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How we use Cookies on the Meritec website
We use cookies to improve our website and user experience. We never collect any personally identifiable information and the small amount of data we do collect will never be shared with any third parties. The website will function fully if you decide not to accept our persistent cookies.
Details of the cookies we use on the Meritec website
| Cookie name | Used by | Type | Description | Lifetime |
| UMB-XSRF-TOKEN | Site Administrators | Backend only | Used to maintain session of logged in user | Session |
| UMB-XSRF-V | Site Administrators | Backend only | Used to maintain session of logged in user | Session |
| UMB_UCONTEXT | Site Administrators | Backend only | Used to maintain session of logged in user | Session |
| UMB_UCONTEXT_C | Site Administrators | Backend only | Used to maintain session of logged in user | Session |
| UMB_UPDCHK | Site Administrators | Backend only | Used to maintain session of logged in user | Session |
| __atuvc | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client cookie | Created and read by the AddThis social sharing Javascript on the client site in order to ensure the user sees the udpated count. | 2 years |
| __atuvs | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Created and read by the AddThis social sharing Javascript on the client site in order to ensure the user sees the udpated count. | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Client Cookie | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | Session |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Client Cookie | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | Session |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Client Cookie | Client CookieThese cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | Session |
| loc | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Store location data | 13 months |
| na_id | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Unknown | At least 1 session |
| na_tc | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Unknown | At least 1 session |
| uid/ouid | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID | Session |
| uvc | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Measure how often we see an AddThis user | 12+ months |
| ssc | AddThis Social sharing plugin on Blog page | Client Cookie | Tracks sharing of when the AddThis plugin is used | Session |