Effective Date: 01/27/2021
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.
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.
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:
Here is a representative list of the cookies we use.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Target | at_check mbox |
These cookies are used to manage how visitors experience our site. | Session 2 years |
| Application Insights | ai_session
|
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 |
| 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 ApplicationGateawayAffinity ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS |
These cookies are used keep users with a certain instance of web app or web site in Azure. | Session Session Session |
| Minitab Connect | revision
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This cookie tracks the Version of Minitab Connect the user is actively running to notify the user if an update is available for installation. | Local Storage |
| Minitab Connect | max_notification | This cookie tracks the number of notifications a user is able to receive within the active session. | Local Storage |
| Minitab Connect | apikey | This cookie manages the active session of the logged on active user session. | Local Storage |
| Minitab Connect | vue-lang | This cookie tracks the active user's language setting. | Local Storage |
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.
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.
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.
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.