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Learn about the ever-evolving digital privacy landscapes in eCommerce. Get to know about privacy laws, new technologies, and how they can affect your business.
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| Cookie | Description |
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| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
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| _gat_gtag | Identification code of website for tracking visits. |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information on how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| _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. |
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| _hjTLDTest | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
| CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
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| tk_r3d | The cookie is installed by JetPack. Used for the internal metrics for user activities to improve user experience. |
| Cookie | Description |
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| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisements when they are on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
| fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook Pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| Cookie | Description |
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| _gh_sess | This cookie is used to preserve users' states across page requests. |
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
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| _hjSession_1376571 | 30 minutes | No description |
| _hjSessionUser_1376571 | 1 year | No description |
| _octo | 1 year | No description available. |
| _zendesk_authenticated | past | No description |
| _zendesk_session | session | No description available. |
| _zendesk_shared_session | session | No description available. |
| edd_wp_session | 12 hours | No description available. |
| logged_in | 1 year | No description available. |
| m | 2 years | No description available. |