What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to your device – for example, your computer or smartphone – when you access our websites.

How can I opt out of cookies?

You can make settings in your browser to inform you that a website contains cookies. You can even choose whether you want your browser to automatically deny the use of cookies. You can also delete previously stored cookies in your browser. See your browser’s help pages for more information on how you can control the use of cookies yourself. As a user, you understand and accept that the functionality, quality and availability of the website may be impaired or hindered if you do not agree to the use of cookies.

What types of cookies do we use and why?

Our cookies are divided into three categories:

Necessary cookies
Some cookies are absolutely necessary in order for you to access all the features of our website and to enable us to fulfil our promises. Without these cookies, certain parts of the website and services simply do not work properly.

Statistics
These cookies are anonymous and are used to analyse how visitors use our website; for example, we keep track of which pages and features of our website you visit and use the most. This makes it easier for us to keep our website up to date and to ensure that you have as smooth and straightforward a user experience as possible.

Functional cookies
These cookies make it possible to provide improved functionality and customisation. They are set up by us or by external providers whose services we have added to our pages.

Marketing cookies
These are third-party cookies that are often used by, e.g. ad networks to identify a user and use information about how the user consumed content on various websites. They are used to deliver customised content and features based on user choices and to target customised marketing to the user on other websites and social media.

__cfduid
The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.

TiPMix
Used by Azure to ensure visitor is using the most recent codebase

.AspNet.Cookies
The relying party cookie (claims authentication mode) that is used to cache authentication information. Expiration depends on the Remember me checkbox.

.EPiForm_VisitorIdentifier
This cookie is used to identify the visitor when reentering the website, by using the ID string contained in the .EPiForm_BID cookie

.EPiForm_BID
This cookie is used to distinguish the browser that the visitor is using. The server automatically assigns an ID string to that browser, so that the website can identify the visitor again when reentering the website

x-ms-routing-name
Used by Azure to ensure visitor is using the most recent codebase

ASP.NET_SessionId
This cookie is used in sites developed with Microsoft.Net. When a user start browsing a unique session ID is created, which keeps track of all the information regarding that session.This information is stored in the web server and it is identified via a GUID.The GUID is essential for any ASP.NET site to function properly.

ARRAffinity
This cookie is set by websites that run on Windows Azure cloud platform. The cookie is used to affinitize a client to an instance of an Azure Web App.

ARRAffinitySameSite
Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times

cookiebarAccepted
Used to not show this box again if you accept that we use cookies

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
Google - Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder

_hjid
Google - Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes

_hjTLDTest
Google - Detects the SEO-ranking for the current website. This service is part of a third-party statistics and analysis service

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
Google - This cookie is 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

ai_user
Microsoft - Used by Microsoft Application Insights software to collect statistical usage and telemetry information. The cookie stores a unique identifier to recognize users on returning visits over time.

ai_session
Microsoft - Preserves users states across page requests.

_ga
Google - 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 assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

_gid
Google - This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.

_gat_UA-45012717-1
Google - This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

_fbp
Facebook - This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.

fr
Facebook - The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments 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.

UserMatchHistory
Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.

lang
Linkedin - This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.

bcookie
Linkedin - This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.

lissc
Linkedin - This cookie is provided by LinkedIn. This cookie is used for tracking embedded service.

lidc
Linkedin - This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.

bcookie
Linkedin - Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform

li_at
Linkedin - Used to authenticate Members and API clients

spectroscopyld
Linkedin - Used to catch malicious activity through browser extensions

JSESSIONID
Linkedin - Used for CSRF protection

s_sq
Linkedin - Used to store information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user by Adobe Analytics

AMCVS_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg
Linkedin - Indicates the start of a session for Adobe Experience Cloud

AMCV_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg
Linkedin - Unique Identifier for Adobe Experience Cloud

li_oatml
Linkedin - Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising and analytics outside the Designated Countries and, for a limited time, advertising in the Designated Countries

liap
Linkedin - Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member

aam_uuid
Linkedin - Set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager

bscookie
Linkedin - Used for saving the state of 2FA of a logged in user

lidc
Linkedin - To optimize data center selection

lissc
Linkedin - Used to ensure there is correct SameSite attribute for all cookies in that browser

s_cc
Linkedin - Used to determine if cookies are enabled for Adobe Analytics

_gat_UA-126056863-1
Google - This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

Analysts

Johan Sundèn

Erik Elander

Johan Dahl