This Cookie Policy applies to the websites/domains which are owned and managed by the Joomla Project:
- joomla.org and its subdomains
- opensourcematters.org
- joomlacode.org
The Websites above are operated by Open Source Matters, Inc. (“Joomla”, "us", "we", or "our") and use cookies. (collectively the "Site").
Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we partner with may use cookies on the Site, and which are your choices regarding cookies. Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how we store and process your personal data and your various rights.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves via the browser on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
Why do we use cookies?
They enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login details, local language and/or other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Additionally, it allows the Site or a third-party to recognize you, while making your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. Sometimes we may use tracking pixels, which are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your usage over our Site and on related functionalities. Cookies and tracking pixels allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our Site.
Categories of cookies that Joomla’s properties use
When you use and access the Site, we use a cookie bar that will inform you about the use of cookies in our websites and you would be able to accept or change your preferences regarding the use of cookies.
The Joomla Project uses both session and persistent cookies on it’s Site and it uses different types of cookies to run the Site.
Essential cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of the Site in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, authenticating users and preventing fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the Site may not be fully functional. We use the following strictly necessary cookies on our Site:
Essential cookies
| Cookie name | Provider of the cookie | Purpose | Expiration | How to opt out/more information | Used in Property/ies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {random alphanumeric name} | First party cookie | Initialize the user session on the website and provide the content | End of the session | This is the Session Cookie referring to a specific session per time. Its usage is mandatory for the connection between the client and the server. | *.joomla.org |
| PHPSESSID | First party cookie | Initialize the user session on the website and provide the content | End of session | This is the Session Cookie referring to a specific session per time. Its usage is mandatory for the connection between the client and the server. | issues.joomla.org |
Non-essential cookies: Performance Cookies
Performance cookies help The Joomla Project improve the way our Site works. We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages are visitors more often visit, and if they get error messages from any web pages. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. As a result these cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Performance cookies
| Cookies by Name | Host Name | Purpose | Expiration | More Info / Opt out | Used in Property/ies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _dc_gtm_UA* | Google, Inc. | Enable Google Tag Manager features, including Google Analytics and Google Ads. | Session | https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631?hl=en&ref_topic=1008008 https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en |
joomla.org, api.joomla.org, community.joomla.org, developer.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org, exam.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, forum.joomla.org, framework.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, resources.joomla.org, showcase.joomla.org, tm.joomla.org, vel.joomla.org, volunteers.joomla.org |
| _ga | Session | joomla.org, api.joomla.org, certification.joomla.org, community.joomla.org, conference.joomla.org, developer.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org, domains.joomla.org, downloads.joomla.org, exam.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, forum.joomla.org, framework.joomla.org, help.joomla.org, issues.joomla.org, launch.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, resources.joomla.org, shop.joomla.org, showcase.joomla.org, tm.joomla.org, vel.joomla.org, volunteers.joomla.org | |||
| _gat | Session | certification.joomla.org, conference.joomla.org, domains.joomla.org, downloads.joomla.org, help.joomla.org, issues.joomla.org, launch.joomla.org | |||
| _gid | 24 hours | joomla.org, api.joomla.org, certification.joomla.org, community.joomla.org, conference.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org, domains.joomla.org, downloads.joomla.org, exam.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, forum.joomla.org, framework.joomla.org, help.joomla.org, issues.joomla.org, launch.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, resources.joomla.org, shop.joomla.org, showcase.joomla.org, tm.joomla.org, vel.joomla.org, volunteers.joomla.org |
Non-essential cookies: Functionality cookies.
Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This allows us to personalise the content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Also they can be used to provide more personal services like to present feeds or/and iframes by third parties.
Functionality cookies
| Cookies by Name | Host name | Purpose | Expiration | More info / Opt out | Used in Property/ies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __atuvc, __atuvs | AddThis / Oracle Corporation | Show the up to date counter of social media sharing | 2 years | www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out/ | docs.joomla.org |
| s_cc, s_sq | Adobe, Inc. | Check if cookie and specific features are enabled | Session | https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html | shop.joomla.org |
| AWSALB | Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Map the session to the AWS Elastic Load Balancer instance | Session | https://aws.amazon.com/legal/cookies | conference.joomla.org |
| __cfduid | Cloudflare, Inc | Detects malicious visitors and minimizes blocking legitimate users | 30 days | https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do- | api.joomla.org, certification.joomla.org, community.joomla.org, conference.joomla.org, developer.joomla.org, downloads.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, forum.joomla.org, foundation.joomla.org, framework.joomla.org, help.joomla.org, issues.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, resources.joomla.org, showcase.joomla.org, tm.joomla.org, vel.joomla.org, volunteers.joomla.org |
| ct_checkjs, ct_fkp_timestamp, ct_pointer_data, ct_ps_timestamp, ct_timezone | Property Antispam System | Avoid spam registrations | Session | forum.joomla.org | |
| _sdsat_BasketAmountItems, affiliate, any_affiliate, direct_affiliate | Spreadshirt / sprd.net AG | Collect metrics and ensure functionality of the shop | 6 months | https://service.spreadshirt.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115000978409-Privacy | shop.joomla.org |
| __distillery | Wistia, Inc. | Used by our video player provider to remember your position in a video should playback be interrupted. | Session | https://wistia.com/support/account/gdpr#cookies | community.joomla.org |
| __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe, Inc. | A token set by Stripe (payment provider) to facilitate the payment of online orders. | Session | https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal | domains.joomla.org |
Advertising/Targeting cookies
Advertising/Targeting cookies limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of our digital advertising campaigns. They are also used to deliver more relevant adverts according to your interests. They allow you to limit the number of times an ad is displayed to you and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They are also used to remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often advertising or targeting cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation. In any case, the third party ads providers have been evaluated and act under the requirements of the GDPR.
Advertising cookies
| Cookies by Name | Host name | Purpose | Expiration | More info / Opt out | Used in Property/ies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| di2, loc, ouid, uid, uvc, vc | AddThis / Oracle Corporation | Profiling cookie used by AddThis to analyse global audience of the tool | 2 years | www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out/ | docs.joomla.org |
| na_id, na_tc | magazine.joomla.org | ||||
| AMCVS_, AMCV_, dpm, demdex | Adobe Inc. | Adobe Experience Cloud Identity Service Cookies. They are used to track users across domains. | 2 years |
https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/id-service/using/intro/cookies.html |
shop.joomla.org |
| everest_g_v2 | Everest Technologies, Inc. | Advertising Cloud uses cookies to map ad engagement events to conversion events and, potentially, to use that information to optimize ad bids. | 2 years | extensions.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, shop.joomla.org | |
| everest_session_v2 | Session | extensions.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org | |||
| gglck | 30 days | ||||
| fr | Facebook, Inc. | Track users and their browsers | 90 days | https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/ | conference.joomla.org, shop.joomla.org |
| IDE | Google, Inc. | Advertising profiling cookie from Google DoubleClick | 1 year | https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631?hl=en&ref_topic=1008008 https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en |
community.joomla.org, docs.joomla.org, forum.joomla.org, extensions.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org, resources.joomla.org |
| NID | 6 months | domains.joomla.org, launch.joomla.org | |||
| 1P_JAR | 1 year | forum.joomla.org | |||
| _gat_partnerTracker, _gat_spreadshirtTracker | Google Inc. | Advertising & Analytics tracking cookies from SpreadShirt. | Session | https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en | shop.joomla.org |
| GPS | Google, Inc. (You Tube LCC) | Track the GPS position of the user to show relevant content. | Session | https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631?hl=en&ref_topic=1008008 https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en |
joomla.org |
| YSC | Track history of videos seen by the user | 1 day | |||
| KADUSERCOOKIE, KTPCACOOKIE | PubMatic, Inc | Uniquely identify each browser or device from which an individual user visits partners’ websites. | 2 years | https://pubmatic.com/legal/opt-out/ | magazine.joomla.org |
| d, mc | Quantcast Corp. | Analytics Collection | 1 year | https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ | forum.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org |
| ck1, drtn*, rlas3, rtn1-z | Rlcdn / LiveRamp Holdings | Collect segmented data about the demographic of visitors for advertising purposes. | 180 days | https://liveramp.com/cookies-101/ | resources.joomla.org, magazine.joomla.org |
| TapAd_DID, TapAd_TS | TapAd, Inc. | Track the visits and information about the advertising viewed by the users. | 60 days | https://privacy.tapad.com/optout.html | docs.joomla.org |
| wistia-http2-push-disabled | Wistia, Inc. | Set by Wistia, a video streaming and analytics service | 1 day | https://wistia.com/support/account/gdpr#cookies | community.joomla.org |
| PP, PPP | Spreadshirt / sprd.net AG | Pending clarification | Session | https://service.spreadshirt.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115000978409-Privacy | shop.joomla.org |
What are your choices regarding cookies
We do not require that you accept non-essential cookies. If you do accept our use of non-essential cookies, you can withdraw your consent or adjust your browser’s privacy settings at any time. Please note that blocking of essential cookies may cause some of the Sites’ functionality to not be available.
We plan to release a tool to control cookies on our websites soon. The tool will allow you to accept / delete all the cookies saved by any of the joomla.org websites.
Using your browser
Moreover, if you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help center of your web browser. Please mention that if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services or/and some functionalities may not work.
Each browser provides help pages that help you manage cookies in their products. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser, or see detailed information on how to do this via the AboutCookies.org guide.
Questions
If you want to reach out to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) for information and questions, please send an email to