Cookie Name |
Type |
Description and Purpose |
Expiration Time/Type |
If removed, disabled, or not accepted |
_ga |
2 |
Distinguishes users using a unique ID. It is used by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data. By default, the configuration setting that sets this cookie is disabled. |
2 years(persistant) |
Visitor and session data will not be tracked and will not be available to Google Analytics |
!lithiumSSO:{client_id} |
1 |
Used for passing authentication information to Lithium |
session |
SSO will not be functional for the user |
LiSESSIONID |
1 |
Session management |
session |
User cannot log in, and is treated as an anonymous user |
lia.anon.{setting or config name} |
3 |
Stores community-wide configurations and settings for anonymous users |
1 year(persistant) |
Community behavior will follow defaults and any UI convenience changes made by the user will be ignored. |
lithium.anonymous.usersetting.{setting name} |
3 |
Remembers user preferences |
1 year(persistant) |
The community will not remember the user's setting preferences |
lithium.anonymous.usersetting.profile.language |
3 |
Remembers language preferences |
1 year(persistant) |
The community will not remember the user's language preferences. The language will default to the native language defined for the community. |
lithiumLogin:ppl |
3 |
Keeps users logged in when they make a request after their session has expired. It is triggered when a user checks Save login name and password. The cookie is encrypted and includes a unique user secure ID in the database. |
30 days (persistent) |
The "auto login" and "remember me" features will not work |
LithiumNotifications |
3 |
Temporarily stores Realtime Notification messages (Toast messages) |
session |
Realtime notification toasts may not appear (pop-up) after a page transition. |
LithiumUserInfo |
1 |
Session management |
session |
The user will not be able to view secure pages and will be redirected to the login page |
LithiumVisitor |
4 |
Replaces VISITOR_BEACON. Lithium currently uses both for backward compatibility. This cookie computes billing visits, registered billing visits, visits, registered visits, and unique visitors metrics. The cookie is encrypted and stores when it was first issued, when it was last seen by Lithium, an unique visitor ID (which is unique per visitor's browser). |
Default = 10 years |
Visits and unique visitors metrics will not be accurate. |
P{poll_id}U{user_id}R{reset_count} |
3 |
Tracks when a user has voted in a poll and tracks the answer value. The cookie is used to prevent a user from voting multiple times in a single poll. |
1,000000+ days (persistent) |
If the user is an anonymous user, the user will be able to vote multiple times when the cookie is cleared. If the user is logged in, votes, and then clears the cookie, they are not allowed to revote. |
PushyAuthToken |
1 |
Authenticates the user for a session with Realtime Notifications service (Pushy) |
Manually cleared when the user logs out or when their session expires due to inactivity |
WebSocket connections to the Realtime Notification service will fail with a 403 Forbidden error and the user will not see realtime notifications. |
VISITOR_BEACON |
4 |
Computes billing visits, registered billing visits, visits, registered visits, and unique visitors metrics. The cookie is encrypted and stores, when it was first issued, when it was last seen by Lithium, the user ID, and its own unique ID. |
10 years |
Visits and unique visitors metrics will not be accurate. |
VISITORID |
1 |
Distinguishes between human and bot traffic |
3 years(session) |
Impacts bot detection mechanism. |
ValueSurveyParticipation |
3 |
Stores a timestamp storing the creation time of this cookie, which is used in value survey trigger logic. |
Default is 90 days. Configurable in Community Admin |
The user will get multiple prompts to take a survey |
ValueSurveyVisitorCount |
3 |
Stores the survey visit count of the user, which is used in logic that determines when a survey is triggered. This cookie is used in conjunction with the ValueSurveyParticipation cookie. When the ValueSurveyParticiation is set, the count for ValueSurveyVisitorCount cookie is reset to 0. |
Expires when the ValueSurveyParticipation cookie is either set or expires |
The user will not be prompted to take a survey if a minimum number of visits is set before a survey is offered. |