Cookie Documentation

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

  • First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
  • Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

When you visit this website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. The purpose of the prompt is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site.

Once you accept or refuse, your settings will be saved and you will not be prompted again. You can reset your settings by deleting your cookies (see ‘How can you manage cookies?’ below) so you can be prompted again.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

This website primarily uses ‘first-party’ cookies set and controlled by the Carlo Bonte and not by any external organisation.

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

First-party cookies

Name Purpose Type and Duration
PHPSESSID Maintain a secure session for you, during your visit Session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser
houseusername Used to identify auction house Session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser
wp-wpml_current_language Notes current language settings Session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser
oas-node-sid Used to confirm logged in status Deleted after 30 days
x-auth-token Used to authenticate logged in user Deleted after 30 days
xAuth-carlobonte Used to authenticate logged in user Deleted after 30 days
AZTOKEN-carlobonte-prod Used to identify logged in user Deleted after 1 year
moove_gdpr_popup Saves cookie settings Deleted after 1 year
LANG-carlobonte-prod Saves chosen language Deleted after 1 year
lang_unified Unifies language across site and bidding applications Deleted after 9 months
__cf_bm Maintains caching status for better performance Deleted after 25 minutes
AWSALB, AWSALBCORS Maintains caching status for better performance Deleted after 1 week
_hp2_* Used for internal analytics Deleted after 34 hours
_ga, _ga_# Used by Google Analytics, enables the service to distinguish one visitor from another Deleted after 2 years

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube.

When you view this third-party content, you accept their specific terms and conditions (including their cookie policies) which we have no control over.

If you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.

Policies for third-party providers on this website:

These third-party services are outside of the control of Carlo Bonte. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).