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Our Sites and related online services use cookies and similar technologies to enable certain functionality and help collect information about your visit. This page describes our use of cookies, and the choices you have in relation to cookies.
What Are Cookies
“Cookies” are small text files, typically containing a unique string of letters and numbers, stored on your hard drive by a Site. When you return to the Site using the same browser, the Site can read the cookie and thereby gather information about your usage over time. Among other things, we use cookies and other technology to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits, which helps us to improve our Site, our Products, and your experience.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies provided by trusted third parties for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
- This Site uses Google Analytics, HubSpot, Hotjar and Mixpanel for the purpose of helping us to understand how you use the Site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics, HubSpot, Hotjar and Mixpanel pages.
- This Site uses Stripe cookies for the purpose of user authentication, fraud detection, fraud prevention and payment processing. For more information on Stripe cookies, see the Stripe page.
- This Site uses Auth0 cookies for the purpose of user authentication. For more information on Auth0 cookies, please see the Auth0 page.
- This Site uses LinkedIn cookies for the purpose of building a profile of your interests and notifying you of relevant posts on LinkedIn. For more information on LinkedIn cookies, please see the LinkedIn page.
Google Analytics
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to differentiate users and visitors | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to differentiate users and visitors | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | 1 minute |
HubSpot
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| hubspotutk | Used to track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts | 13 months |
| __hstc | Used to track visitors and contain the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session) | 13 months |
| __hssc | Used to keep track of sessions | 30 minutes |
| __hssrc | Used to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser | Session |
Hotjar
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user | 30 minutes |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session |
| _hjid | Used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser so as to ensure that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID | 365 days |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Used to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by PingCAP’s daily session limit | 30 minutes |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by PingCAP’s pageview limit | 30 minutes |
| _hjFirstSeen | Used to identify a new user’s first session | Session |
Mixpanel
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| mp_*_mixpanel | Used to analyze users’ actions (such as browsing and clicking) | 1 years |
Stripe
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| _stripe_sid | Used to authenticate for credit card payment | 30 minutes |
| _stripe_mid | Used to authenticate for credit card payment | 1 year |
Auth0
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| auth0; auth0_compact | Used to process user login | 3 days |
| did; did_compat | Used to identify a user’s device | 360 days |
| _cfdid | Used to identify users | 24 days |
| Cookie | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| s_tslv | Used to retain and fetch time since last visit in Adobe Analytics | 6 months |
| s_ppv | Used by Adobe Analytics to retain and fetch what percentage of a page was viewed | Session |
| s_sq | Used to store information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user by Adobe Analytics | Session |
| s_plt | Used to track the time that the previous page took to load | Session |
| AMCV_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg | Unique Identifier for Adobe Experience Cloud | 180 days |
| lidc | Used to optimize data center selection | 24 hours |
| mbox | Used by Adobe Target to analyze the relevance of online content | 180 days |
| gpv_pn | Used to retain and fetch previous page visited in Adobe Analytics | 6 months |
| _gid | Google Analytics cookie | 1 day |
| _gcl_au | Used through Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the site and advertising | 3 months |
| liap | Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member | 1 year |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 30 days |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | 30 days |
| lang | Used to remember a user’s language setting | Session |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user’s identity outside the Designated Countries | 90 days |
| s_pltp | Used to provide page name value (URL) for use by Adobe Analytics | Session |
| aam_uuid | Used to set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager | 30 days |
| _ga | Google Analytics cookie | 2 years |
| lms_analytics | Used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for analytics | 30 days |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform | 2 years |
| s_cc | Used to determine if cookies are enabled for Adobe Analytics | Session |
| AMCVS_14215E3D5995C57C0A495C55%40AdobeOrg | Used to indicate the start of a session for Adobe Experience Cloud | Session |
| at_check | Used to determine if a visitor has accepted the use of cookies for Adobe Target | Session |
| lms_ads | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn in the Designated Countries for advertising | 30 days |
Disabling Cookies
You may refuse to accept cookies from this site at any time by adjusting the cookie setting on your browser. You can also delete the cookies that are stored on your device. However, blocking, disabling or deleting cookies may limit your ability to view all or part of the pages of our Sites. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to block or disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website. You may wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers.
Changes to this Document
PingCAP may modify or update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect the changes in our practices. If we do so, we will notify you by changing the “Last Updated” date above. If we make any material changes, we will provide you with additional notice or obtain consent as may be required by applicable law.
Language
The English language version of this Cookie Policy shall be controlling in all respects and shall prevail in case of any inconsistencies with translated versions, if any.
More Information
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