| Cookie Name |
Cookie Function |
Cookies Expires After |
| CMSCookieLevel |
Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor. |
1 year |
| CMSCsrfCookie |
Stores a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against cross site forgery. |
Permanent |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Keeps the user session ID for security reasons. |
End of session |
| CMSPreferredCulture |
Stores the visitor's preferred content culture. |
1 year |
| CMSMobileRedirected |
Indicates if the visitor has been redirected to the mobile version of the website by the Mobile device redirection web part. |
End of session |
| CMSCurrentTheme |
Stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows. |
1 day |
| Webauthtoken |
Live ID authentication cookie. |
Permanent |
| CMSForumPostAnswer |
Keeps a list of Question-Answer forum posts in which the user voted for an answer to prevent repeated votes. |
1 month |
| CMSVotedPolls |
Keeps a list of polls where the user voted to prevent repeated votes. |
1 year |
| CMSRatedDocuments |
Keeps a list of documents that the user rated to prevent repeated votes. |
1 year |
| CMSShowDesktopVersion |
Indicates that the visitor has switched to the desktop (default) version of the website from a specific device profile. |
1 year |
| CMSWindowsUser |
Stores information for users who were imported from an Active Directory domain during authentication. |
Permanent |
| .ASPXFORMSAUTH |
Stores the user's encrypted authentication ticket when using forms authentication. |
1000 hours (41.7 days) |
| VisitorStatus |
Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics. |
20 years |
| Source |
Store the channel which the user came from (e.g. email, Facebook, Twitter etc). |
50 years |
| Campaign |
Stores the web analytics Campaign assigned to the visitor. |
Permanent |
| TrackedCampaigns |
Stores all the web analytics Campaigns, which should be tracked within a JavaScript snippet. |
20 minutes |
| UrlReferrer |
Stores the URL referrer from which the user arrives on the website. |
1 day |
| CurrentContact |
Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website. |
Permanent |
| CMSAB<ABtestname> |
Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. Stores the name of the page variant assigned to the visitor, the list of performed conversions and information whether visitor is included in A/B testing specified by an A/B test. |
1 month |
| CMSMVT<mvtestname> |
Stores the combination of variants assigned to the visitor by an MVT test. Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page content for the visitor. |
30 days |
| CMSNoTestMVT<templateid> |
Stores the currently selected MVT combination for editors in the administration interface. |
30 days |
| CMSShoppingCart |
Stores a reference to the user's active shopping cart. |
1 year |
| CMSBodyClass |
Body element class to provide accessibility standards. |
Permanent |
| CMSEd<GUID>Current |
Stores the current step of Wizard layout web parts. |
1 month |
| CMSUserPage |
Stores the IDs (DoumentID, NodelD) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities. |
20 minutes |
| ChatLoggedInToken |
Stores the login state for the Chat application (indicates if the user is in the online state). |
End of session |
| ChatSupportLoggedInToken |
Indicates if the user is logged in to the support chat. |
End of session |
| <Window name>_<Group ID>_roomID |
Stores bindings between groups of chat web parts and chat rooms (for a specific window or tab). |
4 days |
| chat_autoinitchat_displayed_<GUID> |
Remembers if the Automatically initiated chat web part was shown to the user (prevents multiple chat initiation messages). |
60 minutes |
| chat_kick_roomid_<room ID> |
Indicates that the user was kicked from the specified chat room (and is not allowed to return). |
300 seconds |
| StrandsSBS_* |
Used by the Strands Recommender solely for its own purposes. The cookies are managed on the Strands side. |
End of session |
| CMSStrandsTrackEvent_* |
Stores persistent HTTP context after a page is reloaded. Used for tracking of shopping cart events. |
End of session |
| __openid_selector_* |
Stores OpenId user identification for authentication purposes. |
365 days |
| CMSLandingPageLoaded |
Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the landing Page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. |
20 minutes |