Cookie Notice

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. At Canon-europe.com we use cookies to understand what content you are interested in, and to remember you if you return to our site. The tables below show cookies that may be stored on your computer whilst visiting Canon-europe.com, or one of its sub-domains.

Please note that the cookies we use can’t harm your computer. Canon does not store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in the cookies we use, but we do use encrypted information gathered from cookies to help us to improve your experience of our website. For example, they help us to identify and resolve errors, or to determine the related products to show you when you're browsing our sites.

To make full use of the content and personalised features on Canon-europe.com, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept cookies (and often does so by default), as we can only provide you with certain personalised features on this website by using them.

Changing your cookie settings or Opting Out

Our cookies don't store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details. However, if you'd prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from Canon-europe.com, you can manage your settings here to change your cookie preferences.

The cookies we are using:
Cookie Consent Management

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

_clck

Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, 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.

1 year

_evidon_consent_cookie

This cookie manages your cookie preferences. When set it manages when your opt-in/opt out setting of being tracked and/or targeted by Canon

1 year and 1 month

_fbc

Facebook: to store last visit

3 months

_uetsid

Used by Microsoft Bing Ads to communicate with a user who has previously visited our website.

1 day

_uetvid

This is a cookie utilized by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.

1 year and 1 month

RecentlyViewedInSupportWebForm

Used to dispaly the recently selected products while raising the contact support request

6 months

_fbp

Facebook: to store and track visits across websites.

3 months

_pin_unauth

Pinterest: groups actions for users who cannot be identified by Pinterest.

1 year

ADRUM

This cookie contains the referral page URL and some timing information to assist in gathering First Byte Time for some browser types.

Session

CONSENTMGR

Stores key/value pairs related to the consent and preferences prompts

1 year

ct_visitor

Keeps track of visits by user to the website

1 month

ki_r

Qualaroo: Log the initial document referrer when available for targeting purposes

1 year

ki_s

Qualaroo: The current state of any survey the user has viewed or interacted with

1 year

ki_t

Qualaroo: Timestamps and view counts

1 year

ki_u

Qualaroo: An anonymous identity to associate with responses

1 year

liveagent_oref

To store referrer ID's

1 year

liveagent_ptid

Links previous chats and transcripts from a single visitor.

1 year

liveagent_vc

Counts a user’s distinct browsing sessions on the website after closing previous sessions.

1 year

optimizelyEndUserId

Stores a visitor's unique Optimizely identifier.

6 months

tint-anonymous-uid

Set through our site by advertising partners and used to build profiles. This does not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

1 year

usersite

To display the type of the header wether it is business, consumer, pro

1 month

_clck

Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, 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.

1 year

_scid

Snap Chat: Tracks the individual sessions on the website, allowing the website to compile statistical data from multiple visits. This data can also be used to create leads for marketing purposes (Snapchat.com)

1 year and 1 month

_sctr

Snap Chat: Used to determine whether a third party tag will be called in Snap Ads Pixel.

1 year and 1 month

_tt_enable_cookie

TikTok: This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising.

1 year and 1 month

_ttp

TikTok: This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising.

1 year and 1 month

AWSALB

AWS cookie for load balancer sticky sessions

1 week

AWSALBCORS

includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus the SameSite attribute.

1 week

basketStatus

we set a cookie that logs that you have items in your basket and helps us to display the correct basket status to you when you then continue to browse around the website.

2 years

CSRF-TOKEN

Holds value of CSRF token for login details

10 days

cto_bundle

Aids in serving targeted advertising/marketing

1 year and 1 month

DYN_USER_CONFIRM

This cookies are used for automatic login, the process of detecting a returning customer and associating the customer with his or her existing user profile.

1 month

DYN_USER_ID

This cookies are used for automatic login, the process of detecting a returning customer and associating the customer with his or her existing user profile

1 month

ecomm_basket_count

Hold the current basket count value

1 month

idccsrf

CSRF cookie

10 days

JSESSIONID

This cookie generated by Servlet containers and used for session management in J2EE web applications for HTTP protocol. If a Web server is using a cookie for session management, it creates and sends JSESSIONID cookie to the client and then the client sends it back to the server in subsequent HTTP requests.

Session

leady_session_id

Stores current session information when you visit the site

Session

liveagent_oref

To store referrer ID's

1 year

liveagent_ptid

Links previous chats and transcripts from a single visitor.

1 year

liveagent_vc

Counts a user’s distinct browsing sessions on the website after closing previous sessions.

1 year

ln_or

Registers statistical information about users behavior on the website

1 day

ln_or

Registers statistical information about users behavior on the website

1 day

LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy

Cookie consent

1 year

nQ_cookieId

Sets a unique ID for a specific visitor. This ID can be used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry and implement any preference or choices made. The cookie also allows the website to track the visitor on multiple websites for marketing purposes.

1 year

nQ_userVisitId

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data about visitors behaviour for statistical purposes.

30 minutes

pctrk

Used to track unique page visitors in Experiences.

1 year

PHPSESSID

Is a session cookie that is used to identify a user's session on a website. It is commonly used in PHP-based web applications to store a unique identifier for a user's session on the server.

Session

PicassoLanguagec102cb4f-d552-40e5-ac9d-e36950a91272Published

Tailor advertising to better match Users interests through advertising channels and social networks

Session

previous_transaction_id

Holds the value of the previous transaction id if available

3 months

ProductsRecentlyViewed

Stores information about recently viewed products

7 days

prvsosurl

Its related to PDC which is now migrated to MDC form

Session

renderCtx

Tailor advertising to better match Users interests through advertising channels and social networks

Session

RV-category

Holdes the recently viewed category

1 day

RV-product

Holdes the recently viewed product

1 day

support_tab_banner_cookie

Functional cookie for Support banner

2 hours

support_tab_selection_cookie

Functional cookie for tab selection capture

1 day

tint-anonymous-uid

Set through our site by advertising partners and used to build profiles. This does not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

1 year



Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

SupportCookietimer

This cookie is used to display a survey after 90 seconds of activity within our Support section

Immediately

ASP.NET_SessionId, ASPSESSIONIDSACSRSTQ

Used to measure information related to your browsing session on our website. It is generated automatically by our webserver

Session

NSC_tmpvhi-iuuq-wjq69 (or similar)

Used to help us manage website delivery resources

0 hour

Supportsite

Used to display the most recently visited Support pages to you.

11 hours

SupportSurvey

Used to record whether our visitors would like to participate in our survey

1 month

RecentlyViewed

Functional cookie for recently viewed products

6 months

id

Used to measure the performance of our online advertising media and is set by Google Doubleclick for Advertisers

30 days

test_cookie

Used to measure the performance of our online advertising media and is set by Google Doubleclick for Advertisers

30 days



Consumer registration website cookies

You can use our registration website to create and manage your account with Canon (Canon account). When using this website, the following cookie will be created.

The Consumer registration website cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

NSC_tmpvhi-iuuqt-wjq102 or similar

Used to help us manage website delivery resources

Session

ASP.NET_SessionId

Used to measure information related to your browsing session on our website. It is generated automatically by our webserver

After your browsing session is finished

user_accepts_cookies

Used to record whether the visitor has been presented with the notice related to our Cookie Notice.

1 month



Evidon

The Evidon website cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

_evidon_suppress_notification_cookie

This cookie is dropped to hide the barrier/banner for X amount of time.

1 year

consent_sync

Consent sync between store and marketing sub domains

Session



Akamai cookies

Akamai is part of our Content Delivery Network (CDN). It is used to serve pages to visitors to our websites across EMEA faster by placing a copy of the content in the country (or near the country) of the visitor.

The Akamai cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

ak_bmsc

Cookie used to optimize performance, and to improve the user experience, on ​Akamai​ websites.

2 hours

Akamai_AnalyticsMetrics_clientId

Stores a user unique ID

Session

AkamaiAnalyticsDO_visitStartTime

Stores the visit start time

Session

AkamaiAnalytics_VisitCookie

Stores information about the number of tabs currently open

Session

AkamaiAnalytics_VisitIsPlaying

Stores information about streams playing in any tabs

Session

AkamaiAnalyticsDO_bitRateBucketsCsv

Stores required information to compute bitrate data for the visit

Session

AkamaiAnalyticsDO_visitMetricsCsv

Stores visit-related metrics as a CSV

Session

AkamaiAnalytics_VisitLastCloseTime

Stores the time when the browser was last closed

Session

AkamaiAnalytics_VisitUnqueTitles

Stores the unique title names that are played in a browser

Session

bm_sv

This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function.

2 hours



Bazaarvoice

We work with Bazaarvoice to enable customers to review our products. Bazaarvoice uses cookies to collect information from consumers which it uses to observe user behaviour across multiple websites: please see the Bazaarvoice privacy policy here - https://www.bazaarvoice.com/legal/privacy-policy/ -for more information on Bazaarvoice cookies.

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

BVBRANDID

Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions within a particular client domain.

1 year

BVBRANDSID

Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain.

30 minutes

BVImplmain_site

Used for client-driven A/B tests

Session

BVImplsuper_product_pages

BV cookie for super product pages

Session



ContentSquare

ContentSquare is a solution which aggregates usage and frequency data to improve user experience.

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

_cs_c

To store cookie consent preferences.

1 year

_cs_cvars

This cookie is used to record custom variables

Session

_cs_id

This cookie contains ContentSquare’s user identifier

1 year

_cs_mk

Used for the Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics integrations

30 minutes

_cs_s

This cookie contains the number of pageviews within the running session for ContentSquare Solution

30 minutes



Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets cookies in order to allow us to evaluate and report on the use of our website. It is widely used across the web and all data is anonymised meaning the cookies carry no personally identifiable information. These cookies help us to understand our visitor's behaviour and allow us to make improvements to better our user's experience. It's a win-win relationship.

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

_dc_gtm_ UA-73032448-1

Used to throttle request rate.

1 minute

_ga

Used to distinguish users.

2 years

_gaid

Used to distinguish users.

24 hours

_gac_73032448

Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out

3 months

__utma

Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

2 years

__utmb

Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

30 minutes

__utmc

This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit

Session

__utmt

to store number of service requests.

10 minutes

__utmz

Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

6 months

__utmx

Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment.

18 months

__utmxx

Used to determine the expiry of experiments a user has been included in.

18 months

_ga_PCGB3MYLJC

Used to persist session state.

2 years

_gat_tealium_0

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to delay requests to Google Analytics, to increase the efficiency of network calls.

24 hours

_gcl_au

Persists Google Ads information in a first party cookie when the user lands on the site from an ad.

3 months

_gid

This cookie is responsible for tracking user behaviour.

1 day

_gat

These cookies are used to collect analytical information on our online customers.

1 minute

_gat_gaTracker

These cookies are used to collect analytical information on our online customers.

1 minute

_gat_gtag_UA_...

These cookies are used to collect analytical information on our online customers.

1 minute

_gat_tealium_0

This cookie is used by Google Analytics to delay requests to Google Analytics, to increase the efficiency of network calls.

1 minute

_gat_UA-…

These cookies are used to collect analytical information on our online customers.

1 minute

_gd#############-…

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users

2 years

id

Used to measure the performance of our online advertising media and is set by Google Doubleclick for Advertisers

1 month

sis_ga_xxxxx_0

Google Analytics cookie to store information about user

2 years

sis_ga_xxxxx_0_gid

Google Analytics cookie to store unique value for each page

1 day



We may use Google Analytics for the following purposes:

  • Remarketing (showing our ads on third party websites). Canon and third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on someone's past visits to our website.
  • Google Display Network Impression Reporting. Canon and third-party vendors, use cookies to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.
  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Canon use data from Google's Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics to inform our marketing strategy.

Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found in the Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245)

Visitors can opt out of Google Analytics & Display Advertising by managing your setting here.

Clicktale Cookies:

Canon website uses Clicktale, a web analytics service which may record mouse clicks, mouse movements & scrolling activity. Clicktale does not collect personally identifiable information (PII). We are using the information collected by Clicktale to improve our website, make it more user-friendly and monitor that it is performing correctly. You can choose to disable the Service at http://www.Clicktale.net/disable.html or you can manage your setting here

Name

Purpose

Expiration

WRUID

This cookie is used to anonymously identify a visitor of the Website for the purpose of enabling the ClickTale software to track such visitor’s actions across the client’s website.

1 year

WRIgnore

Used to signify that the visitor’s session will be ignored.

10 minutes

__CT_Data

This cookie is used to count the number of pageviews or visits of the anonymous visitor for the purpose of enabling the ClickTale software to track the number of pageviews or visits a visitor made on the client’s website

1 year



Flash cookies (also known as Local Shared Objects)

On Canon-europe.com we sometimes display content, often videos or product tours, using Adobe Flash Player. Adobe uses Flash cookies (also known as Local Shared Objects) to help improve your experience as a visitor. Flash cookies are stored on your device in much the same way as the cookies described above, but they're managed differently by your browser.

If you wish to disable or delete a Flash cookie, see Adobe Flash Player Security Settings. Please note, that if you disable Flash cookies for Canon-europe.com you will be unable to access certain types of content on the site, such as videos.

Eloqua cookies

We use Eloqua to personalise the way we communicate with you. When you first visit a Canon Website, a third party cookie from eloqua.com is stored in your browser. This cookie is then used to track the pages that you visit during your session. Whilst the cookie may be used across many sites, the information collected on Canon Website is visible only to Canon and is not shared with any third parties including Eloqua or other users of the Eloqua system.

Although this cookie does not contain any personal information about you specifically, if you choose to fill out a form on our site then we will link your personal information (including but not limited to what operating system you are using, IP address, cookie information, time stamp, and clickstream information) to the browsing information associated with the Eloqua cookie on your browser. This information is only gathered while you are on Canon Website but cannot and will not gather information about other third party sites that you have visited.

We then use this information to improve our service to you such as choosing how we communicate with you (subject to your consent) and tailoring the content of our communications to you to include information that reflects the interest that you have shown in the content of our web pages, or by choosing offers or promotions that we think may interest you and to improve how we respond to your needs.

The Eloqua cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

CookieConsentPolicy

Tailor advertising to better match Users interests through advertising channels and social networks

1 year

ELQSTATUS

This cookie gets dropped automatically and simply contains the value ‘OK’

2 years

ELOQUA

This cookie contains a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) a randomly generate strings of characters and numbers that is used to identify visitors to our site.

1 year and 1 month

sfdc-stream

Tailor advertising to better match Users interests through advertising channels and social networks

3 hours



SmartAssistant

SmartAssistant is an application that is used to help visitors decide the best product for their needs.

SmartAssistant cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

smartassistant-cid

SmartAssistant is an application that is used to help visitors decide the best product for their needs.

1 year

smrt42-qa*

Contains the user product selections

Session

smrt42-pg*

id of advisor page currently visible

1 hour

smrt42-ps*

SmartAssistant is an application that is used to help visitors decide the best product for their needs.

1 hour

smrt42-rp*

Contains the id of result page

Session

smrt42-fin*

Flag indicating final result page

Session

smrt42-co*

Flag indicating that a clickout was done by the user

5 minutes



Tealium

TealiumiQ is a tag management system used by Canon to manage the technology used across our website, such as our analytics tools, survey tools, marketing, testing & targeting tools.

Tealium AudienceStream is a customer segmentation and action tool, we record the actions users take within a visit to the website to help enrich our usage understanding on our website. We use this information to improve your experience with personalised, relevant and targeted content. We use Tealium AudienceStream across our platforms and mobile applications, this allows us to stitch your behaviour across all these platforms so your experience is tailored to users no matter what Canon environment you are viewing. We are able to personalise your online experience with Canon even prior to registering an online account with us and your personalised website experience will not be lost if you register an online account with us at a later date.

Tealium cookies we are using

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

teal_audiences

Stores the mercury code of products based on Purchase/Driver Download/Product Registration

1 hour

teal_canonid

Qualaroo: Keeps track if the domain has Canon ID

1 year

teal_b2b_page_list

Store the last visited b2b page list for click to call functionaity

1 hour

teal_printers

Stores the mercury code of products and product name based on Purchase/Driver Download/Product Registration

1 hour

teal_products

Used to display the potentially owned products by a user through their interactions in Support and CPS

1 month

UTAG_MAIN

The utag_main cookie is a cookie set by Tealium to enable us to use their tag manager solution.

The utag_main cookie is a 1st-party cookie provided by Tealium. This cookie is used to record a time stamp of when you visit to our site has started, the number of pages you have viewed, the number of visits you have had to our site and a unique ID.

This information is used within our analytics tools to enrich the data we’re collecting about your visit on the website to help us understand our visitors usage of the site to provide a better user experience.

1 year

tealium_segments

This cookie stores a value that we assign to you based on your activity on the website, this activity is the pages you view, your frequency of viewing the site and particular actions that you take while viewing our website. We use this activity to place you into a particular audience criteria so we can personalise and tailor your experience on our website to be more relevant & personal to you to give you an overall better online experience with us.

1 year



Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA is a website security service that helps protect our site from spam and abuse. It uses advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart. Website visitors may be asked to interact with Google reCAPTCHA to verify they are a legitimate user.

Name

Description

Expiration (i.e. when the cookie is deleted from your device)

PREF

NID

HSID

APISID

SID

These are essential site cookies, used by the google reCAPTCHA. These cookies use a unique identifier for tracking purposes.

2 years



Canon-europe.com 'share' tools

If you 'share' Canon-europe.com content with friends through social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don't control the setting of any third party cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Links from Canon-europe.com to third party websites

Canon can’t be responsible for the cookies used on any third party website that is linked or referenced from Canon-europe.com.

Third-party cookies

When you visit a page on Canon-europe.com you may be sent cookies from third party advertisers. These include, but aren’t limited to, Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon. You may also be sent cookies from websites which contain embedded content (for example YouTube or Maporama). You can manage the settings of these cookies here or you check the respective third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Further information about cookies

If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/, please note that we can't be responsible for the content of external websites.