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These Laravel cookies are used on the Canon Academy
| Name | Description | Expiration (time when the cookie is deleted from the device) |
| XSRF-TOKEN | System-Cookie | 2 hours |
| laravel_session | System-Cookie | 2 hours |
| locale | System-Cookie | Until end of session |
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These Google Analytics cookies may be used on the Canon Academy
| Name | Description | Expiration (time when the cookie is deleted from the device) |
| _ga | Google Analytics Cookie | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics Cookie | 1 day |
Tealium
TealiumiQ is a tag management system used by Canon Academy to manage technologies across all its websites, such as analytics tools, survey tools, marketing, testing & targeting tools.
Tealium AudienceStream is a customer-focused segmentation and action tool. We capture the actions customers take during a website visit and gain a better understanding of how they use our site. We use this information to improve your experience by personalizing, relevant, and targeted content. We use Tealium AudienceStream across all our platforms and mobile applications. This allows us to collect your behavior across platforms so the user experience is tailored to the user, regardless of the Canon platform used. We can personalize your online experience with Canon even before you register an online account with us. Your personalized experience with the website is not lost when you create an online account with us later.
Tealium cookies we use
| Name | Description | Expiration (time when the cookie is deleted from the device) |
| utag_main | The utag_main cookie is a Tealium cookie that allows us to use its tag manager solution.
The utag_main cookie is a first-party cookie from Tealium. This cookie captures a timestamp at the start of the page visit, counts the number of views, the number of all page visits, and a unique ID. This information is used by our analytics tools to improve data about your website visit. This helps us better understand how users use the site and how the user experience can be improved. |
1 year |
| tealium_segments | canon.cookie_info.tealium_cookie_tealium_segments_description_de_ch | 1 year |
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