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.
Social Media cookies
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. |
Analytics cookies
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 | tribalfusion.com 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. |
| sskyu | sundaysky.com Privacy link |
Owned by SundaySky, this cookie supports Analytics by identifying a personalized video viewer across sessions. |
| 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. |
Advertising cookies
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 | crwdcntrl.net Privacy link |
This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising |
| _cc_cc | crwdcntrl.net Privacy link |
This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising |
| _cc_dc | crwdcntrl.net Privacy link |
This domain is owned by Lotame. The main business activity is: Data Management Platform - Targeting /Advertising |
| _cc_id | crwdcntrl.net 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 |
| audit_p | 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. |
| 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 | demdex.net Privacy link |
This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
| dextp | demdex.net 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 | dpm.demdex.net 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 | everesttech.net Privacy link |
Owned by Adobe, this cookie supports advertising by synchronizing identifiers across platforms and partner ad exchanges. |
| everest_g_v2 | everesttech.net Privacy link |
Owned by Adobe, this cookie supports advertising by synchronizing identifiers across platforms and partner ad exchanges. |
| everest_session_v2 | everesttech.net Privacy link |
Owned by Adobe, this cookie supports advertising by synchronizing identifiers across platforms and partner ad exchanges. |
| 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 | doubleclick.net 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. |
| khaos_p | 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 | quantserve.com Privacy link |
Owned by Quantcast, this cookie is used for advertising including audience measurement and ad targeting. |
| 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 | postrelease.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 | rlcdn.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. |
| sp | quantserve.com Privacy link |
Owned by Quantcast, this cookie is used for advertising including ad targeting and measurement. |
| 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. |
| sskya | sundaysky.com Privacy link |
Owned by SundaySky, this cookie supports Advertising by linking personalized video interactions to marketing campaigns. |
| sskyCreationTime | sundaysky.com Privacy link |
Owned by SundaySky, this cookie supports Advertising purposes by storing the timestamp of a personalized video experience. |
| status | postrelease.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 | adsrvr.org 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 | adsrvr.org 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 | 3lift.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 | company-target.com Privacy link |
This cookie is mainly set by bidswitch.net to make advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor. |
| company-target.com | 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 | postrelease.com Privacy link |
This cookie is owned by Nativo. The company provides a range of marketing and advertising services. |
| 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. |
Required cookies
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. |
| __cf_bm | twitter.com, t.co Privacy link |
This cookie is part of X.com integrations within Microsoft websites. It relies upon CloudFlare services to protect against malicious or abusive requests. |
| __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. |
