Area: Episerver Platform

Applies to versions: Not applicable

Cookies

This topic provides an overview of cookies and how they are used by the different products and features in the Episerver platform.

How it works

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored by the web browser on the computer of a visitor, while browsing a website. The main purpose of a cookie is for websites to remember stateful information, or to record a visitor's browsing activity.

Cookies are usually small text files that are stored locally in the browser directory or program data subfolders.The website stores a corresponding file (with same ID tag). 

Cookies and Episerver 

The sections below describe cookie usage in different parts of the Episerver platform.

• DXP cloud services
• CMS
• A/B testing
• Forms
• Content Recommendations
• Product/Email Recommendations
• Tracking, Profile Store (CDP) , Visitor Intelligence
• Marketing Automation connectors

Related topics

• Visitor groups and cookies
• GDPR guidelines
• SameSite cookie attribute issues

Last updated: Apr 07, 2020