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Cookie Policy List

Costco’s Cookie Policy provides more detail about how we use cookies and similar technologies to collect information when you visit our website and the choices you have regarding the use of cookies. Listed below are the cookies and similar tracking technologies we deploy on Costco.com.au. For more information on how we collect and process personal data about you, please see our Privacy Policy.

Last updated: October, 2023

Name Provider Purpose Duration Cookie Type Category Sub Category
ak_bmsc Akamai This cookie is used to optimize performance, and to improve the user experience, on ​Akamai​ websites. A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
bm_mi Akamai Akamai Bot Manager cookie which helps to protect against malicious website attacks. A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
bm_sv Akamai This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website. The cache is usually stored on the visitor’s browser. A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
bv_metrics BazaarVoice Performance diagnostic events for less than 1/1000th of users. A few seconds BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
BVBRANDID BazaarVoice Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions within a particular client domain. A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
BVBRANDSID BazaarVoice Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain. A few seconds BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
BVID BazaarVoice Allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network. A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
BVImplmain_site BazaarVoice Used for managing BazaarVoice ratings and reviews. Session SESSION Essential Essential
BVSID BazaarVoice Used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network. A few seconds BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
NoCookie BazaarVoice Set when a user opts out of tracking or indicates that they are under the age of 13 (COPPA requirement). If NoCookie=true on either the client site or Bazaarvoice site, then existing tracking cookies are unset. This value is honored as long as the cookie exists. A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
_cs_c ContentSquare Contains the user consent state (not expressed, granted, withdrawn). A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
_cs_id ContentSquare Contains the following data separated by dots: user ID, user creation timestamp, number of visits, last pageview timestamp, last visit timestamp, timestamp of the last time this visitor was drawn, cookie expiration date, cookie SameSite attribute, cookie Secure attribute value (0/1). A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
_cs_s ContentSquare Contains the number of pages viewed in the current session and the recording type: ".1" (not recorded for Session Replay), ".3" (to include a visitor for Session Replay recording service) or ".5" (to include a visitor for Session Replay recording service after a specific trigger). A few seconds BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
_ga Google Analytics Used to distinguish users. 2 years BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
_gat_UA- Google Analytics Used to throttle request rate. A few seconds BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
_gid Google Analytics Used to distinguish users. A day BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
australia-cart (SAP Ecommerce) An ID to associate to a DB cart A year BROWSER Essential Essential
CSRFToken (SAP Ecommerce) Enables the application to validate the requests coming for the proper user. Session SESSION Essential Essential
HAPC (SAP Ecommerce) Required to deliver the functionality of the online store. Session SESSION Essential Essential
JSESSIONID (SAP Ecommerce) Links a user to a session cart Session SESSION Essential Essential
ROUTEID (SAP Ecommerce) Tracks the app hybris instance (node) responding to the user requests. Session SESSION Essential Essential
session_uuid (SAP Ecommerce) Required to deliver the functionality of the online store. Session SESSION Essential Essential
SF_SESSION_ID (SAP Ecommerce) Storefront session id, this cookie value is used as a session key in Redis Session SESSION Essential Essential
tire-search-criteria (SAP Ecommerce) Required to deliver the functionality of the online store. Session SESSION Essential Essential
tire-search-filters (SAP Ecommerce) Required to deliver the functionality of the online store. Session SESSION Essential Essential
UserPreferences (SAP Ecommerce) Used to remember member's consent choice during their next visit A year BROWSER Essential Essential
australia_RVP (SAP Ecommerce) Stores recently viewed products A month BROWSER Essential Essential
comparedProductsIDs (SAP Ecommerce) Facilitates Compare Products functionality A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
cookietest (SAP Ecommerce) Required to deliver the functionality of the online store. Session SESSION Essential Essential
GCLB Google Cloud When you set generated cookie affinity, the load balancer issues a cookie on the first request. For each subsequent request with the same cookie, the load balancer directs the request to the same backend VM or endpoint. For external HTTP(S) load balancers, the cookie is named GCLB Session SESSION Required Operational
googtrans Google Translate Used to store language settings. A few seconds BROWSER Essential Essential
NID Google Translate Contains a unique ID to remember your language preferences. 6 months BROWSER Essential Essential
__cf_bm Zendesk Part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. A few seconds BROWSER Required Operational
__cfruid Zendesk Used to identify trusted web traffic Session SESSION Required Operational
__zlcmid Zendesk Used to store visitor's machine-id for the Chat widget's authentication A year BROWSER Required Operational
vuid Vimeo Used to store the user's usage history. 2 years BROWSER Essential Essential
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YouTube Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track visitor's identity and interaction. A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA YouTube Used to track and enrich the users privacy settings on the Youtube platform. A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics
YSC YouTube Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. A year BROWSER Non-Essential Analytics