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 |