Cookies Policy

Date: October 1st, 2024

General statement on Cookies

The Website uses cookies and/or other similar technologies to collect and store certain information. This typically involves pieces of information or code transferred to or accessed from your computer hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you, and to distinguish you from other users of the Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse (e.g. storing searches and presenting personalised content) and also allows us to improve the Website. This document should be read in conjunction with Gitpod’s Privacy policy.

A number of cookies and similar technologies last only for the duration of your web or app session and expire when you close your browser or exit the Website. Others are used to remembering you when you return to the Website and will last for longer.

We use strictly necessary cookies if they are necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or because using them is in our legitimate interests (where we have considered that these are not overridden by your rights). We use all other cookies with your consent.

We use the following types of cookies, the specific details of which are set out in the table further below:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site or (on other sites) use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Functionality cookies

These may be used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us, subject to your choices and preferences, to personalise our content, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, choice of language or region).

Analytical / Performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Stie when they are using it. This helps us improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Targeting/Advertising cookies

These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information subject to your choices and preferences to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Disabling cookies

The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the Site may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off. If you want to disable cookies on our Website, you can click on “Cookie Preferences” in the footer.

You can also change your browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use and you can find more information here: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Specific details on Cookies

Product/Website Cookie Name Type Purpose Cookie Duration Third-Party Cookie More Information
Product, Website gitpod-user Strictly Necessary Recognises if a user visited the Gitpod product 1 year No
Product gitpod_io Strictly Necessary Session sign-in cookie to recognise user login status 1 week No
Website GCLB Strictly Necessary Load balancing to quickly provide our website and services Session Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Product gitpod-ui-experiments Strictly Necessary Describes if a Gitpod user enabled UI beta Persistent No
Product open-in-gitpod-search data Strictly Necessary Provides latest search results in Gitpod to enable better loading times Persistent No
Product team-selection Strictly Necessary Describes if a Gitpod user selected a team to be working with Persistent No
Website algoliasearch-client-js Strictly Necessary Necessary in order to optimize the website’s search -bar function . The cookie ensures accurate and fast search results. Persistent No
Website CONSENT Strictly Necessary Used to detect if the visitor has accepted cookies on our website. This is necessary for privacy compliance. 2 years Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website ajs_anonymous_id Strictly Necessary Cookie used to identify reoccurring website visitors and contact form submissions 1 year Yes https://segment.com/legal/privacy/
Website ajs_anonymous_id Strictly Necessary Local Browser Storage used to identify reoccurring website visitors and contact form submissions Persistent Yes https://segment.com/legal/privacy/
Website skip-signup-wall Strictly Necessary Recognise webinar signup status Persistent No
Website announcement-* Strictly Necessary Recognise banner announcement display Persistent No
Product rc::a Strictly Necessary This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is necessary for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Product, Website gp-analytical Strictly Necessary Stores and indicates cookie consent preferences of an user for a certain category 1 year No
Product, Website gp-necessary Strictly Necessary Stores and indicates cookie consent preferences of an user for a certain category 1 year No
Product, Website gp-targeting Strictly Necessary Stores and indicates cookie consent preferences of an user for a certain category 1 year No
Website _gcl_au Targeting/Marketing Used by Google Ad sense to store and track conversions and advertising efficiency 3 months Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website tld Targeting/Marketing Used to track users across multiple website in order to present relevant advertisement Session No
Website VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Targeting/Marketing Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos 6 months Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website YSC Targeting/Marketing Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from You Tube the user has seen Session Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt.innertube::nextId Targeting/Marketing Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from You Tube the user has seen Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt.innertube::requests Targeting/Marketing Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from You Tube the user has seen Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-cast-available Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-cast-installed Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-connected-devices Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-device-id Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-fast-check-period Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-session-app Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website yt-remote-session-name Targeting/Marketing Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded You Tube video Persistent Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Website ajs_user_id Analytics/Performance Generates a userID to identify reoccurring website visitors Persistent Yes https://segment.com/legal/privacy/
Website fs_uid Strictly Necessary Used to provide job board functionality and manage job applications through Ashby ATS 6 months Yes https://www.ashbyhq.com/privacy
Website _ga Targeting/Marketing Google Analytics 14 months Yes https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Product, Website muxData Strictly Necessary Mux 1 year No https://mux.com/privacy/
Website gitpod-marketing-website-visited Analytics/Performance Recognises if a user visited https://gitpod.io 1 year No
Product gitpod_hashed_user_id Strictly Necessary Used to identify the user in Gitpod. 1 year No
Product browser-extension-banner-dismissed Strictly Necessary Necessary in order to check that the user has dismissed the browser extension banner Persistent No
Product gitpod-account Strictly Necessary Authentication Cookie for Gitpod Flex 30 Days No
Product intercom-id-[app_id] Strictly Necessary Unique anonymous identifier for user support 9 Months No
Product intercom-session-[app_id] Strictly Necessary Keeping track of sessions for user support 7 Days No
Product intercom-device-id-[app_id] Strictly Necessary Unique device identifier for user support 9 Months No