Information about our use of cookies GB-EN
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our site and to improve the usability and performance of our site.
What do we use cookies for?
We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information.
We have set out below some common types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Social media cookies. These allow you to share content from our website, or what you have been doing on it, on social media (such as Facebook or Twitter). This information may be linked to targeting or advertising activities.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | More Information | Duration | |
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| PHPSESSID | Strictly Necessary | These cookies are used for the website to function and to improve the performance of the website | Session | |
| gdpr | Strictly Necessary | User to ensure the user has been notified of the GDPR policy | Session | |
| can_fb | Strictly Necessary | Turn FB tracking on / off | Session | |
Please see Facebook for more details |
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| _fbr | Tracking | Tracking user movement between sites | 2 months | |
Google Analytics |
Please see Google Analytics for more details |
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| _ga | Tracking | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years | |
| _gid | Tracking | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours | |
| _gat | Tracking | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_ |
1 minute | |
| AMP_TOKEN | Tracking | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year | |
| _ga_% | Tracking | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | 90 days | |
Stripe |
Please see https://stripe.com/ for more details |
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| __stripe_mid (or 'muid'; part of stripe.js) | Strictly Necessary | Fraud prevention and detection | 1 year | |
| __stripe_sid (or 'sid'; part of stripe.js) | Strictly Necessary | Fraud prevention and detection | 30 minutes | |
| m (or 'guid'; part of stripe.js) | Strictly Necessary | Fraud prevention and detection | 2 years | |
| locale | Preference | Localization setting for language to use for the Site and docs | Session | |
| country | Preference | Country localization settings to adjust product and features availability | Session | |
| lang | Preference | Programming language to use for the code examples in Stripe's docs | 1 year | |
| has_intentionally_selected_curl | Preference | Show the code examples in curl in Stripe's docs | 20 years | |
| persisted-tab-#{id} | Preference | Remembers which tab of the docs you are on between page refreshes | 1 year | |
| disable_cmd_f_override | Preference | Disable Stripe's docs search cmd+f/ctrl+f shortcut and use the browser default behavior (search the current page) instead | 1 year | |
| double_cmd_f_uses | Preference | Tracks use of the cmd+f/ctrl+f shortcut in Stripe's docs. Used to improve UX by not telling Users about a feature they have already used | 1 year | |
| expanded-topics | Preference | Remembers which topics are expanded in Stripe's docs between page refreshes | 1 year | |
| checkout-test-session / checkout-live-session | Preference | Used to power Legacy Checkout's Remember Me function | 1 year | |
| _ga /_gat /_gat_UA-12675062-5_gid | Analytics | Google Analytics cookies used for analytics and service improvement | 2 years | |
| cid | Analytics | Stripe analytics 'client ID' used for service improvement | Session | |
| site_sid/__stripe_id | Analytics | Stripe 'session ID' used for analytics and service improvement | 2 hours | |
| __stripe_orig_props | Analytics | Used to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns | 1 year | |
| __utma/__utmb/__utmc/__utmt/__utmz | Analytics | Runkit's Google Analytics | 2 years | |
| _mkto_trk | Analytics | Tracks page visits and email campaign effectiveness | 2 years | |
| muc | Analytics | Stripe Atlas Twitter marketing campaigns | 1 year | |
