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If you have any questions about this policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at privacy@cas.org or by writing to CAS, 2540 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, Ohio 43202-1505, USA, Attn: Legal.

Further Information

For more information on how we use your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Cookies Overview

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or in your device's storage.

Essential Cookies

We use essential cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use our websites. We are permitted to place these cookies without your prior consent, but you can block all cookies, including essential cookies, by changing your browser settings. Please note if you block all cookies, you might not be able to see or access all parts of our websites and/or our products.

Non-Essential Cookies

The other types of cookies we use are non-essential cookies. We use these to help us make improvements to our websites and/or how our products function.

We have listed all non-essential cookies we might use and that we might allow our partners to use in the table below.

We only use (and store) non-essential cookies if you provide your consent.

Provider

Cookie

Purpose

Duration

Clearbit

cb_user_id

This cookie keeps track of the visitor's identity and stores a unique user ID used to attribute web activity to the individual.

1 year

cb_anonymous_id

This is a unique ID for each anonymous site visitor used to attribute page views back to that anonymous individual.

1 year

cb_group_id

This cookie keeps track of group information, like an account that a user belongs to or a company they work for.

1 year

Facebook (Meta)

_fbp

This enables us to store and track visits across websites, including the websites you visit our pages from.

3 months

FullStory

fs_uid

This cookie tracks the user across sessions and pages.

1 year

Google Analytics

_ga_

These cookies track how long you spend on our website and the pages you visit. We use this information to hep us improve your user experience.

The retention period will be between 1 minute and 2 years depending on the type of cookie used.

Google Adsense

_gcl_au

This enables us to display adverts that correspond to your interests. 

The retention period will be between 2 weeks and 3 months depending on the type of cookie used.

HotJar

_hjSessionUser

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how you use our website.

The retention period will be between immediately, the session duration, 30 minutes or 1 year depending on the type of cookie used.

Eloqua

_elqQ

_ELQSTATUS

_ELOQUA

These cookies are set by Oracle Eloqua to track visitors and how they use the CAS website.

13 months.

Incapsula

incap_ses

This cookie is set to allow a visitor to receive site content from one out of multiple servers as the visitor browses the site. This allows the visitor’s session to be maintained.

Session.

Osano

_osano_consentmanager
_osano_cosentmanager_uuid

These cookies are for the management and general administration of cookie preferences. It enables the utilization of the consent dialog and associated features.

12 months.