At DevOps, a corporate entity part of the PeopleCert Group, we use this technology, in order to offer an improved user experience and better services.
General
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Select the categories below to learn more about the cookies we use.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Name | Purpose Description | Retention | Third-party access |
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OptanonConsent |
Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry |
1 year | One Trust LLC |
ASP.NET¬_Sessionld | Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests | Session | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
Incap_ses_# | Preserves users states across page requests | Session | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
nlbi_# | Used to ensure website security and fraud detection | Session | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
visid_incap_# | Preserves users states across page requests | 1 year | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
Performance Cookies
Name | Use | Duration | Third-party access |
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_gid | Statistics recording on website traffic. | 2 days | Google LLC |
_ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years | Google LLC |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | Google LLC |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors | 1 day | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjFirstSeen | Used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website | 1 day | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics | 1 day | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | Registers data on visitor’s website-behavior. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization | 1 day | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjSession_# | Collects 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 | 1 day | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjSessionUser_# | Collects 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 | 1 year | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
_hjTLDTest | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics. | Session | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Used by Sitecore Engagement Analytics to identify the visitor on repeat to the website | 2 years | No third party has access to information in the cookie |
__utmz | Enables website owners to track visitor behavior measure of site performance. | 6 months | Google LLC |
Targeting Cookies
Name | Use | Duration | Third-party access |
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_fbp | Recording of user’s landing from another website, analysis of user interaction with the website content and recording of user’s conversion to another website, for advertising use by Facebook | 3 months | Facebook Inc. |
bcookie | Used by LinkedIn for tracking the use of embedded services | 2 years | |
lang | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains embedded “Follow us” panel | Session | |
lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services | 1 day | |
fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Session | Facebook Inc. |
UserMatchHistory | Used to track visitors on multiple websites to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences | 29 days | |
_gat_gtag_ | Google Analytics | Persistent | Google LLC |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service | 29 days |
Functional Cookies
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Cookies used | Lifespan |
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www.peoplecert.org | ___utmvxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | First Party | A few seconds |
What options do I have?
You have three options. You may either proceed with the acceptance of all cookies and other mechanisms (“Accept all”), which will enable you to access all our website functions, you may refuse any non-necessary cookies (“Accept only necessary”) or you may proceed with the customization of your cookie settings (“Confirm my choices”). The latter two choices may impair your website experience.
Necessary cookies are installed upon your website visit. As they are strictly necessary either from a technical perspective, or to offer you the website services or functionalities of your choice, applicable law allows us to install them without requiring any action or consent from you. By selecting the button “Accept only necessary”, which you will find next to the initial basic information that we provide, you continue your browsing only with the Necessary cookies. We will remember your choice for a year. When this period is over, or if you visit us from another device or a different browser, we will ask you again. Unfortunately, if you do not wish for Necessary cookies to be installed at all, you should not use our services and manually delete the cookies that have already been installed on your browser.
Performance, Targeting and Functional cookies are installed if you select the “Accept all” button, which you will find next to the initial basic information that we provide, as well as underneath the expanding full notification (banner). We will remember your choice for a year. When this period is over, or if you visit us from another device or a different browser, we will ask you again.
By selecting the button “Confirm my choices”, which you will find underneath the expanding full notification (banner), any of the Performance, Targeting and Functional cookies will be installed, if you have ticked the relevant box. If you have not ticked any of the boxes and select “Save settings”, then only Necessary cookies will be installed. We will remember your choices for a year. When this period is over, or if you visit us from another device or a different browser, we will ask you again.
Change of settings – Withdrawal of consent
At any time, you may change for future use, the choice you have made with respect to cookies and similar technologies on our website. At the bottom of this Policy, you will find the button: “Cookies settings”. Regardless of what was your selection the last time we asked you through a pop-up banner if you accept the installation of cookies and similar technologies, you can decide again easily, directly and free of charge, through the pop-up banner, which will emerge again after selecting the “Cookies settings” button.
For example, if you had selected “Accept” and you changed your mind, you may select at the new pop-up banner any (or none) of the cookie categories you want to and then select “Save settings”. This action would act as a withdrawal of the consent you had already given to us and it would apply for future use, namely from this change onwards, our website will not use (these particular) cookies and similar technologies on your device. In case you also wish to remove the cookies that had already been installed on your device before the withdrawal of your consent, then you may do so manually by following the instructions that you will find in the “Control via browser settings – Removal of cookies” section below.
Control via browser settings – Removal of cookies
You may also control and manage the cookies via the settings of the browser you use. Some of your options (depending on the browser) are, for example, acceptance of all cookies, notification before installation of cookies or the ban of their installation.
Through the settings of your browser, you may reverse any installation of cookies and similar mechanisms by our website, by deleting the files already stored.
In order to manage and deactivate cookies, you may follow the relevant instructions per browser: