COOKIE STATEMENT
COOKIES
When you visit Shop.Cat.Com (this “Site”) we will send you a cookie (as defined below). A cookie stores a small data file on your computer. This file enables us to recognize you each time you visit us. Cookies help us in many ways, for example, by saving your region and language preference and for purposes of collecting non-personal data.
If you do not allow this website to use cookies, then certain features or sections of this Site may not be available to you or may not function as expected. Cookies can also be removed or blocked by following the help directions in your browser.
BROWSER SETTINGS
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INTERNET ADVERTISING
We use cookies, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies (collectively, "cookies"). Cookies enable us to learn about what content you see, what ads you click, and other actions you take on the website and other sites. This allows us to provide you with more useful and relevant content.
COOKIES USED ON THIS SITE
Cookie Group: Eloqua
Name: ELOQUA; ELQSTATUS; dealerZiftId
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited.
Read more at Eloqua Privacy Policy
Cookie Group: SalesForce (CDN.krxd.net)
Name: _kuid_
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site and respond to our advertising campaigns. The cookies collect information about your online behavior, including across different browsers and devices used by you. We use the information to compile reports, segment audiences, and to help us improve Caterpillar websites. We also use this cookie to segment audiences to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on campaign performance; website personalization; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. The information collected by these cookies may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers and dealers.
Read more at Salesforce Audience Studio Privacy
Cookie Group: Olark Chat
Name: _ok; _okbk; _okdetect; _oklv; olfsk; wcsid; hblid
Purpose: Used to enable the live chat functionality from Olark.
Read more at Olark
Cookie Group: Google Analytics
Name: _ga; _gid; _utmzz; _gat_UA; _dc_gtm_UA; __utmzses; DV
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the website via Google Analytics. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited.
Read more at Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites
Cookie Group: Google
Name: Nid; R; PREF
Purpose: These cookies are used to maintain user settings across Google owned sites as well as to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.
Read more at Googles Privacy Policy
Cookie Group: Performance Management
Name: dtCookie; dtLatC; dtPC
Purpose: These cookies are used to monitor website performance. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring relies on browser cookies to correlate user interactions in the browser (i.e., user actions) with general page and backend performance metrics.
Read more at Dynatrace Data Privacy and Security
Cookie Group: Performance Management (APPDYNAMICS)
Name: ADRUM
Purpose: This cookie is used to monitor website performance. The cookie is written by the JavaScript Agent, this cookie contains the referral page URL and some timing information to assist gathering First Byte Time for some browser types. When the agent loads on the subsequent page, it reads the information and then deletes the cookie. If there is no agent on that page, the cookie is deleted when the browser is closed. For privacy purposes, the URL of the referral page is hashed.
Read more at APPDYNAMICS Compliance and Privacy Assurance
Cookie Group: Performance Management (APPDYNAMICS)
Name: ADRUM_BTa, ADRUM_BTg, ADRUM_BT[1-5], ADRUM_BTs, ADRUM_BTh
Purpose: These cookies are used to monitor website performance. The cookies are written by the server-side agent when the page is served from an instrumented server. These cookies help correlate browser data with related server-side performance data.
ADRUM_BTa - contains the backend transaction ID as well as timing info and is used to correlates end-user experience with the health of the backend app.
ADRUM_BTg - contains the backend transaction ID and is used as an alternative method to correlate end-user experience with the health of the backend app.
ADRUM_BT[1-5] - contains the business transaction numbers as well as timing and error info for the first five business transactions, such as ADRUM_BT1, ADRUM_BT2, etc.
ADRUM_BTs - contains a link from a browser snapshot to a server snapshot.
ADRUM_BTh - only written if there was a server-side error.
Read more at APPDYNAMICS Compliance and Privacy Assurance
Cookie Group: Server Management
Name: JSESSIONID
Purpose: Used for user session affinity. All the requests from a user are sent to the same server for processing.
Cookie Content: unique identifier of the server
Cookie Group: Server Management
Name: REFERRER
Purpose: Captures the referring website to shop.cat.com.
Cookie Content: referring website address
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_ACTIVEPOINTER
Purpose: Used to identify the store ID and language ID of a selected dealer e-site.
Cookie Content: language ID | store ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_AUTHENTICATION_
Purpose: Used to manage authentication data for users.
Cookie Content: user ID | Hashed by using SHA-1(sessionKey| user ID | timestamp) sessionKey is the key that is used to encrypt session-related data
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_PERSISTENT
Purpose: Only used for generic users. This cookie stores the session values such as store ID, language ID, and contracts.
Cookie Content: activitytoken | store ID | business context values
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_USERACTIVITY_
Purpose: It is used for user identification over non-SSL connections. It contains user session values such as the session login time, and session identifier information such as the user ID and store ID.
Cookie Content: session login time | user ID | store ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: delaerChanged
Purpose: Used to identify changed dealer e-site store ID.
Cookie Content: y | n
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: delaerSelected
Purpose: Used to identify selected dealer e-site store ID.
Cookie Content: store ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: esi
Purpose: Used to identify dealer e-site ID.
Cookie Content: encrypted store ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: ga_userID
Purpose: This cookie collects the user’s CWSID from the CWSID cookie.
Cookie Content: login ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: selESiteId
Purpose: Used to identify the selected dealer e-site that user has logged into.
Cookie Content: store ID
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_GENERIC_ACTIVITYDATA
Purpose: Only used for generic users. This cookie stores the session values such as store ID, language ID, and contracts.
Cookie Content: activityToken | store ID | business context values
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: WC_SESSION_ESTABLISHED
Purpose: This cookie is created on the first request that is processed by WebSphere Commerce (WCS) run time. User-related data is processed once per user session and stored in cache (and sets this cookie). Presence of this cookie ensures that WCS fulfills subsequent requests from the cache object rather than processing it all over again.
Cookie Content: true | false
Cookie Group: Session Management
Name: cwsCookie
Purpose: Used to track the logged in user.
Cookie Content: login ID
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: pricemode
Purpose: Technical cookie that stores the price display mode in the online store.
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: uom
Purpose: Stores unit of measure selected by the user.
Cookie Content: unit of measure selected
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: browsingHistory
Purpose: Used to identify the user browsing history.
Cookie Content: part number(s)
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: WC_CartOrderId_
Purpose: Used to identify the order ID from the Dealer e-site that user has visited.
Cookie Content: order ID
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: WC_CartTotal_
Purpose: Used to identify the cart subtotal of order items.
Cookie Content: total | currency | language ID
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: WC_recurringOrder_
Purpose: Used to identify an order is a recurring order.
Cookie Content: true | false
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: WC_timeoffsetc
Purpose: Used to identify the time zone of the user.
Cookie Content: time zone
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: headerData
Purpose: Used to identify the user header data.
Cookie Content: dealer name | dealer hours | DCN (dealer customer number) | dealer address
Cookie Group: Order Management
Name: CompareItems_
Purpose: Used to identify the compare items data for given dealer e-site.
Cookie Content: compare items
Cookie Group: Location Management
Name: CAT_geoLocation_
Purpose: Used to store location of the customer to find the closest dealer location to the customer.
Cookie Content: location information
Cookie Group: Login Functionality
Name: SSOCookie
Purpose: These cookies are necessary for the login to this site to work properly. They are used to save information about the account used to log onto this website. They can also save you the time and effort from logging into other related sites when you visit those sites during the same browsing session. These are session cookies and are deleted when you close your browser.
Cookie Content: account information
Cookie Group: Functional Cookies
Name:SFCID
Purpose: This cookie contains the Salesforce contact Id of the user browsing the site. It is used for analytics and allows additional site functionality through progressive profiling and form submissions
Cookie Content: SFCID
Cookie Group: Functional Cookies
Name:SFCID-Call-Made
Purpose: This cookie is used to speed up page load times by bypassing JavaScript callouts that are not needed within the current session. It stores a boolean value.
Cookie Content: true | false
CHANGE COOKIE SETTINGS FOR THIS WEBSITE
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