Cookies Policy
We use in our site https://www.toscaltd.com/ (« Site« ) cookies and similar files or technologies to automatically collect and store information about your computer, device, and Site usage, in order to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. We use the general term « cookies » in this policy to refer to these technologies and all such similar technologies that collect information automatically when you are using our Site where this policy is posted. You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below.
If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions in this cookie Policy or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this Site cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. Important: disabling cookies on this Site may impair certain Site features.
In this Cookies Policy, we use the term Tosca (and « we« , « us » and « our« ) to refer to Tosca Services LLC, Our Privacy Policy is available at https://www.toscaltd.com/privacy-policy.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are computer files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies can then be sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Site before or whether you are a new visitor.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
- First party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device.
- Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third party cookies for performance / analytics, marketing and social media purposes. The third-party cookies are outside of our control. The third parties may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc. See below additional information on how to manage such cookies.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are ‘permanent cookies’, meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
Web beacons:
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called « tracking pixels » or « clear gifs »). These are small graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our website. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our website from an online advertisement displayed on a third party website, to improve website performance and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In most instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function, and therefore declining cookies prevents them from functioning.
You may have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. When you access our Site, you are presented with a cookie consent mechanism that allows you to accept or reject cookies that are not essential cookies. You may also control cookies by setting your browser to turn off cookies as described further below. If you turn off cookies, web beacon and other technologies will still detect your visits to our Site; however, they will not be associated with information otherwise stored in cookies.
Targeted advertising
Third parties may drop cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these to us.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to:
- track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with our Site;
- understand the total number of visitors to our Sites on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac) used by our visitors;
- monitor the performance of our Site and to continually improve it; and
- customize and enhance your online experience.
What types of cookies do we use?
The types of cookies used by us in connection with the Site can be considered ‘essential website cookies’, ‘analytics and performance cookies’, ‘marketing’, and ‘unclassified’. We’ve set out some further information below, and the purposes of the cookies we set in the following table.
1. Cookies necessary for essential website purposes
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies we will not be able to provide services that you require, such as transactional pages and secure login accounts.
| Cookie name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| INGRESSCOOKIE | contextweb.com | Session | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
| PHPSESSID | toscaltd.com | Session | Preserves user session state across page requests. |
| SESS# | stickyadstv.com | Session | Preserves users states across page requests. |
2. Performance / Analytics Cookies
We use performance/analytics cookies to analyze how the website is accessed, used, or is performing. We do this in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. For example, these cookies allow us to:
- Better understand our website visitors so that we can improve how we present our content;
- Test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our homepage;
- Collect information about Site visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using;
- Determine the number of unique users of the website;
- Improve the website by measuring any errors that occur; and
- Conduct research and diagnostics to improve product offerings.
| Cookie name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| lang | ads.linkedin.com | Session | Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website |
| _ga | toscaltd.com | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | toscaltd.com | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| _gid | toscaltd.com | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| ab | agkn.com | 1 year | This cookie is used by the website’s operator in context with multi-variate testing. This is a tool used to combine or change content on the website. This allows the website to find the best variation/edition of the site. |
| PugT | pubmatic.com | 29 days | Used to determine the number of times the cookies have been updated in the visitor’s browser. Used to optimize the website’s server efficiency. |
3. Marketing
We use marketing cookies to deliver many types of targeted digital marketing. We do this in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. The cookie store user data and behavior information, which allows advertising services to target audience according to variables. For example, these cookies allow us to:
- Observe the site performance and generate retargeting (Site retargeting, search retargeting, etc).
- Maintain and improve the website and our products.
| Cookie name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
| _cc_aud | crwdcntrl.net | 269 days | Collects statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customized online advertising. |
| _cc_cc | crwdcntrl.net | Session | Collects statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customized online advertising. |
| _cc_dc | crwdcntrl.net | 269 days | Microsoft Word – Tosca_-_Cookies_Policy_-_CLEAN_VERSION__Feb_1__2021_.doc Collects statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customized online advertising. |
| _cc_id | crwdcntrl.net | 269 days | Collects statistical data related to the user’s website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website’s users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customized online advertising. |
| _gcl_au | toscaltd.com | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| _kuid_ | krxd.net | 179 days | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| _li_ss | liadm.co | 29 days | Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| _rlid | retargetly.com | 179 days | Registers user behavior and navigation on the website, and any interaction with active campaigns. This is used for optimizing advertisement and for efficient retargeting. |
| _ssuma | sitescout.com | 29 days | Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| A3 | yahoo.com | 1 year | Collects information on user behavior on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
| ads/ga-audiences | google.com | Session | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. |
| AdServer/Pug | pubmatic.com | Session | Sets a timestamp for when the visitor entered the website. This is used for analytical purposes on the website. |
| anj | adnxs.com | 3 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| anProfile | pro-market.net | 179 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
| APID | advertising.com | 1 year | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
| APID | yahoo.com | 1 year | Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. |
| APIDTS | yahoo.com | 1 day | Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. |
| audience | spotxchange.com | 1 year | Used to determine whether the video-ads have been displayed correctly on the website – This is done to make video-ads more effective and ensure that the visitor is not shown the same ads more times than intended. The cookie also detects whether the visitor has any Do Not Track preferences. |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | 2 years | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| bscookie | linkedin.com | 2 years | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| CMID | casalemedia.com | 1 year | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| CMPRO | casalemedia.com | 3 months | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. |
| CMPS | casalemedia.com | 3 months | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| CMST | casalemedia.com | 1 day | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| csync | smartadserver.com | 13 months | Optimises ad display based on the user’s movement combined and various advertiser bids for displaying user ads. |
| d/px | adsymptotic.com | Session | Collects data on visitors’ preferences and behaviour on the website – This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. |
| d7s_dc | deployads.com | 1 year | This is for programmatic advertisements to retarget users with digital ads if they have visited our site previously. |
| demconf.jpg | demdex.net | Session | Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| demdex | demdex.net | 179 days | Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user’s navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. |
| dpm | demdex.net | 179 days | Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| EE | exelator.com | 119 days | Collects data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| i | openx.net | 1 year | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| IDSYNC | analytics.yahoo.com | 1 year | Used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| idsync/ex/receive/check | tapad.com | Session | This cookie is set by the audience manager of the website to determine the time and frequencies of visitor data synchronization – cookie data synchronization is used to synchronize and gather visitor data from several websites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_# | pubmatic.com | 179 days | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. |
| lang | linkedin.com | Session | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded « Follow us » panel. |
| li_sugr | linkedin.com | 3 months | Collects data on user behavior and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. |
| lidc | linkedin.com | 1 day | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| lidid | liadm.com | 2 years | Collects data on visitors’ behavior and interaction – This is used to make advertisement on the website more relevant. The cookie also allows the website to detect any referrals from other websites. |
| lissc | linkedin.com | 1 year | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| ljt_reader | lijit.com | 1 year | Collects data related to reader interests, context, demographics and other information on behalf of the Lijit platform with the purpose of finding interested users on websites with related content. |
| lpv881953 | pardot.com | 1 day | Track user activity as they navigate throughout the site. |
| mc | thrtle.com | 199 days | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Session | Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. |
| pardot | info.toscaltd.com | Session | Used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| pardot | pardot.com | 1 day | Used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| partner | spotxchange.com | Session | Used in context with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a user is shown the same advertisement. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video- advertisement to the specific user. |
| pid | smartadserver.com | 13 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| PUBMDCID | pubmatic.com | 3 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. |
| site/# | bluekai.com | Session | Centrally organizes a company’s customer and audience data in the cloud to help implement personalized marketing campaigns across all channels and deliver better results and higher marketing ROI. |
| ssi | sitescout.com | 1 year | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| stx_user_id | sharethrough.com | 1 year | Sets a unique ID for a specific visitor. This ID can be used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry and implement any preference choices made. The cookie also allows the website to track the visitor on multiple websites for marketing purposes. |
| TapAd_3WAY_SYNCS | tapad.com | 2 months | Used for data-synchronization with advertisement networks. |
| TapAd_DID | tapad.com | 2 months | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. |
| TapAd_TS | tapad.com | 2 months | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | 1 day | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| TestIfCookieP | smartadserver.com | 13 months | Identifies new users and generates a unique ID for each user. |
| tluid | 3lift.com | 3 months | This cookie is used to identify the visitor and optimize ad-relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third-party data-center or ad-exchange. |
| u | agkn.com | 1 year | Collects data on user visits to the website, such as what pages have been accessed. The registered data is used to categorize the user’s interest and demographic profiles in terms of resales for targeted marketing. |
| ud | exelator.com | 119 days | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| udo | exelator.com | 119 days | Collects information on user behavior on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
| UID | stickyadstv.com | 29 days | Collects visitor data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | 29 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
| uuid2 | adnxs.com | 3 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | 179 days | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| YSC | youtube.com | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected- devices | youtube.com | Persistent | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Persistent | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check- period | youtube.com | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| a/n (6-8) | casalemedia.com | 1 year | These are needed for site navigation and to perform aggregate analysis of what is viewed on our site. |
How to control or delete cookies
You may have the right to decide whether to accept or reject reject cookies that are not essential cookies.
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However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Site.
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- Cookie settings in Chrome and Chrome mobile
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- Cookie settings in Safari and Safari mobile
- Cookie settings in iOS
- Cookie settings in Opera
- Cookie settings in Apple Safari
If you use another browser, you can check if the procedure for your browser is mentioned in this explanatory website.
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Third Party Websites’ Cookies
When using our website, you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys, to make payment in currency other than U.S. dollars, or for job applications. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from our website.
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If you have disabled one or more Cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about this Cookies Policy, or privacy matters generally, please contact us via email at [email protected].
