This page provides an overview of which cookies are used by excentos Product Guides.
Which Cookies does excentos generate or use?
Type | Key | Name (internal) | Suggested category for your Consent Management Tool | Retention duration | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cookie | xcSessID | Session ID | Functional Cookie | Session | Keeps the session state synchronized with the server | |
Cookie | xcVisitorID | Visitor ID | Analytics Cookie | 5 years | Tracks a visitor between sessions | Essential if you want to use Ecommerce tracking. |
| Cookie | _xcpk ses.* | Matomo Session | Analytics Cookie | Session | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to recognize a user 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 | Analytics Cookie | 2 years | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to track a visitor between sessions. | |
localStorage | excentos.analytics.matomo | Matomo metadata | Analytics local storage | local storage elements don't expire | This stores (among a couple of redundant entries such as the visitor ID again) last interest times for products used to track referrals only before a certain timeout. Affects the 'productsWithInterest' Matomo event. | |
localStorage | excentos.analytics.matomo.lastevent | Matomo lastevent | Analytics local storage | local storage elements don't expire | Timestamp of last excentos Analytics tracking event. Set but never used. |
Notes: The above definition of Cookies refers to the latest version of the excentos Themes. If we implemented a custom user interface, please contact excentos.
The "Name (internal)" is just our internal name to easily communicate; it is not meant to be displayed in our customer's Consent Management Solution.
Default Text for Your Consent Management Solution
This is a legally non-binding text draft that you can use for your consent management if you want to inform your website visitors about cookie usage.
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.
Place of data processing: European Union or United States (
please clarify with excentos).
Retention period: We use four different cookies with the following retention periods: Session duration, 2 years, 10 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.
