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Which Cookies does excentos generate or use?
Type | Key | Name (internal) | who places the Cookie? | Suggested category for your Consent Management Tool |
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Cookie lifetime | Purpose | Internal Notes | |||||
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Cookie | xcSessID | Session ID | excentos | Functional Cookie | Session | Keeps the session state synchronized with the server | |
Cookie | xcVisitorID | Visitor ID | excentos | Analytics Cookie | 5 years | Tracks a visitor between sessions | Essential if you want to use Ecommerce tracking. |
Cookie | _xcpk_ses.* | Matomo Session | excentos | Analytics Cookie |
30 min | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to recognize a visitor during one session. | Matomo is the web analytics solution used by excentos. (Our Analytics solution "Matomo" was previously called "Piwik"; that's why the cookie name is "pk".) | ||||
Cookie | _xcpk_id.* | Matomo ID | excentos | Analytics Cookie | 2 years | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to recognize a visitor between sessions. |
localStorage
excentos.analytics.matomo
This stores a list of products for which the user achieved the interest goal together with the xcVisitorID. It is used to track referrals based on interest goals and determine when the referral had been achieved.
The interest goal is achieved if a user interacts with one of the product recommendations (e.g. click on product image, add a product to a comparison basket). The data stored together with the product can contain all data available on the product recommendation (e.g. product name, product detail page URL, product name and manufacturer, last time the product achieved the interest goal, price, ranking information).
Cookie | _xcpk_ref.* | Matomo ID | excentos | Analytics Cookie | 6 months | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to store information about the referrer that brought the visitor to the advisor. | |
Cookie | __storage_test__ | function test cookie | excentos | Functional Cookie | deleted immediately | Used to find out if the browser technically supports cookies | |
Cookie | xcConsent | consent state | excentos | Functional Cookie | Session | Indicates if consent to tracking and/or cookies is given:
| Structure: { if essential cookie consent is not given, this cookie is not saved. |
Cookie | xcUserProfile | user profile | excentos | Functional Cookie | Session | saves the user's current inputs to resume his session after a timeout | The data isn't sent anywhere, it's only used to restore a previous state of the advisor. It's only used if the user agrees to resume a previous session in the session timeout dialog. |
Cookie | xcStageId | advisor stage | excentos | Functional Cookie | Session | saves the current stage/phase in the advisor for resuming the session after a timeout | The data isn't sent anywhere, it's only used to restore a previous state of the advisor. It's only used if the user agrees to resume a previous session in the session timeout dialog |
Compare Goals for more information on the interest goal.
Some of these attributes are redundant and might be removed from localStorage with future releases. | |||||||
localStorage | excentos.analytics.matomo.lastevent | Matomo lastevent | excentos | Analytics local storage | local storage elements don't expire (but can be deleted by the user at any time) | Timestamp of last excentos Analytics tracking event. | Set but never used, will be deleted in future version |
localStorage | excentos.analytics.matomo | Matomo Product Interest | excentos | Analytics local storage | Summary of Products the user interacted with as well as the xcVisitorId and the project's account name | Set but never used, will be deleted in future version |
Notes: The above definition of Cookies refers to the latest version of the excentos Themes. If we implemented there is a custom customized user interface implemented, please contact excentos.
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Name des Dienstes: excentos Product Guides Beschreibung: excentos ist ein Online-Produktberater, der unsere Kunden während des Kaufentscheidungsprozesses durch personalisierte Produktempfehlungen unterstützt. Verwendete Technologien: Cookies Erhobene Daten: Erfasst Statistiken über Besuche des Benutzers in eingesetzten Beratungssystemen, wie z. B. die Anzahl der Besuche, durchschnittliche Verweildauer auf der Website und welche Seiten gelesen wurden. Personenbezogene Daten: IP-Adresse (wird bis zu 4 Stunden gespeichert) Ort der Verarbeitung: Europäische Union Speicherdauer: Es gibt vier Cookies, die folgende Speicherdauern haben: Sitzungsdauer, 2 Jahre, 5 Jahre. |
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Name of the service: excentos Product Guides Description: The excentos Product Guides help visitors of our website with personalized product recommendations during their buying decision process. Technologies used: Cookies Processed data: Statistics and data on visits and events in the Product Guides such as e.g. number of visits, average duration time of a visit, and selected events in the Product Guides. Personalized data processed: IP address (but stored for up to 4 hours only) Place of data processing: European Union or United States ( please clarify with excentos). Lifetime: There are Retention period: We use four different cookies with the following retention periodslifetime: Session duration, 2 years, 10 5 years. |
Notes
The above describes the standard configuration. However, if customized solutions are implemented (e.g. integration with our customer’s lead generation processes), it might occur that we use additional cookies are used.