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Cookie policy
This page describes our cookie policy at InfoQ as we believe in being open, clear and transparent about how we collect and use data related to you
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone or other devices by the websites you visit. They are unique to your account or browser and the owners of the website are using them to provide you with features and functionality. There are 2 types of cookies:
- Session cookies that only last while your browser is open and are deleted automatically when you close it
- Persistent cookies that remain on your device for a set period of time or until you or your browser removes them. They are activated each time you visit the website that created that particular cookie.
How can you control cookies?
You should be aware that you may lose some functionality or settings if you choose to delete or turn off cookies.
Most browsers accept cookies by default and they also provide you with settings to control the cookies that websites you visit can place on your device or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally your browser provides you with the option to see what cookies you've got, delete them individually, block third party cookies or just cookies from particular sites so you are in full control of them. To find out more about how you can manage cookies in your browser visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.
How is InfoQ using cookies?
We use a number of cookies for various reasons ranging from storing some of actions on the site (for instance the fact that you've closed a message dialog and you don't to see it again) to remembering your logged in status so that you have instant access to your account and benefit from all features that register users can take advantage of.
You can find the cookies we use on InfoQ.com in the table below:
| Name | Provider | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| UserCookie | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to assign a unique identifier to the visitor on the site |
| RegUserCookie | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to identify a visitor being logged in on the site |
| IdpCookie | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to identify a visitor being logged in on the site with a social identity provider (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mircosoft, etc) |
| ConversionTrackingV2_ | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie for sales purposes, allowing us to track registrations on client sites referred by InfoQ.com |
| PSAdialog | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to identify promotion of our Personalization and Social features via a modal dialog so we don't show it multiple times to the same visitor |
| -P13NWN | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to control when the notifications count badge should no longer be shown to a visitor |
| _bkm | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to store bookmarked content on the site (made by clicking the "Read later" button on content pages) for non logged in visitors |
| JSESSIONID | InfoQ | Essential Cookies | Cookie to identify user session |
| _ga, _gid, gat,_gac_* | Analytics | Third party (Google Analytics) cookie used for analytics purposes
More details: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
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| AWSALB, AWSALBCORS | Amazon | Essential Cookies | Third party AWS cookies used for sticky sessions by the AWS load balancer
More details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/sticky-sessions.html |
| CloudFront-Key-Pair-Id | Amazon | Essential Cookies | Third party (Amazon CloudFront) cookie used for video theft protection purposes
More details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-signed-cookies.html |
| CloudFront-Policy | Amazon | Essential Cookies | Third party (Amazon CloudFront) cookie used for video theft protection purposes
More details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-signed-cookies.html |
| CloudFront-Signature | Amazon | Essential Cookies | Third party (Amazon CloudFront) cookie used for video theft protection purposes
More details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-signed-cookies.html |
| _fbp | Advertising | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |