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.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Set Days | Cookie Type | Category | Sub Category |
| __CT_Data | Clicktale | This cookie is used to count the number of pageviews or visits of the anonymous visitor for the purpose of enabling the ClickTale software to track the number of pageviews or visits a visitor made on the client’s website | 364 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| _CT_RS_ | Clicktale | This cookie is used to indicate whether a user is being recorded and by what reason (Random, Enhanced, Forced, ETR) | 29 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| ctm | Clicktale | This cookie is used to identify a visitor of CEC. Specifically, it is used to store vistit ID, vistor ID and page view.This data is then used for tracking across the website | 364 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| WRIgnore | Clicktale | This cookie is created to indicate that the user was not selected during random ratio check. This user will not participate again in the random ratio check for as long as the life time of the cookie | 1 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| WRUID | Clicktale | This cookie is used to anonymously identify a visitor of the Website for the purpose of enabling the ClickTale software to track such visitor’s actions across the client’s website. | 364 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| _cs_c | Content Square | Contains the user consent state (not expressed, granted, withdrawn). | 395 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| _cs_id | Content Square | 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). | 395 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| _cs_s | Content Square | 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). | 1 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 89 | BROWSER | Analytics | Advertisement | |
| fr | Facebook Business (formerly Facebook Custom Audience) | Personalized advertisements, but also to measure and improve advertisements | 89 | BROWSER | Analytics | Advertisement |
| Facebook Business (formerly Facebook Custom Audience) | 0 | SESSION | Analytics | Advertisement | ||
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 729 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics | |
| _gat_UA-9033810-1 | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics | |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 1 | BROWSER | Analytics | Analytics | |
| australia-cart | (SAP Ecommerce) | An ID to associate to a DB cart | 4166 | BROWSER | Required | Operational |
| context_segment | (SAP Ecommerce) | Akamai Caching | 1 | BROWSER | Required | Technical |
| CSRFToken | (SAP Ecommerce) | Enables the application to validate the requests coming for the proper user. | 0 | SESSION | Required | Security |
| JSESSIONID | (SAP Ecommerce) | Links a user to a session cart | 0 | SESSION | Required | Technical |
| ROUTEID | (SAP Ecommerce) | Tracks the app hybris instance (node) responding to the user requests. | 0 | SESSION | Required | Technical |
| SF_SESSION_ID | (SAP Ecommerce) | Storefront session id, this cookie value is used as a session key in Redis | 0 | SESSION | Required | Technical |
| UserPreferences | (SAP Ecommerce) | Used to remember member's consent choice during their next visit | 364 | BROWSER | Required | Preferences |
| australia_RVP | (SAP Ecommerce) | Stores recently viewed products | 29 | BROWSER | Required | Operational |
| ak_bmsc | Akamai | 1 | BROWSER | Required | Technical | |
| bm_sv | Akamai | 1 | BROWSER | Required | Technical | |
| ADRUM_BT | AppDynamics | Contains the referral page URL and some timing information to assist gathering First Byte Time for some browser types | 1 | BROWSER | Required | Technical |
| 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 | 0 | SESSION | Required | Operational |
| __cf_bm | Zendesk | Part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | 1 | BROWSER | Required | Operational |
| __cfruid | Zendesk | Used to identify trusted web traffic | 0 | SESSION | Required | Operational |
| AWSALB | Widget Mediator Zopim.com | This cookie retains a sticky session id used in load balancers. | 6 | BROWSER | ||
| AWSALBCORS | Widget Mediator Zopim.com | 6 | BROWSER | |||
| __zlcmid | Zendesk | 364 | BROWSER | |||
| bm_mi | 1 | BROWSER | ||||
| HAPC | 0 | SESSION |