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Last updated: 27th October 2023
Who we are and what this is
Method Apps Limited.
Registered company address: 11 Laura Place, Bath, England, UK, BA2 4BL.
Registered in England & Wales 11235998.
Method Grid is a collaborative, web based application that helps teams and individuals to build and capture service methodologies, operating procedures and processes. When we refer to “our services” or “our platform” we are referring to the Method Grid platform/application.
We take the private nature of your personal information very seriously, and are committed to protecting it. To do that, we’ve set up procedures to ensure that your information is handled responsibly and in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We are grateful for your trust, and will always act responsibly in respect to that.
This version of the cookies policy is effective as of the latest date indicated at the top of the page and in the Change Log below.
Cookies Policy
We use Cookies which are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers. There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We use Cookies to help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Cookie Declaration
Necessary (1st Party Cookies)
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:
Name: ph_phc_xxxxxx
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: Used to track analytics of the app
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: PHPSESSID
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: Used to store your website session ID
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: __cfduid
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: mg-authentication
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: A security token to allow persistent access
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: mg-security
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: A security token to allow persistent access
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Your consent applies to the following domains: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Preferences (1st Party Cookies)
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in:
Name: cookieconsent_status
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: Used to store your cookie preferences for this website (if selected)
Expiry: 365 days – These cookies have variable persistence
Name: a2hs
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: To ascertain whether a user has dismissed a prompt to add the app to their home screen and to allow Method Grid to work like a native app.
Expiry: 2 weeks
Name: dismissedBanner
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: To ascertain whether a user has dismissed a banner outlinning the usage of public read-only grids.
Expiry: 30 days
Your consent applies to the following domains: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Statistics (1st/3rd Party Cookies)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Name: _ga, _gid, __utmx, __utmx and various others
Provider: analytics.google.com / google.com / methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com / .cloudflare.com
Purpose: These cookies are used to monitor visits to our website and how visitors interact with our website in order to make improvements that will benefit our visitors. Google Analytics (our analytics partner) stores this activity anonymously on its servers. You can find more details here: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: gtm_auth, gtm_debug, gtm_preview and various others
Provider: googletagmanager.com / google.com / methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver some scripts to the website by Google Tag Manager (our tag management partner), not to all users. You can find more details here: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Your consent applies to the following domains: analytics.google.com / google.com / googletagmanager.com / google.com / methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Marketing (1st/3rd Party Cookies)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Name: SIDCC, SAPISID, HSID and various others
Provider: google.com / doubleclick.net
Purpose:
If you have opted in to our cookies then we use Google advertising features (including Google Analytics remarketing features and the audience demographics and interest reporting) to help improve and market our platform via this website. We only use this if you have specifically opted in and only on this website, not in the application itself.
Remarketing features are used to advertise across the internet. Google Remarketing will display relevant ads tailored to you based on what parts of this website you have viewed by placing a cookie on your machine. The cookie is used to say “This person visited this page, so show them ads relating to that page.” Google Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.
You can find more details here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=uk
These cookies are only set if you have specifically opted in to our cookies on this website and they are not used within the Method Grid application itself.
If you do not wish to participate in any Google Remarketing, you can opt out by visiting Google’s Ads Preferences Manager – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
If you would like to opt-out of all Google Analytics tracking you can do so by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
You can also opt out of any third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: bcookie, UserMatchHistory, lissc, lidc, lang and various others
Provider: ads.linkedin.com / linkedin.com / methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: These cookies are used to track website visitors with LinkedIn accounts, the pages they visit and the actions they take. This information is collected by LinkedIn.com. You can find more details and how to opt-out here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy/. You can refuse these cookies by selecting stop cookies when you first visit this website.
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: _lfa and various others
Provider: methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com
Purpose: We use Leadfeeder to identify visitors to our website via their IP address. You can find more details here: https://www.leadfeeder.com/privacy/. You can refuse these cookies by selecting stop cookies when you first visit this website.
Expiry: These cookies have 365 days persistence
Your consent applies to the following domains: methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / admob.com / adsensecustomsearchads.com / adwords.com / doubleclick.net / google.com / googleadservices.com / googleapis.com / googlesyndication.com / googletagmanager.com / googletagservices.com / googletraveladservices.com / googleusercontent.com / google-analytics.com / gstatic.com / urchin.com / youtube.com / ytimg.com / ads.linkedin.com / linkedin.com
3rd Party Cookies
These cookies are set by 3rd party plugins and scripts used on our website:
Name: __cfduid, _biz_uid, _biz_sid, _biz_nA, _biz_flagsA, _biz_pendingA, _ga, _gid and various others
Provider: .cloudflare.com
Purpose: Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. Record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use.
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: GPS, PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSCIDE and various others
Provider: youtube.com / google.com / doubleclick.net
Purpose: These cookies are used by youtube.com (our video hosting partner) to remember you and your preferences. You can find more details here: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Name: __hstc, hubspotutk, __hssrc, hubspotapi, hubspotapi-csrf and various others
Provider: hubspot.com
Purpose: We use Hubspot for our contact forms, scheduling webinars and demos, live chat and sales/service correspondence. You can find more details here: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy/
Expiry: These cookies have variable persistence
Your consent applies to the following domains: methodgrid.com / *.methodgrid.com / app.methodgrid.com / .cloudflare.com / youtube.com / doubleclick.net / google.com / *.google.com / hubspot.com
Refusing Cookies
You can refuse unnecessary cookies by selecting stop cookies when you first visit this website.
You may also refuse to accept our cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, you need to be aware that disabling the use of cookies may affect the functionality of the site, and your browsing experience may be affected.
You can also opt-out of marketing cookies using the cookie opt-out option which appears on your first visit to this website.
Web Beacons
We may use Web Beacons – sometimes called single pixel gifs – which allow our sites to collect web log information. A web beacon is a graphic on a web page or in an email message designed to track pages viewed or messages opened. Web log information is gathered when you visit our site by the computer which hosts our website (webserver). The webserver automatically recognises some non-personal information, such as the date/time you visited our site, the pages you visited, the website you came from, the type of browser you are using, and the domain name and address of your Internet Service Provider. We may also include web beacons in promotional emails in order to determine whether messages have been opened. Web beacons may also be used to deliver cookies.
IP Addresses
Our site use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) so you can access the internet. Typically the IP address assigned to you will change each time you connect to the internet providing you with a dynamic address. If you are accessing our site via broadband connection it is possible that the IP address we collect or even a cookie we might use, may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. This is because with some broadband connections the IP address does not change so is termed static which could be associated with your personal computer. We use your IP address to report aggregate information on use and to help improve our site.
Change log
31st October 2017 – Updated to reflect legal/ownership status at time of public beta (v3) launch.
10th May 2018 – Updated to reflect legal/ownership of Method Apps Limited.
10th May 2018 – Updated to reflect live chat cookie usage.
3rd July 2018 – Updated to reflect Google Optimize statistics cookie usage.
7th December 2018 – Updated to reflect session storage cookies.
30th April 2019 – Updated to reflect cloudflare cookie usage.
12th June 2019 – Updated to reflect Google advertising cookies and Google re-marketing cookies.
30th September 2019 – Updated to reflect pipedrive.com chat bot cookie usage.
28th October 2019 – Updated to reflect Google reCaptcha.
15th February 2020 – Updated to reflect LinkedIn Insights Tag.
26th March 2020 – Updated to reflect new registered company address.
2nd June 2020 – Updated to reflect ClickCease and SourceForge cookie usage.
10th June 2020 – Updated to reflect Calendly cookie usage.
13th July 2020 – Updated to reflect removal of ClickCease cookies.
8th March 2021 – Updated to reflect community.methodgrid.com cookie usage.
22nd July 2021 – Updated to reflect hubspot cookie usage, and removed 3rd party cookies from Pipedrive, SourceForge, 1P_JAR and Calendly.
13th August 2021 – Removed references to Olark and GrooveHq and updated Hubspot.
21st November 2021 – Added cookies used to track activity on the app.
30th March 2022 – Added a2hs cookie which tracks whether a user has dismissed a prompt to add the app to their homescreen.
7th September 2023 – Removed community.methodgrid.com cookie usage and added dismissedBanner cookie usage
27th October 2023 – Added reference to Leadfeeder (Dealfront Group GmbH)