own cookies on your device. HRPA does not control the use of these third party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.
The following is a list of the other third party cookies used by HRPA:
| Name | Description | Type | Domain | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | cookie is a functional, essential cookie set by Cloudflare to help identify and mitigate automated traffic (bots) from legitimate users on websites that use Cloudflare's security products. It doesn't contain personal data and is crucial for the security and proper functioning of these sites | Functional | .hubspot.com | session |
| _cfuvid | a necessary, security-related cookie set by Cloudflare to uniquely identify individual users behind the same IP address. Its primary purpose is to help websites enforce rate limiting, prevent certain types of abuse, and allow the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) to distinguish between a human user and a bot. | Functional | .hubspot.com | session |
| __cf_bm | cookie is a functional, essential cookie set by Cloudflare to help identify and mitigate automated traffic (bots) from legitimate users on websites that use Cloudflare's security products. It doesn't contain personal data and is crucial for the security and proper functioning of these sites | Functional | .linkedin.com | session |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Analytics | Analytics | .linkedin.com | session |
| bcookie | tracking ad performance on third-party sites. | Analytics | .linkedin.com | session |
| guest_id | tracking ad performance on third-party sites. | Analytics | .twitter.com | session |
We also include web beacons in our emails to track the success of our marketing campaigns. This means that if you open an email from us, we can see which of the pages of our Website you have visited. Our web beacons do not store additional information on your device but, by communicating with our cookies on your device, they can tell us when you have opened our email.
If you object to the use of other third party cookies, please review the, “How can users manage or opt out of cookies?” section of this Policy.
How can users manage or opt out of cookies?
Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their device a little intrusive, in particular when the information is stored and used by a third party. For example, you may object to being served advertising which is targeted to your interests based on your browsing history. If you would prefer to opt out of cookies, it is possible to control cookies by following the steps below, however you should be aware that you might lose some features and functionality of the website, apps or Services if you do so.
Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive. You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies. Some internet browsers have a ‘Do Not Track or ‘DNT’ setting; this sends a signal to websites asking them not to track your browsing. The following links may be helpful:
Cookie setting in Internet Explorer
In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all cookies. Deleting or blocking cookies may reduce functionality of the site. To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.
For more information about third party cookies generated by advertisers please visit www.youronlinechoices.com .
Please be aware that these are third party websites and HRPA does not accept any liability for the instructions given on these sites.
Opting out of Analytical Performance Cookies:
If you would like to opt out of Analytics cookies, please do so by clicking on the relevant links in this Third Party Cookies table:
Web Beacons
You can normally render web beacons and other tracking technologies ineffective by switching off cookies in your browser. There are also browser add-ons and extensions that specifically block web beacons. If you object to web beacons in emails, we recommend that you follow the instructions for deleting existing cookies and disabling future cookies above. We will still know how many of our emails are opened and we will automatically receive your IP address, a unique identifier of your device or other access device; but we will not identify you as an individual.
Further information and contact details:
Please contact HRPA if you would like more information on the cookies that we use and their purposes:
HRPA Privacy Officer at privacy@hrpa.ca
For more information about cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/