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 | Internal 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 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 | Analytics Cookie | 2 years | Used by the excentos Analytics solution to recognize a visitor between sessions. | |
localStorage | excentos.analytics.matomo | Matomo metadata | Analytics local storage | local storage elements don't expire | 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). | Some of these attributes are redundant and might be removed from localStorage with future releases. |
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.
