Cookie Policy
Facing History & Ourselves’ ("Facing History," "we," "us," or "our") Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies on our Websites and the choices you have.
Facing History & Ourselves Cookie Policy
Facing History & Ourselves ("Facing History," "we," "us," or "our") Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies on our Websites and the choices you have.
This cookie policy provides you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies we use and the purposes for using cookies. To review the privacy policies that apply to users of https://www.facinghistory.org/ and our Websites, please read our Privacy Policy.
Definition of “Cookies”
Cookies are small pieces of text used to process and store information on a web browser. Cookies are widely used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones, and other devices. We also use other technologies, including data we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device, and other software, including web beacons and pixel tags, for similar purposes. In this Cookie Statement, we refer to these technologies as "cookies."
Types of Cookies
We use cookies to provide, protect, and improve our products and services, such as by personalizing content, offering and measuring advertisements, understanding user behavior, and providing a safer experience. We describe below the various types of cookies we use and the purposes they perform:
- Browsing or session (essential) cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for you to browse our Websites and use their features. If you disable these cookies, we will not be able to fulfill your requests. These cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser.
- Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Websites and Services. They allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing. The information these cookies collect helps us optimize our Websites and make them easier to use. The information collected does not personally identify you. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our Websites and Services. Additionally, it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information we use in aggregate and anonymized form to help us understand how our Websites, Applications, and Services are used, the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, and to help us customize our Websites. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our Websites, Applications and Services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you. This information cannot be used to identify you.
- Advertising (profiling) cookies: These cookies collect information about your browsing or shopping history and are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you or limit how many times you see an advertisement. We may share this information with third parties to help create and deliver advertising personalized to you and your interests. If you disable or opt out of these cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our Websites, Applications and Services, and it may reduce the support or information that we can provide you.
- Social networking cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content on our Websites and Services through third-party social networking and other Websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
Cookies Present on Facing History Websites
To get a complete list of the cookies present on the Facing History Websites, please email privacy [at] facinghistory.org (subject: Website%20Cookie%20Inquiry) (privacy[at]facinghistory[dot]org).
In detail, the cookies present on the Facing History Websites are as follows:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
First-Party
| Host | Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.facinghistory.org | _ok | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Contains a site identifier, used for security purposes. | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | olfsk | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software. Maintains message history across pages. | 2 years |
| facinghistory.org | _oklv | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Used to improve caching of software. | Session |
| events.facinghistory.org | __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _ok | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Contains a site identifier, used for security purposes. | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | _oklv | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Used to improve caching of software. | Session |
| facinghistory.org | olfsk | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software. Maintains message history across pages. | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software. Maintains message history across pages. |
Performance Cookies
First-Party
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give.facinghistory.org |
__utmc | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older versions this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. |
Session |
| facinghistory.org | _ga_49107M82RC | _ga | 2 Years |
| give.facinghistory.org | __utmb | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | 2 Years |
| facinghistory.org | _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie. | 3 Months |
| give.facinghistory.org | __utmz | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 Months |
| facinghistory.org | _ga_0L2JHFBQEB | _ga | 2 Years |
| give.facinghistory.org | __utma | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | 2 Years |
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_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Session |
| give.facinghistory.org | __utmt | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Session |
Performance Cookies
Third-Party
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nr-data.net |
JSESSIONID | This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. | Session |
Functional Cookies
First-Party
| facinghistory.org | hblid | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software. Identifies a unique visitor between visits | 2 Years |
| give.facinghistory.org | __atuvc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing site. It allows the user to see an updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 13 Months |
| give.facinghistory.org | __stripe_sid | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. | Session |
| give.facinghistory.org | __stripe_mid | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. | 1 Year |
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_okbk | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Contains sofware state information. | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | _okbk | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software, which provides functionality for websites to engage in instant messaging communication with visitors. Contains sofware state information. | Session |
| give.facinghistory.org | __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | hblid | Cookie set by Olark Live Chat software. Identifies a unique visitor between visits | 2 Years |
Targeting Cookies
First-Party
| facinghistory.org | __utmzzses | UTM Parameters used for advertising/tracking with Google Analytics | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | Session |
Targeting Cookies
Third-Party
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | Session |
| hubspot.com | __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | Session |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 13 Months |
| s7.addthis.com | __atuvs | This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. | Session |
| addthis.com | xtc | This domain is owned by AddThis. AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted behavioral advertising. | 13 months |
| s7.addthis.com | __atrfs | This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. | Session |
| addthis.com | loc | Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer | 13 Months |
| s7.addthis.com | __atuvc | This domain is owned by Addthis. The main business activity is: AddThis provides web widgets that site owners embed into their pages or other content, to enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. They also make use of the data collected to provide advertisers and marketers with profile information for targeted, behavioural advertising. | 13 Months |
| addthis.com | uvc | Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis | 13 Months |
Undefined Cookies
First-Party
| facinghistory.org | market_source__initial_referrer | Undefined | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _okck | Undefined | Session |
| facinghistory.org | __utmzz | Undefined | 6 Months |
| www.facinghistory.org | SSESS########### | Undefined | 1 Month |
| give.facinghistory.org | Springboard | Undefined | 10 Years |
| www.facinghistory.org | _okcs | Undefined | Session |
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facinghistory.org |
_okdetect | Undefined | Session |
| facinghistory.org | SSESS########### | Undefined | 1 Month |
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www.facinghistory.org |
_okck | Undefined | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | wcsid | Undefined | Session |
| give.facinghistory.org | SSESS########### | Undefined | Session |
| www.facinghistory.org | _okdetect | Undefined | Session |
| give.facinghistory.org | _utmv######### | Undefined | Session |
| facinghistory.org | _okcs | Undefined | Session |
Third Party Cookies Present on Facing History Websites
You may also encounter cookies on our Websites, Applications and Services that are placed by third parties. We may also allow third parties to place cookies on our Websites to track information about your online activities and/or across third-party sites or online services, including to send you targeted advertisements based on that information, which may include the remarketing of our products and services that you have viewed on our Websites and on third-party websites.
This Cookie Policy does not apply to the cookies, applications, technologies, or websites that are owned and/or operated by third parties, or such third parties’ practices, even if they use or access our technology to store or collect information. To understand how third parties use cookies, please review their privacy and cookie policies.
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This privacy notice was last updated on September 01, 2022.
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