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Microsoft provides the list below of third parties that set cookies on our websites. These third parties include service providers acting on our behalf. On some of our websites, a list of third parties is available directly on the site. The third parties on these sites may not be included in the list on this page.

Microsoft and our third-party partners use cookies to remember your preferences and settings, help you sign in, show you personalized ads, and analyze how well our websites are working. For more information, including updates, about the third party’s privacy practices with respect to any of the cookies below, please consult the third party’s website or privacy notice.

We and third parties use social media cookies to show you ads and content based on your social media profiles and activity on our websites. They’re used to connect your activity on our websites to your social media profiles so the ads and content you see on our websites and on social media will better reflect your interests.

Cookie name

Provider of cookie & privacy link

Description

_pinterest_ct_ua

www.pinterest.com

Privacy link

These cookies allow users to share pictures via Pinterest / the "Pin It" button, and Pinterest can collect statistical information about usage of their service.

api_token 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It enables Twitch clips to be embedded in webpages. 

c_user

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviorally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

clid

dstillery.com

Privacy link

This cookie is usually set by Dstillery to enable sharing media content to social media. It may also gather information on website visitors when they use social media to share website content from the page visited.

datr

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

to provide fraud prevention.

experiment_overrides 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It enables Twitch streamers to override Twitch viewer’s viewing options. 

fr

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviorally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

KP_UIDz-ssn 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It saves the Twitch 2FA status for up to two days before requiring the user to login again. 

pid

twitter.com

Privacy link

This cookie lets website visitors use Twitter-related features from within the web page they are visiting.

presence

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviorally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

referrer_url 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It enables Twitch clips to be embedded in webpages. 

rud

rfihub.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Rocketfuel. The main business activity is: Advertising

sb

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviorally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

server_session_id 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link 

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It registers which Twitch server-cluster is serving the visitor. 

socialMediaCookie

social27.com

Privacy link

This cookie is used by Social27.com, a social and event platform company, to provide their third party services to first party websites.

tfw_exp

twitter.com

Privacy link

The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

unique_id 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link 

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It preserves the Twitch user state across web pages. 

unique_id_durable 

twitch.tv 

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitch.tv, a social media streaming platform company. It preserves the Twitch user state across web pages. 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

www.youtube.com

Privacy link

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

xs

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviorally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies.

We allow third parties to use analytics cookies to understand how you use our websites so we can make them better and the third parties can develop and improve their products, which they may use on websites that are not owned or operated by Microsoft. For example, they're used to gather information about the pages you visit and how many clicks you need to accomplish a task. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

Cookie name

Provider of cookie & privacy link

Description

_cs_s___2422

clicktale.net

Privacy link

This cookie is from Contentsquare (formerly Clicktale) and generally tracks user behavior and provides analytics.

_cs_id___2422

clicktale.net

Privacy link

This cookie is from Contentsquare (formerly Clicktale) and generally tracks user behavior and provides analytics.

_cs_cvars___2422

clicktale.net

Privacy link

This cookie is from Contentsquare (formerly Clicktale) and generally tracks user behavior and provides analytics.

_ga, _ga_.* 

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners.

_gat

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

_gid

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

anon_id

Exponential Interactive

Privacy link

This cookie is provided by tribalfusion.com, owned by Exponential Interactive dba VDX.tv, and generally collects data on user visits.

cookie_icims_iframe_content_height

www.icims.com

Privacy link

Enables Javascripts

icimsCookiesEnabledCheck

www.icims.com

Privacy link

This is a session cookie. It tests for whether cookies are enabled in the user’s browser so that we can display a warning/error message indicating impacted functionality (logging in and applying to jobs). The only data it stores is the iCIMStest string.

jsEnabled

www.icims.com

Privacy link

Enables Javascripts

muc_ads

t.co

Privacy link

This cookie is from Twitter and comes with their pixel tracking code to provide website analytics. Note that t.co is a Twitter domain.

optimizelyBuckets

www.optimizely.com

Privacy link

Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimization platform. Used to store the page variants assigned to a user for A/B performance testing, to ensure the user gets a consistent experience.

optimizelyEndUserId

www.optimizely.com

Privacy link

Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimization platform. This cookie is a unique user identifier.

optimizelyPendingLogEvents

www.optimizely.com

Privacy link

Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimization platform. Records user activity.

optimizelySegments

www.optimizely.com

Privacy link

This cookie is set by the Optimizely website optimization platform. It holds audience segmentation information for a visitor.

s_cc

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, determines whether cookies are enabled in the browser.

WT_FPC

www.webtrends.com

Privacy link

Cookie set by WebTrends analytics service, used to track and report on visitor behavior on a site for performance improvement.

YSC

www.youtube.com

Privacy link

This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. YouTube is a Google company.

We and third parties use advertising cookies to show you new ads by recording which ads you've already seen. They're also used to track which ads you click on or purchases you make after clicking on an ad for payment purposes, and to show you ads that are more relevant to you. For example, they're used to detect when you click on an ad and show you ads based on your social media interests and website browsing history.

Cookie name

Provider of cookie & privacy link

Description

__CT_Data

www.clicktale.com

Privacy link

The __CT_Data cookie is used to count the number of pageviews or visits of the anonymous visitor for the purpose of enabling the Contentsquare (formerly ClickTale) software to track the number of pageviews or visits a visitor made on website. The main purpose of this cookie is: Targeting/Advertising. Contentsquare (formerly ClickTale)

__uis

sonobi.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Sonobi, an automated audience buying and selling platform for online advertising.

_cc_aud

www.lotame.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising

_cc_cc

www.lotame.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising

_cc_dc

www.lotame.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising

_cc_id

www.lotame.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising

_gat_.*

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

_li_ss

www.liveintent.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by liadm.com. The company provides a range of marketing and advertising services.

_msuuid.*

www.marinsoftware.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Marin Software which provides advertising campaign management technology.

33x_ps

www.33across.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by 33 Across. The main business activity is: Targeted and behavioural advertising services.

A3

www.yahoo.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising

ab

agkn.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by Neustar (a TransUnion company) and is used for advertising purposes.

acs

dstillery.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Media6degrees. The main business activity is: Advertising

ad-id

www.amazon.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by amazon-adsystem.com for advertising purposes.

ad-privacy

www.amazon.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by amazon-adsystem.com for advertising purposes.

APIDTS

www.aol.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Yahoo Advertising. The main business activity is: Advertising

apnxs

www.outbrain.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Outbrain, which describes itself as a content discovery platform. It provides technology to help distribute content targeted to individuals interests.

appnexus

corp.fluct.jp

Privacy link

This cookie appears to be owned by Fluct Ltd, a Japanese advertising technology company.

ar_debug 

doubleclick.net 
googleadservices.com 
pinterest.com 

Privacy link

This cookie is provided by Google and used by third-parties for conversion attribution reporting. 

ATN

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Atlas Solutions which is in turn owned by Facebook. Atlas is an online advertising business, targeting users through tracking their web activity. From September 2014 the company re-launched under the ownership of Facebook, promising the ability to reach known users and target adverts based on profiles generated using Facebook's user data.

audience

www.spotx.tv

Privacy link

Collects anonymous data related to the visitor's web site visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the web site and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads.

audit

rubiconproject.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Magnite Inc, formerly Rubicon Project. The main business activity is: Advertising

b

www.yahoo.com

Privacy link

Collects anonymous data related to the visitor's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used to categorize the users' interest and demographical profiles with the purpose of customizing the website content depending on the visitor.

bdswch

www.outbrain.com

Privacy link

Use 3rd party to show targeted ads

bito

bidr.co

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by bidr.io and is used for advertising purposes.

bitoIsSecure

www.beeswax.com

Privacy link

The Beeswax technology allows our customers to buy ad space on websites, mobile apps, video players, and other devices and allows for the use of proprietary and third party data in the purchase of that ad space.

bkpa

www.bluekai.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Blue Kai, an Oracle company. The main business activity is: Advertising/Audience Targeting

bku

www.bluekai.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by bluekai.com, an Oracle company, and is used for advertising purposes.

C

rubiconproject.com

Privacy link

Regulates synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services/General marketing/advertising.

cb

www.clickagy.com

Privacy link

Clickagy is a USA based audience analytics and targeted advertising company.

CfP

advertising.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Advertising.com (Yahoo). The main business activity is: Advertising

CMID

casalemedia.com

Privacy link

These cookies are provided by Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.

CMPRO

casalemedia.com

Privacy link

These cookies are provided by Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.

CMPS

casalemedia.com

Privacy link

These cookies are provided by Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.

CMRUM3

casalemedia.com

Privacy link

These cookies are provided by Index Exchange (formerly Casale Media) linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.

CMST

casalemedia.com

Privacy link

Collects anonymous data related to the visitor's web site visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the web site and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads.

COu

connexity.com

Privacy link

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning visitor's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

cref

www.quantcast.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Quantcast. The main business activity is: Market and Audience Segmentation, Targeted advertising services

cu

www.adelphic.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Adelphic, a USA based company engaged in mobile and cross-device programmatic online advertising.

d

www.quantcast.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Quantcast. The main business activity is: Market and Audience Segmentation, Targeted advertising services

demdex

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc.

dextp

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc.

DNT

twitter.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

dpm

www.adobe.com/

Privacy link

Adobe Audience Manager - data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronization of IDs.

dspuuid

privacy-portal.smartclip.net

Privacy link

Smartclip is a German company specialising in cross-device targeted video advertising.

DST

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Demdex. The company provides audience management solutions.

DW_Time

www.kantar.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Insight Express. The main business activity is: Market Research, Data Analytics, Advertising Effectiveness Measurement.

EE

www.nielsen.com/us/en

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by exelator.com and is used for advertising purposes.

eud

www.sizmek.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Rocketfuel. The main business activity is: Advertising

euds

www.sizmek.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Rocketfuel. The main business activity is: Advertising

ev_sync_dd

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Adobe. The main business activity is: Advertising. Used to link anonymous analytics data into a visitor profile and help provide a personalized experience through the website, marketing and advertising.

everest_g_v2

everestthemes.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

flashtalkingad1

flashtalking.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Flashtalking, a Mediaocean company. It provides information of how a person uses a website and any ads they may have seen.

GLOBALID

bidtellect.com

Privacy link

This cookie appears to be owned by Bidtellect, A USA based adtechnology company specialising in native advertising.

GPS

www.youtube.com

Privacy link

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

GUC

www.yahoo.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising

HMACCOUNT

www.baidu.com

Privacy link

User ID cookie for Baidu analytics.

i

www.openx.com

Privacy link

Registers anonymized user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimizing ad display based on the visitor's movement on websites that use the same ad network

id

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites.

IDE

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites.

khaos

rubiconproject.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

KRTBCOOKIE_.*

pubmatic.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Pubmatic. It operates an advertising exchange platform where online publishers can sell targeted advertising space to media buyers using real time bidding.

KRTBCOOKIE_218

pubmatic.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Pubmatic. It operates an advertising exchange platform where online publishers can sell targeted advertising space to media buyers using real time bidding.

lidid

www.liveintent.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by liadm.com. The company provides a range of marketing and advertising services.

LithiumVisitor

khoros.com

Privacy link

This cookie collects and stores data on a per browser basis (with a unique ID per browser), but the data is used only in the aggregate to compile statistics about different types of site / page visits. These statistics are then used to provide a unique visitor report to Lithium customers to track their usage of their community, and for Lithium to track usage for purposes of enforcing usage limits/ charging fees for excess usage.

lsid

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

mako_uid

www.eyeota.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Eyeota, a global company specializing in audience data to enable targeting of advertising based on visitor profiling.

matchan

www.roku.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Dataxu. The main business activity is: Advertising

mc

www.quantcast.com

Privacy link

This cookie is usually provided by Quantserve to track anonymous information about how website visitors use the site.

mscom

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Demdex. The company provides audience management solutions.

NID

www.google.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organizations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.

obuid

www.iponweb.com

Privacy link

This cookie is used to hold an anonymous user's ID. IT is used for tracking user actions.

opt_out

www.nativo.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Nativo. The company provides a range of marketing and advertising services.

p2

www.owneriq.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by OwnerIQ Inc. a USA based company providing targeted online advertising services. They combine data from multiple sources to enable better targeting of users.

pb_rtb_ev

pulsepoint.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by contextweb.com and is used for advertising purposes.

personalization_id

twitter.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

PREF

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

psyn

privacy-portal.smartclip.net

Privacy link

Smartclip is a German company specialising in cross-device targeted video advertising.

PUBMDCID

pubmatic.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes.

PugT

pubmatic.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by pubmatic.com and is used for advertising purposes.

pxrc

www.cloudflare.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes.

r1

www.serving-sys.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Sizmek (formerly DG MediaMind). They provide multi-platform targeted advertising services.

rlas3

www.cloudflare.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes.

rtn1-z

liveramp.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes.

ruds

rfihub.com

Privacy link

This cookie is provided by RocketFuel and is used for advertising purposes.

s_fid

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with the analytics service provided by Adobe's Site Catalyst product suite. It is a new cookie introduced in 2013 as a 'fallback' visitor identifier where the s_vi cookie normally used for this purpose is blocked. It contains a randomly generated, unique id.

s_vi

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, used to identify unique visitors, with an ID and timestamp.

s_vi_.*

www.adobe.com

Privacy link

Adobe Site Catalyst cookie, used to identify unique visitors, with an ID and timestamp.

sa-user-id
sa-user-id-v2 
sa-user-id-v3

*.stackadapt.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by StackAdapt and is used for advertising purposes.

sambapxid

samba.tv

Privacy link

Ad personalization. Used to track the visitor across multiple devices including TV. This is done in order to re-target the visitor through multiple channels.

SEUNCY

www.semasio.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Semasio, a German business specialising in profiling and behavioral targeting of consumers.

si

www.owneriq.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by OwnerIQ Inc. a USA based company providing targeted online advertising services. They combine data from multiple sources to enable better targeting of users.

ssi

www.centro.net

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Sitescout. The main business activity is: Real time advertising platform

SSID

www.google.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

status

www.nativo.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Nativo. The company provides a range of marketing and advertising services.

t_gid

www.taboola.com

Privacy link

This cookie is provided by taboola.com and is used for advertising purposes.

taboola_session_id

www.taboola.com

Privacy link

This cookie is provided by taboola.com and is used for advertising purposes.

TapAd_DID

www.tapad.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

TapAd_TS

www.tapad.com

Privacy link

Used to determine what type of device (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, etc.) is used by the visitor.

TapAd_TTD_SYNC

www.tapad.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

TAPID

tealium.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Tealium and is used for its audience streaming service which enables targeting and personalisation of content on a domain.

tcs.google_cver

tealium.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Tealium and is used for its audience streaming service which enables targeting and personalisation of content on a domain.

tcs.google_gid

tealium.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Tealium and is used for its audience streaming service which enables targeting and personalisation of content on a domain.

TDCPM

www.thetradedesk.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by TheTradeDesk. The main business activity is: Ad Serving Platform. This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

TDID

www.thetradedesk.com

Privacy link

This domain is owned by TheTradeDesk. The main business activity is: Ad Serving Platform. This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

test_cookie

doubleclick.net

Privacy link

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.

TestIfCookieP

smartadserver.com

Privacy link

This cookie is used to make advertising messages more relevant to website visitors.

TID

www.kantar.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Insight Express. The main business activity is: Market Research, Data Analytics, Advertising Effectiveness Measurement

tluid

triplelift.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by TripleLift, a USA based business providing programmatic native advertising services.

tt_viewer

www.teads.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Teads, a video advertising marketplace company, specialising in native advertising on video.

tuuid

www.bidswitch.com

Privacy link

This cookie is mainly set by bidswitch.net to make advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor.

tuuid_lu

www.bidswitch.com

Privacy link

This cookie is usually provided by bidswitch.net and is used for advertising purposes.

ui

www.undertone.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Upfront Digital Media. The main business activity is: Online advertising platform

uid-bp-.*

freewheel.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by StickyAdsTV, a French company providing online video advertising services.

UIDR

sharethis.com

Privacy link

This cookie is set to measure the number and behavior of website visitors coming and going. It helps the website send out surveys to better understand user preferences.

umeh

www.improvedigital.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by Improve Digital, a company based in the Netherlands with offices in various EU locations. Improve Digital is itself majority owned by Swiss-based PubliGroupe. The company provides a technology platform to enable website owners to manage online third party advertising through their websites.

v

www.marketo.com

Privacy link

Marketo tracking code. Tracks all individuals who visit and run automated marketing campaigns.

visitor-id

www.media.net

Privacy link

Media.net is a global online advertising technology network.

vuid

vimeo.com

Privacy link

These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites.

wd

www.facebook.com

Privacy link

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

wfivefivec

www.w55c.net

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by w55c.net and is used for advertising purposes by Roku.

zc

zeotap.com

Privacy link

Personalization

We may use cookies to establish a relationship between devices or data pertaining to the same user. If we already have information about a device’s user, we may link the information stored in cookies to the device’s Ad ID. We call this activity of linking information “mapping.”

zuid

www.zemanta.com

Privacy link

Zemanta is a content suggestion engine for bloggers and other content creators. Zemanta analyzes user-generated content (e.g. a blog post) using natural language processing and semantic search technology to suggest pictures, tags and links to related articles.

We use required cookies to perform essential website functions. For example, they're used to log you in, save your language preferences, provide a shopping cart experience, improve performance, route traffic between web servers, detect the size of your screen, determine page load times, and for aggregated audience measurement. These cookies are necessary for our websites or features of our websites that you interact with to work.

Cookie name

Provider of cookie & privacy link

Description

__cf_bm

www.cloudflare.com

Privacy link

The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots.

__cfduid

www.cloudflare.com

Privacy link

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

__cfruid

www.cloudflare.com

Privacy link

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.

_stripe_mid

vfairs.com 

Privacy link 

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. 

__stripe_sid

vfairs.com 

Privacy link 

Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic. 

AWSALBCORS

www.amazon.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server.

BIGipServer.*

www.f5.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with the BIG-IP product suite from company F5. Usually associated with managing sessions on load balanced servers, to ensure user requests are routed consistently to the correct server. The common root is BIGipServer most commonly followed by a domain name, usually the one that it is hosted on, but not always.

ci_session

codeigniter.com

Privacy link

Cookie normally associated with the CodeIgniter framework for building PHP based applications. Usually used to maintain a user state during a browser session for consistency of user experience. By default the cookie is destroyed when the browser session ends, in which case it can be Strictly Necessary. However, it can optionally be stored in a database and be used for tracking users or other purposes.

DW

www.salesforce.com/products/commerce-cloud/overview/

Privacy link

Cookie associated with Demandware eCommerce platform when it is a session cookie. Purpose appears to be undocumented but it could be to do with checking whether or not a browser is accepting first party cookies.

HumanClickSiteContainerID_.*

liveperson.com

Privacy link

This cookie name is associated with software provided by LivePerson to enable website owners to engage visitors in live chat. It is reported to be used to identify the account of the site owner. This is a pattern type cookie with a common root of HumanClickSiteContainerID_ followed by a string of numbers.

i18next

www.icims.com

Privacy link

This is a session cookie. It stores the user’s browser language.

LPSessionID

www.liveperson.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by LivePerson. The main business activity is: Online Chat/Customer Data

LPVisitorID

www.liveperson.com

Privacy link

This cookie is owned by LivePerson. The main business activity is: Online Chat/Customer Data

m

stripe.com 

Privacy link 

This cookie is owned by Stripe.com and is used for fraud detection to assess the risk associated with an attempted financial transaction.

ndat

www.ninthdecimal.com

Privacy link

Personalization

PLAY_SESSION

www.vitalsource.com

Privacy link

VitalSource service called Intrepid uses this cookie to detect abuse of site or service.

PHPSESSID

www.php.net

Privacy link

PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain.

SERVERID

www.haproxy.com

Privacy link

Usually used for load balancing. Identifies the server that delivered the last page to the browser. Associated with the HAProxy Load Balancer software.

SID

www.crazyegg.com

Privacy link

This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management.

ts

www.paypal.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by PayPal and supports payment services in the website.

VESESSIONID 

on24.com 

Privacy link 

General purpose platform session cookie. Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. 

X-Mapping-.*

www.riverbed.com

Privacy link

The X-Mapping cookie is associated with the Stingray Traffic Manager platform from Riverbed, which is a load balancing application for high traffic web services and sites. Used to route data and page requests to the correct server where a site is hosted on multiple servers. It has a common root of X-Mapping- followed by an eight letter code. For more information see: https://splash.riverbed.com/docs/DOC-1515.

X-Mapping-fjhppofk

www.riverbed.com

Privacy link

The X-Mapping cookie is associated with the Stingray Traffic Manager platform from Riverbed, which is a load balancing application for high traffic web services and sites. Used to route data and page requests to the correct server where a site is hosted on multiple servers. It has a common root of X-Mapping- followed by an eight letter code. For more information see: https://splash.riverbed.com/docs/DOC-1515.

X-PP-SILOVER

www.paypal.com

Privacy link

This cookie is generally provided by PayPal and supports payment services in the website.

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