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Name of Cookie	Purpose	Strictly Necessary	Expires
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DPSettings	Preserves the user's Cookie policy preferences	Yes	12 days
slim_session	Preserves User Login information and states	Yes	2.5 days
affiliate	Tracks purchases made through affiliate links to ensure proper credit is given to the affiliate partner.	No	Depends on your affiliate cookie settings

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
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__stripe_mid	checkout.stripe.com	Used to distinguish users.	1 year
cid	checkout.stripe.com	Used to process payments for our website.	3 months
vuid	vimeo.com	These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information.	3 years
player	player.vimeo.com	These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information.	1 year
cf_clearance	www.cloudflare.com	Used by clouflare to specify the duration that our website is accessible to a visitor that successfully completed a previous Captcha or challenge.	4 hours

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
hblid	ideas-campus.com	a visitor identifier that we use only on your site to remember this visitor between visits	2 years
wcsid	ideas-campus.com	a session identifier that we use only on your site to keep track of a single chat session	When you close your browser
olfsk	ideas-campus.com	storage identifier that we use to maintain chat state across pages (e.g. message history)	2 years
_okbk	ideas-campus.com	extra state information (e.g. chat box being open/closed)	When you close your browser
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ss (deprecated)	ideas-campus.com	Visitor session management	Session
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Tawk_xxxxxxx (deprecated)	ideas-campus.com	Visitor preference	6 months

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ZD-settings	ideas-campus.com	Stores a hash of settings so that we don't keep sending blips after the initial one	Forever
ZD-suid	ideas-campus.com	Session id for pathfinder.	20 minutes
ZD-buid	ideas-campus.com	Collects Machine ID.	Forever
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Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
intercom-id-[app_id]	ideas-campus.com	Anonymous visitor identifier cookie. As people visit your site they get this cookie.	9 months
intercom-session-[app_id]	ideas-campus.com	Identifier for each unique browser session. This session cookie is refreshed on each successful logged-in ping, extending it one week from that moment. The user can access their conversations and have data communicated on logged-out pages for 1 week, as long as the session isn’t intentionally terminated with Intercom('shutdown');, which usually happens on logout.	1 week
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4.4 Our Site uses analytics services provided by your analytics services, if any. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve Our Site and the products and services offered through them.
4.5 The analytics services used by Our Site use Cookies to gather the required information. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however, whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
4.6 The analytics services used by Our Site uses the following Cookies (remove cookies not exploited in your school):

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
_ga	ideas-campus.com	Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	2 years
_gat	ideas-campus.com	Google Analytics: Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate.	When you close your browser
_gid	ideas-campus.com	Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	When you close your browser
_ga_container-id	ideas-campus.com	Used to persist session state.	2 years

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
__smToken	ideas-campus.com	The __smToken is set once you login to Sumo and is checked to verify whether you are logged into Sumo or not	1 year
__smSmartbarShown	ideas-campus.com	cookie is set when the Smart Bars are shown on your website	1 year
__smVID	ideas-campus.com	Used to display relevant advertising	1 month
__smSessionId	ideas-campus.com	Used by Sumo to establish a cookie on a users computer to begin a session to enable Sumo products	When you close your browser
__smListBuilderShown	ideas-campus.com	cookie is set when the List Builder is shown on your website	1 year
__smScrollBoxShown	ideas-campus.com	cookie is set when the Scroll box is shown on your website	1 year
__smWelcomeMatShown	ideas-campus.com	Cookie is set when the Welcome mat is shown on your website	1 year
__smListBuilderOptOut	ideas-campus.com	Is set when a visitor clicks an "Opt-Out" button on the List Builder	1 year
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__smSubscribed	ideas-campus.com	Is set when a visitor subscribes via any of the List Builder, Welcome Mat, Scroll Box or Smart Bars they are shown on your website	1 year

4.7 Targeting/Marketing cookies
Targeting/Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising (remove cookies not exploited in your school):

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
_fbp	ideas-campus.com	Identifies browsers for advertising and site analytics services	90 days
fr	facebook.com	Delivers advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers	90 days
datr	facebook.com	Identifies the web browser used to connect to Facebook; enhances security and site integrity	2 years
c_user	facebook.com	Contains the user ID of the currently logged-in user	1 year<
xs	facebook.com	Contains session number and secret number for security	Varies, tied to session
sb	facebook.com	Helps improve friend suggestions	2 years
oo	facebook.com	Opt-out of Facebook showing ads based on activity on third-party websites	5 years
presence	facebook.com	Contains user's chat state (e.g., which chat tabs are open)	End of session

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
__hstc	ideas-campus.com	The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).	6 months
hubspotutk	ideas-campus.com	This cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.	6 months
__hssc	ideas-campus.com	This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.	30 min
__hssrc	ideas-campus.com	Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session.	session
messagesUtk	ideas-campus.com	This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor.	6 months

(Keep section 5.1 and 5.2 if you are using our cookie opt-in mechanism from School Privacy settings.)

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