What Cookies Nurture Mortgages Use and Why

Name Description Purpose Type:

_cf_bm Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.Essential1 day

_RequestVerificationTokenUsed to prevent CSRF attacksEssentialSessionJSESSIONIDUsed by
metrics.responsetap.com
to preserve user states across page requestsEssentialSessionrc::aUsed by Google to distinguish between humans and botsEssentialPersistentrc::bUsed by Google to distinguish between humans and botsEssentialSessionrc::cUsed by Google to distinguish between humans and botsEssentialSessionFontsLoadedUsed to inform the site that fonts have successfully loadedEssentialSession_grecaptchaUsed to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.EssentialPersistent_GRECAPTCHA
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.Essential179 daysARRAffinityUsed to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.EssentialSessionARRAffinitySameSiteUsed to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.EssentialSessionASP.NET_SessionId
Used to preserve the visitor’s session state across page requestsEssentialSessionAWSALBTGCORSUsed to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.Essential6 daysCookieConsentUsed to store the user’s
cookie
consent state for the current domainEssential1 yearFontsLoadedUsed to keep track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The
cookie
does not register any visitor data.EssentialSessionrc::aUsed to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.EssentialPersistentrc::bUsed to distinguish between humans and bots.EssentialSessionrc::cUsed to distinguish between humans and bots.EssentialSessiontestUsed to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the
cookie
banner. This
cookie
is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.EssentialPersistent_adiCookieCheckUsed to provide statistics of what pages the user has visited and how often an ad click leads to a sale or other actionsStatisticsSession_at.hist.#
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widgetStatisticsPersistent_dc_gtm_UA-#Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.Statistics1 day_gaUsed to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.Statistics2 years_ga_#Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.Statistics2 years_gatUsed by Google Analytics to throttle request rateStatistics1 day_gidUsed to generate statistical data on how visitor uses the websiteStatistics1 day_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors – this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.Statistics1 day_hjFirstSeen
Used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.Statistics1 day_hjidUsed to obtain data on visitor behaviour.Statistics1 year / Persistent_hjIncludedInPageviewSampleUsed to determine if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder.Statistics1 day_hjIncludedInSessionSampleUsed to register data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization.Statistics1 day_hjSession_#Used to collect statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.Statistics1 day_hjSessionUser_#Used to collect statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.Statistics1 year_vwo_uuid_v2Used to optimise website relevance to visitorStatistics1 yearcollectUsed to send data to Google Analytics on user’s device and behaviourStatisticsSessionv.gifUsed by
visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
to optimise website relevance to visitorStatisticsSession_hjTLDTestUsed to register statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.StatisticsSessionoptimizelyBucketsUsed to store settings on Optimizely user experience experiments and variations that the visitor has been bucketed into. This ensures the visitor consistently sees the same variation, even over multiple sessions.Statistics10 yearsoptimizelyEndUserIdUsed to measure how selected users react to targeted changes to the website’s content and functionality, in order to determine what variation is most efficacious in terms of converting users to customers.Statistics10 yearsoptimizelyPendingLogEventsUsed by Optimizely as a cache of a user’s actions between tracking calls.Statistics1 dayoptimizelySegmentsUsed by Optimizely to store the user’s audience and dimension information (e.g., browser, campaign, mobile, source type, custom dimensions).Statistics10 yearsvuidUsed to collect data on the user’s visits to the website e.g. which pages have been readStatistics2 years#{8}-#{4}-#{4}-#{4}-#{12}UnclassifiedMarketing1 yearfrUsed by Facebook to deliver advertsMarketing3 monthsIDEUsed by Google DoubleClick to report user’s actions with adsMarketing1 yearMUIDUsed by
bing.com
for Microsoft to track user across multiple domainsMarketing1 yearVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEUsed by YouTube to estimate the user’s bandwidth for videosMarketing179 daysYSCUsed by YouTube to log statistics on what YouTube videos the user has seenMarketingSession__atuvcUsed to update the counter of a website’s social sharing features.Marketing13 months__atuvsUsed to ensure that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis.Marketing1 day_at.cww
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis.MarketingPersistent_fbpUsed by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisersMarketing3 months_gaexpUsed by Google Analytics to determine if the visitor is involved in their marketing experimentsMarketing19 days_gcl_auUsed by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their servicesMarketing3 months_uetsidUsed to collect 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 they are shown the same advertisement. Also used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences.Marketing1 day / Persistent_uetsid_expUsed to contain the expiry-date for the
cookie
with corresponding name.MarketingPersistent_uetvidUsed to track visitors on multiple websites in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferencesMarketing1 year / Persistent_uetvid_expUsed to contain the expiry-date for the
cookie
with corresponding nameMarketingPersistentadiLPUsed in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs openMarketing1 dayadiSUsed in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs openMarketing1 dayadiVUsed in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs openMarketing1 yearadiViUsed in context with behavioral tracking by the website to register the user’s behavior and navigation across multiple websites and ensure no tracking errors occur when the user has multiple browser-tabs openMarketing1 dayat-randUsed by the social sharing platform AddThisMarketingPersistentf24_autoIdRegisters user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting.Marketing10 yearsf24_personIdRegisters user behaviour and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting.Marketing10 yearsIDEUsed 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.Marketing1 yearlocGeolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level).Marketing1 yearMUIDUsed widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The
cookie
enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.Marketing1 year

optimizely_data$$first_session

Used for targeted advertising.MarketingSessionpageViewCookieUsed to register a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits. Used for conversion tracking and to measure the efficacy of online ads.MarketingPersistentSSIDUsed to register a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.Marketing1 yeartest_cookieUsed to check if the user’s browser supports
cookies.Marketing1 dayRULUsed by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed, and to make their marketing efforts more efficientMarketing1 yearuvcUsed to detect how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user.Marketing1 yearVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEUsed to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.Marketing