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Our cookie policy for Developer Marketplace Portal

Our cookie policy for Developer Marketplace Portal

This is the cookie policy for those parts of the https://developer.vodafone.com website managed by Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited on behalf of Vodafone Business Group.

In this cookie policy we explain what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage them for both our site and other websites you might use.

What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit a website. The cookies mean that the website will remember you and how you've used the site every time you come back.

If you want to know more about cookies, head to aboutcookies.org. (Please note: This link opens a new window or browser tab).

How we use cookies

We use cookies to make our website work or work more efficiently. We also use cookies to track what you've done on the site so we can understand what you like and use or don't like and don't use to provide a more enjoyable, customised service and experience, as well as to help us develop and deliver better content, products and services tailored to our customers' interests and needs.

Our cookies don't hold personal information such as your name. They simply let us find information once you're logged in or help link your browsing information to you and your personal information when you choose to register for a service, white paper or newsletter.

To do this we sometimes use persistent cookies. We take looking after your personal information seriously – we're always monitoring and improving how we protect it.

We've put our cookies into the following categories, to make it easier for you to understand why we need them:

  1. Strictly necessary – these are used to help make our website work efficiently;
  2. Performance – these are used to analyse the way our website works and how we can improve it for example which pages you visit the most often and if you get any error messages from web pages;
  3. Functionality – these help to enhance your experience by doing things like remembering choices you make and provide a more enhanced, personal features; and
  4. Targeting/advertising – these are used to share some information with third parties who we advertise with, so we know how you've reached our website. We can also use cookies to identify the parts of the website you are interested in. We then use this information to show you adverts and pages we think may also be of interest to you, to tailor how we communicate with you, or to tailor the contents of the communications we send to you. If you prefer, you can opt out of these. Tailoring of content means it includes information reflecting the interest you’ve shown in the content of our web pages, offers or promotions that we think may interest you, and to improve how we respond to your needs.

In addition to this, sometimes other Vodafone Group companies will add a cookie to show you adverts and pages which may be of interest to you. Details on these, and how to opt out if you prefer, can be found in the ‘Third-party cookies’ section of this page.

Where it appears What it’s called What it’s used for type
developer.vodafone.com OptanonAlertBoxClosed

Description: This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.

Lifespan: A year

Secure: Http only

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vodafone.com utag_main

Description: This cookie name is associated with the Tealium data platform and is used to enforce consent preferences across 3rd party tags. Within the cookie are several built-in values that keep track of the visitor session.

Lifespan: A year

Secure: Http only

1
vodafone.com SSESS###########

Description:

Lifespan: Session

Secure: Http only

1
vodafone.com _vapi

Description: Cookie that contains a session identifier used to authenticate the use and deliver different APIs

Lifespan: Session

Secure: Http only

1
developer.vodafone.com OptanonConsent

Description: This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

Lifespan: A year

Secure: Http only

1
vodafone.com s_cc

Description: This cookie is associated with the Adobe Site Catalyst. It determines whether cookies are enabled in the web browser.

Lifespan: Session

Secure: Http only

2
vodafone.com s_fid

Description: This cookie name is associated with the analytics service provided by Adobe's Site Catalyst product suite. It is a new cookie introduced in 2013 as a 'fallback' visitor identifier where the s_vi cookie normally used for this purpose is blocked. It contains a randomly generated, unique id.

Lifespan: 2 years

Secure: Http only

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Third Party Cookies

First party cookies originate from the same domain as the website you’re currently visiting (in this case, https://developer.vodafone.com.

Third party cookies originate from a domain that’s different to the website being visited. For example, when you visit our website, we may link to another company's website – like our Facebook or Twitter account, or a video from our YouTube page.

So, when you 'Like' or 'Tweet' an item from our website, these sites may sometimes put cookies on your computer. We don't control how they use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them.

Affiliates of the Vodafone Group with a different domain name may also place cookies on our website, to show you adverts or pages of other Vodafone Group companies that may be of interest to you. Details of these affiliates – and how to opt-out – are included in the table.

Third parties that may put cookies on our website are:

Where it appears What it’s called What it’s used for type
vodafone.com CONSENTMGR

Description:The Tealium Consent Manager uses a cookie named CONSENTMGR to save the consent settings of a visitor.

Lifespan: A year

Secure: Http only

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omtrdc.net s_vi_hqzx7Fxxqpx7Bylqknx7Fnwsx7Flux7Bjnrx7Fx7Dx7Bzx7Bh

Description:

Lifespan: 2 years

Secure: Http only

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Controlling your cookies

You can access the "Privacy Preference Center" by clicking on the green and white cookie icon that is located at the bottom of the page.

The cookie icon looks like this: cookie icon

You can also manage cookies via your browser. Please see your browser settings for more information. https://developer.vodafone/cookie-policy

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