Last updated: November 7, 2025
Cookies allow us to recognise your device and store information about your preferences or past actions. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, operate more efficiently, provide reporting information and store things like personalisation details or user preferences. Cookies are also often used to provide you with, or facilitate for, advertising.
Cookies set by the website owner (for our Websites, that would be CJ) are called "first-party Cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party Cookies".
| Cookie Name | First or Third Party | Expiry | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | |
| LCLK | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | |
| DotomiUser | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | X – when accepted cookies |
| cjae | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers for their marketing efforts. | X – when accepted cookies |
| SESS | First | Session | To determine when a browser session starts, which ultimately helps CJ reward the correct publisher for marketing efforts resulting in a transaction with an advertiser. | |
| CJSession | First | Session | To determine when a browser session starts, which ultimately helps CJ reward the correct publisher for marketing efforts resulting in a transaction with an advertiser. | X – when accepted cookies |
| CJLoyalty | First | 13 months | Identify a consumer that has requested to be rewarded with loyalty points, cash back or miles to make sure such loyalty points, cash back or miles are rewarded to the correct consumer. This cookie is strictly necessary. | |
| NSID | Third | 13 months | Fraud detection. | |
| dtm_consent | First | 13 months | Store consent choice. This cookie is strictly necessary. | |
| CJAnalytics | First | 13 months | Used for analytics of effectiveness of CJ's on-click consent solution. This cookie will be used along with dtm_consent cookie. | |
| cjuser | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | |
| cjevent_dc | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | |
| cjevent_sc | First | 13 months | Attributing a referral or a marketing effort on a publisher website or mobile application to a transaction with an advertiser, to enable advertisers to reward publishers on a per-transaction basis for their marketing efforts. | |
| cjconsent | First | 13 months | Store consent choice. This cookie is strictly necessary. |
| Cookie Name | Property | First or Third Party | Name of Vendor | Expiry | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | OneTrust | 365 days | Records dismissal of the OneTrust consent banner on www.cj.com and junction.cj.com. | Consent |
| OptanonConsent | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | OneTrust | 365 days | Stores the visitor's category choices for OneTrust consent across both sites. | Consent |
| __cf_bm | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First & third | Cloudflare (site assets, HubSpot embeds) | 30 minutes | Bot management cookie applied directly on each site and via embedded HubSpot and www.cj.com assets. | Security |
| _cfuvid | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First & third | Cloudflare (site assets, HubSpot embeds) | Session (up to 7 days) | Visitor identifier Cloudflare uses for rate limiting on each site and for assets loaded from HubSpot/www.cj.com. | Security |
| __hssc | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | HubSpot | 30 minutes | Tracks session start and stop times so HubSpot can increment visit counts. | Analytics |
| __hssrc | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | HubSpot | Session | Signals to HubSpot whether the visitor restarted their browser during a session. | Analytics |
| __hstc | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | HubSpot | 13 months | Primary HubSpot tracking cookie storing visitor ID and visit timestamps for both sites. | Analytics |
| hubspotutk | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First | HubSpot | 13 months | Stores a visitor identity so HubSpot can deduplicate contacts after form submissions. | Analytics |
| _pk_id.5.e2ac | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First & third | Matomo (www.cj.com property) | 13 months | Persists the Matomo visitor identifier used on www.cj.com and shared with junction.cj.com for cross-domain analytics. | Analytics |
| _pk_ses.5.e2ac | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | First & third | Matomo (www.cj.com property) | 30 minutes | Short-lived Matomo session cookie shared between www.cj.com and junction.cj.com visits. | Analytics |
| _pk_id.2.2752 | junction.cj.com | First | Matomo | 13 months | Primary Matomo visitor identifier for the junction.cj.com property. | Analytics |
| _pk_ses.2.2752 | junction.cj.com | First | Matomo | 30 minutes | Short-lived Matomo session cookie for junction.cj.com analytics. | Analytics |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | www.cj.com | Third | YouTube | 180 days | Measures bandwidth and diagnostics for embedded YouTube players. | Functional |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | www.cj.com | Third | YouTube | 180 days | Stores the visitor's consent state for embedded YouTube content. | Functional |
| YSC | www.cj.com | Third | YouTube | Session | Registers a unique ID to track which YouTube videos a visitor has viewed. | Functional |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | www.cj.com | Third | YouTube | 180 days | Supports feature rollout and load balancing for embedded YouTube players. | Functional |
| __Secure-YNID | www.cj.com | Third | YouTube | 180 days | Stores YouTube preferences and may support personalised advertising. | Marketing |
| DotomiUser | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | Third | Conversant (Dotomi) | 13 months | Stores a unique identifier for Conversant advertising audiences across both sites. | Marketing |
| cjae | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | Third | Conversant (Dotomi) | 13 months | Conversant advertiser cookie used for audience measurement and campaign attribution. | Marketing |
| CJSession | www.cj.com; junction.cj.com | Third | Conversant (Dotomi) | Session | Session identifier supporting Conversant advertising services on both sites. | Marketing |