What are cookies
Cookies are small text files sent to your browser by a website you visit. They help websites to work more efficiently as well as provide site owners with data to enhance your experience.
How does Sharesight use cookies
Sharesight uses cookies alongside tracking pixels to collect data from your device. We use this data to customise the user experience, gather analytical data and place advertisements. We may disclose personal data we hold about you to a third party for any purpose that is directly or indirectly related to the normal use of Sharesight.
Sharesight uses essential, functionality, performance and advertising cookies, further detailed below. You are in control of your cookies, and can choose to turn all off except for essential cookies.
Essential cookies
We use essential cookies to make our website work. You can disable these cookies in your browser, but parts of sharesight.com may not work.
Cookie name | Creator | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
campaign_code | Sharesight | This Sharesight-owned cookie stores an optional promotional code for pricing discounts inline with campaign offers that can be used by paying customers. | 1 month |
cookie-consent | Sharesight | This cookie is used by Sharesight to check whether a website visitor has saved their cookie consent preferences. | 12 months |
intercom-session-tv6jsyee | Sharesight | This Intercom session cookie is used as an identifier for each unique browser session. It allows users to access their Intercom conversations on logged-out pages for up to 1 week. | 1 week |
intercom-device-idtv6jsyee | Sharesight | This Intercom cookie is used to identify the device interacting with the Intercom messenger app for security purposes. | 9 months |
intercom-id-tv6jsyee | Sharesight | This cookie is used as an anonymous visitor identifier by Intercom. It allows visitors to see any conversations they've had on the Intercom messenger app. | 9 months |
Functionality cookies
Sharesight uses functionality cookies to improve the user experience by saving your preferences in order to show content most relevant to you.
Cookie name | Creator | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
exit-intent-blog | Sharesight | This cookie remembers if you’ve previously closed the sign up modal on the website ’s blog pages so as to not show it again. | 1 month |
sharesight_country | Sharesight | This Sharesight-owned cookie is used to render region-specific content if a user chooses to manually change what country they are from on the website. | After browser session ends |
Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used on sharesight.com if you give us permission to do so. We use these cookies to gather anonymous data on how visitors use our website
Cookie name | Creator | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics, and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 2 years |
_ga | Sharesight | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics, and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 2 years |
_ga_RW4RQLNJDN | Sharesight | This Google Analytics cookie is used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website (e.g. which pages were viewed). We use this information to further improve and develop our website. | 2 years |
mp_4b8775477c9ef1439bbd6bbdcd10e781_mixpanel | Sharesight | This Mixpanel cookie is used to collect standard internet log and visitor behavior data in order to analyse visitor traffic. You can find more information about Mixpanel’s privacy policy here: https://mixpanel.com/privacy/. | 1 year |
_vis_opt_exp_{EXPERIMENT_ID}_combi | Sharesight | This Visual Website Optimizer cookie is generated when you reach a particular A/B test combination. This cookie ensures that you see the same variation that you saw on your previous visit to the page. Sharesight uses VWO to run A/B tests in order to further improve the website | 100 days |
_vis_opt_exp_{EXPERIMENT_ID}_goal_GOAL_ID | Sharesight | This Visual Website Optimizer cookie is generated when an A/B test goal is created. | 100 days |
_vis_opt_s | Sharesight | This cookie is used by Visual Website Optimizer to store unique website visits. Sharesight uses VWO to run A/B tests in order to further improve the website. | 100 days |
_vis_opt_test_cookie | Sharesight | This cookie is used by Visual Website Optimizer to read if cookies can be placed on the visitor’s device. | After browser session ends |
_vwo_ds | Sharesight | This Visual Website Optimizer cookie stores persistent visitor-level data for reporting insights. It collects information about how visitors interact with the website pages. | 100 days |
_vwo_sn | Sharesight | This cookie is used by Visual Website Optimizer to store session-level information. It collects data such as average time spent on the website and what pages have been viewed. | 30 minutes |
_vwo_uuid | Sharesight | This Visual Website Optimizer cookie generates a unique ID for every visitor and is used for report segmentation. | 1 year |
_dd_s | Sharesight | This Datadog cookie is used to group all events generated from a unique user session across multiple website pages. It contains the current session ID, whether the session is excluded due to sampling, and the expiration date of the session. | 4 hours |
utm_parameters | Sharesight | This Sharesight-owned cookie is used to store UTM parameter information such as campaign source and name for marketing and reporting purposes. | 1 month |
Advertising cookies
These cookies are placed by our advertising and social media partners, if you give us the permission to do so. Our partners may act as intermediaries between us and advertisers, they collect the information about your use of our website and other third party websites to make online and social advertising more relevant to your interests. We also use these cookies to invite specific customer groups to reconnect with Sharesight later.
Cookie name | Creator | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
AnalyticsSyncHistory | This LinkedIn cookie is used to store and track visits to Sharesight’s website. | 1 month | |
IDSYNC | Yahoo | This Yahoo remarketing cookie is used for advertising purposes. It checks if a visitor has been to our website before, which allows us (or a third party) to display an appropriate advertisement on another website. | 1 year |
1P_JAR | This third-party cookie is used by Google Ads Optimization for marketing and retargeting purposes. | 1 month | |
A3 | Yahoo | This Yahoo cookie stores a unique identifier which is used to display and measure personalised advertising content. | 1 year |
AEC | Google’s AEC cookie ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. This cookie prevents malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. | 6 months | |
APISID | This Google ads cookie personalises advertisements on third-party websites based on recent Google searches and interactions. | 6 months to 10 years | |
HSID | This is a security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. | 2 years | |
MR | Microsoft | This is a Microsoft cookie which is used to measure website interactions for ad analytics. | 6 months |
MUID | Microsoft | This cookie is used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier, allowing user tracking for advertising purposes. | 1 year |
MSPTC | Microsoft | This is a Microsoft Bing cookie used to serve relevant advertisements to visitors on other websites. | 1 year |
NID | The “NID” cookie is used by Google to store user preferences for advertising purposes. | 6 months to 10 years | |
SAPISID | This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites such as YouTube, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 2 years | |
SID | This is a security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. | 2 years | |
SIDCC | This is a security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. | 2 years | |
SSID | This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites such as YouTube, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | 6 months to 10 years | |
__Secure-1PAPISID | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-1PSID | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-1PSIDCC | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-3PAPISID | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-3PSID | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-3PSIDCC | This Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
_fbp | Sharesight | This third-party Facebook cookie is used to store and track visits across the website for advertising and analytics purposes. | 3 months |
_gcl_au | Sharesight | This is a Google AdSense cookie used for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
_rdt_uuid | Sharesight | This cookie is used to attribute conversions back to Reddit ads. It helps build a profile of your interests to show you relevant ads. | 3 months |
_uetsid | Sharesight | This Microsoft Bing cookie collects data on visitor behavior from multiple websites in order to present more relevant advertisements. | 1 day |
_uetvid | Sharesight | This third-party cookie is used by Bing Ads to store and track visits across websites for advertising purposes. | 13 months |
guest_id | This Twitter cookie is for authentication to identify and track the website visitor. | 13 months | |
guest_id_ads | This cookie is for Twitter advertising. | 13 months | |
guest_id_marketing | This cookie is for Twitter advertising. | 13 months | |
muc_ads | This cookie is for Twitter advertising. | 13 months | |
personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter for integration and sharing capabilities on social media. | 13 months | |
sa-user-id | StackAdapt | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a random identifier for user identification to display relevant advertisements. | 1 year |
sa-user-id-v2 | StackAdapt | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a random identifier for user identification to display relevant advertisements. | 1 year |
sa-user-id-v3 | StackAdapt | This third-party advertising cookie tracks your website activity - such as the pages you’ve visited and the locations you’ve viewed - in order to suggest personalised content and ads on external websites. | 1 year |
session | Dianomi | This Dianomi cookie is used to store a dmp session id for marketing purposes. | 180 days |
UserMatchHistory | This third-party LinkedIn cookie is used for ads ID syncing. | 30 days | |
bcookie | This LinkedIn browser Identifier cookie is used to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | 1 year | |
fr | This cookie is used for ads targeting on Facebook. | 3 months | |
lang | Google Analytics | This LinkedIn cookie is used to remember a user's language settings. | After browser session ends |
li_sugr | This third-party cookie is used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside of LinkedIn’s designated countries. | 90 days | |
lidc | This LinkedIn cookie is used for facilitating data center selection. | 1 day | |
AMCVS_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg | This is a LinkedIn cookie used to gather analytics for advertising purposes. | 2 years | |
AMCV_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg | This is a LinkedIn cookie used to gather analytics for advertising purposes. | 2 years | |
csrf_token | This Reddit cookie is used for session authentication. | 1 year | |
csv | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
edgebucket | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
loid | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
rdt | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
session_tracker | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
token_v2 | This third-party cookie is used for Reddit ads. | 1 year | |
__spdt | Sharesight | This cookie is used to analyse user interaction on site that audio listeners take after hearing or seeing an ad on Spotify. | 13 months |
As mentioned above, information obtained through third party cookies will be disclosed to, or collected directly by those third parties. Removing cookies in your browser settings means that any preference settings you have made on a website will be lost (including any consent preferences regarding cookies where that is available).
What happens to data collected by cookies that have been downloaded in the past
If you had initially consented to one or more categories, we may still use the data collected at that time, when you had previously provided your consent. When you change your settings to disable any of the non-essential categories, we will re-set our systems as soon as reasonably possible to stop using those categories to gather any further data.
How do I manage my cookies
You can change the cookie preferences by visiting the cookie settings towards the footer of any of the website pages. See below for more information on how to manage your cookie settings in these popular browsers:
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You can also contact us at support@sharesight.com if you wish to withdraw cookie consent or update your preferences.