Cookies and Sumdog

Updated November 2023

At Sumdog we use essential cookies for the functioning and improvement of our website. These are anonymous. Other cookies are non-essential and help improve your experience and deliver you relevant content. You can consent to all cookies, decline all cookies or manage non-essential cookies. 

Our Cookie Policy covers all sumdog.com domains including: sumdog.com, learn.sumdog.com, content.sumdog.com, blog.sumdog.com and support.sumdog.com 

View our UK Privacy Policy.
View our US Privacy Policy. 

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Necessary (17)

These cookies relate to the Sumdog product and apply to teachers and parent users who log in to the site. 

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Users affected
__cfruid cardinalcommerce.com Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider as part of 3DS payment verification. session Parents
_GRECAPTCHA Google This cookie is necessary for reCAPTCHA to make an assessment if the traffic to the site is legitimate or malicious 180 days Teachers, Parents, Students
AEC Google Facilitates Google SSO for teachers. Used by Google to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. 180 days Teachers, Parents, Students
CONSENT Google Facilitates Google SSO for teachers. Used by Google to store the user's privacy choices on Google services 1 year Teachers, Parents, Students
NID Google Facilitates Google SSO for teachers. Used by Google to remember the user's preferences on Google services 180 days Teachers, Parents, Students
SOCS Google Facilitates Google SSO for teachers. Used by Google to store the user's privacy choices on Google services 1 year Teachers, Parents, Students
enforce_policy PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider to store the user's privacy preferences. 1 year Parents
l7_az PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider for security and fraud prevention. 1 day Parents
LANG PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider to store the user's language preferences. 1 day Parents
nsid  PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider for security and fraud prevention. Session Parents
ts PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider for security and fraud prevention. 1 year Parents
ts_c PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider for security and fraud prevention. 1 year Parents
tsrce PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents. Used by our payment provider for security and fraud prevention. 3 days Parents
x-pp-c PayPal Facilitates secure payments for parents.  Session Parents
_sumdog www.sumdog.com Allows the user to log in and maintain an authenticated user session. 1 day Teachers, Parents, Students
CookieConsent www.sumdog.com Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year Teachers, Parents, Students
XSRF-TOKEN www.sumdog.com Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. Session Teachers, Parents, Students

Website

These cookies apply to visitors on our website domains including learn.sumdog.com, content.sumdog.com, blog.sumdog.com and support.sumdog.com 

Necessary (5)

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. Learn more about necessary cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry
_cf_bm hubspot.com Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. 29 minutes
_hs_cookie_cat_pref sumdog.com The HubSpot Cookie Banner's consent preferences cookie. 180 days
_cfruid sumdog.com Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. session
_hs_do_not_track sumdog.com Prevents the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot 179 days
hs_ab_test sumdog.com Used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they've seen before session

Functionality (1)

We use a set of cookies that are optional for the website to function. They are usually only set in response to information provided to the website to personalize and optimize your experience as well as remember your chat history. Learn more about functionality cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry
test_cookie doubleclick.net This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. 15 minutes

Analytics (6)

These cookies help us to understand how visitors engage with the website. We may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics. In addition to reporting site usage statistics, data collected may also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described, to help show more relevant ads across the web and to measure interactions with the ads we show. Learn more about analytics cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry
_hstc sumdog.com Analytics tracking cookie 179 days
hubspotutk sumdog.com Contains visitor's identity 179 days
_hssc sumdog.com Analytics session cookie 29 minutes
_ga_DEPR5Z6EEX sumdog.com Used to persist session state 399 days
__hssrc sumdog.com Used to determine if a session is a new session session
_ga sumdog.com ID used to identify users 399 days

Advertisement (3)

We use cookies to make our ads more engaging and valuable to site visitors. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on ad campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. Learn more about advertisement cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry
_gcl_au sumdog.com Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 90 days
IDE doubleclick.net This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite  389 days
NID google.com This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation 182 days