Cookie name

Purpose

sesID

This cookie is used to identify the user's each unique session on the site and relates the visitor's unique session to server-side data. The cookie will expire at the end of the session (when you close your browser).

__cfduid

This cookie is associated with sites that use

CloudFlare for speeding up page load time. 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.

AKA_A2

This cookie is used for the purpose of facilitating and providing Sites content, optimizing its efficiency. It does not contain specific user data.

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust.  It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.  It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user.  The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.

affinity

This cookie is used to maintain user sessions by setting an affinity cookie with a hash value containing the session details, ensuring subsequent requests with the affinity cookie are routed to the same backend server for maintaining stickiness.

OptanonConsent

This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

Cookie name

Purpose

Google Analytics

The Sites use Google Analytics in order to track where our visitors come from and what parts of the Sites they use most. This helps us to make improvements to enhance your experience when using the website. The Google Analytics cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the Sites from and the pages they visited. More info on Google Analytics can be found at https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.

Google Tag Manager

This website uses the Google Tag Manager. This service allows website tags to be managed through an interface. The Google Tag Manager only implements tags.

This means that no cookies are used and no personal data is collected. The Google Tag Manager triggers other tags, which in turn collect data if necessary. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it remains valid for all tracking tags if they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

Uid

DoubleClick UID cookies are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.

__ar_v4

This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick advertising service from Google. It helps with tracking conversion rates for ads.

Facebook

This cookie will help deliver our advertising to people who have already visited our Sites when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising. More info on Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

_gcl_au

This cookie helps us to understand how a user to our Sites use the Sites by generating analytical data.

citrix_ns_id_.beko.com_%2F_wlf

This cookie is used to perform server-side redirection to reduce the loads on the server. This helps to speed up the loading times of the website.

_hjid

Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

_hjIncludedInSample

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.

_hjMinimizedPolls

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 the site.

_hjShownFeedbackMessage

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.

mbox

Cookie set by Adobe SiteCatalyst analytics software - used for measuring the performance of page content using A/B split testing

complianceCookie

This cookie is related to whether a user accepts cookies. If user clicks “Accept / Continue” on the cookie banner at the footer, this cookie is activated.

cache_str

This cookie is used for cache controlling according to user behaviors.

refUrl

This is cookie related to the URL that refers user to current URL.

This cookie is used for Sign-in with Linkedin.

Check

A simple test value used to determine if a visitor supports cookies. Set each time a visitor requests a page.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos

__Secure-xxxxxxx

Security-focused cookies used for secure communication and user authentication.

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VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

It tracks users' unique encrypted digitized IDs and may store your privacy preferences or targeting information.

RT

The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page.

YSC

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.