CivicPlus Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files temporarily stored on your device that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient. We use cookies at CivicPlus to improve your experience on our site. Some cookies are also required by certain pages on our website to be able to function correctly and some are just to help you use our website seamlessly.
Cookies at CivicPlus
When you visit a CivicPlus web page, CivicPlus or a third party may place a number of cookies in your browser. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will always be used.
Many jurisdictions require or recommend that website operators inform users as to the nature of cookies they utilize and, in certain circumstances, obtain the consent of their users to the placement of certain cookies.
How long do we store cookies?
Session cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser and end your session.
Persistent cookies remain on a hard drive, depending on cookie category and jurisdictions; it could remain stored from 30 min to up to 2 years. In practice, cookies could remain on your device longer if you do not take action (i.e. clear your browsing data and cache).
Cookie Categories
First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by the website you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by websites that are not the website that you are currently visiting.
While some cookies are important for the functionality of the site, others ensure a better and more customized user experience. The collected data might be used for marketing or analytic purposes. Cookies are grouped based on type and function.
CivicPlus classifies them into one of the following categories: essential, basic, marketing, statistics, preference, and these categories are used on our domains.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | These cookies are required to enable basic website functionality. |
| Basic Cookies | These cookies are used to provide basic interactions and functionalities that allow you to access selected features of our service and facilitate your communication with us. |
| Marketing Cookies | These cookies are used to provide advertising that is tailored to you and your particular interests. Marketing cookies can also be used to restrict the number of times an advertisement is displayed and to measure the efficacy of advertising campaigns. Advertising networks usually place marketing cookies with the website operator’s permission. |
| Statistics Cookies | These cookies track information about how the CivicPlus Service is being used so that we can make improvements and report our performance. They collect information about how visitors use our sites, which site the user came from, the number of each user’s visits, and how long a user stays on the site. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features to see how users react to them. Analytics cookies may either be first-party cookies or third-party cookies. |
| Preference Cookies | These cookies allow the website to keep track of your choices (e.g. region, user name, language) in order to provide more personalized features that correspond with them. A website may, for example, provide you with local traffic information based on data stored about your current location. |
Types of Cookies CivicPlus Uses
This is a list of the types of cookies used on the CivicPlus domains. If you would like more information about these cookies, together with information on how to reject or delete the cookies, please see their individual privacy policies.
Cookies in use on civicplus.com
| Name | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| shield-notbot-nonce | www.civicplus.com | For all visitors and users, a temporary cookies is used to provide a nonce value for the NotBot system. This cookie is used to overcome limitations imposed by WP page caching plugins that don’t allow the updating of on-page nonce values. We send the nonce value via a cookie to ensure the client has access to the latest, valid nonce. | 2 minutes | Statistics |
| icwp-wpsf-notbot | www.civicplus.com | Indicates that the visitor has indicated to the site that it’s not a bot | 10 minutes | Statistics |
| cp_pagecount | .civicplus.com | This cookie counts what number page of a user’s session they’re currently on. | session | Marketing |
| _gcl_au | .civicplus.com | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months | Marketing |
| __cf_bm | .js.leadin.com | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 1 hour | Essential |
| __cfruid | .js.leadin.com | Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. | session | Essential |
| _ga | .civicplus.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | Persistent | Marketing |
| _gid | .civicplus.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Statistics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | .civicplus.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 minute | Marketing |
| muc_ads | .t.co | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. | Persistent | Marketing |
| personalization_id | .twitter.com | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | Persistent | Marketing |
| li_sugr | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | 3 months | Marketing |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | 1 year | Marketing |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | 1 day | Marketing |
| _ga_* | .civicplus.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | Persistent | Marketing |
| _gd_visitor | www.civicplus.com | This cookie is used for collecting information on the users visit such as number of visits, average time spent on the website and the pages loaded for displaying targeted ads. | Persistent | Marketing |
| _gd_session | www.civicplus.com | This cookie is used for collecting information on users visit to the website. It collects data such as total number of visits, average time spent on the website and the pages loaded. | 4 hours | Marketing |
| _omappvp | www.civicplus.com | The _omappvp cookie is set to distinguish new and returning users and is used in conjunction with _omappvs cookie. | Persistent | Marketing |
| _omappvs | www.civicplus.com | The _omappvs cookie, used in conjunction with the _omappvp cookies, is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor. | 20 minutes | Marketing |
| 6suuid | .6sc.co | Registers user behavior and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. | Persistent | Marketing |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | 1 month | Marketing |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | 1 month | Marketing |
| _uetsid | .civicplus.com | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 day | Marketing |
| _uetvid | .civicplus.com | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | Persistent | Marketing |
| MUID | .bing.com | Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. | Persistent | Marketing |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | 1 year | Marketing |
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 months | Marketing |
| _fbp | .civicplus.com | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months | Marketing |
| _aeaid | www.civicplus.com | Audioeye sets this cookie for the functioning of the accessibility feature. | 1 year | Essential |
| __cf_bm | .hubspot.com | Used by CloudFlare to read and filter requests from bots. | Persistent | Essential |
| _cfuvid | .hubspot.com | Used by CloudFlare for applying rate limits to traffic where multiple unique visitors share the same IP address, such as traffic from behind a NAT. | Persistent | Essential |
| messagesUtk | .civicplus.com | Used by HubSpot to store browser details, store performed actions on the website. | 13 months | Essential |
| __hstc | .civicplus.com | Used by HubSpot to store time of visit. | 13 months | Essential |
| hubspotutk | .civicplus.com | Used by HubSpot to store and track a visitor’s identity. | 13 months | Essential |
| __hssrc | .civicplus.com | Used by HubSpot to store a unique session ID. | Persistent | Essential |
| __hssc | .civicplus.com | Used by HubSpot to store anonymized statistics. | 30 minutes | Essential |
| ct0 | .twitter.com | This cookie is set by Twitter and is used due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. It is stored for 6 hours. This cookie is managed by Twitter. | 1 year | Marketing |
| auth_token | .twitter.com | This cookie is set by Twitter and is for account login and authentication. | 1 year | Marketing |
| kdt | .twitter.com | This cookie is set by Twitter and authenticates a known device. | 1 year | Marketing |
| guest_id_ads | .twitter.com | This cookie is set by Twitter and is used for advertising when logged out. | 1 year | Marketing |
| guest_id_marketing | .twitter.com | This cookie is set by Twitter and is used for advertising when logged out. | 1 year | Marketing |
| aelreadersettings | www.civicplus.com | Used to keep settings on the website’s accessibility widget. This helps people with e.g. vision disabilities to properly navigate the site. | Session | Preferences |
| aelastsite | www.civicplus.com | Used to keep settings on the website’s accessibility widget. This helps people with e.g. vision disabilities to properly navigate the site. | Session | Preferences |
| aeatstartmessage | www.civicplus.com | Used to keep settings on the website’s accessibility widget. This helps people with e.g. vision disabilities to properly navigate the site. | Session | Preferences |
| MR | .bat.bing.com | Collects data for the purpose of analysis. | 2 years | Marketing |
| wordpress_sec_bee* | www.civicplus.com | Used by WordPress to provide protection against hackers, store account details. | Session | Basic |
| wordpress_logged_in_bee* | www.civicplus.com | Used by WordPress to store logged in users. | Session | Basic |
| wp-settings-* | www.civicplus.com | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 13 months | Basic |
| wp_lang | www.civicplus.com | Used by WordPress to store language settings. | Session | Basic |
| MSPTC | .bing.com | This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. | 1 year | Marketing |
| omSeen-* | www.civicplus.com | Used by Optinmonster to determine if a visitor has been shown a campaign by the slug. No expiration date. | 1 month | Marketing |
| lo-uid | .civicplus.com | Lucky Orange identifies the visitor using a unique ID. Related sessions, events, and conversations are linked to a single visitor using this ID. | 13 months | Marketing |
| __lotr | .civicplus.com | Lucky Orange identifies the visitor using a unique ID. Related sessions, events, and conversations are linked to a single visitor using this ID. | 6 months | Marketing |
| _lo_uid | .civicplus.com | Lucky Orange identifies the visitor using a unique ID. Related sessions, events, and conversations are linked to a single visitor using this ID. | 9 months | Marketing |
| wp-settings-time-* | www.civicplus.com | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | Basic |
| twid | .twitter.com | This cookie is used by Twitter for authentication. | 1 year | Marketing |
| omSuccess-{id} | www.civicplus.com | This cookie is used by OptinMonster to determine if a visitor has successfully opted in to a campaign with the ID of {id} on your site. | 1 year | Marketing |
| guest_id | .twitter.com | This cookie is used by Twitter for authentication. | 9 months | Marketing |
| _clck | .civicplus.com | This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 10 months | Marketing |
| _lo_v | .civicplus.com | This cookie is used by Lucky Orange to track the total number of visitor’s visits. | 9 months | Marketing |
| _gd_svisitor | www.civicplus.com | This cookie is used by 6Sense. A long lived unique identifier of this visitor on the website. It is either correlated to the 6suuid or a unique value, and can be changed during the lifetime of this cookie. | 9 months | Marketing |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | Checks if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. | 1 day | Essential |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Helps to target, analyze and improve ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite. | 1 month | Marketing |
| JSESSIONID | .nr-data.net | Maintains an unknown user’s session by the server. | Session | Essential |
| fr | .facebook.com | Contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. | 90 days | Marketing |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Keeps a unique ID to log which videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | Marketing |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | Marketing |
| _OG_GDPR_COOKIE_ | .outgrow.us | This cookie determines whether the browser accepts cookies. | Session | Marketing |
| gaCookie1 | .outgrow.us | This is a Performance cookie related to Google Analytics / Web Analytics. | 2 years | Marketing |
| gaCookie1_gid | .outgrow.us | This is a Performance cookie related to Google Analytics / Web Analytics. | 1 day | Marketing |
| _gat_devteam | .outgrow.us | This cookie stores a unique ID for a website visitor and tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Data transfer. to third countries: USA. Google LLC. is certified under the Data Privacy Framework, indicating that your rights as a data subject can be guaranteed. | 2 years | Marketing |
| _gat_devteam | burialsearch.com | This cookie is used to identify a session instance for a user. | Session | Basic |
| gclid | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| utm_campaign | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| device | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| mcclkid | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| utm_content | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| utm_term | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| utm_medium | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
| utm_source | .civicplus.com | Marketing cookie that stores data on advertising sources if the user clicked on an ad. | 1 month | Marketing |
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