Cookie Policy
Data Protection Notice: Use of Cookies On Our Site
We use cookies to track visitor behaviour and store site preferences. Cookies are small text files which may be stored on your computer or mobile device.
If you prefer not to allow the use of cookies, you can change the confirmation on the browser to either warn you when you receive a cookie or to automatically reject them. You may find, however, that disabling cookies means certain areas of the site do not function correctly.
For more information on the cookies used on our site, please see below.
Cookies used by Mind Tools
| Cookie | Area Within MindTools.com | Purpose of Cookie |
|---|---|---|
| Mind Tools Stores | ||
| xid | /store | To record the unique selections of a user when browsing the Store. We record a numeric Visitor ID. |
| store_language | /store | To set the users preferred language when browsing the Store. |
| RefererCookie | /store | To record the origin of an affiliate referral in the Store. |
| affnum | Stores at /cgi-bin/sgx2/ | To record the origin of an affiliate referral in the Store. A value of 10000 is set if there is no affiliate referral. |
| Mind Tools Club/Connect/Reporting Hub | ||
| mindtoolsConnect | /community | Is used as part of corporate product idenity. |
| amember_nr | /community | To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club. |
| laravel_session | /community | Identify a session instance for a logged in user |
| _amember_rp | /community | To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club. |
| _amember_ru | /community | To authenticate and securely sign-in a user to the Mind Tools Club. |
| mindtools_survey_popup | /community | To register if the user has been shown the Connect Survey. |
| mplp_section | /community | To register the current skill group the user has opened in the Personal Learning Plan. |
| PHPSESSID | /community | Identifies user's Club member and product ID. |
| accordion_tab_to_show | /community | To record the open panel last visited for certain page layouts. |
| tab_to_show | /community | To record the inner panel last visited for certain page layouts. |
| SimpleSAMLSessionID | /community | Used to track website sessions when accessing our content via SimpleSAML. |
| Mind Tools Club Forum | ||
| phpbb3_2fxnk_k | Club Forum | PHPBB Forums |
| phpbb3_2fxnk_sid | Club Forum | PHPBB Forums |
| phpbb3_2fxnk_u | Club Forum | PHPBB Forums |
| phpbb2mysl_data | Club Forum | PHPBB Forums |
| phpbb2mysql_sid | Club Forum | PHPBB Forums |
| Mind Tools Public Area/Members Area/All Areas | ||
| popupcount, showpopup | Public Area | To record how popups display, on an anonymous basis. |
| pagecount | Public Area | To record how many pages a visitor, on an anonymous basis, views of the website. |
| suppsubs | Public Area | To control suppression of the interstitial inviting the user to sign up for the Mind Tools newsletter. |
| status | Public Area | To control suppression of the interstitial inviting the user to sign up for the Mind Tools newsletter. |
| corpTracking | Public Area – Corporate Microsite | To track where users who visit the Corporate section of the Mind Tools website come from (e.g. click through from a Newsletter, or click from a banner or text advert). |
| lmsHome | Public Area – Corporate Microsite | To identify which variant of the Corporate home page to display to a user, based on the advert that a user has clicked on. |
| plp_public | Public Area | To store the resource ids for My Learning Plan. |
| resolution | All Areas | To note screen resolution to ensure content is delivered optimally for that. |
| corp_user | Members Area | Identify membership type of user. |
| ott_user | Members Area | Identify membership type of user. |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Public Area | Sales Form security token. |
| newsletter_signup_state | Public Area | Storing current state of newsletter subscription to help support users through process. |
| plp_vid_display | All Areas | Used to track when we show you a guide video to our personal learning plan. |
| career_role | All Areas | Part of our newsletter signup process, this tracks the job role you provide us. |
3rd Party Cookies
| Twitter Add-in | ||
| pid | Public Area | To allow a user to easily connect to Twitter from the Mind Tools website. More information >>. |
| LinkedIn Add-in | ||
| X-LI-IDC | Public Area | To allow a user to easily connect to LinkedIn from the Mind Tools website. More information >> |
| Cloudflare | ||
| __cfduid | All Areas | Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in your web application, and does store any personally identifiable information. |
| AddThis | ||
| __atuvc / __atuvs | All Areas | AddThis social sharing widget stores updated page share information. |
| Hotjar | ||
| _hjIncludedInSample | All Areas | This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
| _utmc | All Areas | AddThis social sharing widget stores updated page share information. |
| _ga, _gat, _gid, _utma, _utmb, __utmt, _utmc, _utmz, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz | All Areas | To allow recording of website usage and behavior. More information >>. |
| Live Chat | ||
| __lc.visitor_id.g5939971_159.group159 | All Areas | Used by Live chat to track conversations. |
| Response Tap | ||
| __rasesh | All Areas | Used by Response Tap to track conversations. |
| Silktide | ||
| cookieconsent_dismissed | All Areas | Used to track that the cookie warning message has been dismissed. |
