COOKIE NAME

COOKIE EXPIRATION

COOKIE DESCRIRPTION AND BUSINESS PURPOSE

Cookie_Policy_Accepted_*

1 year

This first party cookie is set by our website to mark user’s consent to the usage of cookies whilst viewing the website. This will prevent the cookie banner from re-appearing every time user visits our site. This cookie does not track user’s personal information.

WT_FPC

10 years

This first party cookie is used by Web Trends analytics service to collect information about how website visitors use our site.  The cookie collects information in an anonymous form, such as the number of visitors to the site and the pages visited.  We use this information to help us improve the site and enhance user experience. The cookie does not allow us to identify user personally as no personal information is tracked.

ACOOKIE

2 years

This third party cookie is used by Web Trends analytics service to identify user session on our website. The cookie collects information in an anonymous form and does not allow us to identify user personally as no personal information is tracked.

__utma

2 years

This first party cookie created by Google Analytics is used to distinguish users and sessions and generates statistics about website's traffic.

__utmt

10 minutes

This first party cookie created by Google Analytics is used to process user's request and generate statistics about website traffic.

__utmb

30 minutes

This first party cookie created by Google Analytics is used to determine new sessions/visits, generates statistics about website's traffic.

__utmc

Session

This first party cookie created by Google Analytics is configured to interact with urchin.js. Previously, this cookie acted with the cookie __utmb to determine whether the user was in a new session or visit.

__utmz

6 months

This first party cookie created by Google Analytics is used to store traffic source or campaign that explains how the user arrived on site.

__utmv

2 years

This first party cookies powered by Google Analytics is used to store visitor-level custom variable data and generates statistics about website's traffic.

incap_ses_*_*

End of session

These first party cookies are set by a third party service to filter out malicious requests.

2 years

visid_incap_*_*

15 minutes

15 minutes

__utmva*

15 minutes

End of session

__utmvb*

__utmvm*

___utmvc

_ga

2 Years

This first party Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users when collecting information about page visits. This cookie helps us to identify website areas to be improved and the _ga cookie does not allow Monsanto to identify user personally as no personal information or data is tracked.

_gat*

10 minutes

This first party Google Analytics cookie is used by Google Analytics to monitor requests rate toward their servers. This cookie helps Monsanto to identify website areas to be improved and the _gat cookie does not allow Monsanto to identify user personally as no personal information or data is tracked.

_atuvc, _atuvs

2 Years

These first party cookies are created and read by the AddThis social sharing site in order to make sure user sees the updated count if user shares a page and return to it before the share count cache is updated. No data from these cookies is sent back to AddThis.

Dt

1 month

These third party cookies are created by the AddThis social sharing site. AddThis does collect some information such as which web page user came from, which type of browser user is using, and general geographic location. If user uses the AddThis social media content sharing tool to share content, AddThis aggregates data about what pages are shared, when, and how. AddThis also assigns a web browser a unique identifier. This ID doesn’t, and can’t, say anything about the user. It’s a random series of numbers and letters used to distinguish users from each other.

Uvc

2 years

Um

2 years

Uit

1 day

Uid

2 years

Ssc

2 years

Bt2

2 years

Dl2

2 years

Loc

End of session

Brightcove Cookies

We may embed videos that are externally hosted on Brightcove using Brightcove’s privacy enabled mode.  In accordance with Brightcove’s embedding videos information page in this mode Brightcove will only set cookies on your computer that are required to play the video.

YouTube Cookies

We may embed videos that are externally hosted on YouTube using YouTube’s privacy enhanced mode. In accordance with YouTube’s embedding videos information page in this mode YouTube will not set cookies on your computer until you click on the YouTube video player. Further, YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos under this mode.  As these cookies are set by YouTube, we have no direct control over their usage.  Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. For further information from YouTube please read YouTube's privacy policy.