Cookies & Similar Technologies

Effective Date: 6/02/2020

Minitab uses cookies (small, often encrypted, text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device) and similar technologies (“cookies”) to provide our Services and help collect data. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies to collect information about the way you use our Services, and how you can control them.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to track how you use our Services by providing usage statistics. Cookies are also used to deliver Company information (including updates) and allow Service authentication to you based upon your browsing history and previous visits to the Sites. Information supplied to us using cookies helps us to provide a better online experience to our visitors and users and send marketing communications to them, as the case may be. Information supplied to us upon launching of our Services will enable Minitab to manage your permissions, license, license type, and improve the functionality of the Service.

While this information on its own may not constitute your “Personal Data”, we may combine the information we collect via cookies with Personal Data that we have collected from you to learn more about how you use our Services to improve them.

Types of Cookies

We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them). To make it easier for you to understand why we need them, the cookies we use with our Services can be grouped into the following categories:

Strictly Necessary: These cookies are necessary for the Services to work properly. They include any essential authentication and authorization cookies for our Services.
Functionality: These cookies enable technical performance and allow us to “remember” the choices you make while browsing our Sites, including any preferences you set. They also include sign-in and authentication cookies and IDs that enable you to return without additional sign-in.
Performance/Analytical: These cookies allow us to collect certain information about how you navigate the Sites or utilize the Services running on your device. They help us understand which areas you use and what we can do to improve them.
Targeting: These cookies are used to deliver relevant information related to our Services to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which has previously been used to visit our Sites. Some of these types of cookies on our Sites are operated by third parties with our permission and are used to identify advertising sources that are effectively driving customers to our sites.

Here is a representative list of the cookies we use.

Cookie	Name	Purpose	Duration
Application Insights	ai_session ai_user	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Microsoft.	1 year 1 year
Authorization	.ASPXAUTH FedAuth FedAuth1	These cookies provide the applicable authorization tokens used to identify and assign permissions to the current user.	Forever Session Session
Custom Company	4ac25b27192ab6f46a27506fdc97a826 BNES_SameSite cookieaccept currentViewId creatingNewView copy LoggedIn mc mcp prefCulture rl_modals smc locale x-session x-session.sig	These cookies are utilized to perform a variety of site-wide functions, including (but not limited to): identify and remember language preferences, site search functionality, and page navigation.	Session Session 1 year Session Session Session Session 1 year 11 months 1 year 1 year 1 year 2 years Session Session
Ektron Preference	BNES_ecm BNES_EktGUID ecm EktGUID BNES_EkAnalytics BNES_mc	These cookies collect anonymous information such as language and currency and are used to improve the Site’s performance.	Session 11 months Session 11 months 1 year 1 year
Google Analytics	__utma __utmb __utmc __utmt __utmz _ga _gat _gat_gtag_UA_{########} _gid 1P_JAR ANID AR DV IDE NID OTZ MC G_AUTHUSER_H G_ENABLED_IDPS ACCOUNT_CHOOSER APISID GAPS HSID LSID LSOLH OCAK SAPISID SEARCH_SAMESITE SID SIDCC SSID __Host-3PLSID __Host-GAPS __Secure-3PAPISID __Secure-3PSID __Secure-APISID __Secure-HSID __Secure-SSID user_id	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google.	2 years 30 minutes Session 10 minutes 6 months 2 years 1 minute 1 minute 1 day 30 days 1 year 30 days 2 years 1 year 6 months 1 month 2 years Session Forever 1 year 1 year 18 years 2 years 1 year 3 months 2 years Session 1 year 3 months 45 days 2 years 1 year 1 year 2 years 2 years 1 year 7 months 2 years 2 years 3 months 2 years 3 months 2 years 3 months Session
HubSpot	_fbp _gcl_au _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress _hjid __cfduid __hssc __hssrc __hstc hubspotutk u	This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to tailor the visitor’s experience both on the site itself and in follow-up communications. The cookie collects information in an anonymous form until the visitor provides us with further contact information such as an e-mail address, at which time the cookie is associated with the visitor’s account.	2 years 3 months 30 minutes 1 year 1 year 30 minutes Session 13 months 13 months 3 months
Microsoft .Net	__AntiXsrfToken __RequestVerificationToken ARRAffinity ASP.NET_SessionId BNES_ASP.NET_SessionId	This is a general platform session cookie used to maintain an anonymous user session and to secure and validate the authenticity of client-side web requests.	Session Session Session Session Session
YouTube	GPS VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YSC	We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer when you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Click here for an overview of privacy at YouTube.	1 day 8 months Session
Azure App Service	ARRAffinity	This cookie is used keep users with a certain instance of web app or web site in Azure.	Session

Cookies Set by Third Party Sites

To enhance our content and to deliver a better online experience for our users, we sometimes embed images and videos from other websites on the Sites. We currently use, and may in future use content from sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. You may be presented with cookies from these third-party websites. Please note that we do not control these cookies. The privacy practices of these third parties will be governed by the parties’ own privacy statements or policies. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties, using cookies or other means. You should consult and review the relevant third-party privacy statement or policy for information on how these cookies are used and how you can control them.

Social Sharing

We also embed social sharing icons throughout our Sites. These sharing options are designed to enable users to easily share content from our Sites with their friends using a variety of different social networks. If you choose to connect using a social networking or similar service, we may receive and store authentication information from that service to enable you to log in and other information that you may choose to share when you connect with these services. These services may collect information such as the web pages you visited and IP addresses, and may set cookies to enable features to function properly. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to the third-party services you connect to, use, or access. If you do not want your Personal Data shared with your social media account provider or other users of the social media service, please do not connect your social media account with your account for the Services and do not participate in social sharing on the Services.

Other Similar Technologies

Minitab web pages may use other technologies such as web beacons to help deliver cookies on our Sites and count users who have visited those Sites. We also may include web beacons in our promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether you open and act on them as well as for statistical purposes.

In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, our Services can also use other similar technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This is typically done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally.

How to Control and Delete Cookies

Cookies can be controlled, blocked or restricted through your web browser settings. Information on how to do this can be found within the Help section of your browser. All cookies are browser specific. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices to access websites, you will need to manage your cookie preferences across these environments.

If you are using a mobile device to access the Sites, you will need to refer to your instruction manual or other help/settings resource to find out how you can control cookies on your device.

Please note: If you restrict, disable or block any or all cookies from your web browser or mobile or other device, the Sites may not operate properly, and you may not have access to our Services available through the Sites. Minitab shall not be liable for any impossibility to use the Sites and Services or degraded functioning thereof, where such are caused by your settings and choices regarding cookies.

Do-Not-Track Disclosures

We do not support "Do Not Track" browser settings and do not currently participate in any Do Not Track frameworks that would allow us to respond to signals or other mechanisms from you regarding the collection of your personal information.

RETARGETING AND REMARKETING

Minitab uses third-party vendor Retargeting tracking cookies, pixels, and other technologies including Google Ads, Facebook Pixel and Facebook SDK, LinkedIn Ads, Twitter Ads, Yahoo Gemini Ads, and Microsoft Universal Event Tracking (Bing Ads), to collect data about your activities that does not personally or directly identify you when you visit our website, the website of entities for which we serve advertisements, or the websites and online services where we display advertisements. This information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address. We use the information we collect to serve you more relevant advertisements (referred to as “Retargeting” or “Remarketing”). We collect information about where you saw the ads we serve you and what ads you clicked on to measure the success of our advertising campaigns.

If you do not wish to participate in third-party Retargeting or Remarketing, you can find out more information about how to opt-out by visiting the links below:

Google Ads: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/

LinkedIn Ads: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/62931/manage-advertising-preferences?lang=en

Twitter Ads: https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads

Yahoo Gemini Ads: https://policies.yahoo.com/xa/en/yahoo/privacy/topics/opt-outfaq/

Microsoft (Bing Ads): https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout

To opt-out of targeted advertising on your iOS or iPadOS device, you can enable Limit Ad Tracking by going to Settings > Privacy > Advertising and turning on Limit Ad Tracking.

HOW TO OPT OUT OF TARGETED ADVERTISING

You can generally opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third-party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (DAA) by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI website ( http://optout.networkadvertising.org) and DAA website ( http://www.aboutads.info/choices/).