Information about our use of cookies

This website www.aoccorp.com uses cookies to help us provide our users with a good experience when they browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on user's browser or their computer's hard drive if they agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to user's computer's hard drive.

Types of cookies and how we use them

We perform cookie scans on our website on a regular basis and maintain our cookie list updated. We classify cookies in four categories:

• Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable website visitors to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • -__cf_bm Expiration: 1 hours Description: This cookie is placed by Cloudflare. Cloud flare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.
  • -ai_session Expiration: 1 hours Description: This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.
  • -ai_user Expiration: 400 days Description: This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.
  • -ARRAffinity Expiration: Session Description: ARRAffinity is a cookie used to affinitize a client to an instance of an Azure Web App.
  • -ARRAffinitySameSite Expiration: Session Description: When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster.
  • -YSC Expiration: Session Description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
  • -illow-consent Expiration: Session Description: This cookie is used to keep track of a given consent in the platform.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • -CLID Expiration: 365 days Description: The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording.
  • -_clsk Expiration: 1 days Description: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
  • -SM Expiration: Session Description: This is a Microsoft cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
  • -_ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users
  • -ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users
  • -_clck Expiration: 365 days Description: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
• Preferences cookies. These are used to recognize users when they return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for them and remember their preferences (for example, their choice of language or region).
• Marketing cookies. These cookies record users' visits to our website, the pages they have visited and the links they have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to our website visitors interests.
  • -VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Expiration: 180 days Description: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
  • -MUID Expiration: 390 days Description: Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.
  • -MR Expiration: 7 days Description: Used to collect information for analytics purposes.
  • -SRM_B Expiration: 390 days Description: Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor's behavior.
  • -ANONCHK Expiration: 1 hours Description: Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation.
  • -_gcl_au Expiration: 90 days Description: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

Depending on user's location, they will be able to opt-out from each cookie category (except necessary cookies) by clicking on the "set custom permission" in the cookie banner of our website.