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Types of cookies
First-party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and they can only be read by that site.
Third-party Cookies
Third-party cookies are set by other organizations that we use for various services. For example, we use external analytics services and these suppliers set cookies on our behalf in order to report what’s popular and what’s not. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from YouTube, for example, and these sites may set their own cookies
Why should I allow cookies?
The information contained in cookies is used to improve services for you, for example:
- Enabling a service to recognize your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times for a task or during a session, e.g. filling out a web form or a web survey
- Supporting the My Collection functionality
Allowing the video player to work properly
- Measuring how many people are using services, enabling those services to be made easier to use and ensuring there’s enough capacity to keep them fast; analyzing anonymized data to help us understand how people interact with the different aspects of our online services so we can make them better
What if I do not accept?
If you decide to not accept cookies, certain features of this website may not be displayed or not work properly. This will restrict what you can do on our site and may have an impact on design and user experience
Examples of features that may be affected:
- Using the My Collection functionality
- Receiving a personalized experience of the website
- Watching videos
- Liking and sharing this page on social network
- Viewing embedded content
Cookies set on this website
Cookie Policy
This cookie stores info about the users´ choice about cookies. The cookie is set once the user accepts (‘true’) or declines (‘false’) the usage of cookies.
myCollection
The myCollection cookie is used to store the numeric IDs of a user’s content collection as well as a possible “received“ content collection. If the user denies cookies, the usage of My Collection is not possible. Upon request of the My Collection section, the IDs are transferred to the server and are evaluated. No information aside the collection IDs is used
Personalization
Several cookies are used to store anonymous information about the user. This information is used to provide targeted content to the user
- „softXpansionTaxonomies“-Cookie
This cookie stores information about the pages topics a user has visited. The topic name as well as a calculated factor are stored and evaluated on requesting a page
This cookie stores information about the origin of the users’ visit to this website. This information may again be used to provide personalized content to the user.
If a user is referred from a search engine, the search engine may provide the keywords a user has searched for. This information can be evaluated to display selected content.
Survey
Counts the number of pages viewed by the user in this session to determine when to display the invitation for the survey
User has rejected the invitation, do not invite again for 90 days
User has accepted the invitation, do not invite again for 90 days
Website statistics
This cookie is set if a user refuses data storage of his visit (Privacy Statement)
This cookie prevents unwanted multiple tracking requests
This cookie allows a user to be recognized as a website visitor by using an anonymous and unique ID
This cookie detects related user sessions.
wt_cdbeid
This cookie allows anonymous counting of the number of visitors across devices
Stock information
This cookie is technically necessary and used for optimization of the loading performance of the stock tool
This cookie is technically necessary and used for optimization of the loading performance of the stock tool
Loadbalancing
- JSESSIONID and INGRESSCOOKIE are being used for loadbalancing purposes and session stickiness. This anonymous and technical session identifier is required for some website features
Others
Besides the cookies listed above, further first-party or third-party cookies may be used in (external) content embedded in this website, using technologies like iFrames, JavaScript etc. By accepting cookies, you also accept that such content may use cookies.
soft Xpansion has no control over, nor accepts liability for third-party cookies. Please refer to the third-party’s website for more information.
