Cookie name |
Level |
Expiration |
Description |
CMSCookieLevel |
System |
1 year |
Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor. |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
System |
session end |
Keeps the user session ID for security reasons. |
CMSCsrfCookie |
System |
session end |
Store's a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against Cross site request forgery. |
CMSPreferredCulture |
Essential |
1 year |
Stores the visitor's preferred content culture. |
CMSMobileRedirected |
Essential |
session end |
Indicates if the visitor has been redirected to the mobile version of the website by the Mobile device redirection web part. |
CMSCurrentTheme |
Essential |
1 day |
Stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows. |
Webauthtoken |
Essential |
3rd party cookie |
Live ID authentication cookie. |
CMSForumPostAnswer |
Essential |
1 month |
Keeps a list of Question-Answer forum posts in which the user voted for an answer to prevent repeated votes. |
CMSVotedPolls |
Essential |
1 year |
Keeps a list of polls where the user voted to prevent repeated votes. |
CMSRatedDocuments |
Essential |
1 year |
Keeps a list of pages that the user rated to prevent repeated votes. |
CMSShowDesktopVersion |
Essential |
1 year |
Indicates that the visitor has switched to the desktop (default) version of the website from a specific device profile. |
CMSWindowsUser |
Essential |
session end |
Stores information for users who were imported from an Active Directory domain during authentication. |
.ASPXFORMSAUTH |
Essential |
6000 seconds |
Stores the user's encrypted authentication ticket when using forms authentication. |
VisitorStatus |
All cookies |
20 years |
Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics. |
Source |
All cookies |
50 years |
Stores the channel from which the visitor arrived as part of a campaign (e.g., email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Based on the utm_source query string parameter. |
Campaign |
All cookies |
50 years |
Stores the name of the campaign assigned to the visitor. |
Content |
All cookies |
50 years |
Stores the specific content item through which the visitor arrived as part of a campaign. Based on the utm_content query string parameter. |
TrackedCampaigns |
All cookies |
20 minutes |
Stores all the campaigns, which should be tracked within a JavaScript snippet. |
UrlReferrer |
All cookies |
1 day |
Stores the URL referrer from which the user arrives on the website. |
CurrentContact |
All cookies |
50 years |
Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website. |
CMSAB<ABtestname> |
All cookies |
2 months |
Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. Stores the name of the page variant assigned to the visitor, the list of performed conversions and information whether visitor is included in A/B testing specified by an A/B test. |
CMSMVT<mvtestname> |
All cookies |
1 month |
Stores the combination of variants assigned to the visitor by an MVT test. Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. |
CMSShoppingCart |
All cookies |
1 year |
Stores a GUID reference to the user's shopping cart. Allows the system to recover the shopping cart for unregistered customers, even after it is cleared from the cache (for example after an application restart). |
CMSBodyClass |
All cookies |
50 years |
Body element class to provide accessibility standards. |
CMSUserPage |
All cookies |
20 minutes |
Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities. |
ChatLoggedInToken |
All cookies |
session end |
Stores the login state for the Chat application (indicates if the user is in the online state). |
ChatSupportLoggedInToken |
All cookies |
session end |
Indicates if the user is logged in to the support chat. |
<Window name>_<Group ID>_roomID |
All cookies |
4 days |
Stores bindings between groups of chat web parts and chat rooms (for a specific window or tab). |
chat_autoinitchat_displayed_<GUID> |
All cookies |
1 hour |
Remembers if the Automatically initiated chat web part was shown to the user (prevents multiple chat initiation messages). |
chat_kick_roomid_<room ID> |
All cookies |
300 seconds |
Indicates that the user was kicked from the specified chat room (and is not allowed to return). |
StrandsSBS_* |
All cookies |
20 minutes |
Used by the Strands Recommender solely for its own purposes. The cookies are managed on the Strands side. |
CMSStrandsTrackEvent_* |
All cookies |
20 minutes |
Stores persistent HTTP context after a page is reloaded. Used for tracking of shopping cart events. |
__openid_selector_* |
All cookies |
1 year |
Stores OpenId user identification for authentication purposes. |
CMSLandingPageLoaded |
All cookies |
20 minutes |
Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. Expires after 20 minutes and the expiration period of the key is renewed every time the website is accessed again. |
YouTube |
All cookies |
3rd party cookie |
The YouTube video web part and widget use corresponding YouTube cookies. Without this cookie YouTube videos will not be displayed. |