Last updated: May 14th, 2020
8x8 uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. This cookie policy provides you with information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for using them. To review the privacy policies that apply to users of 8x8.com and our other websites please read our Privacy Policy. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytics or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Source/ Domain | Type/Description of Cookie |
| __d_mkto | Marketo | Marketing-Marketo tracking code. Tracks all individuals who visit and run automated marketing campaigns. |
| _fbp | Marketing-Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. |
| _gcl_au | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| _gd_session | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-This cookie contains no identifying information and is used for diagnostic purposes by Impact Radius, a service we use to track signup commissions for our affiliate program. |
| _gd_svisitor | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-This cookie contains no identifying information and is used for diagnostic purposes. We use this to track signup commissions for our affiliate program. |
| _gd_visitor | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-This cookie contains no identifying information and is used for diagnostic purposes. We use this to track signup commissions for our affiliate program. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Analytical or performance-This cookie is used to distinguish users. |
| _hly_gvid | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
| _hly_sid | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
| _hly_vid | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use |
| _mkto_trk | Marketo | Marketing-Allows a website to link visitor behaviour to the recipient of an email marketing campaign, to measure campaign effectiveness. |
| 1P_JAR | Google Double Click | Marketing-This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| ANID | Google Double Click | Marketing-This cookie is used for advertising served across the web and stored in google.com. |
| AWSALB | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie handles/ hold the profile’s unique identifier, in order to recognize the same profile at a later stage, and track/ engage with this profile as known to the same profile every time the visitor enters the page. |
| AWSALBCORS | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie handles/ hold the profile’s unique identifier, in order to recognize the same profile at a later stage, and track/ engage with this profile as known to the same profile every time the visitor enters the page. |
| bkdc | Blue Kai | Marketing - part of our ad network- This cookie is set to register anonymised user data (IP address, geolocation, etc.) as well as aggregate anonymous activities to enable marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. |
| bku | Blue Kai | Marketing- part of our ad network-This cookie is used for advertising purposes. |
| CookieControl | CivicUK | Strictly Necessary-This cookie is essential for our website. |
| DFTT_END_USER_PREV_BOOTSTRAPPED | Drift | Marketing-This cookie is indicating the user has been previously authenticated. |
| is | Ido | Marketing-This cookie is used for Marketing purposes, and delivers relevant experiences |
| iv | Idio | Marketing-This cookie is used for Marketing purposes, and delivers relevant experiences |
| driftt_aid | Drift | Marketing-This cookies is anonymous identifier token. |
| driftt_sid | Drift | Marketing-This is the session identifier token. It is used to tie the visitor on your website with a current website session within the Drift system. |
| fr | Marketing-Encrypted Facebook ID and Browser ID | |
| IDE | Google Double Click | Marketing-The cookie is used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| invoca_session | Invoca | Analytical or performance-Inovca uses this for caching values |
| JSESSIONID | Hushly | Marketing-This cookie is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
| MR | Bing | Marketing-This cookie is used to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
| MR2 | Bing | Marketing-This cookie is used to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
| MUID | Bing | Marketing-This cookie is used as a unique user identifier. |
| NID | Google Ads Optimization | Marketing-This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. |
| OGPC | Google Ads Optimization | Marketing-This cookie is used for Google Maps functionality |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Optimizely | Marketing-This cookie is a unique user identifier |
| personalization_id | Marketing-This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | |
| pi | Bombora | Marketing - sets user id based on Bombora’s integration with Google Analytics |
| pxrc | Live Ramp, Inc. | Marketing-This cookie is used to deliver adverts more relevant to user’s interests. It is also used to limit the number of times the user sees an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. |
| QuantumMetricSessionID | Quantium Metric | Analytical or performance- sets cookie from external Quantum Metric CDN call |
| QuantumMetricUserID | Quantium Metric | Analytical or performance- sets cookie from external Quantum Metric CDN call |
| rlas3 | Live Ramp, Inc. | Marketing-This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes. |
| TDCPM | TheTradeDesk | Marketing-This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| TDID | TheTradeDesk | Marketing-This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| tfw_exp | Marketing-This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | |
| opti_ | Optimizely | Strictly Necessary-This cookie is essential for our website. |
| 8x8_Web_ID | 8x8 | Marketing-Marketo tracking code. Tracks all individuals who visit and run automated marketing campaigns. |
| d9fa807f-1267-42da-bcc0-8eb9948d335d | Netlify | Strictly Necessary-This cookie is essential for our website. |
| 8x8_UTM_Tracker | 8x8 | Analytical or performance-This cookie is used to distinguish users. |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Drift
Bing
Quantum Metric
The Trade Desk
Lotame
Invoca
Eyeota
Bombora
Blue Kai
Live Ramp, Inc.
- Consent for our suite of cookies will be approximately every 13 months.
Your Consent & Choices About Cookies
On your first visit to this website you will have seen a pop-up to inform you about the purposes for which cookies are being used and the means to opt-out. Please read this cookie policy carefully for more details about the way we use cookies. Although this pop-up will not usually appear on subsequent visits you may withdraw your cookie consent at any time by following the instructions in this cookies policy.
Controlling Cookies
You can change the 8x8 cookie settings at any time by going to ‘Policies > Manage Cookie Settings’ from the footer of the 8x8 webpage. You may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links for commonly used browsers may be helpful, or you can use the help option in your browser for more details:
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
If you disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of our services may not function correctly. For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for interest-based advertising you may visit the following sites:
On a mobile device, you may also be able to adjust your settings to limit ad tracking. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on. If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at dpo@8x8.com.