The website www.circuitmaker.com (“Website”) is hosted by Altium LLC (“Altium”).
On our website, various cookies may be used. With this Cookie Policy, we would like to inform you what cookies are, what they do, and what kind of cookies are used via our Website. In so far as we collect Personal Data via cookies, we process these Personal Data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
We may change this Cookie Policy and the list of cookies that are used on our Website at any time. The most recent version of this Cookie Policy is dated April 30, 2018.
2. Which types of cookies are used by Altium?
3. Will cookies be stored on my Device only by Altium?
4. Will cookies be permanently stored on my Device?
5. How can I enable, disable and administer cookies?
5.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies.
Cookies are small text files containing letters and numbers that are sent by a webserver (such as the www.circuitmaker.com webserver) to your computer, smartphone, tablet or any other device with internet access which you use in order to visit our Website (“Device”). Once a cookie is stored on your Device, the Website server may be able to recognise the Device you use.
“Web Beacons” are small graphic data (also known as ‘Pixel Tags’ or ‘Clear GIFs’), which can be included on our Website and newsletters and are usually used in combination with cookies to identify users and user behavior.
Altium uses different types of cookies on the Website. These cookies serve different purposes. According to their purpose, cookies may generally be assigned to one of the following categories:
Our Website uses cookies from all of the above categories in order to provide you with the best Internet experience. For a detailed list of the cookies used by us please see the Cookie Table below.
No. The cookies used by Altium are both first-party cookies and third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are cookies from Altium, serving our purposes, including but not limited to the provision of the booking system on our Website, interactive information, and statistics purposes.
Third-party cookies, on the other hand, are set by third-party suppliers under a domain different from the domain of our Website. These third-party cookies enable analyses across websites.
Whether and for how long cookies remain stored on a Device mainly depends on whether the cookie set is a Persistent Cookie or a Session Cookie. “Session Cookies” are cookies that remain stored on your Device only until you close the browser. By contrast, “Persistent Cookies” will remain stored on your Device until they expire or are deleted by you (e.g. by deleting your browsing history or by your targeted deletion of the cookies via your browser settings). For the duration of storage of the particular cookies, please see the Cookie Table below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies will be set by us on your Device without us explicitly asking for your consent. The types of such cookies can be seen in the Cookie Table below. If you do not accept the use of Strictly Necessary Cookies, please disable cookies or refrain from visiting our Website.
In addition to the Strictly Necessary Cookies, we will set cookies on your Device only, if you have given your prior consent. Such cookies are Functional Cookies, Analytical Cookies and Targeting Related Cookies. The exact types of such cookies can be seen in the Cookie Table below.
You are free to withdraw your consent at any time, for example by deleting the cookies. If you do not accept all cookies or withdraw your consent, you may still browse the contents of the Website; however, in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.
In addition, you may configure the settings of your browser / your Device used to browse the Website to enable, disable or delete cookies. Detailed instructions on how to configure your browser have been published by the browsers’ developers, and can be found here:
For more information on the use of cookies and on how to deactivate cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our Website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the Website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by cookies about your use of this Website will generally be transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States of America. As we have activated IP anonymization on this Website, your IP address will be truncated in advance within the territory of the Member States of the European Union or the other members of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be first transmitted to a Google server in the United States of America and truncated there. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, for compiling reports on website activity and for providing other services related to website activity and Internet usage.
The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the relevant setting in your browser; however, we would like to point out that if you do this you may not be able to avail of the full functionality of this website. There are a number of ways of preventing the storage of cookies:
Google Analytics is used in accordance with the requirements which the German Data Protection Authorities have agreed together with Google. Information regarding the third-party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. The Google Analytics Terms of Service are available here. The Google Analytics security and privacy principles are available here. The Google privacy policy is available here.
| Host | Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifespan | Secure | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_SID_1 | Session cookie, format - GUID. | |
| Session cookie (recreates for every login/autologin) | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_RDF_1 | Return url cookie. Format - string (url-encoded URL). After successful login this cookie removed by login page and then user redirected to this URL. | |
| 1 day | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_USO_1 | ‘User signed out’ flag. If ‘true’ - ignore(or remove) session, redirect to sign in if needed. Format - true/false. | |
| 30 days and Can be removed by login page after successful login. | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_LLR_1 | Deprecated cookie, now optional. If ‘true’ - user logged in successfully. Format - true/false. | |
| Session cookie (recreates for every login/autologin) | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_UID_1 | Contains username after first successful sign in with enabled ‘Remember Me’ option. | |
| Expiration time - 1 month (If user uncheck ‘Remember Me’ checkbox for next login - cookie will be removed) | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_PID_1 | Contains password hash after first successful sign in with enabled ‘Remember Me’ option. | |
| Expiration time - 1 month. If user uncheck ‘Remember Me’ checkbox for next login - cookie will be removed. | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | ALU_RID_2 | Deprecated cookie, now optional. If ‘true’ - user set 'Remember Me' checkbox when login | |
| 30 days | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | .ASPXAUTH | Auto-generated cookie from ASP.NET websites (like apps.live.circuitmaker.com) contains encrypted session & user information. Format: encrypted binary | |
| Session cookie (recreates for every login/autologin) | 1 | ||
| .circuitmaker.com | altium-privacy-bar | Identifies if user have closed Privacy bar sticker | |
