Why do we use cookies?
Cookies are small text files, which often include a unique identifier that is sent by a web server to your computer, mobile phone or any other internet enabled device (“device”) when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently and help provide us with business and marketing information to enable us to make informed decisions on the development of our websites.
The cookies that are set to enable us to improve and personalise our advertising on other websites. They enable us to know when our advertising is working and allow us to offer you additional products and services via ads on other third-party websites. Introducer and/or Partner tracking cookies allow us to see if our customers have come to our site through one of our partner sites so that we can then credit them and apply any discounts upon purchase where applicable.
We use the following types of cookies:
Essential: 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.
Performance: Performance cookies help owners understand how the website is used by visitors. This information can then be used to improve the way the website works.
Preference: 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.
Statistics: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing: 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 | Description | Purpose | Type | |
| _cf_bm | 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. | Essential | 1 day | |
| _RequestVerificationToken | Used to prevent CSRF attacks | Essential | Session | |
| JSESSIONID | Used by metrics.responsetap.com to preserve user states across page requests | Essential | Session | |
| rc::a | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Persistent | |
| rc::b | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Session | |
| rc::c | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Session | |
| FontsLoaded | Used to inform the site that fonts have successfully loaded | Essential | Session | |
| _grecaptcha | 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. | Essential | Persistent | |
| _GRECAPTCHA
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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. | Essential | 179 days | |
| ARRAffinity | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Essential | Session | |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Essential | Session | |
| ASP.NET_SessionId
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Used to preserve the visitor’s session state across page requests | Essential | Session | |
| AWSALBTGCORS | Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | Essential | 6 days | |
| CookieConsent | Used to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | Essential | 1 year | |
| FontsLoaded | Used to keep track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data. | Essential | Session | |
| rc::a | 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. | Essential | Persistent | |
| rc::b | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Essential | Session | |
| rc::c | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Essential | Session | |
| test | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | Essential | Persistent | |
| _adiCookieCheck | Used to provide statistics of what pages the user has visited and how often an ad click leads to a sale or other actions | Statistics | Session | |
| _at.hist.#
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Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widget | Statistics | Persistent | |
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _ga | Used to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Statistics | 2 years | |
| _ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | Statistics | 2 years | |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _gid | Used to generate statistical data on how visitor uses the website | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
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Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjFirstSeen
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Used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjid | Used to obtain data on visitor behaviour. | Statistics | 1 year / Persistent | |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used to determine if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Used to register data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjSession_# | Used to collect statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| _hjSessionUser_# | Used to collect statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | Statistics | 1 year | |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | Used to optimise website relevance to visitor | Statistics | 1 year | |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics on user’s device and behaviour | Statistics | Session | |
| v.gif | Used by visualwebsiteoptimizer.com to optimise website relevance to visitor | Statistics | Session | |
| _hjTLDTest | Used to register statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Statistics | Session | |
| optimizelyBuckets | Used to store settings on Optimizely user experience experiments and variations that the visitor has been bucketed into. This ensures the visitor consistently sees the same variation, even over multiple sessions. | Statistics | 10 years | |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Used to measure how selected users react to targeted changes to the website’s content and functionality, in order to determine what variation is most efficacious in terms of converting users to customers. | Statistics | 10 years | |
| optimizelyPendingLogEvents | Used by Optimizely as a cache of a user’s actions between tracking calls. | Statistics | 1 day | |
| optimizelySegments | Used by Optimizely to store the user’s audience and dimension information (e.g., browser, campaign, mobile, source type, custom dimensions). | Statistics | 10 years | |
| vuid | Used to collect data on the user’s visits to the website e.g. which pages have been read | Statistics | 2 years | |
| #{8}-#{4}-#{4}-#{4}-#{12} | Unclassified | Marketing | 1 year | |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver adverts | Marketing | 3 months | |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to report user’s actions with ads | Marketing | 1 year | |
| MUID | Used by bing.com for Microsoft to track user across multiple domains | Marketing | 1 year | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to estimate the user’s bandwidth for videos | Marketing | 179 days | |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to log statistics on what YouTube videos the user has seen | Marketing | Session | |
| __atuvc | Used to update the counter of a website’s social sharing features. | Marketing | 13 months | |
| __atuvs | Used to ensure that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. | Marketing | 1 day | |
| _at.cww
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Used by the social sharing platform AddThis. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Marketing | 3 months | |
| _gaexp | Used by Google Analytics to determine if the visitor is involved in their marketing experiments | Marketing | 19 days | |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | Marketing | 3 months | |
| _uetsid | Used to collect data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. Also used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | Marketing | 1 day / Persistent | |
| _uetsid_exp | Used to contain the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| _uetvid | Used to track visitors on multiple websites in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences | Marketing | 1 year / Persistent | |
| _uetvid_exp | Used to contain the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name | Marketing | Persistent | |
| adiLP | Used in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs open | Marketing | 1 day | |
| adiS | Used in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs open | Marketing | 1 day | |
| adiV | Used in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs open | Marketing | 1 year | |
| adiVi | Used in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs open | Marketing | 1 day | |
| at-rand | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis | Marketing | Persistent | |
| f24_autoId | Registers user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. | Marketing | 10 years | |
| f24_personId | Registers user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. | Marketing | 10 years | |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | Marketing | 1 year | |
| loc | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). | Marketing | 1 year | |
| MUID | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | Marketing | 1 year | |
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Used for targeted advertising. | Marketing | Session | |
| pageViewCookie | Used to register a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits. Used for conversion tracking and to measure the efficacy of online ads. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| SSID | Used to register a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | Marketing | 1 year | |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Marketing | 1 day | |
| RUL | Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed, and to make their marketing efforts more efficient | Marketing | 1 year | |
| uvc | Used to detect how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. | Marketing | 1 year | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | Marketing | 179 days | |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| xtc | Used to register the user’s sharing of content via social media. | Marketing | 1 year | |
| yt.innertube::nextId
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Used for registering a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | Marketing | Persistent | |
| yt.innertube::requests
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Used for registering a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | Marketing | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Session | |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Session | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-device-id | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-app | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-name | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Marketing | Session |
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