About cookies
A cookie is a small text based file that websites saves on visitors browser. Cookies can for example be used to remember which language the website should use.
Cookies used in connect.visma.com
Name: .AspNetCore.Antiforgery
This cookie is for security purposes
Name: .AspNetCore.Culture
This cookie stores which locale the user wants Visma Connect to be presented in
Name: 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.
Name: 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 It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category.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.
Name: passwordless
This cookie stores information used by passwordless authentication.
Name: passwordless-detected
This cookie stores information about sign in with passwordless.
Name: remember2sv
This cookie stores user information if user choose to remember two factor authentication for 30 days. Cookie is stored for 30 days.
Name: rememberUsername
This cookie stores the e-mail address of user if user choose to remember this.
Name: requirelanguagechange
This cookie is set when the user language is changed from the language selector of the sign in screen and will trigger update of user account language after sign in is completed.
Name returnUrl
This cookie is used to store context data used during sign in.
Name: saml-correlation
This cookie is used during SAML authentication and is security related.
Name: saml-slo-flow
This cookie stores data used in SAML authentication.
Name: session:
This cookie is used to keep track of who the current user is authenticated as. It is removed when user signs out of Visma Connect or session expires.
Name: showrecovery
This cookie is used to show account recovery screen.
Name: sid
This cookie stores information about the authenticated users session.
Name: tempsession
This cookie is set when there are more steps required to get a session.
Cookies used on visma.com:
Name: _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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
Name: _gat
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
Name: _gid
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
Name: _sp_id
This cookie name is associated with Snowplow Analytics. Stores user information that is created when a user first visits a site and updated on subsequent visits. It is used to identify users and track the users activity across a domain. This cookie stores a unique identifier for each user, a unique identifier for the users current session, the number of visits a user has made to the site, the timestamp of the users first visit, the timestamp of their previous visit and the timestamp of their current visit, references to previous session and first event in the current session, and index of the last event in the session.
Name: _sp_ses
This cookie name is associated with Snowplow Analytics. Used to identify if the user is in an active session on a site or if this is a new session for a user (i.e. cookie doesn't exist or has expired).
External services reachable through Visma Connect
External services reachable through Visma Connect can use other cookies. In those cases each service describes its own cookie usage.
