Cookies
Cookies
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1. Definition
The term cookies should be understood in the broad sense. It covers all tracers implemented and/or read when a website is viewed, regardless of the type of device (e.g. a computer or smartphone) that is used.
Cookies improve the user experience by:
- Saving your preferences so you don’t have to re-enter them every time you change pages,
- Measuring how you use the site in order to improve it and respond to your expectations more effectively.
Our cookies are designed to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish. Blocking all cookies may therefore prevent you from benefiting fully from the features offered by our site.
Cookies will not be used to collect personal data from your hard drive, read your email address or obtain personal information.
2. Cookie settings
You can configure your browser to block cookies.
How you manage your cookie settings varies from browser to browser. You can find more information about how to change your cookie settings from your browser's help menu.
- For Safari™: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
- For Chrome™: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- For Firefox™: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- For Opera™: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
For more information about cookies and how to manage them, you can visit the website of the ANSPDCP, the Romanian data protection commission (in Romanian). You can also learn more about how we use cookies from the remainder of this document.
How we use cookies
This website uses cookies in several places. We’ve listed each of them below, with more details about why we use them and how long they last. “End of session” means the cookie is temporary and will be removed each time you close your browser. Some of the cookies we use are removed at the end of the browser session, i.e. when you close your browser (these are called “session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognise your browser during your next visit (“persistent cookies”).
Compulsory cookies for the website
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| eZSESSID | This cookie is used by our content management system and is added when you visit the site. It is essential to the working of the site. | End of session |
| JSESSIONID | This cookie is used by an infrastructure monitoring tool to assist in uninterrupted and high performance service during users visits. | End of session |
Remembering if you’ve seen our cookie policy message
On your first visit to the website, you may be greeted by a pop-up banner message that provides information about cookie use. We’ll store a cookie when you click the accept button so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and will stop showing it.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| forvis mazars Accepted | Saves a cookie to let us know that you have seen and accepted our message on cookies. | 12 months |
| forvis mazars-analytics, forvis mazars-marketing | Saves a cookie to record your choice how to handle analytics or marketing cookies | 12 months |
Measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site and gain a better understand of their expectations. This allows us to constantly improve the site.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here, etc. We do not receive or record any personal information such as your name or address, so this cookie cannot be used to identify you. We do not allow Google to use or share data about browsing on our website with a third party.
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by visiting this page on Google.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| _utma | This randomly generated number is used to determine the number of unique visitors to our site. | 13 months |
| _utmb | This randomly generated number works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time users spend on our site. | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | This randomly generated number is used (with _utmb) to calculate when you close your browser. | End of session |
| _utmz | This is a randomly generated number and information about how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search). | 6 months |
| _jsuid | This cookie holds a random number that is generated the first time someone visits the website. Its purpose is to identify new visitors to the website. | 13 months |
| _eventqueue | This cookie stores an array of mouse events that may not be logged to our servers before the current page is unloaded. These events can then be processed when the next page is loaded. | 1 hour |
| heatmaps_g2g_100626449 | This cookie allows us to tell Google to record the clicks on a page so that a heatmap (a depiction of which points of a webpage a user looks at and for how long) can then be generated. | 1 hour |
| _first_pageview | This is a session cookie that is set on the first page view of any visit. Its purpose is to ensure that certain parts of the code only fire on the first page view, making it faster and more efficient. | 10 minutes |
| _referrer_og | This cookie stores the external referrer for a visitor. | 90 days |
Other third-party cookies - Marketing cookies, etc.
Forvis Mazars is not responsible for the placing of third-party cookies on your device by any social media you belong to. Social media may place a cookie on your device that enables you to be identified, particularly when the features for posting comments on content or publications are used.
Our website includes applications called social plugins linked to various social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube) which allow us to offer you content recommendations. When you load a page from our site containing one of these plugins, your browser connects directly to the servers of the social media site concerned. The social media site then transmits the content of the plugin directly to your browser, so that it is incorporated into the webpage.
To see the purpose and scope of the collection, processing and use of the data by the social media you belong to, as well as your rights and options to change your privacy settings, please consult the General Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy of the social media in question.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| leo_auth_token | These LinkedIn cookies are set by the LinkedIn share button. They are used to track which pages the user visits. For more information, visit the following page on the LinkedIn website: Privacy policy | 1 hour |
| L1e | End of session | |
| X-LI-IDC | End of session | |
| visit | 13 months | |
| JSESSIONID | End of session | |
| guest_id | This cookie is set by Twitter. It is present because we offer Twitter’s share and follow widgets on our webpages. | 13 months |
| ACTIVITY | These cookies are set by YouTube to measure viewings of the YouTube videos featured on our webpages. | End of session |
| PREF | End of session | |
| YSC | End of session | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | End of session |
Hotjar cookies (User) | ||
| _hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days duration. |
| _hjid | Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | 365 days duration |
| _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user’s first session. Used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. | Session duration |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session. Enables us to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. | Session duration |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. Collected attributes will only be saved to Hotjar servers if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. Cookie used regardless of whether a Feedback tool is present. | Session duration |
| _hjViewportId | Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions. | Session duration |
Hotjar cookies (session) | ||
| _hjSession_{site_id} | Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. | 30 minutes duration |
| _hjSessionTooLarge | Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. Determined automatically by a signal from the WebSocket server if the session size exceeds the limit. | Session duration |
| _hjSessionRejected | If present, set to '1' for the duration of a user's session, when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. | Session duration |
| _hjSessionResumed | Set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. | Session duration |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | Checks if the Hotjar Tracking Code can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set. Data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. | Under 100ms duration |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | 30 minutes duration |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | 30 minutes duration |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used to detect the first pageview session of a user. | 30 minutes duration |
| _hjTLDTest | We try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. Enables us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed. | Session duration |
Hotjar cookies (Recordings) | ||
| _hjRecordingEnabled | Set when a Recording starts. Read when the Recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. | Session duration |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Set in Session storage as opposed to cookies. Updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). | Session duration |
Hotjar cookies ( Feedback and Survey tools) | ||
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | Set when a user interacts with an external link Survey invitation modal. Ensures the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. | 365 days duration |
| _hjDonePolls | Set when a user completes an on-site Survey. Ensures the same Survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days duration |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Set when a user minimizes an on-site Survey. Ensures that the Survey stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. | 365 days duration |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | Set when a user minimizes or completes a Feedback widget. Ensures the Feedback widget will load as minimized if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. | 365 days duration |