Siemens Healthineers Cookie Policy

Date: July 2024

The following Cookie Policy describes how, and which cookies and other similar technologies Siemens Healthineers uses when you visit Siemens Healthineers websites. This Cookie Policy applies to the websites operated by the Siemens Healthineers company referred to under “Corporate Information.”

What are cookies and other similar technologies and what are they used for?

When you visit Siemens Healthineers websites, information is stored on your device in the form of a "cookie." Cookies are small files that are stored on your device and that save and send certain settings and data regarding your interaction with our pages to us via your browser.

There are also other technologies that perform functions usually performed by a cookie, such as pixels or HTML local storage. These technologies also store or access information on your device. We will use the single term ‘cookies’ in this policy to refer to cookies and similar technologies.

We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to store your preferences, to analyze traffic to our website or to offer social media features. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners, subject to your consent. You can find more information in our <link to Marketing Policy>.

The following contains detailed information on the cookies used on Siemens Healthineers websites:

Types of cookies

We use different types of cookies on our websites, depending on their function and purpose: necessary cookies, preference cookies, statistics cookies, and marketing cookies.

You decide which non-necessary cookies Siemens Healthineers may or may not use by adjusting your cookie settings accordingly.

The following contains detailed information on the cookies used on Siemens Healthineers websites:

Name 

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Type

CookieConsent

siemens-healthineers.com

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

1 year

HTTP Cookie

s_cc

siemens-healthineers.com

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies

Session

HTTP Cookie

test

siemens-healthineers.com

Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. 
This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.

Session

HTTP Cookie

li_gc

linkedin.com

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

2 years

HTTP Cookie

Name 

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Type

settings

siemens-healthineers.com

Used to store user’s selected language and date format.

Persistent

HTTP
Local Storage

Name 

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Type

AMCV_#

siemens-healthineers.com

Unique user ID that recognizes the user on returning visits.

2 years

HTTP Cookie

AnalyticsSyncHistory

linkedin.com

Used in connection with data-synchronization with third-party analysis service.

29 days

HTTP Cookie

ste_cds

siemens-healthineers.com

Cookie used for web tracking purposes and holds information like the last page visited, 
the last clicked element, etc.

1 day

HTTP Cookie

ste_p

siemens-healthineers.com

Persistent cookie used for web tracking purposes and holds information like the 
timestamp of first visit, timestamp of last visit, 

2 years

HTTP Cookie

ste_s

siemens-healthineers.com

Cookie used for web tracking purposes and holds information like the current path, 
the last search term being used, the network the user visits the site from (internal/external), 
last campaign the user came from, etc.

1 day

HTTP Cookie

ste_vi

siemens-healthineers.com

This cookie is an anonymous ID to identify the visitor.

2 years

HTTP Cookie

ste_pr

siemens-healthineers.com

Persistent cookie used for web tracking purposes and holds information like the 
tracking code stack and the DMP ID.

Name 

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Type

lang

ads.linkedin.com
linkedin.com

Remembers the user's selected language version of a website

Session

HTTP Cookie

IDE

doubleclick.net

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's 
actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the 
purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

1 year

HTTP Cookie

pagead/landing

doubleclick.net
google.com

Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to 
present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to 
limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement.

Session

Pixel Tracker

test_cookie

doubleclick.net

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

1 year

HTTP Cookie

bcookie

linkedin.com

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

HTTP Cookie

bscookie

linkedin.com

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

2 years

HTTP Cookie

lidc

linkedin.com

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services

1 day

HTTP Cookie

pagead/1p-user-list/#

google.com

Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites 
and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement 
efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.

Session

HTTP Cookie

_gcl_au

siemens-healthineers.com

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using 
their services.

3 months

Pixel Tracker

UserMatchHistory

linkedin.com

Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based 
on the visitor's preferences.

HTTP Cookie

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