Cookies Policy
1. Overview
This cookies policy (the “Cookies Policy“) is provided in association with the TOON BOOM ANIMATION INC. (“TOON BOOM“, “we” or “us) privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”).
The purpose of this Cookies Policy is to explain cookies and similar technologies that may be used to track the activity of visitors to https://www.toonboom.com or any other websites operated by TOON BOOM (collectively, the “Sites“). Most importantly, the Cookies Policy explains your choices with respect to this technology, and how to exercise your choices.
2. What are cookies?
As described in the Privacy Policy, cookies are small data files that we or third parties may place on your device when you visit our Sites to mark that you have been there. Cookies and similar tracking technology, such as pixels or web beacons (which also use cookie technology), may be used to gather information about your device’s browsing activities on our Sites. This information may be used for a variety of purposes, including website administration, market research and interest based advertising.
3. What are the different types of cookies?
In this section, we will provide a brief overview of the different types of cookies. In particular, we will categorize cookies according to three sets of criteria:
- “essential cookies” or “non-essential cookies”
- “session cookies” or “persistent cookies”; and
- “first party cookies” or “third party cookies”.
3.1. Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies may be classified as either “essential” or “non-essential”.
Essential Cookies are required for the basic functioning and display of a website, and include cookies that are either:
- used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
- strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
Non-Essential Cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies. There are three main sub-categories of non-essential cookies:
- Analytical cookies: Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about a device’s activity on a website for analytical purposes. These cookies are not essential for our Sites or their functionality to work, but provide analysis that may be used to improve our website experience and business to suit the needs and preferences of our visitors.
- Marketing cookies: Marketing cookies record information about a device’s activity on a website for marketing or advertising purposes. We use marketing cookies on our Sites to generate data that may be used to serve advertisements, promotions and offers to your device as you browse websites including the Sites and other websites. Third parties also use marketing cookies on our Sites to gain similar information about your interests, which can then be used to serve advertisements that may be more relevant or interesting to you as you browse websites including the Sites and other websites.
3.2. Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either “session” or “persistent”, depending on how long they remain after they are placed on your device.
Session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or when you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
3.3. First and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as “first party” or “third party”, depending on who sets the cookie.
First party cookies are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains. Please note that our Sites often contain embedded elements that are operated by third parties, such as advertisements and social media features (for example, the Facebook “like” button). These embedded elements may set third party cookies on your device as you browse the Sites, even if you do not interact with these elements.
Only the website that places the cookie can read the information. If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
4. What cookies are used on the Sites?
In this section, we list out the cookies that are active on our Sites in accordance with the criteria set out above. These cookies may change from time to time. While we will endeavour to keep this list current, there may be some delay before changes to the cookies on our Sites are reflected in the Cookies Policy. The broad categories of cookies set out in the list, however, will remain in effect regardless of changes to individual cookies.
4.1. Essential Cookies
| Name | Provider | Persistence | 1st or 3rd Party | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | CloudFlare | 6 hours | 3rd Party | Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 180 days | 3rd Party | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | |
| algoliasearch-client-js | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | To support search functionality on Learn website |
| AWSALB | Amazon Web Services | 7 days | 1st Party | These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. |
| AWSALBCORS | Amazon Web Services | 7 days | 1st Party | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). |
| CookieConsent | Civic | 90 days | 3rd Party | Is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on toonboom.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. |
| laravel_session | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Local application session for account.toonboom.com |
| locale_cc | Toon Boom | 180 days | 1st Party | Determines the website user’s country of origin. |
| locale_lc | Toon Boom | 180 days | 1st Party | Determines the website language. |
| PHPSESSID | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Local application session for Learn website |
| postLoginRedirect | Toon Boom | 1 minute | 1st Party | Redirect after login back to page where session started |
| rc::a | Session | 3rd Party | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | |
| rc::c | Session | 3rd Party | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | |
| remember_web_ | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Local application session |
| SESS | Toon Boom | 24 days | 1st Party | Toon Boom Corporate website Session ID, determines your current session on our main website and online store. |
| SimpleSAMLAuthToken | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Toon Boom Universal User Auth Token, keeps you logged-in on the many Toon Boom websites and web applications. |
| SimpleSAMLSessionID | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Toon Boom Universal User Session id, keeps you login on the many Toon Boom websites and web applications. |
| toon_boom_coe_session | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Local application session for COE website |
| toon_boom_online_store_session | Toon Boom | Session | 1st Party | Local application session for the Shop website |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Toon Boom | 6 hours | 3rd Party | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
4.2. Non-Essential Cookies
| Name | Provider | Persistence | 1st or 3rd Party | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytics Cookies | ||||
| __hssc | HubSpot | 6 hours | 3rd Party | This cookie keeps track of sessions. |
| __hssrc | HubSpot | Session | 3rd Party | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. |
| __hstc | HubSpot | 180 days | 3rd Party | The main cookie for tracking visitors. |
| __ptq.gif | HubSpot | Session | 3rd Party | Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 Years | 3rd Party | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate anonymous aggregated statistical data on how a visitor uses the website. |
| _gali | bibione.com | Session | 3rd Party | Used by Google Analytics to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Session | 3rd Party | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Session | 3rd Party | ID that is used to generate anonymous statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot | 180 days | 3rd Party | This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
| p.gif | 3rd Party | |||
| Marketing Cookies | ||||
| _fbp | 3 months | 3rd Party | To store and track visits across websites. | |
| _gcl_au | Persistent | 3rd Party | To store and track conversions | |
| ga-audiences | Session | 3rd Party | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | |
| IDE | 2 months | 3rd Party | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | |
| NID | 6 months | 3rd Party | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | |
| test_cookie | Google / Double Click | Session | 3rd Party | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | 6 months | 3rd Party | To provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor’s identity, Store and track interaction. |
| YSC | youtube.com | Session | 3rd Party | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
5. How do I control the use of cookies on the Sites?
In the previous sections, we have described cookie technology and what specific cookies are being used on our Sites. In this section, we will describe several methods that enable you to accept or reject cookies on our Sites. As a reminder, we do not recommend blocking essential cookies, as this will impair the basic functionality of our website.
5.1. Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies by adjusting your browser settings. You can find more detailed information about adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.
5.2. Cookie control tool on the Sites
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using the Cookie Control tool embedded in our Sites (“Cookie Control Tool“). The Cookie Control Tool is third party software (provided by Civic) that allows you to accept or reject cookies on our Sites. A banner for a tool will also be displayed at all times at the bottom-left of your screen when browsing our Sites. Clicking on this icon will open the Cookie Control Tool.
The Cookie Control tool provides you the option of:
- accepting or rejecting non-essential cookies as a whole; or
- accepting or rejecting cookies by category – namely the three categories of non-essential cookies described in this Cookie Policy (Functional Cookies, Analytical Cookies and Marketing Cookies).
If you are accessing the Sites from within the European Union or Switzerland, the Cookie Control Tool will be automatically set to reject non-essential cookies unless you actively accept some or all non-essential cookies. In areas outside the European Union and Switzerland, the Cookie Control tool will be automatically set to accept non-essential cookies unless you actively reject some or all non-essential cookies.
If at any time you have questions about this Cookie Policy, including how to manage cookies on our Sites, please contact our privacy team at privacy@toonboom.com.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.
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