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Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies on our website to optimize it and to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic to better serve those who visit our site. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. Cookies provide us with information by tracking the websites you have visited and by storing certain data about this visit, such as the web pages you have visited to reach our site or your previous activity on our site or your contact details when you fill out a form. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.
Our use of cookies
The paragraphs below explain the cookies we use, for what purpose and how you can manage them.
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Technical cookies
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socomec | SESScc1995d7aaf165e7f6b8dd2c42cf7c6c | Cookie intended to identify the current user session and to allow interaction with the site. This cookie is sent to each user request to identify their session | session | session | |
| Socomec | cookie-agreed-categories | This cookie is used to store the list of categories of cookies for which consent has been given by the visitor. | 1 month | 1 year | |
| Socomec | cookie-agreed | This cookie makes it possible to operate the consent for the different categories of cookies as well as the display of the associated information banner. | 1 month | 1 year | |
| Socomec | socomec_bookmark | This cookie allows the work of the documents put in favorites. | session | 6 months | |
| Socomec | socomec_wishlist | This cookie allows the work of the documents put in favorites. | session | 6 months |
Cookies for audience measurement
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | It is used to calculate data relating to visitors, sessions and to track the use of our site for its analysis report. It stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors | 24 months | 26 months | Learn more |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish users for the purposes of traffic measurement and analysis. | 1 day | 26 months | Learn more |
| Piwik Pro | piwik_auth | Enables us to count the number of visits and the sources of attendance to understand the browsing path of users to optimize ergonomics and highlight the most relevant content. It helps us monitor the use of our website and improve the services and content we offer. | 1 day | 13 months | Learn more |
For more information on how Google processes your data, you can read Google's help on privacy and data protection.
Cookies for forms and personalization of communications
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pardot | visitor_id | The visitor cookie includes a unique visitor identifier and the unique identifier of your account. For example, the cookie titled visitor_id12345 stores the visitor ID 1010101010. Account ID 12345 ensures that the visitor is tracked to the correct Pardot account. The value of the visitor is the visitor_id in your Pardot account. This cookie is set for visitors by the Pardot tracking code. | 390 days | 12 months | Learn more |
| Pardot | pi_opt_in | If the tracking consent preferences are enabled, the pi_opt_in cookie is set with a value of true or false when the visitor agrees to be tracked or not. If a visitor agrees to be tracked, the value is set to true, and the visitor's cookie is enabled and the visitor is tracked. If the visitor refuses to be tracked or ignores the consent banner, the value of the opt-in cookie is set to false. The visitor's cookie is disabled and the visitor is not tracked. | 390 days | 12 months | Learn more |
| Pardot | visitor_id-hash | This cookie is a security measure that prevents a malicious user from impersonating a Pardot visitor and accessing the information of the corresponding prospect. The visitor's hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash code. For example, the cookie named visitor_id12345-hash stores the hash code “855c3697d9979e78ac404c4ba2c66533” and the account ID is 12345. | 390 days | 12 months | Learn more |
| Pardot | lpv | This LPV cookie is set to prevent Pardot from tracking multiple page views in a single asset during a 30 minute session. For example, if a visitor reloads a landing page multiple times within a 30-minute period, this cookie prevents each reload from being tracked as a page view. | 390 days | 12 months | Learn more |
| Pardot | pardot | A session cookie titled pardot is set in your browser when you are logged in to Pardot as a user or when a visitor accesses a form, landing page or page with a Pardot tracking code. The cookie designates an active session and is not used for tracking. | 390 days | 12 months | Learn more |
Cookies for page content personalization
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB Tasty | _ABTasty | Allows to analyze the use of the pages of the site and to implement variations of content. | 1 day | 13 months | Learn more |
| AB Tasty | _ABTastySession | Allows to analyze the use of the pages of the site and to implement variations of content. | session | 13 months | Learn more |
Cookies for collecting user reviews
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotjar | _hjid | Used by Hotjar to analyze the use of pages on the site and display a pop-up collecting visitor opinions | 15 days | 12 months | |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. | |||
| _hjDonePolls | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | |||
| _hjMinimizedPolls | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | |||
| _hjDoneTestersWidgets | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | |||
| _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | |||
| _hjIncludedInSample | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. | |||
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | 365 days | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | |||
Social media sharing cookies
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AddtoAny | _cfduid | This cookie is used to identify trusted web traffic | 30 days | 30 days | Learn more |
| AddtoAny | uvc | Store and track the Internet user's visits to websites | 1 day | 1 day | Learn more |
Social media advertising
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lidc | Linkedin use this cookie to facilitate data center selection | 24h | session | Learn more | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 30 days | 30 days | Learn more | |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | 30 days | 30 days | Learn more |
Video player integration cookies
| Publisher | Name | Purpose | Cookie lifetime | Retention period of data collected by cookies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | YSC | YouTube uses this cookie to remember the data entered by the user and to associate the actions of the user with it. | session | session | Learn more |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie contains a unique identifier used to remember your preferences and other information, such as the choice of language, the number of search results to be displayed per page and the desired state for the Google SafeSearch filter. | 179 days | 6 months | Learn more |
| YouTube | PREF | YouTube uses this cookie to store information such as user preferences for page setup and playback (autoplay, shuffle content, and player size) | 24 months | 8 months | Learn more |
Other technical cookies
| Cookie name | Expiry date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id> |
| AMP_TOKEN | 30 seconds to 1 year | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
| _gac_<property-id> | 90 days | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more. |
| __utma | 2 years from set/update | 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. |
| __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| __utmb | 30 mins from set/update | 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. |
| __utmc | End of browser session | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| __utmz | 6 months from set/update | 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. |
| __utmv | 2 years from set/update | Used to store 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. |
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To contact us and find out more
For any further questions you can contact SOCOMEC, Inc. at the following address:
SOCOMEC, Inc. 9 Galen Street, Suite 120 Watertown, MA 02472 USA
Phone number: (617) 245-0447