Cookies Policy

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What kind of cookies does this site use

Open Journal Systems

This journal runs on the Open Journal Systems platform as known as OJS. The OJS platform sets a cookie called OJSSID:

Cookie set by the OJS-platform

Cookie name

Standard expiration time

Domain

Description

OJSSID

End of browser session or 30 days

journals.hioa.no

Contains a machine-generated session-id for the OJS-platform that will keep track of your browsing sessionand log-in to the OJS-webpage. This cookie is normally deleted at the end of the browsing session.

If you check "remember me" when you log in, you may quit your browser and open it at a later time, and you will still be logged in. In that case this cookie will expire after 30 days since your last visit or until you log out and close your browser.

This cookie is necessary in order to log in to the OJS platform.

You will still be able to access all articles on the OJS platform with cookies disabled, but you will not be able to perform any tasks that requires the user to be logged in.

Google Analytics

We are using the 3rd party Google Analytics in order to analyze the traffic on our website. Google Analytics stores the following cookies on your computer:

Cookies set by Google Analytics

Cookie name

Standard expiration time

Domain

Description

__utma

2 years from set/update

hioa.no, journals.hioa.no

Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmb

30 min from set/update

journals.hioa.no

Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmc

End of browser session

journals.hioa.no

Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

__utmt

10 min from set/update

journals.hioa.no

Used to throttle request rate.

__utmv

2 years from set/update

hioa.no

Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

__utmz

6 months from set/update

journals.hioa.no, hioa.no

Information about how you got to our webpage at journals.hioa.no, for instance from a search engine (google, yahoo, bing etc).

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AddThis

The journals hosted at journals.hioa.no may use the 3rd party plugin AddThis to enable the readers of the journal to share articles on social media such as twitter, facebook, google, yahoo etc. The AddThis plugin stores several cookies on your computer:

If AddThis is used in the yournal, you will find sharing buttons for sharing the article on different social media below the article.

Cookies used by the AddThis plugin

Cookie name

Standard expiration time

Domain

Description

__atuvc

18 months fra set/update

addthis.com

This cookie ensures the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.

__atuvc

2 years

journals.hioa.no

This cookie ensures the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.

__atuvs

1 day

journals.hioa.no

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. (Description from cookiepedia)

bt

2 years

addthis.com

User interest modeling.

di2

2 years

addthis.com

Maintenance cookies that help manage expiration for other cookies.

dt

1 month

addthis.com

Maintenance cookies that help manage expiration for other cookies.

loc

2 years

addthis.com

Geolocation, used to help publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located.

ssc

2 years

addthis.com

Used by AddThis in recording user sharing and social activity

psc

2 years

addthis.com

Used by AddThis in recording user sharing and social activity

ssh/sshs

2 years

addthis.com

Used for optimizing sharing settings for the user.

uid

2 years

addthis.com

Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID.

uit

1 day

addthis.com

Tracks user logins to the AddThis Service.

uss/ups

2 years

addthis.com

Used by AddThis to record user-specified sharing preferences

uvc

2 years

addthis.com

Used by AddThis to measure frequency of visits by user.

In addition, AddThis' marketing partners may set other cookies not documented here.

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