Cookies

An overview of cookies used by the Commanders Act platform.

The technical session cookies for First party domain tracking have been renamed. ("PHOENIX" replaced by "FIRST" in the cookie name) - 06/05/2024 16:01

Predefined Cookies

Following cookies are used automatically in depending on the installed Commanders Act products.

TMS + CMP + CAMPAIGN + DATA

CAID

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + DATA+ TMS + CMP

Type: Cookie

Domain: domainfirstClient

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Commanders Act users ID

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): The CAID is the user identifier for cookie 1st

TCID

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + DATA+ TMS + CMP

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Commanders Act ID.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Visitor identifier used to compute deduplicated statistics per user (for campaign and on-site tracking, segmentation, ...). CMP Commanders Act uses this cookie to measure statistics for privacy banner performance after a visitor provided consent. Before users provided consent CMP Commanders Act uses the TCPID cookie to measure anonymous statistics for privacy banner.

WID

Product(s) related: DATA + TMS + CMP + CAMPAIGN

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: Session

Value: DataCommander session ID.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to identify when the browser is closed in order to split page views into multiple functional sessions.

tC_Sync

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + DATA+ TMS + CMP

Type: Local Storage

Domain: /

Lifetime: /

Value: Timestamp.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Technical cookie that is used to store the timestamp of the last cookie sync that was performed for this user agent. A cookie sync matches the visitor ID of Commanders Act solutions (TCID) with the visitor ID of other solutions. Cookie sync is optional and can be deactivated by Commanders Act users via the Commanders Act support. (cookie exempted)

TMS

tc_sample_{idsite}_{idrule}

Product(s) related: TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: Session

Value: TMS sampling done in the container rules.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for visitor and session sampling in the TMSCommander rules.

TCREDIRECT_DEDUP

Product(s) related: TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: Session

Value: CAMPAIGN redirect flag (used for deduplication).

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used when the deduplication is based on CAMPAIGN tracking (so the CAMPAIGN tracking is taken into account and not the landing page tracking)

TC_CHECK_COOKIES_SUPPORT

Product(s) related: TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: Session

Value: 1 if true

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Technical cookie, TMS verification of Cookies deposit (exempted)

CMP

TCPID

Product(s) related: CMP (v1 & v2)

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: CMP Commander ID.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to identify visitors exposed to the privacy banner. CMP Commanders Act uses this cookie to measure statistics for privacy banner usage until visitors provide consent for the TCID cookie. With this 2-cookie system, CMP Commanders Act is the only CMP that has been granted the right of exemption from consent for statistical measurement by the French CNIL. https://www.cnil.fr/fr/solutions-pour-les-cookies-de-mesure-daudience *Cookie exempted by CNIL

TC_PRIVACY (default)

Product(s) related: CMP V2

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Privacy optin/optout user, privacy version and optin categories.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for user status storage (optin or optout) and Privacy banner display. *Cookie exempted by CNIL

TC_PRIVACY_CENTER (default)

Product(s) related: CMP V2

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Privacy optin categories.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to display the optin/optout categories in the Privacy Center if the user re-open it. *Cookie exempted by CNIL

TC_PRIVACY_IAB_VENDORLIST

Product(s) related: CMP V2

Type: Local Storage

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: /

Value: IAB Global Vendor List

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to cache the IAB TCF Global Vendor List to optimise the response time of the IAB TCF consent API.

TC_PRIVACY_TCF

Product(s) related: CMP V2

Type: Local Storage

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: /

Value: IAB Global Vendor List

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to cache the IAB TCF Consent API Response to optimise the response time of the API.

TC_OPTOUT (deprecated CMP version 1)

Product(s) related: CMP V1 (Previous Privacy)

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Privacy: optin/optout user, privacy version and optin categories.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for user status storage (optin or optout) and Privacy banner display. *Cookie exempted by CNIL

TC_OPTOUT_categories (deprecated CMP version 1)

Product(s) related: CMP V1 (Previous Privacy)

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain (default, can be customized)

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Privacy optin categories.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to display the optin/optout categories in the Privacy Center if the user re-open it. *Cookie exempted by CNIL

CAMPAIGN + TMS (deduplication)

tc_cj_v2

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Deduplication CJ storage ("&chn=" and "&src=" parameters)

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for user customer journey storage for TMS deduplication (channel and source storage).

tc_cj_v2_cmp

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Deduplication CJ storage ("&chn=" and "&src=" parameters)

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for user customer journey storage for TMS deduplication (campaign storage).

tc_cj_v2_med

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN + TMS

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Deduplication CJ storage ("&chn=" and "&src=" parameters)

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for user customer journey storage for TMS deduplication (medium storage).

CAMPAIGN

TCSESSION

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: Session

Value: CAMPAIGN Commander session ID.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to calculate CAMPAIGN metrics based on the session.

TCREDIRECT

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​ or Customer domain

Lifetime: Session

Value: CAMPAIGN Commander redirect flag.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to deduplicate clicks (if redirect, just store the page view and ignore the click).

TCLANDINGURL

Product(s) related: CAMPAIGN

Type: Cookie

Domain: .commander1.com​

Lifetime: Session

Value: Landing page URL.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to store landing page URL for CAMPAIGN raw data.

DATA

TCAUDIENCE

Product(s) related: Data

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: 365 days

Value: Audience segment storage.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to store the user segment for user targeting.

_TCCookieSync (Local Storage)

Product(s) related: DATA

Type: Local Storage (default)

Domain: /

Lifetime: /

Value: Last cookie sync date.

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used to store the date of the last cookie synchronisation with the partner (set in local storage by default, and cookie if local storage not available).

First Party tracking cookies

FDLB*

All possibles names:

DLBCTLYOXA FDLBFIRSTAPI FDLBFIRSTDATA FDLBFIRSTCAMPAIGN FDLBFIRSTCAMPAIGNEF FDLBCAMPAIGNCDOM FDLBFIRSTTMS FDLBFIRSTCMP FDLBFIRST FDLBCTLY FDLBFIRSTEVENTS Product(s) related: First domain tracking (Phoenix)

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: Session

Value: Technical cookies for load balancing purposes Example value: s11|YNwyo|YNwxd

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for internal infrastructure dispatch.

Phoenix

tc_caids

Product(s) related: Phoenix

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Technical cookie for backup Commanders Act cookies

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for restore deleted cookies by ITP

tc_cj_ss

Product(s) related: Phoenix

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Technical cookie for backup Commanders Act cookie tc_cj_v2

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for restore deleted cookies by ITP

tc_ss*

Product(s) related: Phoenix

Type: Cookie

Domain: Customer domain

Lifetime: 396 days

Value: Technical cookie for backup custom cookies

Owner: Commanders Act

Storage purpose(s): Used for restore deleted cookies by ITP

In case your cookie "tc_ss" contains more than 2048 characters, cookies will be created with incremented names (ex. tc_ss1, tc_ss2, ...)

Custom Cookies

Users can create custom cookies with TMS Commanders Act. For example it is possible to store a URL parameter on a landing page in a cookie to make it available for further pageviews in the session. Users can choose their own name and storage duration for these cookies. Therefore it is not possible to include them in this list.

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