Cookie Policy
Effective as of July 1, 2022
This Cookie Policy was created for a website operated by either ESET spol. s r.o. or any of its subsidiaries or partners, each of which is a separate legal entity and will be referred to as “ESET” or “We” in this Cookie Policy. As We use so-called “cookies” and similar technologies on our websites, We would like to be transparent about their use so all visitors can make informed choices regarding their own devices. This Cookie Policy is specifically focused on cookies.
For more information on how We process your personal data on our website, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that may be placed in your browser when you visit a website and then read if you visit the site again. Such information stored in cookies may be about you, your device or preferences, and they usually do not identify you directly. Some cookies are necessary so a website or a particular service can work properly and have an appropriate level of security. Some might be used for other purposes, e.g. for website personalization, analysis of website traffic or for advertising of products or services online. We categorized all cookies We use based on their purpose, as detailed in the Categories of cookies We use section. In the Cookies used by this website section, we list individual cookies used by this website and provide more specific information on them, including what they are used for and their expiry.
Types of Cookies
In the following sections, We distinguish between “first-party cookies” or cookies that are set by ESET and “third-party cookies” that are set by ESET´s partners. Our partners are third parties who provide us with certain services for our website, usually analytical or marketing services. Moreover, We also distinguish between “session” cookies that are stored only for the duration of your browser session on our website and “persistent” cookies, that are stored for a longer time period as indicated below and therefore can be read even if you decide to visit our website again. The settings of third-party cookies are under the control of third parties.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies. These first-party cookies are necessary for the functioning and security of our website and the services you require. They are usually set in response to your actions to enable the use of certain functionality, such as remembering your cookie preferences, logging in or holding items in your cart. You cannot opt-out of these cookies. If you choose to block them via your browser, it may affect site functionality.
Basic Analytical Cookies. These first-party cookies enable us to measure the number of visitors/users on our website. We share some non-sensitive data collected (such as country, browser and device type, IP address with three last digits being anonymized and user’s cookie ID unique for respective website) with our trusted partners to create aggregated usage and performance statistics. We use these cookies to get the basic insight into our website traffic and our campaign performance. As only low-level analytics can be performed by using those cookies, and as they shall not allow cross-site tracking or profiling of our website visitors, they would be set to your browser by default unless you choose to opt-out. In case you opt-out, We will only have a limited possibility to monitor our website or campaign performance.
Advanced Analytical Cookies. These first and third-party cookies help us to get insight into how you interact with our website and each particular service by enriching our datasets with data from third-party tools. We use them to improve our website, services, and user experience, locate and solve bugs or other problems with them, and evaluate our campaigns’ effectiveness. These cookies would be only stored in your browser if you grant us your opt-in consent. If you choose not to grant consent for analytical cookies, We will only have a limited possibility to monitor our site’s or campaign performance.
Marketing Cookies. These third-party cookies allow our marketing partners to track your activities on our website, for example, when you download or buy our product. Those data is then combined with other data about you to build a profile relating to your interests and to show you more relevant targeted ads on other websites. Marketing cookies would be only stored in your browser if you grant us your opt-in consent. If you choose not to grant your consent, online advertising displayed to you will be less targeted to your needs or preferences.
Cookies Used by This Website
Essential Cookies
| Cookie name | Cookie expiration | Domain | Provider | Cookie purpose |
| __atuvc | 1 year 1 month | www.podbean.com | Podbean Tech Inc | 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 |
| __atuvs | 30 minutes | www.podbean.com | Podbean Tech Inc | 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 |
| AWSELB**** | 5 minutes | www.podbean.com | Oracle | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
| JSESSIONID | Session | .nr-data.net | ESET | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. |
| PHPSESSID | Session | www.ustream.tv | ESET | 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. |
| pll_language | 1 year | www.welivesecurity.com | ESET | Saves the chosen language settings on websites using Polylang |
| AKA_A2 | 1 hour | .welivesecurity.com | Akamai | This cookie is generally provided by Akamai and is used for the Advanced Acceleration feature, which enables DNS Prefetch and HTTP2 Push. |
| RT | 1 week | .welivesecurity.com | Akamai | This cookie is set by Akamai for measuring loading speed. |
| _os_session | 2 weeks | www.opinionstage.com | Opinion Stage Ltd. | This cookie protects Opinion Stage widget from bot attacks such as faking user answers. It does not contain any user-specific information. |
| TS01*** | Session | .welivesecurity.com | ESET | These cookies are set by our web server infrastructure to ensure your web requests are consistently processed by the same server in our infrastructure for the duration of your session. |
| user_rec | 2 years | www.welivesecurity.com | ESET | A first party cookie, used to identify whether a user is blocking GTM, understand the volume of anonymized users who might potentially block also displaying of cookie consent bar |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Session | google.com | This cookie is used to provide the Captcha functionality – spam protection. | |
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | .g2crowd.com | ESET | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. |
| eset_cookie-bar | 2 years | .eset.com | ESET | This cookie keeps track of a user’s preference of cookie policy |
| browser_id | 5 years | .slideshare.net | Slideshare | This cookie is used to determine the browser that is being used |
| loc | 1 year 1 month | .addthis.com | Oracle | This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. |
| sp_landing | 1 day | .spotify.com | Spotify AB | Used to implement Spotify audio content on the website. |
| sp_t | 1 year | .spotify.com | Spotify AB | Used to implement Spotify audio content on the website. |
| uvc | 1 year 1 month | .addthis.com | Oracle | Cookie set by AddThis. These plug-ins allow you to set bookmarks or share interesting content with other users. The plug-ins allow you to interact with social networks and other users so that we can improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user. |
| ustream-guest | Session | www.ustream.tv | IBM | This domain is owned by Ustream Inc. which provides services for live broadcasting of video content on websites. |
Basic Analytical Cookies
| Cookie name | Cookie expiration | Domain | Provider | Cookie purpose |
| _gat_*** | 1 minute | .welivesecurity.com, .visme.co | Google LLC | Set by Google Analytics to control the request rate. |
| _gid | 1 day | .welivesecurity.com, .visme.co | Google LLC | Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. |
| _ga | 2 years | .welivesecurity.com, .visme.co | Google LLC | Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. |
| _ga_*** | 2 years | .welivesecurity.com, .visme.co | Google LLC | This cookie stores a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. |
Advanced Analytical Cookies
| Cookie name | Cookie expiration | Domain | Provider | Cookie purpose |
| _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and set when a user first lands on a page, persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site and ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjid | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and set when a user first lands on a page, Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site and ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjFirstSeen | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session. Enables us to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. Collected attributes will only be saved to Hotjar servers if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. Cookie used regardless of whether a Feedback tool is present. |
| _hjViewportId | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions. |
| _hjSession_{site_id} | 30 minutes | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. |
| _hjSessionTooLarge | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar and causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the WebSocket server if the session size exceeds the limit. |
| _hjSessionRejected | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. If present, set to ‘1’ for the duration of a user’s session, when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. |
| _hjSessionResumed | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | Under 100ms | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use local storage.If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 30 minutes | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | 30 minutes | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. |
| _hjTLDTest | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. We try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a Recording starts. Read when the Recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set in Session storage as opposed to cookies. Updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a user interacts with an external link Survey invitation modal. Ensures the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. |
| _hjDonePolls | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a user completes an on-site Survey. Ensures the same Survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a user minimizes an on-site Survey. Ensures that the Survey stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | 1 year | .welivesecurity.com | Hotjar Ltd | This cookie is set by Hotjar. Set when a user minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. Ensures the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. |
| ai_session | 30 minutes | www.welivesecurity.com | Microsoft | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. |
| ai_user | 1 year | www.welivesecurity.com | Microsoft | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. |
Marketing Cookies
| Cookie name | Cookie expiration | Domain | Provider | Cookie purpose |
| _fbc | Session | .welivesecurity.com | Facebook, Inc. | This cookie is used by Facebook for advertising purposes and conversion tracking. |
| _fbp | 3 months | .welivesecurity.com | Facebook, Inc. | This cookie is used by Facebook for advertising purposes and conversion tracking. |
| fr | 3 months | Facebook, Inc. | This cookie is used in the targeting of Facebook adverts. | |
| _gcl_**** | 3 months | .welivesecurity.com | Google Inc | Set by Google Ads to take information in advert clicks and store it in a 1st party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside of the landing page. |
| CONSENT | 2 years | .youtube.com, .youtube-nocookie.com | Google Inc | Third party cookies. They provide certain features of Google and may store certain preferences according to usage patterns and personalize the ads that appear in Google searches. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | .youtube.com | Google Inc | This cookie allows Youtube to check for bandwidth usage. |
| YSC | Session | .youtube.com | Google Inc | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Controlling Cookies on Your Device
You can manage cookies set or used by our website by making your choices via the cookie consent banner. If you later change your mind about your cookie preferences, including when you would like to withdraw your consent, you can do it anytime by clicking on the Manage cookies link available at the website footer or via your internet browser. The cookies set under your previous choices will remain stored in the browser but will not be used after your consent has been withdrawn. You may view or delete those cookies manually via your browser settings.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will change this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services provided or our practices. When we implement such changes, We will revise the “Last Updated” date on the top of this Cookie Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the details stated in the Cookies Used by this Website may change at any time. Therefore, they are valid explicitly to the Effective date of this Cookie Policy.