Definition: Temporary and permanent cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by a web server. The next time you visit the website, it can use the cookie to recognise your web browser. Cookies cannot run programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the website more user-friendly and effective overall.
There are several types of cookies, the scope and function of which we would now like to explain:
- There are temporary or transient cookies that are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include session cookies. These store a session ID which assigns the various requests made by your browser to a particular session. This allows your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
- There are also permanent or persistent cookies, which initially remain stored after the browser has been closed, but are automatically deleted after a predetermined period of time. The duration varies depending on the cookie, but we would like to point out that you can delete the cookies at any time using your web browser’s security settings.
- Third-party cookies are cookies that are offered by someone other than the Controller operating the website.
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Necessary Cookies | |||
| Id | Domain | Duration | Description |
| callback_page_visited | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | session | |
| cookieyes-consent | .comatch20dev.wpengine.com | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users‘ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on their subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information of the site visitors. |
| __hssrc | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | session | This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session. |
| __cfruid | .consultants.comatch.com | session | Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| Funktionally Cookies | |||
| Id | Domain | Duration | Description |
| __hssc | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | 30 minutes | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. |
| __cf_bm | .hubspot.com | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | 1 month | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. |
| lang | .ads.linkedin.com | session | LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting. |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. |
| locale | .comatch-gmbh.jobs.personio.de | session | Facebook sets this cookie to enhance the user’s browsing experience on the website, and to provide the user with relevant advertising while using Facebook’s social media platforms. |
| Analytics Cookies | |||
| Id | Domain | Duration | Description |
| __hstc | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | 5 months 27 days | This is the main cookie set by Hubspot, for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). |
| hubspotutk | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | 5 months 27 days | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
| _gcl_au | .wpengine.com | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| CONSENT | .youtube.com | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| _ga | .wpengine.com | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | .wpengine.com | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-55461126-6 | .wpengine.com | 1 minute | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _gat_UA-55461126-4 | .wpengine.com | 1 minute | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _ga_1F2S8G6SZR | .wpengine.com | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _hjFirstSeen | .wpengine.com | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | comatch20dev.wpengine.com | 2 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. |
| _gat_UA-55461126-35 | .comatch.com | 1 minute | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| attribution_user_id | .typeform.com | 1 year | This cookie is set by Typeform for usage statistics and is used in context with the website’s pop-up questionnaires and messengering. |
| Performance Cookies | |||
| Id | Domain | Duration | Description |
| _gat | .app.comatch.com | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
Restricting and deleting cookies
You have the right to restrict or prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser accordingly. You can also delete cookies already stored at any time. The steps and measures needed for the deletion of cookies vary, depending on the browser you use.