Cookies
Use of cookies on by.me.com and their subdomains
Cookies are small text files that are placed on the user’s computer when visiting websites. They are widely used to serve websites or to ensure their more efficient operation, as well as to provide information to the owners of these websites. The definitions below explain the cookies we use and why.
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are essential and are used to provide you with services available through 3DS websites. For instance, these cookies allow 3DS to remember your choices about cookies preferences, to record your interface customization trackers e.g. for the choice of language used by the website. You have no choice on whether or not to accept these cookies when you visit one of our websites.
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| TCPID, TCID | . by.me.com | TrustCommander uses this cookie to measure statistics for privacy banner performance after a visitor provided consent. Before users provided consent TrustCommander uses the TCPID cookie to measure anonymous statistics for privacy banner | 13 months |
| tCdebugLib | . by.me.com | Activates the console log for Tag Commander | Session |
| TC_PRIVACY | . by.me.com | Used for user status storage (opt-in or opt-out) and Privacy banner display | 396 days |
| TC_PRIVACY_CENTER | . by.me.com | Displays the opt-in/opt-out categories in the Privacy Center if the user re-opens it | 396 days |
| WID | . by.me.com | Used to identify when the browser is closed in order to split page views into multiple functional sessions. | Session |
| _xsecfflg | account.by.me | Used to protect again CSRF during login process | Session |
| _interaction | account.by.me | Used to ensure login workflow | 10 minutes |
| _interaction.sig | account.by.me | Used to ensure login workflow | 10 minutes |
| _interaction_resume | account.by.me | Used to ensure login workflow | 10 minutes |
| _interaction_resume.sig | account.by.me | Used to ensure login workflow | 10 minutes |
| homebyme | .by.me.com | User session token, used to authenticate user for access to his HomeByMe data | 1 year |
| hl | .by.me.com | Used to remember user selected language | 1 year |
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are used to provide you with contents and proposals that correspond to your interactions. They may consist of information logged on your device or recorded as you navigate through 3DS websites. These cookies also allow us to analyze site usage so we can measure and improve performance.
Google Analytics & Google Optimize
Our websites and Google Optimize to run AB tests to improve the performance of our websites and propose the consent matching the users’ needs. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit Google Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| _ga, _gs, _gu, gw, _gid | . by.me.com | Used to distinguish users. | 2 yers |
| _gat | . by.me.com | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| _gcl_au | . by.me.com | It’s the first party cookie for “Conversion Linker” functionality | 90 days |
Other functional cookies
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| previousPageName | . by.me.com | Collects information about how visitors use our websites. | Session |
| VUID | . by.me.com | Differentiates between unique users on our websites. | 1 year |
| ajs_anonymous_id | .by.me.com | Random generated id for anonymous visitors. Used to count different users. | 1 year |
| bmlng | account.by.me | Used to remember user preselected language | Session |
Targeted and Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies are used to enable 3DS and its 3DS business partners to serve ads that are relevant to your interests. The intention is to display ads that are relevant to you.
With the help of the LinkedIn Insight Tag, we can analyze the success of our campaigns within the LinkedIn platform or determine target groups for them based on the interaction of the users with our website. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy.
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | 30 days |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | Optimizes data center selection | 30 days |
| lissc | .linkedin.com | 30 days | |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | Secures the Browser Cookie | 2 years |
| bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | Saves the state of 2FA of a logged-in user | 2 years |
| lang | .linkedin.com | Remembers the user’s selected language version of the website | Session |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | Tracks the use of embedded services. | 1 day |
We use Facebook Pixel to display Facebook ads to users who have shown an interest in our websites or who have specific characteristics, e. g. interests in certain products or topics. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit Facebook’s Data Usage Policy.
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| _fbp | . by.me.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. | 90 days |
| _fbc | . by.me.com | Installed when a user arrives at our website from an Ad, and the destination URL includes the click identifier “fbclid”. | 90 days |
| fr | .facebook.com | Set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 90 days |
KissMetrics
We use KissMetrics to analyze how visitors are using our website. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit KissMetrics Privacy Policy.
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| km_ai | .home.by.me | These cookies are placed by KISSmetrics, another third party analytics service, to collect information about how visitors use our website. | 5 years |
| km_e | .home.by.me | These cookies are placed by KISSmetrics, another third party analytics service, to collect information about how visitors use our website. | 10 years |
| km_lv | .home.by.me | These cookies are placed by KISSmetrics, another third party analytics service, to collect information about how visitors use our website. | 5 years |
| km_vs | .home.by.me | These cookies are placed by KISSmetrics, another third party analytics service, to collect information about how visitors use our website. | 1 day |
| km_eq | .home.by.me | These cookies are placed by KISSmetrics, another third party analytics service, to collect information about how visitors use our website. | 1 day |
Google Advertising
We use Google Ads services to display ads on Google and Google Display Network. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION | ||
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads to measure the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 year | ||
| RUL | .doubleclick.net | Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed – This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. | 1 year | ||
| _uetvid | .by.me | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. | |||
| uuid | .mathtag.com
(MediaMath) |
MediaMath uses cookies to help recognize a computer or device so that they can deliver relevant advertising to you, measure the impact of that advertising and better understand and recognize digital media usage patterns. | 13 months | ||
| mt_mop | .mathtag.com
(MediaMath) |
Used for targeting purposes to optimise ad relevance by utilising visitor data from multiple websites provided by the MediaMath ad-exchanage and Google | 30 days | ||
YouTube
YouTube is used by our websites to store and show video content. These cookies are set by YouTube to track the usage of its services. The YouTube Cookies are only installed when you press play. To learn more visit Google’s Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | Used by YouTube to show more relevant ads. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE enables also personalized recommendations on YouTube based on past views and searches. | 1 year |
| CONSENT | .youtube.com | ||
| YSC | .youtube.com | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video | Session |
We use Pinterest services to display ads on Pinterest and Pinterest Network. To learn more about how your data is processed, please visit Pinterest’s Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| _pin_unauth | .home.by.me | First-party cookie that groups actions for users who cannot be identified by Pinterest. | 1 year |
Outbrain
Outbrain Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| outbrain_cid_fetch | . by.me.com | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. | 1 day |
AddThis
AddThis provides us with customizable social sharing tools, which makes sharing online content simple. To learn more about how AddThis collects and uses data please read its Privacy Policy
| COOKIE NAME | DOMAINS | PURPOSE | RETENTION |
| __atuvc | . by.me.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 2 years |
| __atuvs | . by.me.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented but has been categorized on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. | 2 years |
| di2, loc, uid, um, uvc, Vc | .addthis.com | Addthis cookies track which of the social networking options you use (email a friend, send to Facebook etc.) This information is only collected in aggregate form so we can tell which are the most popular tools. | 13 months |
How do I change my cookie settings?
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Last modification: March 26th, 2021