Marigold Grow Support

Grow & Cookies

Iain - Updated:

Introduction

What is a cookie?

Cookie is a very small text file managed by your web browser. A website can ask for one or more cookies to be stored in your browser and they often contain details like your user id and/or simple preferences. It can only be read by the website (domain) that gave it to you.

A cookie's purpose

Cookies help a website recognise returning users and help react to user’s preferences. Cheetah Experiences uses essential, functional cookies that are mainly used for fraud prevention purposes or privacy setting management - such as age gate or COPPA site restrictions. In this document, we aim to list all relevant cookies that may be used in your experience.

You'll often find websites provide information about cookies including:

  • Cookie name name of the cookie which is being dropped
  • Purpose the reason for the collection of the data
  • Scope which websites (domains) can read it
  • Duration the length of time the cookie will be stored 
  • Data held the type of data held within cookies

Cheetah Experiences & Cookies

Cookie name: ngx

  • Purpose: For internal tracking purposes
  • Platform: Macro and NextGen
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Data held: Contains a unique, randomly-generated, identifier
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0002 - Analytics
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Analytics

Cookie name: ngx_v

  • Purpose: To help identify suspicious activity and prevent fraud during voting
  • Platform: Macro
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Data held: Contains a unique, randomly-generated, identifier
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name: ngx.auth.redirect

  • Purpose: For some experiences, users can login using a social network or our customer's own login system. This cookie helps us return the user back to the right step in the experience after they have logged in.
  • Platform: Macro
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Data held: Contains the URL that the user will be returned to after signing in
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name ngx.auth.redirect.provider

  • Purpose: For some experiences, users can login using a social network or our customer's own login system. This cookie helps identify the social network or website provider that the user logged in with.
  • Platform: Macro
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Data held: Contains the name of the social network or website provider
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name ngx.auth.redirect.responseObject

  • Purpose: For logging in to a social network. If no reference is found for the original opening window after redirection, then assume we are in a state whereby the browser redirected the campaign page, rather than opened a new window. This can happen when a user is browsing a campaign using an in-app browser on IOS (eg Facebook app, Twitter app) and possibly other situations too.
  • Platform: Macro
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Data held: Contains the response object
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name <campaign id OR account id>_<multi-optin-remote-id>

  • Purpose: When progressive filtering is enabled on a multi-optin, we store the user’s submitted choices in cookies and local storage.  If filtering is set to account level, the account id is used.  If filtering is set to campaign level, the campaign id is used.
  • Platform: Macro and NextGen
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Data held: Contains all submitted choices for progressively filtered multi-opt ins.
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0003 - Functional Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Functional

Cookie name ngx_progressive

  • Purpose: When progressive filtering is enabled, we store the user’s submitted choices in cookies and local storage. 
  • Platform: Macro
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Data held: Contains the progressive filtered previous choices
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0003 - Functional Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Functional

Cookie name <campaign id>_is_blocked OR gate_<account id>

  • Purpose: For date of birth module, when COPPA is selected, the campaign will be blocked by setting this cookie or local storage flag if the user is younger than 13.
  • Platform: Macro (gate_<account id>) and NextGen (<campaign_id>_is_blocked)
  • Scope: The wayin.com domain
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Data held: true flag
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

In addition, when social sharing is enabled, third-party cookies may be tracked by the respective social network. To learn more about their cookie policy, you can visit the following references:

Campaigns that use reCAPTCHA for voting or entry fraud protection will additionally have cookies added by Google’s reCAPTCHA service. These cookies are used for fraud prevention and are considered Strictly Necessary Cookies:

Cookie name _GRECAPTCHA

  • Purpose: Managed by the Google reCaptcha service for fraud prevention
  • Platform: Macro and NextGen
  • Scope: The google.com domain
  • Duration: Session
  • OneTrust cookie type: C0001 - Strictly Necessary Cookies
  • Cheetah Experiences category: Strictly Necessary

Related articles