NVIDIA Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is a small data file made up of letters and numbers which is placed by a website on the device you use to access the Internet. Cookies serve different purposes, and may be tied to personal information. At NVIDIA, we use cookies to help deliver and improve our websites (such as NVIDIA.com, Geforce.com, and Developer.nvidia.com) through information about website usage and settings, as described below. How we use cookies is governed by this Cookie Policy and by our Privacy Policy. You can always choose to delete your personal data with NVIDIA by visiting our Privacy Center at any time.

Most web browsers allow some control over the placing of cookies on your device through your browser settings. NVIDIA supports the “Do Not Track” setting provided by most web browsers, which allows you to opt-out of your online behavior being tracked while visiting our websites. Our system will place cookies on your device when you visit any page on our websites unless you have adjusted your browser settings to not accept cookies.

Third parties may place cookies on your device when you view advertisements — including NVIDIA advertisements — on their websites, services, or applications. These cookies are governed by their respective company privacy policies. NVIDIA encourages you to review the privacy statements and cookie policies of the third party websites, services, or applications so you can understand how they may collect, use, and share your information.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block, manage, and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

TYPES OF COOKIES USED BY NVIDIA

Session Cookies
“User input cookies”, or session cookies, are used to keep track of a user’s input when submitting online data and allow users to be recognized from one page or selection to another. We also use session cookies to provide information you’ve requested through an action , such as clicking a button or filling out a web form. Session cookies always expire after the browsing session is over.

Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies help websites remember your information, browsing history, and settings when you visit them in the future. This results in faster and more convenient access. Persistent cookies also help us personalize and improve your experience, which you can opt-in to at anytime through the NVIDIA Privacy Center.

Persistent cookies stay in a folder on your device unless you delete them manually, or until they are automatically deleted based on the retention period of the cookie’s folder.

List of Cookies
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Functional Cookies
These cookies are required to operate parts of the website, such as country (for language settings), account management, event registration, driver installs, or email preferences.

COOKIE NAME	COOKIE TYPE	COOKIE/SOURCE	PURPOSE/DATA COLLECTED
__NV_DD3 __NV_DD3Manual	Session cookie	First Party (NVIDIA)	Enables suggestion of drivers to download for NVIDIA hardware installed on your device when you request an automated or manual scan of your device at https://www.nvidia.com/Download /index.aspx?lang=en-us.Your hardware GPU details are stored for the browser session.
__NV_nvJson	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 month).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Recommends the appropriate driver on future visits when you scan your system using the latest driver search tool, GPU analyser, and other device scan options (available at https://www.geforce.com/drivers).
OperatingSystem ProductSeries ProductSeriesType ProductType Language	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 year).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Stores options you select when you change the drop-down selection via the manual driver search on the NVIDIA driver download page (available at https://www.geforce.com/drivers).
__NVEU_SSO / __NVSESSION	Session cookie	First Party (NVIDIA)	Stores login credentials when you log into the email newsletter subscriber profile page.
__NVEU_UID	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 month).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Stores your unique ID as part of the security verification when you log into the newsletter subscriber profile page.
NVIDIADefaultLang	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 year).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Remembers the local country site when you select a language. On future visits it redirects you to the relevant local site.
CookiePolicy	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 year).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Accepts this cookie policy once you land on an NVIDIA website page.
has_js	Session cookie	First Party (developer.n vidia.com)	Drupal uses this cookie to Indicates whether or not the visitor’s browser has JavaScript enabled.
SSESS	Persistent cookie (expires after 23 days).	First Party (developer.n vidia.com)	Persistent cookie for authenticated user functionality of developer.nvidia.com
current_tenant	Persistent cookie (expires after 4 days).	Third Party (auth0)	Allows secure user authentication and ensure the security of the users of our site and the data it contains.
auth0l	Persistent cookie (expires after 4 days).	Third Party (auth0)
ajs_user_id	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 year).	Third Party (auth0)
_fbp	Persistent cookie (expires after 3 months).	Third Party (auth0)
OptanonConsent	Persistent cookie (expires after 6 months).	Third Party (auth0)
ajs_anonymous_id	Persistent cookie (expires after 6 months).	Third Party (auth0)
AMCV_F207D74D5 49850760A4C9 8C6%40 AdobeOrg	Persistent cookie (expires after 6 months).	Third Party (auth0)
RrRL1iTsgXOgVF4_	Permanent Cookie	First Party (NVIDIA)	Allows Nvidia to collect log chunks sent from the same instance of GFN browser client and route them to a specific server node. The cookie remains alive for about 24 hours. See image attached for expiry time.
lightstep_guid/gfn-client	Persistent Cookie [expires in 1 week]	Third Party (Lightstep)	Allows Lightstep to group the spans sent from the same client.
lightstep_session_id	Persistent Cookie [expires in 1 week]	Third Party (Lightstep)

Analytics Cookies
These cookies are used to better understand and optimize the web experience, such as pages visited or purchases made through our estore .

COOKIE NAME	COOKIE TYPE	COOKIE/SOURCE	PURPOSE/DATA COLLECTED
Icl_cid hatch_cid	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 month).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Helps measure campaign effectiveness when you click through to an NVIDIA page as part of a marketing campaign.
AMCV_[random string] %40AdobeOrg s_ecid AMCVS_[random string] %40AdobeOrg s_cc s_ppv s_getNewRe peat sc_cmp sc_cvp VisitorID	AMCV_[random string]%40 AdobeOrg and s_ecid are Persistent cookies (expire after 2 years). AMCVS_[random string]%40 AdobeOrg, s_cc and s_ppv are Session cookies. s_getNewRepeat, sc_cmp, sc _cvp, VisitorID are Persistent cookies (expire after 1 month).	First Party (NVIDIA)	We also Collects anonymous visitor information about how you utilize our site, such as IP addresses, browser types (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, etc.), referring pages and pages visited. We use this information (a) to perform anonymous statistical analysis of Web page traffic patterns, (b) to administer our Website and servers, and (c) to improve our services." Further information about these cookies are available here: https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/en_US/ whitepapers/cookies/cookies_analytics.html
mbox	Persistent cookie (expires after 2 weeks).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Provides the ability to test which online content and offers are most relevant to you. Further information about this cookie is available here: https://marketing.adobe.com/resources/help/ en_US/whitepapers/cookies/cookies_target.html
hatch_cid ncid ps-utid ps-utparam	hatch_cid, ncid are Persistent cookies(expire after 1 month). ps-utid, ps-utparam are Persistent cookies (expire after 1 day).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Helps measure campaign effectiveness when you click through to an NVIDIA page as part of a marketing campaign.
_mkto_trk	Persistent cookie (expires after 2 years).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Provides information about activities (i.e., clicks) performed on NVIDIA.com web pages during your visit.
_sdsat_6sui _sdsat_6suc	_sdsat_6sui, _sdsat_6suc are Session cookies.	First Party (NVIDIA)	Collects information associated with your IP address including, if applicable, your place of work and other public industry details.
Icl_session_key	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 month).	Third Party (hatch.com)	Helps measure campaign effectiveness when you click from an NVIDIA store page to a partner e-tailer website to make a purchase.
Nvuserpreflang	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 year).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Remembers your preferred region on most NVIDIA websites.
gfn-locale	Session cookie	First Party (NVIDIA)	Remembers your preferred region when you visit the GeForce NOW section of NVIDIA.com
nv.nvidmData	Persistent cookie (expires after 20 minutes of user inactivity).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Stores session information. The cookie is created when the user first logs in and is deleted when the user logs out.
nv.nvidmNoissesPers ist	Persistent cookie (expires after 3 months).	First Party (NVIDIA)	Stores long term session. This cookie is created when the user first logs in and is deleted when the user logs out.
accessToken	Session cookie	First Party (NVIDIA)	Saves a token used for the Checkout process.
Edge	Persistent cookie (expires after 2 years).	Third Party (NVIDIA)	Helps measure campaign effectiveness, and content performance. This cookie is used to serve relevant products to shoppers based on browsing behavior.
uid di/dt bt uvc ssc/psc/uvc loc	Persistent cookie (expires after 1 month).	Third Party (addthis.com )	Allows addthis.com to collect data in accordance with its policies (available at addthis.com/privacy). These cookies collect data about your usage of NVIDIA’s websites, and addthis collates this data in the aggregate. (UID) Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID. (DI/DT) Maintenance cookies that help manage expiration for other cookies. (BT) User interest modelling. (UVC) Measures repeat shares. (SSC/PSC/UVC) These cookies are used in recording user sharing and social activity.
_cs_id, _cs_s, _cs_vars, _cs_ex, _cs_c, _cs_optout	cs_vars is a session cookie and expires at the end of session. _cs_s is a persistent cookie and expires after 30 minutes. _cs_ex is a persistent cookie and expires after 30 days. _cs_id, _cs_c, _cs_optout are persistent cookies and expires after 13 months.	Third Party (NVIDIA)	_cs_id cookie contains ContentSquare's user identifier _cs_s cookie contains the number of pageviews within the running session for ContentSquare Solution _cs_vars cookie is used by ContentSquare to record custom variables _cs_ex cookies is used by ContentSquare to exclude some visitors from the collection _cs_c cookies is used by ContentSquare to save the user consent to be tracked _cs_optout cookies is used by ContentSquare to exclude some visitors from the collection ContentSquare is a solution which aggregates usage and frequency data to improve user experience. Statistics created are anonymous.