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| Cookie Name | Description/Purpose | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| .AspNet.ApplicationCookie | Contains an encrypted authentication ticket | When you close your browser |
| __RequestVerificationToken | Used to ensure same destination for GET/POST methods. Used to prevent click jacking and phishing type attack vectors | When you close your browser |
| ContextLanguageCode | Used to store the configured language code for the user | When you close your browser |
| ARRAffinity | Azure Web App Affinity - used to ensure an affinity of requests to an Azure Web App Resource | When you close your browser |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Azure Web App Affinity - used to ensure an affinity of requests to an Azure Web App Resource | When you close your browser |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Session Identifier | When you close your browser |
| Dynamics365PortalAnalytics | Used to carry out page tracking - no personal data is stored | Circa 90 days |
| consentCookie | Used to store cookie consent. Created when the user hides the cookie banner. | Circa 30 days |
| isDSTObserved | Stores a value to indicate if the current moment is in daylight saving time. | When you close your browser |
| isDSTSupport | Indicates whether a specified date and time falls in the range of daylight saving time. | When you close your browser |
| timeZoneCode | Stores the timezonecode field value of CRM timezonedefintion entity for the current timezone. | When you close your browser |
| timezoneoffset | Stores the timezone difference between UTC and Local Browser. | When you close your browser |
| adxPreviewUnpublishedEntities | Stores preview ON/OFF mode in classic CMS for portal administrators. | When you close your browser |
| adx-notifcation | Used in entity form actions to store alert message to be shown on redirection. | When you close your browser |
| _ga | These help us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you have visited before | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | 1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year |
| _gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | 90 days |