This Cookie Notice describes how Turnitin uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites (collectively, “Websites”), and your choices regarding those cookies. For additional information on our data processing, please visit our privacy policy.Cookies are further categorized as follows:
If you do not want to have cookies placed on your browser by third parties, there are different options you may be able to use to make those changes. For example, where available to you, you may manage your preferences by using our consent tool. Most web browsers also allow you to control some cookies. Visit the “Help” or “Tools” section of your browser to explore this option, and bear in mind that you must opt out on each browser on each device you use. Some of these third parties also offer ways to opt out directly.However, please note that if you disable cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Websites.
| www.turnitin.com, turnitin.com, developers.turnitin.com | XSRF-TOKEN | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
| www.turnitin.com, ev.turnitin.com | session-id | Session Cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities so users can easily pick up where they left off on the server's pages. Identifies the current session and the user. |
| www.smartrecruiters.com, subscriptions.smartrecruiters.com, privacy.truste.com | AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
| www.smartrecruiters.com, subscriptions.smartrecruiters.com, privacy.truste.com | AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer |
| www.turnitin.com | laravel_session | This cookie is set by the Statamic CMS to identify a session instance for the user. |
| www.turnitin.com | OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
| turnitin.com | OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category.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. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| www.turnitin.com | cookietest | This cookie checks to see if the browser is set to block or allow cookies. |
| developers.turnitin.com | tca-statamic | Cookie to ensure that user sessions persist correctly when logging in using a Statamic account. |
| unpkg.com | cf_use_ob | This cookie is associated with sites using CloudFlare. It is used to improve page load times and to override any security restrictions based on the visitors IP address. It does not contain any user identification information. |
| www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com | _atuvc, _atuvs | These cookies are 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. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | force-stream | Used to properly route server requests within Salesforce infrastructure for sticky sessions. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | sfdc-stream | Common Salesforce Cookie |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | Pctrk | Used to count page views by unauthenticated users against license usage. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | force-proxy-stream | Salesforce cookie that ensures client requests hit the same proxy hosts and are more likely to retrieve content from cache. |
| turnitin.com | lang | Used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. |
| vimeo.com | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie associated with Vimeo. |
| tu101912p.searchunify.com | connect.sid | This is a session ID cookie set by SearchUnify. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | renderCtx | Used to store site parameters in the session for reuse across requests by a single client for functionality and performance reasons. Salesforce PDF rendering. |
| help.turnitin.com | license | When the user has requested the content and clicks through to the Turnitin Help site through a link, this cookie is necessary to dynamically provide the requested content. |
| Supportcenter.turnitin.com, turnitinpartners.force.com | LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by our client-side utility. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com, turnitinpartners.force.com | CookieConsentPolicy | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by our client-side utility. |
| supportcenter.turnitin.com | LSKey-c$smartFacets,LSKey-c$_gz_sid, LSKey-c$_gz_taid | Used for Support Center Search functionality features like Pre Selection of Facet which involves auto learning. |
| developers.turnitin.com | f0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | |
| turnitin.com | __utmc | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. |
| turnitin.com | __utmb | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. |
| turnitin.com | _utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes |
| turnitin.com | _utmz | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure 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. |
| turnitin.com | _utmv######### | This is a visitor segmentation cookie used by Google Analytics to identify a visitor as male, female, member, non-member, signed in or signed out visitors, pro-member, pro++ member, employee, non-employee, etc. |
| turnitin.com | _gat_UA- | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| turnitin.com | _utma | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It is used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customized by website owners. |
| turnitin.com, giphy.com | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users. |
| turnitin.com, giphy.com | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners. |
| turnitin.com | _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Used to throttle rate requests. |
| Vimeo.com | Vuid | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. This cookie allows Vimeo to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. |
| nr-data.net, privacy.truste.com | JESSIONID | This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. |
| turnitin.com | _uetvid | This is a cookie utilized by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
| turnitin.com | _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie |
| turnitin.com | _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user. |
| go.turnitin.com | pardot | Cook=e name associated with services from marketing automation and lead generation platform Pardot. |
| www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com, ev.turnitin.com | visitor_id, visitor_id#####, legacy-session-id | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. |
| addthis.com | Xtc | This domain is owned by AddThis. AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising. |
| addthis.com | Uvc | Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis. |
| S7.addthis.com | __atuvc, _atrfs, _atuvs | These cookies are 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. |
| linkedin.com | lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| linkedin.com | bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| linkedin.com | bcookie | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| linkedin.com | UserMatchHistory | This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites to deliver, retarget, and measure performance of more relevant ads |
| linkedin.com | AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries. |
| linkedin.com, ads.linkedin.com | Lang | Used to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the stored language. |
| pardot.com, pi.pardot.com | visitor_id, visitor_id#####visitor_id##### | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. |
| pardot.com | lpv45292 | |
| pi.pardot.com, go.pardot.com | pardot | Cookie name associated with services from marketing automation and lead generation platform Pardot. |
| youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com | CONSENT | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| YouTube.com | YSC | YouTube is 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. |
| YouTube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| Bing.com | MUID | This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. |
| turnitin.com | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| c.bing.com | SRM_B | This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. |
| twitter.com | personalization_id | This domain is owned 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. |
| ipredictive.com | cu | This domain is owned by Adelphic, a USA based company engaged in mobile and cross-device programmatic online advertising. |
| linkedin.com | li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| linkedin.com | li_gc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
| twitter.com | personalization_id | This domain is owned 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. |
| youtube.com | __Secure-YEC | YouTube is 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. |
| turnitin.com | tuuid | This cookie is used for analytics and advertising services provided by Demandbase products. |
| turnitin.com | tuuid_lu | This domain is owned by USA based company Demandbase, which provides technology for B2B marketing. |
| turnitin.com | _pin_unauth | This cookie is associated with Pinterest. It is used to track the usage of services. |
| ct.pinterest.com | _pinterest_ct_ua | _pinterest_ct_ua is identical to _pin_unauth, but as a third party cookie. |
| www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com, snap.licdn.com | ln_or | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain. |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | Test cookie used by Google DoubleClick to check that cookies can be set. |
| addthis.com | loc | Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer. |
| t.co | muc_ads | This cookie is for advertising on the Twitter platform. |
| www.turnitin.com, analysis.adinsight.co.kr | _trs_id, _trs_flow, _trs_sid | |
| www.turnitin.com, go.turnitin.com | pt_ | |
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