Cookie Category Chart
| COOKIE NAME | COOKIE EXPIRATION | COOKIE DESCRIPTION AND BUSINESS PURPOSE |
| PHPSESSID | End of session | This first party cookie is used to maintain information about each visit to the website and enable core site functionality. This cookie does not contain any personal information, and only lasts for the duration of user’s visit, being deleted as soon as a user closes a web browser. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year | This first party cookie is set by our website to mark user’s consent to the usage of cookies whilst viewing the website. This will prevent the cookie banner from re-appearing every time user visits our site. This cookie does not track user’s personal information. |
| www_hroc_setting_development | End of session | This first party cookie is a Website Content Management System (CMS) cookie for user settings that allows saving user language selection. |
| _dc_gtm_UA-* | 10 minutes | This first party cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to distinguish users and events on the website and analyze how users interact with our website. User data tracked is anonymous. |
| id | 2 years | This third party cookie is used by Google DoubleClick to distinguish users and to check how many times a user has seen an ad or, for example, whether user needs to see the UK or US version. User data tracked is anonymous. |
| _ga | 2 years | This first party Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users when collecting information about page visits. This cookie helps us to identify website areas to be improved and the _ga cookie does not allow Monsanto to identify user personally as no personal information or data is tracked. |
| _gali | 30 seconds | This first party Google Analytics cookie is used by Google Analytics to specify user's country. |
| _gat | 10 minutes | This first party Google Analytics cookie is used by Google Analytics to monitor requests rate toward their servers. This cookie helps Monsanto to identify website areas to be improved and the _gat cookie does not allow Monsanto to identify user personally as no personal information or data is tracked. |
| _atuvc _atuvs _atrfs | 3 days 30 minutes End of session | These first party cookies are created and read by the AddThis social sharing site in order to make sure user sees the updated count if user shares a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated. No data from these cookies is sent back to AddThis. |
| _vis_opt_* _vwo_uuid | 100 days 1 year | These first party cookies are used by Visual Web Optimizer (VWO) to run campaigns and track user information. These cookies are used by us to display our website users multiple versions of webpage layouts to enhance their website user experience. |
| uid uvc xtc | 2 years | These third party cookies are created by the AddThis social sharing site. AddThis does collect some information such as which web page user came from, which type of browser user is using, and general geographic location. If user uses the AddThis social media content sharing tool to share content, AddThis aggregates data about what pages are shared, when, and how. AddThis also assigns a web browser a unique identifier. This ID doesn’t, and can’t, say anything about the user. It’s a random series of numbers and letters used to distinguish users from each other. |
| YouTube cookies | We may embed videos that are externally hosted on YouTube using YouTube’s privacy enhanced mode. In accordance with YouTube’s embedding videos information page in this mode YouTube will not set cookies on your computer until you click on the YouTube video player. Further, YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos under this mode. As these cookies are set by YouTube, we have no direct control over their usage. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page . For further information from YouTube please read YouTube's privacy policy. | |
| incap_ses_*_* visid_incap_*_* __utmva* __utmvb* __utmvm* ___utmvc | End of session 2 years 15min 15min 15min End of session | These first party cookies are set by a third party service to filter out malicious requests. |