At Dustin we use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels and scripts (referred to as “cookies“ below) on our website and in our services to provide you with the best possible experience with us. We use cookies to simplify and customise our services and our communication. The objective of this cookie policy is to provide you with information about the cookies that we use, why we’re using them, and your choices related to cookies. You can find more information about the specific cookies in our Cookie Declaration in the end of this Policy.
Some cookies that we use include collection of personal data, for example your IP address and device information. For more information on how we process your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Cookies are small text files with information downloaded to and stored on your computer, mobile or tablet. Some are necessary for you to make full use of the website’s functionality, while others are used to enhance your user experience, facilitate navigation on the website, and to provide you with more personalised marketing content.
We also use web beacons, which are used to collect data for ad delivery analytics and for specific events such as a registration or making a purchase. A web beacon, also known as a tracking pixel, is a tiny image referenced by a line of HTML or a block of JavaScript code embedded into our web site.
First-party cookies are placed directly by Dustin or by a third party at Dustin’s request.
Third-party cookies are placed by a third party or by Dustin at the request of a third party such as our analytics or advertising service providers.
We use cookies to make our sites and services easier to use and to adapt our sites and services according to your interests and needs. Using cookies that keep track of what you previously showed an interest in enables us to show you relevant information that hopefully matches your personal preferences.
Cookies stay on your device for different periods of time depending on the purpose of the cookie. For example, a cookie which is necessary for the website to operate will only exist on your device whilst you use the website, but a cookie which is required to recognise you and your preferences when you return to the website will remain on your device for a longer period.
Session Cookies are cookies which expire once you close your web browser.
Persistent Cookies are cookies which stay on your device for a set period of time until you delete them.
You can find more information about the retention time of specific cookies in our Cookie Declaration.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Both first-party and third-party cookies are used for this purpose through partners. We utilize various tools to enhance your browsing experience and provide personalized content. As part of this, we use Google services such as Google Analytics, Google Signals and Google Customer Match. These services are used to monitor and report web traffic, and to allow us to create a more customized experience for our users. These Google services process visitation data through Google advertising cookies and identifiers.
There are several ways of managing the use of your cookies:
Dustin may update this policy from time to time. If we require your consent, we will request it the next time you visit our website.
Date of last change: 2024-04-26
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact us at: [email protected]
Below is a detailed list describing the cookies we currently use on our websites.
| Name | Description | Set by (type) | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | This cookie is part of Cloudflare’s Bot Management service and helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 30 minutes |
| cf_clearance | Clearance Cookie stores the proof of challenge passed. It is used to no longer issue a challenge if present. It is required to reach an origin server. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| dustin.consent.analytics | This cookie is set by Dustin and collects information about the users consent choice for analytics purpose | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| dustin.consent.marketing | This cookie is set by Dustin and collects information about the users consent choice for marketing purpose | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| dustin.consent.personalization | This cookie is set by Dustin and collects information about the users consent choice for personalization purpose | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| dustin.cookie_banner_dismissed_v1 | This cookie is set by Dustin and collects information if a user has closed the cookie banner | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| dustin.cookie_consent_applied_ | This cookie is set by Dustin and is used to detect if a customer has applied to cookies | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| ssel | This cookie is set by Dustin and collects information on which site the user has selected, B2B or B2C | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| UserIdentifier | Identifier for unauthorized user | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | Session |
| Lunio Script | The Lunio Client Side Script is used for the detection and mitigation of ad fraud and invalid traffic. | Lunio (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| Name | Description | Set by (Type) | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dc_gtm_UA-* | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 minute |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 2 years |
| _ga_* | 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. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 year |
| _gid | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 day |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 30 minutes, extended on user activity |
| _hjFirstSeen | This cookie Identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 30 minutes, extended on user activity |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_992998 | This cookie is used to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 2 minutes duration, extended every 30 seconds. |
| _hjSession_992998 | This cookie holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 30 minutes duration, extended on user activity |
| _hjSessionUser_1186190 | This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | Oneaudience (Third-party cookie) | 365 days |
| _hjSessionUser_605312 | This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | Hotjar (Third-Party cookie) | 365 days |
| _hjSessionUser_992998 | This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 365 days |
| Name | Description | Set by (Type) | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieSession | eSales tracking and personalization | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | Session |
| Name | Description | Set by (Type) | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
| __kuid | This cookie is used to collect information of the visitors, this information is then stored as a ID string. The ID information strings is used to target groups having similar preferences, or for targeted ads. | Bidtheatre (Third-party cookie) | 7 days |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-14PSID | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-1PSIDTS | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSID | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| __Secure-3PSIDTS | This cookie is used by Google for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| __Secure-ENID | These cookies are used by Google to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to have shown on a search results page (for example, 10 or 20), and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 13 months |
| _fbp | Used to store and track visits across websites. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Conversion linker storing Google ad click information The ‘_gcl_’ is primarily used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site, such as making a purchase. Cookies used for measuring conversion rates are not used to personalize ads. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 90 days |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 1 day |
| _uetvid | This cookie allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | Dustin (First-Party cookie) | 13 months |
| AEC | The ‘AEC’ cookie ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. This cookie prevents malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 6 months |
| AID | This cookie from Google Analytics links your activities on other devices you have previously logged into using your Google account. Based on this, the ads you see on your devices are coordinated and conversion events are measured. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 540 days |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| APISID | Set by DoubleClick. This cookie is set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitors interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform Browser Identifier cookie used for diagnostic purposes. | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| C | Identifies if user’s browser accepts cookies. 1 – Cookies are allowed 3 – Opt-out | Adform (Third-party cookie) | 60 days |
| CM | Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by AdServing) | Adform (Third-party cookie) | 1 day |
| CM14 | Identifies if there is a need to re-check partner‘s cookie matching existence (set by Cookie Matching) | Adform (Third-party cookie) | 14 days |
| CONSENT | The ‘CONSENT’ cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices on Googles platform | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| cookie | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. | Onaudience (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| DSID | The ‘DSID’ cookie is set by Google and is used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalization | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 weeks |
| dspuuid | user IDs of different DSPS/ each DSP where we host the matching table Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. | Smartclip (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| ELOQUA | This cookie is set by Eloqua and is used by Dustin to track individual visitors and their use of the site. It is set when you first visit the site and updated on subsequent visits. | Dustin (First-party cookie) | 13 months |
| HSID | For example, cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| IDE | The IDE cookie is set by Google and isused to show Google ads on non-Google sites. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 13 months |
| KRTBCOOKIE_391 | We use this cookie to correlate our user IDs with those of our partners (such as demand side platform clients or other advertising technology companies). We pass the information stored by the partner in this cookie to the partner when it is considering whether to purchase advertisements. This enables the partner to make better decisions about whether to display an advertisement to you. | PubMatic (Third-party cookie) | 3 months |
| lang | Used to remember a user's language setting | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | Session |
| lastPage | Cookie set by Dustin but used in/by Google Ads: Store last pagepath. | Dustin (First-party cookie) | Session |
| li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 6 months |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 90 days |
| lidc | To facilitate data center selection | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 1 day |
| ln_or | Used for Marketing purposes | Dustin (First-party cookie) | 2 days |
| mTrackingPageViewCount | Store number of pageviews - triggers floodlight tag | Dustin (First-party cookie) | 1 day |
| mTrackingTimeOnSite | Measures how long you have been on the Dustin site which in turn triggers various marketing tags. | Dustin (First-party cookie) | 1 day |
| MUID | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. This bing.com cookie enables tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | Microsoft (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| NID | The NID cookie is used by Google for analytics purpose of their Google service called Google Search and The ‘NID’ cookie is also used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users | Google (Third-party cookie) | 6 months |
| psyn | Partner data synchronization Used in context with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a visitor is shown the same advertisement-content. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video-advertisement to the specific visitor. | Smartclip (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| PugT | This cookie tracks when cookies were updated on the browser, to limit the number of calls to the server-side cookie store. | PubMatic (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| SAPISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 90 days |
| SID | Cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 2 years |
| SIDCC | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| SOCS | This cookie stores a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 13 months |
| SSID | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Google (Third-party cookie) | 1 year |
| uid | This cookie is set by StickyADS.tv for advertising purposes. | Adform (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing | LinkedIN (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| uuid | SmartX user ID | Smartclip (Third-party cookie) | 30 days |
| Adtraction | The information is used so that Dustin can compensate affiliate partners and be able to provide benefits and special offers to you through affiliate partners. | Adtraction (Third-party cookie) | 6 months |