Cookies policy

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Our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookies policy table
Cookie name	Purpose	Duration
Google analytics _utma	This cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update
Google analytics _utmb	This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	30 mins from set/update
Google analytics _utmc	This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.	End of browser session
Google analytics _utmz	This cookie stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	6 months from set/update
Google analytics _utmv	This cookies stores visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.	2 years from set/update
CMSCookieLevel	This cookie specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor.	1 year
ASP.NET_SessionId	This cookie keeps the user session ID for security reasons.	Session based
CMSCsrfCookie	This cookie stores a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. It helps prevent cross site request forgery.	1 year
CMSPreferredCulture	This cookie stores the visitor's preferred content culture.	1 year
CMSMobileRedirected	This cookie indicates if the visitor has been redirected to the mobile version of the website by the Mobile device redirection web part.	1 year
CMSCurrentTheme	This cookie stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows.	1 year
Webauthtoken	Live ID authentication cookie.
CMSForumPostAnswer	Keeps a list of Question-Answer forum posts in which the user voted for an answer to prevent repeated votes.	1 year
CMSVotedPolls	Keeps a list of polls where the user voted to prevent repeated votes.	1 year
CMSRatedDocuments	Keeps a list of pages that the user rated to prevent repeated votes.	1 year
CMSShowDesktopVersion	Indicates that the visitor has switched to the desktop (default) version of the website from a specific device profile.	1 year
CMSWindowsUser	Stores information for users who were imported from an Active Directory domain during authentication.	1 year
.ASPXFORMSAUTH	Stores the user's encrypted authentication ticket when using forms authentication.	Session based
VisitorStatus	Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics.	1 year
Source	Stores the channel from which the visitor arrived as part of a campaign (e.g., email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Based on the utm_source query string parameter.	1 year
Campaign	Stores the name of the campaign assigned to the visitor.	1 year
Content	Stores the specific content item through which the visitor arrived as part of a campaign. Based on the utm_content query string parameter.	1 year
TrackedCampaigns	Stores all the campaigns, which should be tracked within a JavaScript snippet.	1 year
UrlReferrer	Stores the URL referrer from which the user arrives on the website.	1 year
CurrentContact	Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website.	1 year
CMSAB<ABtestname>	Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. Stores the name of the page variant assigned to the visitor, the list of performed conversions and information whether visitor is included in A/B testing specified by an A/B test.	1 year
CMSMVT<mvtestname>	Stores the combination of variants assigned to the visitor by an MVT test. Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor.	1 year
CMSShoppingCart	Stores a GUID reference to the user's shopping cart. Allows the system to recover the shopping cart for unregistered customers, even after it is cleared from the cache (for example after an application restart).	1 year
CMSBodyClass	Body element class to provide accessibility standards.	1 year
CMSUserPage	Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities.	1 year
ChatLoggedInToken	Stores the login state for the Chat application (indicates if the user is in the online state).	1 year
ChatSupportLoggedInToken	Indicates if the user is logged in to the support chat.	1 year
<Window name>_<Group ID>_roomID	Stores bindings between groups of chat web parts and chat rooms (for a specific window or tab).	1 year
chat_autoinitchat_displayed_<GUID>	Remembers if the Automatically initiated chat web part was shown to the user (prevents multiple chat initiation messages).	1 year
chat_kick_roomid_<room ID>	Indicates that the user was kicked from the specified chat room (and is not allowed to return).	1 year
StrandsSBS_*	Used by the Strands Recommender solely for its own purposes. The cookies are managed on the Strands side.	1 year
CMSStrandsTrackEvent_*	Stores persistent HTTP context after a page is reloaded. Used for tracking of shopping cart events.	1 year
__openid_selector_*	Stores OpenId user identification for authentication purposes.	1 year
CMSLandingPageLoaded	Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. Expires after 20 minutes and the expiration period of the key is renewed every time the website is accessed again.	1 year

Our email marketing platform's use of cookies

Vuture, our email marketing platform, uses web tracking cookies that are persistent and are retained for one year by default. The use of cookies can track a user's website journey, uniquely identify their visit, and connect their website journey with their email journey. The information stored in the cookie is not transferred to any third parties. If a user disables cookies in their browser, they will not be tracked by Vuture's web tracking.

You can find more information about the individual cookie and the purpose for which we use them in the table below:


Cookie name	Purpose	Duration
VxSessionId intEmailHistoryId	Used when a person clicks through from an email to identify their visit to our website which then records the pages visited on our Website and the time spent on those pages.	1 year

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