Cookies set via Addthis buttons
A new law in the EU requires websites to determine what cookies get set when visitors go to their site, and also to declare what they do.
I am advising clients on this and a number of them have various of your buttons on their sites
We have identified the following as addthis cookies, set as third party when visiting sites with addthis buttons:
di
dt
loc
psc
ssc
ssh
sshs
uid
uvc
and there is another that is a first party cookie, but may also come from you:
_atshc
Can you provide documentation about what data these cookies collect and how it is used? Otherwise I will need to advise clients that they should consider removing the buttons from their sites.
Many thanks, Richard
Hi Richard,
This is a list of AddThis cookies and what they do:
loc - This is our geolocation cookie, so our publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located
Coyote-2-a0f0083 - This is our load balancer cookie
bt - A behavior targeting cookie
ana_svc - a real-time service cookie
phpbb3_* and style_cookie - These are set by our support forum software
__utm* - Google analytics tracking
uid/uit - User id and login time tracking
psc - View counter cookie
di/dt - Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies
ssh/sshs - Service share history, used for configuring our preferred services.
You can disable cookies by using this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = { data_use_cookies:false }
</script>
Let us know if you need any more help.
This is a list of AddThis cookies and what they do:
loc - This is our geolocation cookie, so our publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located
Coyote-2-a0f0083 - This is our load balancer cookie
bt - A behavior targeting cookie
ana_svc - a real-time service cookie
phpbb3_* and style_cookie - These are set by our support forum software
__utm* - Google analytics tracking
uid/uit - User id and login time tracking
psc - View counter cookie
di/dt - Date tracking cookies for determining expiration of other cookies
ssh/sshs - Service share history, used for configuring our preferred services.
You can disable cookies by using this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = { data_use_cookies:false }
</script>
Let us know if you need any more help.
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