The following is a list of all the cookies set by our tags, including their purpose and expiration.
1. Cookies set by the CS tracking tag:
2. Cookies set by the CT tracking tag: core
The user ID
The timestamp (in seconds) of user creation
The number of visits for this user
The last pageview timestamp (in seconds)
The last visit timestamp (in seconds)
Cookie Secure attribute (since version 9.11.0), value can be :
0 : cookie is not secure, default for none crossDomain project or on browser that don't support SameSite cookie attribute
1 : cookie is secure, default for crossDomain project
It's own cookie expire date as a timestamp (in milliseconds)
Cookie SameSite attribute (since version 9.11.0), value can be:
None : (attribute is SameSite=None;) for crossDomain projects
Lax : (attribute is SameSite=Lax;) for none crossDomain projects
X : (no SameSite attribute set) for any project on browser that don't support SameSite cookie attribute
The number of pageviews for the current session
The recording state:
value 1 when recorded (since version 9.0.0)*
value 3 when recorded for session replay (since version 9.0.0)*
Time to Live: 13 months renewed on consent command
Size: 1 character
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
Contains the consent state:
0 when not required (project has no sensitive data, or has masked all sensitive data)
1 when not expressed
2 when granted
3 when withdrawn
Not required value is for projects having no sensitive data or having masked all their sensitive data. Visitors of such project will always have consent = 0.
Time to Live: Session
Size: Minimum: 39 characters. Maximum will depend on how many custom variables are pushed by the customer and the length of the keys and values passed.
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
Size: 1 character
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
Allows forcing tracking and recording of a user.
If this cookie exists, no matter its value, the user will be tracked. Depending on its value, the user might also be recorded:
If 0, forces session not to be recorded
If 1, forces analysis recording
If 2, forces session to be recorded for session replays
Time to Live: 30 minutes
Size: Random number _ timestamp in milliseconds example: 0.00443281678 8423777_15937 83518901
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is used for the Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics integrations
It is to make sure the Adobe and Google dimensions and evars are set only once per 30 minutes.
It stores the value of the csMatchingKey which is a random number plus timestamp in milliseconds.
Time to Live: 1 year, updates on every page view (but can be changed if needed)
Size: Can be more than 117 characters. Example
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is used for a few integrations we have that require us to generate replay links and put them into cookies.
For integrations such as Dynatrace Integration (official) DOMO Integration (official)
Time to Live: Remove as soon as it is set
Size: Always set to "1"
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
Use as a test cookie to get the root domain name excluding subdomains for cookie. For more technical, info we almost use the same code as this
0 when not recorded
1 when recorded for analysis
2 when recorded for session replay
Type: Persistent, First Party Cookie
Time to Live: 1 year
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is used to anonymously identify a visitor of the Website for the purpose of enabling the Contentsquare software to track such visitor’s actions across the client’s website.
Content: (number) Contentsquare user identification number – for example 1524252870192822
Type: Persistent, First Party Cookie
Time to Live: 1 hour
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is created to indicate that the user was not selected during random ratio check. This user will not participate again in the random ratio check for as long as the life time of the cookie.
Content: (string) yes/no
Type: Persistent, Third Party Cookie
Time to Live: 1 year
Cookie Hostname: Clicktale.net
Description:
Content: (string) y
Type: Persistent, First Party Cookie
Time to Live: 1 year
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is used to count the number of page views or visits of the anonymous visitor for the purpose of enabling the Contentsquare software to track the number of page views or visits a visitor made on the client’ s website.
Content: gpv={number}&{clicktale project identifier}={number}&{clicktale project identifier}={number}&{clicktale project identifier}={number}
Type: Persistent, First Party Cookie
Time to Live: Depends on the user’s recording tracking state expiration in server side: Random, ETR – 30 days Enhanced, Forced – 30 minutes
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie is used to indicate whether a user is being recorded and for what reason (Random, Enhanced, Forced, ETR)
Content: (string) Recording/EnhancedRecording/EventTriggeredRecording
Type: Persistent, First Party Cookie
Time to Live: 1 hour
Cookie Hostname: Current domain
Description:
This cookie us used by Contentsquare's client logging infrastructure to continue logging user page views. As long as this cookie exists, Client Logging will be active for the user, sending statistics about Contentsquare's JavaScript code execution flow and state (used for debugging and monitoring only).
Content: No content