Cookie name | Domain | Purpose | Duration |
BVImplmercia | Stores user configuration for Bazaarvoice A/B testing | Session | |
BVImplrecipes | Stores user configuration for Bazaarvoice A/B testing | Session | |
BVImplwines | Stores user configuration for Bazaarvoice A/B testing | Session | |
_atuvc | AddThis social sharing cookie to ensure user sees updated counter if sharing a page | 13 months | |
BVBRANDID | Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions within the ALDI domain | 20 years | |
_atuvs | AddThis social sharing cookie in order to ensure user sees updated counter if sharing a page | 2 years | |
_distillery | Wistia cookie that records a position where video has been stopped to allow playback continuation | When deleted | |
_dc_gtm_UA-XXXXXXX | Stores Google Analytics tracking info | When deleted | |
__ga | Stores the user's Google Analytics Client ID | 2 years of inactivity | |
__gid | Stores the user's Google Analytics Client ID and is sent to GA in all hits and redirects | 2 years of inactivity | |
__gaexp | .aldi.co.uk | Stores a list of Google Optimization variations that the user has encountered | 90 days depending on variation |
acceleratorSecureGUID | Website security | Session | |
b1pi | www.assets.aldi-digital.co.uk / www.assets.aldi-digital.ie / www.aldi.co.uk/ www.aldi.ie | Website security | Session |
basket | .aldi.co.uk | Contains the quantity of items added to the basket and a timestamp of when the items are reserved until | 30 minutes |
cookieMesssage | Records whether a user has accepted the cookie consent message | 19 years | |
merciastorefrontRememberMe | Records that a user has visited the site and automatically logs a customer in | 14 days | |
ecos.dt | Maru/eDR survey participation cookie that is set when a user is invited to a survey, chooses to participate in a survey or requests not to be invited again | Session | |
mercia-uk-cart | Allows the site to restore a user's cart if the cart is still present | 11 years | |
muxData | Wistia utilizes Mux for low level video performance analytics to help optimize infrastructure and video delivery | 20 years | |
thx_guid | Allows device identification for the purposes of fraud detection | When deleted | |
APISID | .google.co.uk | Stores a user’s Google user preferences and information from Google Maps | When deleted |
JSESSIONID | Records a user’s session ID allowing the site to identify returning users | Session | |
ROUTEID | Website security | When deleted | |
SAPISID | Stores a user’s Google user preferences and information from Google Maps | When deleted | |
DSID | .doubleclick.net | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | When deleted |
IDE | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | When deleted | |
id | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | When deleted | |
SSID | Stores a user’s Google user preferences and information from Google Maps | When deleted | |
CONSENT | Google tracking cookie | When deleted | |
NID | Stores a unique Google ID to remember user preferences and other information, such as preferred language | When deleted | |
HSID | Google security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorised parties | When deleted | |
SID | Google security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorised parties | When deleted | |
DV | Google tracking | When deleted | |
bt2, di2, loc, mus, uid, um, uvc, vc related social media cookies such as Facebook and Pinterest cookies | addthis.com | Facilitates social sharing functionality | When deleted |
bvid | network.bazaarvoice.com | Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network | 365 days of inactivity |
bvsid | network.bazaarvoice.com | Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network | 30 minutes of inactivity (session) |
adnxs | appnexus doubleclick advertising | Tracks adverts viewed to build targeting segments | When deleted |
px_random | Site usage analytics | 2 years | |
PHPSESSID | tag.mention-me.com | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Session |
BVBRANDSID | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Unclassified (tbc) | 1 year |
History.store | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Unclassified (tbc) | Session |
loglevel | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Unclassified (tbc) | Persistent |
SIDCC | google.uk | SIDCC is a security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorised access | Session to two years |
M | aldi.co.uk | Tests whether the browser accepts session cookies | Session |
N | Aldi.co.uk | Tests whether the browser accepts persistent cookies | 1 year |
TPPF | Aldi.co.uk | Third party pixel frequency | 1 year |
S | Aldi.co.uk | Shows that user has been inactive for 30 minutes or more. This is used when measuring the effectiveness of advertising content | 30 minutes |
ric | Aldi.co.uk | Provides region ID | 1 year |
Prooc | Aldi.co.uk | Where the current browser has opted out of seeing advertisements placed by RichReach | 10 years |
Coo | Aldi.co.uk | Used where the current browser has opted out of behaviour tracking cookies | 10 years |
Uc | Aldi.co.uk | Tracks a user across sessions | Renewable each session |
Sthc | aldi.co.uk | Records and uses recent search terms entered through the browser in order to make better predictions as to which products to recommend | Session |
Mrdu | Aldi.co.uk | Excludes certain products from recommendations | 1 day |
Rp2er | Aldi.co.uk | Stops showing certain advertisement campaigns after a user has clicked on them a certain number of times | 1 year |
Avf | Aldi.co.uk | Measures the number of times a user has seen a particular advertisement | 1 year |
Cv | Aldi.co.uk | Tracks what categories of product a user has viewed | 1 year |
ca, pendprch | Aldi.co.uk | Tracks what items have been recently added to a user’s shopping cart | 1 year |
psthc, uhs | Aldi.co.uk | Records browser search terms | 1 year |
P | Aldi.co.uk | Records items that have been recently purchased | 1 year |
Pv | Aldi.co.uk | Records items that have been recently viewed | 1 year |
Mvtid | Aldi.co.uk | Used to determine whether or not the user will be shown ads for similar products or not | 1 year |
mercia-pers | Aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Stores unique user ID for Rich Relevance integration (hashed from session ID) | 12 years |
mercia-persA | Aldi.co.uk | Stores user’s age bracket for Rich Relevance integration (determined by DoB during checkout process) | 1 year |
mercia-persG | Aldi.co.uk | Store’s users gender for Rich Relevance integration (determined by title) | 1 year |
_taggstar, _taggstar_exp,_taggstar_vid, _taggstar_ses, taggstar_cfg | www.aldi.co.uk | Stores visitor ID, Session ID and other required information to facilitate Taggstar Social Proof messaging | 90 days |
_at.cww, at-lojson-cache, at-rand | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis | Persistent |
_fbp, fr | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
tr | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Session |
r/collect | aldi.ie | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
rc::a | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used in con text with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a visitor is shown the same advertisement content. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video advertisement to the specific visitor. | Persistent |
rc::b, rc::c, rc::d-15 | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used in con text with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a visitor is shown the same advertisement content. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video advertisement to the specific visitor. | Session |
test_cookie | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day |
xtc | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Registers the user's sharing of content via social media. | 13 months |
wistia-http2-push-disabled | Aldi.ie | Collects data on visitor interaction with the website's video content. This data is used to make the website's video con tent more relevant towards the visitor. | 1 day |
__cfduid | Aldi.co.uk | Used by the con ten t network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | 1 year |
_at.hist.# | Aldi.co.uk | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user's usage history of the AddThis sharing widget | Persistent |
collect | Aldi.co.uk | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
gcl_au | Aldi.co.uk | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
ads/ga-audiences | Aldi.co.uk | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to con vert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. | Session |
MUID | Aldi.co.uk | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | I year |
MUIDB | Aldi.co.uk | Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites | 1 year |
edr_sc_tst | Aldi.co.uk | Un classified (tbc) | 1 day |
mvtdebug | Aldi.co.uk | Records the personalisation data of the user which is then hashed and passed to Rich Relevance | 1 year |
rr_rcs | Aldi.co.uk | Records the personalisation data of the user which is then hashed and passed to Rich Relevance | 2 years |
pagead/1p-user-list/# | aldi.co.uk / aldi.ie | Unclassified (tbc) | Session |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. | 365 days |
_hjDonePolls | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
_hjMinimizedPolls | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | 365 days |
_hjDoneTestersWidgets | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
_hjIncludedInSample | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. | 365 days |
_hjShownFeedbackMessage | Aldi.co.uk | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. | 365 days |
_hjid | Aldi.co.uk | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days |
_hjRecordingLastActivity | Aldi.co.uk | This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records). | Session |
hjTLDTest | Aldi.co.uk | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session |
_hjUserAttributesHash | Aldi.co.uk | User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. | Session |
_hjCachedUserAttributes | Aldi.co.uk | This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. | Session |
__gaexp_mpxVisited | Aldi.co.uk | Stores whether a user has seen the variant in the current session | Session |