PRIVACY POLICY - Cookies

Provider

Google Ireland Ltd., Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland

Legal basis

Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — Legitimate interest: Safeguarding our commercial interests

Privacy Policy

https://policies.google.com/privacy?fg=1

Strictly Necessary or “essential” Cookies

ASP.NET_SessionId

This is a general purpose platform session cookie, used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

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affiliate

This cookie is used by the BullGuard Backend systems to perform revenue share calculations for affiliates.

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buyaffiliate

This cookie tracks initial subsource for revenue share purpose and is part of the same category as the "affiliate" cookie.

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subaffiliate

This cookie is part of the same category as “affiliate” cookie, used to perform calculations for revenue share for BullGuard affiliates.

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affiliate-business

Similar to “affiliate”, this cookie is used by the BullGuard Backend systems to properly track and calculate revenue share for affiliates.

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cjevent

This cookie is used to track traffic and sales from CJ affiliate network.

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__RequestVerificationToken

This is an anti-forgery cookie designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

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nagid

This cookie is set by BullGuard from internal systems and it is used in defining different parameters of the products.

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.ASPXAUTH

This cookie is used to identify a logged-in user to enable access to secure areas of the site.

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cbsession2

This cookie is used for user session protection.

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cb_prf_bg

This cookie is used to track traffic and sales from CB affiliate network.

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DetectedCountry

This cookie sets the language for BullGuard Services.

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CMSCsrfCookie

This cookie is automatically set by the Content Management System (CMS) that BullGuard uses. It stores a security token that the CMS (Kentico) uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against Cross-site request forgery.

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OptanonAlertBoxClosed

This cookie is set after visitors have seen the cookie information notice on our website and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. The cookie contains no personal information.

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__AntiXsrfToken

This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user's browser.

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Culture

This cookie is automatically set by the BullGuard Content Management System (CMS). Culture refers to the language of the site and other services.

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msm_locale

This cookie sets the portal language to match the website language, in conjunction with Culture cookie. If not present it defaults to English.

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OptanonConsent

This cookie stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

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purl-nnnnn

This cookie is used by the BullGuard Shop to track shopping cart attributes required for affiliate reporting.

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CMSLandingPageLoaded

This cookie indicates that a specific landing page has already been visited and the landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor.

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__cfduid

This cookie is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. For example, if the user is in a place (shop, airport, cafeteria) where there are a bunch of infected machines, but the user’s machine is known trusted, then the cookie can override the security setting. The cookie does not contain any user identification information.

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IR_10054

This cookie is set for online affiliate partners for revenue share.

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IR_gbd

This cookie is used to track traffic and sales from affiliate users

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cf_use_ob

This cookie is set by CloudFlare. CloudFlare is a web service we use for Caching & CDN and DNS, DDoS protection and security.

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username

This cookie is used for username prefill in the BullGuard desktop application.

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affiliate_n

This cookie represents the affiliate PID (n) for a BullGuard product.

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.BULLGUARD

These cookies are set when a customer opens a chat and contain or set information about the language the user selects to use in the chat interaction, how the chat window looks like, which department the customer chooses to contact, tells the support application to create a new ticket.

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ASP.NET_SessionID

SESSION

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CookieTest

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GridColumnWidths

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InterfaceSpecs

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MANAGE.ASPXAUTH

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SelectedLanguage

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st_ChatDepartment

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st_ChatWidgetStatus

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STHashCookie

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STTTState

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uidut

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CMSCurrentTheme

This cookie stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows.

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Analytical/Performance Cookies

_hjCachedUserAttributes

This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool.

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_hjIncludedInSample

This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.

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__utmb

This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the Javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies is present. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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__utmc

This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

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_ga

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.

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__utma

This cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the Javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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_gid

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

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__utmt

This cookie is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.

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__utmv

This is an optional additional cookie set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie is used when site owners create custom visitor-level variables for customising what can be measured. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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_vwo_uuid_v2

This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions.

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_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It is a variation of the _gat cookie.

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_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It is a variation of the _gat cookie.

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_hjTLDTest

When the Hotjar script executes, it tries to determine the most generic cookie path that should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, HotJar tries to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.

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_gat

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.

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__utmz

This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

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_hjid

This is a Hotjar cookie, set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

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_gac_UA-nnnnnnn-nn

This is a Google Analytics cookie that stores campaign information in order to provide Google Ads with a more reliable way to measure the interactions customers have with BullGuard business.

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CMSUserPage

This is a Content Management System (CMS) cookie that stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited BullGuard page.

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VisitorStatus

This is a Content Management System (CMS) cookie that indicates if the visitor is new or returning. It is used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics, feature provided by the CMS.

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_abt

This cookie enables optimization testing via Google Tag Manager.

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Functional cookies

cta

This cookie is activated when the timer is used on website specific promotional pages.

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CMSPreferredCulture

This cookie is automatically set by our Content Management System (CMS). CMS Preferred Culture refers to the language of the site and other services

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award_promo_cookie

This cookie is activated after the user closes a promotional banner and prevents the banner from being displayed while active.

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_tids

This cookie represents transaction IDs for deduplication. It is used to improve accuracy of ecommerce reporting.

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__cfduid

Cookie assoiated 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.

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Targeting cookies

cto_tld_test

This is a Criteo cookie used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement - The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.

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_uetsid

These cookies are used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site.

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_uetvid

criteo_write_test

This is a Criteo cookie used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement - The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.

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MUID

This is a Microsoft Bing targeting cookie, used for identifying conversions from Bing ads.

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3^rd party

frontpagebetav2

This domain is owned by Imgur LLC. The company provides image sharing platform and online advertising services.

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browser_data

This is a Server analysis cookie.

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YSC

This is a cookie set by YouTube, 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.

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uid

This cookie is set by Criteo, focused on advertising activity.

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pp

This is a cookie set by Imgur LLC. The company provides image sharing platform and online advertising services.

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IDE

This cookie is set by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange.

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cto_bundle

This is a Criteo cookie set for advertising & targeting purposes.

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personalization_id

This cookie is set by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.

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_fbp

This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

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__qca

This is a cookie usually associated with Quantcast, a digital advertising company. They provide website rankings, and the data they collect is also used for audience segmentation and targeted advertising.

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fr

This cookie contains browser and user unique ID combination, used by Facebook for targeted advertising.

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mc

This cookie is set by Quantcast. The main business activity is: Market and Audience Segmentation, Targeted advertising services.

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GPS

This cookie is set by YouTube, with a purpose to collect user data through videos embedded in websites. This information 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.

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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of YouTube videos.

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_dlt

This cookie is used by Quantcast providing anonymous statistics.

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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

This cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.

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addshoppers

These are AddShoppers cookies that collect data for the purposes for online behavioral advertising and includes information like where vistors came from and which type of browser the user is using.

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addshoppers.com

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asBrowse

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bcookie

This cookie is used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature.

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bscookie

This cookie is used for Linkedin follow feature.

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lang

This session-based cookie is used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature.

SESSION

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lidc

This cookie is used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature.

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lissc

This cookie is used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

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sessionId

This is a Traverse email marketing cookie, used for creating marketing lists.

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