YWAM LAUSANNE COOKIE NOTICE
13 February 2019
INTRODUCTION
To make this website work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our site visitors and platform users, we place small data files called cookies on your device when we have your consent to do so. This notice provides you with information about these cookies, what they do, your choice related to these cookies, and how to control them for this website.
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party representation (set by the YWAM Lausanne website) or third-party representation (set by another website) and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users.
COOKIES USED ON THIS SITE
There are four types of cookies that are used with this site: strictly necessary cookies, analytical cookies and performance cookies, functional cookies, and targeting cookies. Each of these cookies may be represented by YWAM Lausanne (a first party cookie) or one of our partners (a third party cookies). Because it is important for us to maintain transparency and foster choice, each of these are explained below.
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Strictly necessary cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by the user which amount to a request for services, such as setting privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Users can set their browsers to block or alert them about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not function properly.
Cookie, Name, Source, Lifespan, Description
__cfduid, YWAM LAUSANNE, 1 year, Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.
PHPSESSID, YWAM LAUSANNE, Session, Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
force-proxy-stream, YWAM LAUSANNE, 3 hours, This cookie is used to redirect server requests for sticky sessions.
renderCtx, YWAM LAUSANNE, Session, This cookie is used to track the end users SalesForce community context within ywamlausanne.com
sfdc-stream, YWAM LAUSANNE, 3 hours, This cookie is used to redirect server requests for sticky sessions.
PERFORMANCE AND ANALYTICS COOKIES
Performance and analytical cookies are similar with slight differences; they both provide information to the server or cloud service to track information that’s useful to the operator. Performance cookies provide reliability metrics, which can include but are not limited to network latency, packet loss, jitter, server-side delay and other helpful metrics. Analytical cookies provide information such as the number of unique web users, demographics, browser types encountered, length of stay on a webpage, length of stay on a website, and other analytics useful to a website operator.
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. Google Analytics employs both performance and analytical cookies. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used and how it’s performing. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The following table has more information about these cookies.
Cookie Name, Source, Lifespan, Description
_ga, Google Universal Analytics, 2 years, This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years.
_gat, Google Universal Analytics, 1 minute, This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
_gid, Google Universal Analytics, 24 hours, This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish users
To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
You may install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by going here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
These cookies allow the provision of enhanced functionality and personalization, such as videos and live chats. They may be set by the web application owner or by third party providers whose services have been added to pages of the web application. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these functionalities may not function properly.
Cookie Name, Source, Lifespan, Description
afc_clicked, YWAM LAUSANNE, Session, This cookie is set to track the advanced floating content find out more form position (open/closed).
PicassoLanguagea16c8d55-7f57-48b1-ac82-47ab008d1f7cPublished, YWAM LAUSANNE, SESSION, This is a session cookie that is set to remember the end users selected language preferences.
pctrk, YWAM LAUSANNE, SESSION, Used to track public page views by guest users.
cookietest, YWAM LAUSANNE, SESSION, Used to see if the browser is set to block or allow cookies.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES’ COOKIES
Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than the website owner for purposes such as collecting information on user behavior, demographics, or personalized marketing. When using our website, you may encounter embedded content, such as YouTube videos, Facebook advertising, Vimeo videos, Stripe payment processing forms, or our end user portal which is powered by SalesForce. These websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites or the lifespan of these cookies, even if you are directed to them from our website.
TARGETING COOKIES
Cookie Host, Cookie Name (#), Lifespan, Description
doubleclick.net, IDE, 7981 years, This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). Doubleclick is Google’s real time bidding advertising exchange
facebook.com, fr, 3 months, This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world’s largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.
youtube.com, LOGIN_INFO (5), 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
youtube.com, SID, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie is used by Google in combination with HSID to verify a Google user account and most recent login time.
youtube.com, HSID, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.
youtube.com, demographics, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Most likely used for demographic profiling and targeting for advertising.
youtube.com, VISITOR_INFO1 & _LIVE, 6 months, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.
youtube.com, APISID, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
youtube.com, GPS, 30 min., YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
youtube.com, SSID, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
youtube.com, YSC, Session, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
youtube.com, SAPISID, 7981 years, YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Facebook.com, _fbp, 2 hours, This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
vimeo.com, vuid, 2 years, This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing
HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES
You have the capability to control and delete cookies with most browsers. This section provides guidance regarding how to do that.
USING YOUR BROWSER
Many of the cookies used on our website and through emails can be disabled through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually completed through your browser function.
COOKIES THAT HAVE BEEN SET IN THE PAST
Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked.
QUESTIONS?
For more information, feel free to contact our Data Privacy Manager at [email protected].