Our cookie policy
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What cookies do, your choices, and the difference between this website, your account and affiliate measurement.
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About this policy
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser on your device. They can remember website preferences or help keep you signed in. Your browser uses them to make browsing easier.
When a visitor follows an affiliate link, technical click data, such as the time of the click and reference codes, help connect a later result to the publisher, advertiser and promotional material. This supports the attribution of commission.
Account cookies
Cookies within the tradetracker.com domain relate to your TradeTracker account. Most support the account’s operation. The table below describes cookies used primarily on tradetracker.com.
| Name / storage | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
TT_allowCookies | Remembers the visitor’s cookie choice. | After 2 years |
ttagency_* | Stores encrypted user properties when an agency signs in. | At the end of the session, or after 2 years when “Keep me logged in” is selected |
ttuser_* | Stores encrypted user properties when a publisher or advertiser signs in. | At the end of the session, or after 2 years when “Keep me logged in” is selected |
xmlhttp | Remembers whether the device supports XMLHTTP for features of our software. | At the end of the session |
affiliateSiteIDs | Remembers publisher websites selected in the account area. | After 1 month |
campaignIDs | Remembers advertiser websites selected in the account area. | After 1 month |
companyID | Remembers advertiser websites selected in the account area. | After 1 month |
locale_* | Remembers the user’s preferred language. | After 1 month |
Tracking cookies
TradeTracker uses cookies to measure visits and results between publisher and advertiser websites. They help attribute a referral to the correct publisher so the publisher can be rewarded. Cookies may contain reference codes and other technical details; these can also fall under personal-data rules. Many websites fund free services through such referrals.
The table below describes tracking cookies used primarily on tradetracker.net. Choices on this corporate website do not automatically control cookies on publisher or advertiser websites.
| Name / storage | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
_pk_* | Piwik Analytics uses these cookies to analyse visits to our own websites. | After 2 years |
pi* | Supports campaigns that count advertisement views (post-impression). | Varies, up to a maximum of 100 days |
__tdat* | Stores the originating publisher website, promotional material and an optional reference to reward referred visits. | Varies, up to a maximum of 365 days |
__bctdat | Stores information about clicks. | At the end of the session |
uf | Used to measure impressions, clicks and conversions. | After a maximum of 1 year |
__tgdat* | Stores the originating publisher website, promotional material and an optional reference within a tracking group to reward referred visits. | Varies, up to a maximum of 365 days |
Removing cookies
You can delete cookies through your browser settings. Look for tradetracker.com for account and analytics cookies, and tradetracker.net for network tracking cookies. Private browsing may still use cookies during the session; your browser normally deletes them when it closes. You may then need to sign in again. More information about cookies is available here.
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