This page details the cookies which are used on the Sweet & Maxwell website.
| Cookie name |
Description |
Source |
Expiration |
Domain |
 |
| LoginDetails |
The previous customer that signed into the website has the option to save their user name. This then pre-completes the username field in the sign in page the next time the cusomter visists on that browser/computer/login. |
SMG Estore website code |
1 year |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| rviewed |
Logs the products the customer visited on the website. |
SMG Estore website code |
1 year |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| UserSiteIdentifier |
The website is hosted on Thomson Reuters servers and shares a database with other websites. This is the identification number for the website. |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| Anonymous_ userid_16 |
A unique code (GUID) number that identifies the user/customer who owns the website shopping basket displayed in the web site. |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
3 days, it can be configured in the web.config file |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| UserName |
A unique code (GUID) number that identifies the username of the last user that signed into the web site (if the customer selects remember username (see LoginDetails above) |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
10 years |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| Guest_User |
Identifies the person as a guest (customer) for the checkout. -1 value = guest user. |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| Guest_Status |
Indicates whether the user in the checkout is a guest (customer). False = guest customer |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| idTkn |
An excrypted value of the OnePass security token. |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| AuthInd16 |
It stores and encripts OnPass user identification and website user identification GUID numbers. |
eCommerce Scp_framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. It should be 60 min after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| .SMGAUTH |
It is a an authetication ticket generated by the .net aspx framework which the website is built on). The ticket is passed as the value of the forms authentication cookie with each request and is used by forms authentication, on the server, to identify an authenticated user. |
.Net aspx framework |
Expires onces the web session ends, when the user signs out of the web site or after 15 minutes of user inactivity in the website. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| ASP.NET_SessionID |
An identifier that tracks the user's web session. This cookie is generated by the .net aspx framework. |
.Net aspx framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| s_id |
An identifier that tracks the user's web session. This cookie is generated by the .net aspx framework. |
.Net aspx framework |
Expires onces the web session ends. The session ends 60 minutes after the user leaves the web site. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| __utma |
This cookie is generated by google analytics. This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase |
Google analytics |
Never |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and books.google.com |
| __utmb and __utmc |
These cookies are generated by google analytics. The B and C cookies are brothers, working together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. minutes, and then it expires. You see, __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires |
Google analytics |
__utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk |
| __utmz |
This cookie is generated by google analytics. It utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine he used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. |
Google analytics |
It expires in 15,768,000 seconds – or, in 6 months. |
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and books.google.com |
| TS83042c |
This is set by browserhawk (a tool which identifies the customer's browser/computer settings to provide the best experience for the customer, regardless of browser or system choice). This contains information the client browser's Adobe Flash capabillities. |
OnePass |
web session |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| bhCookieSess |
Used by browserhawk to determine if the browser allows session cookies. |
OnePass |
web session |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| bhCookiePerm |
Used by browserhawk to determine if the browser allows permanent cookies. |
OnePass |
never |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| bhResults |
Used by browserhawk to store the results of the browser check. This ensures the customers browser/system isn't rechecked whilst the browser is open. |
OnePass |
web session |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| culture |
Keeps track of the selected culture/language the user has selected when using onePass. |
OnePass |
never |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| ultra |
Contains the encrypted sponsor, lanid, and expiration date for the ultra access. This is only used by Westlaw and Westlaw Next and not used by the Sweet and Maxwell website. |
OnePass |
never |
onepass.westlaw.com |
| NID |
A unique identifier used by Google applications to store user preference information on www.sweetandMaxwell.co.uk and books.google.com |
Google Books |
6 months |
google.com |
| PREF |
This cookie is used by google to identify a client's computer and to inform google about the client's preferences |
Google Books |
2 years |
google.com |
| PFELocale |
used by google books to determine a website's language |
Google Books |
3 months |
books.google.com |