Ahlstrom Cookie Policy
1. Data Controller
Ahlstrom Oyj
Keilaranta 18
01250 Espoo
Finland
Commercial ID (Y-tunnus): 2480661-5
Email: dataprotection@ahlstrom.com
2. What is a cookie and what do we use them for?
Cookies, i.e. small text files stored on your device during website visits, contain information accessible to the Internet server upon subsequent visits. They serve various purposes, such as remembering usernames and language settings. Our websites and social media channels employ cookies and similar technologies to enhance website management, improve user experience, analyze activity, and target advertisements across our and our partners' services. Through cookies, we gather data on user website entry points, browsing patterns, browser types, and device IP addresses.
3. What types of cookies do we use?
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of Ahlstrom’s website, and they enable a good user experience. These cookies do not collect data that enable us to identify you.
Preference Cookies
These cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Statistics Cookies
Through this category of cookies, we can improve the functioning of our website. We receive information about e.g., which parts of our website are the most popular, to which sites do you move on from our website and from which site did you come from as well as how long do you stay on our website.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies help us make the content of the website as personalized as possible, and thereby show you targeted advertisement and content based on prior online behavior.
Our company uses marketing cookies managed by third parties to present its products both on its own website and on the websites of third parties. The third-party plugins integrated into the website are downloaded from third-party servers and thus the third party may install their own cookies on the user’s device and collect information about a visitor's activity on our website. These third-party services and applications offered on our website are subject to the privacy policies or notices of such third parties. We advise that you get acquainted with those policies and notices.
4. How can you affect the use of cookies?
You have the option to adjust the cookie settings within your web browser. Should you choose to do so, you can disable the storage of cookies on your device by modifying your browser settings. Please note that this action may result in slower website browsing or potential denial of access to certain sites
For marketing cookies, you can explore browser-based online advertising and privacy information and adjust settings through services like Your Online Choices. Through this service, you can choose to allow or block targeted advertising from all or specific companies. Additionally, you retain the option to disable cookies at any time through your browser settings.
Some cookies on our website are administered by third parties, and you have the option to utilize the tools provided by these third parties to reject the use of such cookies. For instance, we employ the Google Analytics service, which collects user data on our website through cookie storage on the user's device.
5. How long do we store the cookies?
The retention period of the cookies varies by type of cookie. Session cookies expire when you close the browser. Permanent cookies usually have a validity period, which varies from two months to a couple of years. For more details check the specific cookie information in the table below.
6. Cookies on Ahlstrom’s site
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.ahlstrom.com
Where relevant, you may withdraw your consent for Ahlstrom to use cookies at any time by managing your preferences: Cookie Settings.
Targeting Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose of use | Cookie Provider | Expiry (days) |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | ahlstrom.com | 729 |
| _cfuvid | This domain is owned by Hubspot. This company provides a range of online marketing and sales technology and services. | hubspot.com | 0 |
| lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | linkedin.com | 0 |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | youtube.com | 180 |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics Cookies | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Testing | www.youtube.com | 0 |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | youtube.com | 179 |
| anj | This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. | adnxs.com | 90 |
| bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | linkedin.com | 364 |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | hubspot.com | 0 |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | linkedin.com | 0 |
| NID | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. | google.com | 182 |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | youtube.com | 0 |
| bscookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | www.linkedin.com | 364 |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | linkedin.com | 29 |
| uuid2 | This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. | adnxs.com | 90 |
| li_sugr | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | linkedin.com | 89 |
| sc_anonymous_id | This domain is owned by Soundcloud, a German company providing social sharing services centred around soundclips. The data that is collected through its services can be used for profiling and targeted advertising. | soundcloud.com | 3649 |
| UserMatchHistory | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | linkedin.com |
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Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose of use | Cookie Provider | Expiry (days) |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| TiPMix | Used in Azure during deployments to pin a user session to a deployment slot. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| x-ms-routing-name | Used in Azure during deployments to route to deployment slots. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| ai_user | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.user | www.ahlstrom.com | 364 |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| .EPiForm_BID | This cookie is for distinguishing one browser from other browsers that a visitor is using while surfing the internet. If a user visits an Episerver site for the first time, Episerver Forms automatically assigns a random GUID to the visitor's browser. The GUID is stored in a cookie and when it has expired, Episerver Forms creates a new one the next time the user visits the website. | www.ahlstrom.com | 90 |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | ahlstrom.com | 364 |
| .EPiForm_VisitorIdentifier | Functionality-related. Identifies the form submission to the site when a visitor submits data to via an Optimizely form. Stores a GUID which is the visitor identifier. Persistent (90 days from creation). | www.ahlstrom.com | 90 |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | ahlstrom.com | 364 |
| __epiXSRF | This cookie is used to protect the user against cross-site request forgery (XSRF). It is used only by the CMS UI. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| ARRAffinity | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
Performance Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose of use | Cookie Provider | Expiry (days) |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| __hstc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | ahlstrom.com | 179 |
| _hjSession_477096 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| __hssrc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| _hjSessionUser_477096 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | ahlstrom.com | 364 |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| __hssc | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes._ga | ahlstrom.com | 0 |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | ahlstrom.com | 729 |
| ai_session | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. | www.ahlstrom.com | 0 |
Functional Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose of use | Cookie Provider | Expiry (days) |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | 179 | |
| hubspotutk | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. As a persistent rather than a session cookie it cannot be classified as Strictly Necessary. | ahlstrom.com | 179 |
7. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We reserve the right to update this Cookie Policy in case our use of cookies changes. Any updates will be published in this policy, readily accessible to data subjects at Ahlstrom’s public website.
This Cookie Policy of Ahlstrom has been last updated July 2024.