Cookies

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Cookies for statistics

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Cookies for showing videos and integration with social media

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In addition to cookies for statistics and special functionality, a session cookie will always be set, enabling the website system to work. If you wish to completely avoid cookies, when you visit our websites, you must disable cookies in your browser.

 

Cookie overview

Strictly Necessary cookies

Name	Provider	Expiration	Description
OJSSID	geusbulletin.org	Session	This cookie is used by the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform to store a session ID, and to facilitate user login. It is necessary for users who login to one of our journals. If you block this cookie, OJS will still work properly, but you will not be able to log in. This cookie (usually titled “OJSSID” or “OMPSID”) is created when first visiting one of our journal websites and is stored on the visitor’s computer.
CookieScriptConsent	geusbulletin.org	1 month	This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly.

 

Targeting cookies

Name	Provider	Expiration	Description
_pk_ses.#	geusbulletin.org	30 minutes	A marketing cookie from Matomo analytics, it is a short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit. It is used to help website owners track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern type cookie, where the prefix _pk_ses. is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is a reference code for the domain setting the cookie.
_pk_id.#	geusbulletin.org	1 year	A marketing cookie from Matomo analytics, used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID. It is used to help website owners track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is a pattern type cookie, where the prefix _pk_id. is followed by a short series of numbers and letters, which is a reference code for the domain setting the cookie.
loc	.addthis.com	1 year	Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer.
uvc	.addthis.com	1 year	Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis.

 

Functionality cookies

Name	Provider	Expiration	Description
__atuvc	.geusbulletin.org	1 year	This cookie is 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. It stores an updated page share count.
__atuvs	.geusbulletin.org	30 minutes	This cookie is 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. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service.
AWSALBCORS	api.plu.mx	7 days	A cookie from article level metrics from PlumX, which allows journals to present impact statistics from PlumX.
AWSALB	api.plu.mx	7 days	A cookie from article level metrics from PlumX, which allows journals to present impact statistics from PlumX.