Cookie information
Updated: 2 March 2020
Necessary (20)
| Name | Provider | Domains | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sc-cookies-accepted | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to determine whether a visitor has accepted cookies. | 1 year |
| Marketing | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to save marketing cookie preferences. | 1 year |
| Performance | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to save performance & analytics cookie preferences. | 1 year |
| Preferences | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to save preferences cookie preferences. | 1 year |
| sc_at | Snap | spectacles.com forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to identify a visitor across multiple domains. | 1 year |
| sc-country | Snap | snap.com | Used to determine a visitor’s country. | 1 day |
| bpazaws52gukakzc__* | investor.snap.com | Captcha feature for forms. | 6 hours | |
| ngpskuephr | investor.snap.com | Used for protected pages that require login access. | Session | |
| Q4_ASPX_PUBLIC_{user} | Q4 | investor.snap.com | “Remember Me” feature on public-protected login page. | None |
| adtsgidr5 | investor.snap.com | Used for anti-CSRF protection, related to email alerts sign-up. | 4 hours | |
| JSESSIONID | Q4 | investor.snap.com | New Relic cookie used to monitor website health and ensure site functionality. | Session |
| __cfduid | Cloudflare | investor.snap.com | Helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites and minimises blocking legitimate users. | 1 month |
| XSRF-TOKEN | TwelveNYC | giftfromsnap.com | Helps against XSS attacks. | 24 hours |
| giftfromsnap_session | giftfromsnap.com | Keeps data for the user’s session. | 24 hours | |
| lf_sid | Snap | experience.snapchat.com | Keep current server session ID. | Session |
| lf_uid | Snap | experience.snapchat.com | Current user token. | 7 days |
| JSESSIONID | StreamShark | experience.snapchat.com | Only when video is playing. StreamShark video. | 24 hours |
| SSN-"[long-uid]" | StreamShark | play.streamshark.io | Only when video is playing. StreamShark video. | 30 minutes |
| __zlcmid | Zendesk | spectacles.com | Shop visitor's machine ID for the Chat widget's authentication | 1 year |
Performance & analytics (10)
| Name | Provider | Domains | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to distinguish visitors and generate statistical data on how visitors use our website. | 1 year | |
| _gat | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com snap.com | Used to throttle request rate. | 8 hours | |
| _gid | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com | Used to distinguish visitors and generate statistical data on how visitors use our website. | 2 days | |
| _ga_{container-id} | snapfoundation.org | Persists session state. | 2 years | |
| _gat_UA-{property-id} | citizen.snap.com eng.snap.com investor.snap.com newsroom.snap.com research.snap.com snaporiginals.snapchat.com spectacles.com yellowla.com | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute | |
| _sca | Snap | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to distinguish unauthenticated visitors. | 1 day |
| _scu | Snap | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to distinguish unauthenticated visitors. Hashed identifier may be shared with Optimizely for A/B tests and feature gates. | 3 months |
| _sctr | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com | Used to determine whether a third party tag will be called in Snap Ads Pixel. | 1 year |
| _scid | Snap | snapchat.com forbusiness.snapchat.com spectacles.com | Used to help identify a visitor. | 1 year |
Preferences (3)
| Name | Provider | Domains | Purpose | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sc-language | Snap | snapchat.com snap.com | Used to remember the visitor's chosen language preference. | 1 year |
| sw-locale | Snap | spectacles.com | Visitor's selected locale preference. | None |
| sw-locale-detected | Snap | spectacles.com | Visitor's locale as detected by server. | Session |
Marketing (28)
| Name | Provider | Domains | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| taboola_session_id | Taboola | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Creates a temporary per-session User ID. a temporary per-session User ID | Session |
| t_gid | Taboola | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Assigns a unique User ID that Taboola uses for attribution and reporting purposes. | 1 year |
| taboola_fp_td_user_id | Taboola | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Indicates that the user clicked on an item that was recommended by Taboola’s services. This is used for reporting and analytics purposes. | 1 year |
| obuid | Outbrain | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Holds the anonymous user's ID. Used for tracking user actions, such as clicks on the recommendations. | 3 months |
| auid | Outbrain | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Holds the advertising ID of the user in mobile devices. Used for tracking user actions, such as clicks on the recommendations. | 90 days |
| RoktRecogniser | Rokt | forbusiness.snapchat.com ads.snapchat.com | Allows Rokt to track unique users across devices (who opted in through the Rokt widget), which allows us to optimise our marketing campaigns. | Indefinite or until removed |
| _uetsid | Microsoft Bing Adverts | forbusiness.snapchat.com | A session ID cookie used in order to improve conversion tracking. US only. | Session |
| _uetmsclkid | Microsoft Bing Adverts | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to capture the Microsoft Click ID from the advert URL in order to improve conversion tracking. US only. | 90 days |
| _fbp | Facebook Adverts | forbusiness.snapchat.com | A unique user ID cookie used to help identify a user. US only. | 90 days |
| _fbc | Facebook Adverts | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to capture the click ID from the advert URL containing the click identifier “fbclid” in order to track conversions to the advert click. US only. | 90 days |
| sc_seen_popup | Snap | spectacles.com | Used to remember if a mailing list pop-up has been seen. | 1 year |
| UserMatchHistory | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Distinguishes conversion from a LinkedIn advert. US only. | 1 month | |
| bcookie | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used for identifying the browser ID. US only. | 2 years | |
| bscookie | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to recognise a secure browser ID. US only. | 2 years | |
| lang | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to remember the visitor's language. US only. | Session | |
| lidc | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used for routing. US only. | 2 days | |
| lpv | Pardot | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Distinguishes conversion from Pardot site or advert. | 1 day |
| pardot | Pardot | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to denote an active visitor session while logged in on Pardot as a user. | Session |
| personalisation_id | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to track visitor activity from Twitter adverts on our websites and also to allow visitors to share content from our websites. US only. | 2 years | |
| test_cookie | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to check whether the visitor’s browser supports cookies. | 1 day | |
| _gcl_au | citizen.snap.com eng.snap.com investor.snap.com newsroom.snap.com research.snap.com snapfoundation.org snaporiginals.snapchat.com yellowla.com | Used to store and track conversions. | 3 months | |
| visitor_id | Pardot | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to track the visitor to the correct Pardot account. | 1 year |
| visitor_id | Pardot | forbusiness.snapchat.com | Used to track the visitor to the correct Pardot account. | 1 year |
| X-PP-L7 | PayPal | spectacles.com | Provides PayPal credit option messaging for the US. | Session |
| X-PP-SILOVER | PayPal | spectacles.com | Provides PayPal credit option messaging for the US. | 9 hours |
| akavpau_ppsd | PayPal | spectacles.com | Provides PayPal credit option messaging for the US. | Session |
| AKDC | PayPal | spectacles.com | Provides PayPal credit option messaging for the US. | 9 hours |