What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies. Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser. Every time you visit the Commission’s websites, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.
How do we use cookies?
This website (https://logsentinel.com) mostly uses “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by The Website, not by any external organisation. However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations. The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:
– store visitor preferences make our websites operational
– gather analytics data (about user behaviour)
Visitor preferences
These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:
– if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
– if you have already replied to any pop-up – so you won’t be asked again
messagesUtk
This cookie stores a unique ID string for each chat-box session. This allows the website-support to see previous issue s and reconnect with the previous supporter. Expires in one year
Operational cookies
There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular: authentication cookies technical cookies required by certain IT systems
__cfduid
This cookie is used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. Expires in one year
JSESSIONID
This cookie preserves users states across page requests. Expires in one year
icwp-wpsf
This cookie registers whether the user is logged in. This allows the website owner to make parts of the website inaccessible, based on the user’s log-in status. Expires in one year
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
_ga
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Expires in two years
_gat
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Expires in one day
_gid
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Expires in one day
_hjid
Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.
events/1/f9d051f404
Registers the website’s speed and performance. This function can be used in context with statistics and load-balancing. Expires with the session.
hjViewportId
Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. Expires with the session.
jserrors/1/f9d051f404
Registers the website’s speed and performance. This function can be used in context with statistics and load-balancing. Expires with the session.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers
__cfduid
Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. Expires in one year. Expires in one year
__hmpl
Collects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web-campaign content – This is used on CRM-campaign-platform used by website owners for promoting events or products.
__hssrc
Collects statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising. Expires with the session.
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Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. Expires with the session.
_hjIncludedInSample
Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. Expires with the session.
_hjRecordingEnabled
This cookie is used to identify the visitor and optimize ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange. Expires with the session.
ads/ga-audiences
Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. Expires with the session.
HUBLYTICS_EVENTS_53
Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that the visitor is shown the same advertisement.
Hubspotutk
Keeps track of a visitor’s identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. Expires in one year.
IDE
Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking on e of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. Expires in one year.
_hjRecordingLastActivity
Used by Hotjar to record statistics on last activity. Expires with the session.
How can you manage cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish – for details, see https://aboutcookies.org/
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).