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01 Jun 2021

Changes to Evance cookies

We've made some changes to first-party cookies on Evance websites. These include additions, changes and removals. If you have a website hosted on Evance, take a look below to see how this may affect your own cookie policies.

Cookie changes

Most of the changes below may seem like name changes, but most have alterations to underlying architecture. 

ev-cart

Formerly EVCART.
This persistent cookie allows us to restore shopping carts on subsequent visits for up to a year.
The structure of the data within the cookie has also changed. However, existing users will not lose access to their remembered carts.

ev-locale

Formerly EV_LOCALE.
This cookie is set when visiting an Evance website which supports multiple regional variations/locales.
This allows us to load content in the preferred localisation when available.

ev-sid

Formerly EV_SID.
Keeps website sessions alive, but now all sessions on Evance require a secure (HTTPS) connection.



New cookies

We've changed some of our security layer and moved some previously session tracked data into persistent cookies.

ev-category-preferences

Used to store sort (e.g. price low to high) and page limit preferences (e.g. 100 per page) for product categories. Applicable to e-commerce and product catalogues.
This information was previously tracked per session and is now persistent so that users see your products in their preferred sort order on subsequent visits to your site.

ev-csrf

A session based security token used to help protect websites from malicious Cross-Site Request Forgery attempts.

ev-uid Used for identifying authenticated users and persistent sessions.


Cookies decommissioned

We no longer use the following cookies.

EV_TOKEN

A former security token, which is now replaced by ev-uid and ev-csrf (described above). 

EV_SSID

A former security token, which is now replaced by ev-uid (described above).



You can find the most up-to-date information about cookies on our platform, within our help section.