Last updated: April 16, 2019
Capitalized terms used herein have the meaning given to such terms in our Privacy Policy.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY?
We use cookies on our Websites to provide you a great online experience. In addition to cookies, we may use web beacons, tags, and scripts on our Websites or in our emails to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our applicable analytics providers.
WHAT TYPE OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
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ESSENTIAL OR NECESSARY COOKIES
These cookies are needed to help you access and move around our Websites. Without these cookies, our Websites would not work, and you would not be able to use some critical features.
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FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
These cookies are used to remember the information you have entered or choices you make on the Websites, such as whether you’re logged in with your PayScale account. These preferences are remembered using persistent cookies so that the next time you visit our Websites you will not have to set them again.
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ANALYTICS COOKIES
These cookies help us understand how our Websites are being used so that we make improvements. These cookies can provide us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our Websites interest our visitors and if they experience any errors. We use these cookies to test different designs and features for our Websites and also use them to help us monitor how our visitors reach our Websites.
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ADVERTISING COOKIES
These third-party cookies ensure that advertisements shown to you on our Websites and other web sites are as relevant to you as possible. These third-party cookies record information about your use of advertisements to help us improve your experience. For example, these third-party cookies are placed by third-party advertising platforms or networks to deliver ads and track ad performance and enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be appropriate to you based upon your activities on our Websites. They may subsequently use information about your visit to target you with advertising that you may be interested in on our Websites and other web sites.
THIRD-PARTY FEATURES AND WIDGETS
Some pages of our Websites include third-party plugins or other features such as the LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or other share buttons through a third-party social media or email service. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Websites, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function correctly. Your use or interaction with these plugins and features is governed by the privacy policy and terms of use of the third-party company providing it.
LIST OF COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE
| Website Name(s) | Cookie Name | Cookie Purpose | Cookie Duration | Category |
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| AdRoll | __adroll, __consent | Tracking cookies are used to identify your device when you move between different Digital Properties, to serve targeted advertising. AdRoll may also use cookies from their advertising partners which will vary depending on the advertisers. | 2 years | Targeting/Advertising |
| Bizible | _biz_flagsA, _biz_nA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_sid, _biz_uid | Bizible unifies behavioral and ad data with sales outcomes and machine learning so you can make the right marketing decisions. | 1 year | Analytics |
| DoubleClick for Publishers (Google) | __gads | DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google’s purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue. | 2 years | Targeting/Advertising |
| Google Analytics | _ga, _gid, _gali, _dc_gtm_* | Google Analytics collects information on how our visitors use our website. | 2 years | Analytics |
| Marketo | _mkto_trk | Marketo allows a website to link visitor behaviour to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness. | 2 years | Analytics |
| Microsoft Application Insights | ai_user, ai_session | Microsoft Application Insights collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps. | 1 year | Analytics |
| Microsoft Bing ads | _uetsid | Microsoft Bing ads tracking cookie | 1 year | Targeting/Advertising |
| Mouseflow | mf_user, mf_* | Mouseflow analytics software is used to record user interactions for analysis. | 90 days | Analytics |
| PayScale | __AntiXsrfToken | Temporary cookie to help us prevent cross-site request forgery. | Session | Necessary |
| PayScale | accept-cookie | Tracks whether the user has accept cookie policy. | Session | Necessary |
| PayScale | af | Tracks affiliate ID when visiting site through one of our affiliate partners. | 10 years | Functionality |
| PayScale | b2b-marketing | Tracks if user has visited a B2B marketing page. | 30 days | Functionality |
| PayScale | b2b-pain, b2b-recommender, b2b-role, b2b-size | Tracks user selections in Compensation Software Recommender tool. | 1 year | Functionality |
| PayScale | client-origin | Helps us determine origin of client. Possible values include eu and non-eu. | Session | Necessary |
| PayScale | comment_author, comment_author_email | Stores and auto-fills name and email for adding comments in blogs. | 1 Year | Functionality |
| PayScale | CookiesEnabled | Temporary cookie to help us direct a user into the survey | Session | Functionality |
| PayScale | cookieVersion | Tracks version of PayScale jar cookies. | 10 years | Necessary |
| PayScale | hasBusinessAccount | Tracks if the user has a business account. | 30 days | Functionality |
| PayScale | hasReport | Tracks if the user has completed the salary survey. | Session | Functionality |
| PayScale | isLoggedIn | Tracks if the user is logged in with a PayScale account. | Session | Functionality |
| PayScale | jar30 | Session information stored for 30 days. | 30 days | Necessary |
| PayScale | jarLong | Session information stored over a long period of time. | 10 years | Necessary |
| PayScale | jarSession | Session information stored only throughout the single session. | Session | Necessary |
| PayScale | PHPSESSID | Session ID generated by our marketing pages hosted on WordPress | Session | Necessary |
| PayScale | profilecountflag | Tracks how many PayScale salary reports the user has generated. | 2 weeks | Functionality |
| PayScale | rctngguiderstep | Tracks if a user has seen a helpful tooltip on the Research pages. | 1 year | Functionality |
| PayScale | rcVisits | Tracks PayScale research center pages visited by user within a single session. | 30 days | Functionality |
| PayScale | researchCenter-page-count | Tracks number of PayScale research center pages visited by the user. | 1 year | Functionality |
| PayScale | src | Tracks where marketing leads originate. | Session | Functionality |
| PayScale | vid | Unique ID that helps us identitify a user’s session. | Session | Necessary |
| Snowplow | _sp_id.3c6c, _sp_ses.3c6c | Snowplow collects information on how our visitors use our website. | 2 years | Analytics |
| Visual Web Optimizer | _vis_opt_s, _vis_opt_test_cookie, _vwo_uuid_v2, _vis_opt_exp_*, _vwo_ds, _vwo_uuid | Tracking for A/B testing and other experiments. | 1 year | Analytics |
