Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. We may also collect data that your browser sends us, such as your IP address, browser type, location, language, access time and referring Web site addresses.
Such data may be used to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track your movements around the site and to gather demographic data about our visitor base as a whole. The data gathered by these cookies is in the form of aggregated anonymous data.
We use different types of cookies as summarized below:
These cookies are strictly necessary to offer you the basic functionalities of our Website, to deliver the services you have specifically asked for, and to remember your settings, such as detection of your language preferences in English or French.
| Name | Purpose | Retention period |
|---|---|---|
| cookieValue | Used to save the user's preferred language on the website. | 365 Days |
| JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | SESSION |
| starlight | This cookie used for the disclaimer acceptance flag. | 365 Days |
| mf_[website-id] | 1st party cookie, session lifetime: A cookie for identifying the current session on a website | SESSION |
| mf_user | 1st party cookie, persistent: A cookie for checking if the user is new or returning | 90 |
| cookie-agreed-categories | Save the user's cookie consent category states for the current domain | 365 Days |
| AKA_A2 | This cookie is generally provided by Akamai and is used for the Advanced Acceleration feature, which enables DNS Prefetch and HTTP2 Push. | 365 Days |
| cookie-agreed | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | 365 Days |
| c | Used in order to detect spam and improve the website's security. Does not store visitor specific data. | 365 Days |
Cookies that allow a CGI website to ‘remember’ choices made by site visitors in the past, such as (but not limited to) log-in information (user name and password), geographic location (for such things as weather reports and time zones), accessibility configurations, and language preferences.
| Name | Purpose | Retention period |
|---|---|---|
| __utmb | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | 365 Days |
| __utma | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | 365 Days |
| hubspotutk | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. | 365 Days |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 365 Days |
| __hstc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 365 Days |
| language | There are many different types of cookies associated with this name, and a more detailed look at how it is used on a particular website is generally recommended. However, in most cases it will likely be used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. The ICC category given here is based on this usage. | 365 Days |
| __utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes | 365 Days |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by HubSpot. This particular domain for the company ensures that all HubSpot features and functionality are added to the site correctly. | 365 Days |
| __utmc | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. | 365 Days |
| __utmz | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 365 Days |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activities are: Video Hosting / Sharing | 365 Days |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | 365 Days |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by HubSpot. This particular domain for the company ensures that all HubSpot features and functionality are added to the site correctly. | 365 Days |
| _gat_UA-399437-1 | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | 365 Days |
| __hssc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 365 Days |
| _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie | 365 Days |
| __hssrc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | 365 Days |
| _gat_UA-114077998-1 | This is a pattern-type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the name element contains the unique identifier of the account or website to which it is associated. It is a variation of the _gat cookie that is used to limit the amount of data that Google stores on high-traffic websites. | 365 Days |
| _hjid | This is a pattern-type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the name element contains the unique identifier of the account or website to which it is associated. It is a variation of the _gat cookie that is used to limit the amount of data that Google stores on high-traffic websites. | 365 Days |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 365 Days |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | 365 Days |
Also known as “performance cookies” on CGI websites. These track how a visitor uses a website, which pages were visited, which links were clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify a real person, as it is aggregated and anonymized. These sorts of cookies, including ones from third party analytics services, are for the exclusive use of CGI and their sole purpose is to improve website functions.
| Name | Purpose | Retention period |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 365 Days |
| s_plt | Tracks the time that the previous page took to load | Session |
| GPS | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 365 Days |
| liap | Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Used through Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the site and advertising | 3 months |
| s_ppv | Used by Adobe Analytics to retain and fetch what percentage of a page was viewed | Session |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | 90 days |
| fr | Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. | 365 Days |
| _cc_aud | We use this cookie to target advertising that is appropriate for you through the Adform service. This domain is owned by Lotame. The cookie can be used to collect the following information: Cookie ID, Mobile Advertising ID, Partner ID, browser and device information, IP address and analytics information about the functionality of advertising. By accepting cookies, you allow Adform and Lotame to process your cookie information. You can influence the processing of your information by contacting dpo@adform.com or modifying your cookie settings. | 365 Days |
| lms_ads | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn in the Designated Countries for advertising | 30 days |
| _guid | Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads | 90 days |
| lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 Days |
| hubspotutk | This domain is owned by Leadfamily. This cookie tracks the identity of the visitor. It is forwarded to HubSpot when the form is submitted and is used for deduplication of contacts. | 13 Months |
| gpv_pn | This cookie gathers data for analyzing the visitor's use of the website including activity tracking, page visits and links clicked | 2 Hours |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by HubSpot. This company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services. | 365 Days |
| dpm | The cookie is used for targeted advertising and marketing. Domain is owned by Adobe Audience Manager. | 365 Days |
| bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 Days |
| s_tp | Tracks percent of page viewed | 2 years |
| bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 Days |
| A3 | This domain is owned by Yahoo, whose principal business is Search and Advertising Services. | 365 Days |
| _kuid_ | We use this cookie to target advertising that is appropriate for you online. This domain is owned by the Krux Digital. | 365 Days |
| VID | A visitor-related identifier for a LinkedIn microsite used to determine conversions for lead gen purposes. | 1 Year |
| lms_analytics | Used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for analytics | 30 days |
| NID | This is a Google cookie that allows a company, such as CGI, to target advertising to users who have signed out of their service. A cookie allows CGI to show you useful content on Google services. By accepting marketing cookies, you authorize Google to process your information. You can also influence your own information or withdraw your consent in the Google services settings or by modifying your cookie settings from this cookie manager (link at the bottom of the page). Learn more: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies | 365 Days |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by HubSpot. The company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services. | 365 Days |
| mf_user | This cookie establishes whether the user is a returning or first-time visitor. This is done simply by a yes/no toggle and no further information about the user is stored. This cookie has a lifetime of 90 days. | 3 months |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | SESSION |
| __cfduid | The domain is owned by HubSpot. It provides a wide range of tools to help with digital marketing and sales, and to track traffic and marketing results. For website users, it enables them to register for events, download content, make various contacts and receive CGI communications. | 1 Month |
| AMCV_* | Unique Identifier for Adobe Experience Cloud | 180 days |
| lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | SESSION |
| AMCVS_* | Indicates the start of a session for Adobe Experience Cloud | Session |
| lissc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 Days |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by AddToAny. The main business activity is: Social Sharing Services and Tracking | 365 Days |
| s_pltp | Provides page name value (URL) for use by Adobe Analytics | Session |
| s_ips | Tracks percent of page viewed | 2 years |
| _ga | This domain is owned by Linkedin. This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - a major update to Google's most widely used analytics service. This cookie is used to identify users by identifying a randomly generated number as a customer ID. It is included in the page request for each site and is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for site analysis reports. | 2 years |
| _gid | This domain is owned by Linkedin. It uses GA Analytics to register a unique identifier that is used to generate statistics on how a visitor uses a website. | 1 day |
| lang | Used to remember a user's language setting | Session |
| RT | It measures page load time, or other timers associated with the page. | 365 Days |
| s_cc | Used to determine if cookies are enabled for Adobe Analytics | Session |
| UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 365 Days |
| s_tslv | Used to retain and fetch time since the last visit in Adobe Analytics | 6 months |
| 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 |
| demdex | This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling and reporting | 365 Days |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 365 Days |
| __cfduid | This domain is owned by HubSpot to create Lead Flows for marketing and sales purposes. | 365 Days |
| aam_uuid | Set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager | 30 days |
| lang | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. Twitter does not currently provide information on the use of specific cookies. | SESSION |
| anj | We use this cookie to target advertising that is appropriate for you online. The domain is owned by AppNexus Inc., which provides a variety of online advertising services. A cookie allows a service provider to associate information about its partners with a cookie. Information that the cookie collects: IP address, browser and device information, ISP, analytical information about the visitor's movement on the site, and demographic information. You can influence the processing of your data and withdraw your consent by editing your settings from this cookie manager (link at the bottom of the page) or from the service provider's website. More information: https://www.xandr.com/privacy/platform-privacy-policy/ | 365 Days |
| gpy_pn | Used to store and retrieve the previous page in Adobe Analytics. | 6 Months |
These are persistent cookies, usually of third-party provenance, and are used by advertisers to deliver relevant content or to limit exposure to certain ads. CGI does not generally use these cookies.
| Name | Purpose | Retention period |
|---|---|---|
| c_user | Session cookies are c_user and xs. c_user stores the username and the xs session secret, these two cookies together determine whether the user is logged in or not. | 3 months |
| RUL | Save browser information. | 1 Year |
| datr | The purpose of the Datr cookie is to identify the web browser used to connect to Facebook, regardless of the logged in user. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook's security and site integrity functions. | 2 Years |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | 2 Years |
| sb | Save browser data. | 2 Years |
| xs | Session cookies are c_user and xs. c_user stores the username and the xs session secret, these two cookies together determine whether the user is logged in or not. | 3 months |
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