Updated: August 8, 2024
The following websites and applications (each a “Website” or “Site”, or together the “Websites” or “Sites”) are operated by Defenders of Wildlife (Defenders, we, or us): defenders.org, conservationist.io, domains support.defenders.org, act.defenders.org, the iBeaver application, and any other websites or applications that link to this policy. Please also see Defenders of Wildlife Privacy Policy.
We use technologies on our Websites to collect information that helps us improve your online experience. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, pixels, web beacons and gifs, collectively as cookies. This policy explains the different types of cookies used on the Sites and how you can control them.
We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please look at the last effective date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes in this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Sites.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. They can do this because websites can read and write these files, enabling them to recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient (i.e., by remembering your user preferences).
What Cookies Do We Use?
We use different types of cookies including, functionality, performance, analytics and session state cookies.
Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on our Sites and to provide enhanced and more personalized features, such as customizing a certain webpage, remembering if we have asked you to participate in a promotion and for other services you request, for example watching a video or commenting on a blog. All of these features help us to improve your visit to the Sites.
Performance cookies, which are sometimes called analytics cookies, collect information about your use of these Sites and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Sites, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage on the Sites, help us record any difficulties you have with the Sites and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.
Below we list the different types of cookies we may use on the Websites:
__gsas - Google AdSense
Google AdSense uses this cookie to track conversions from Search Engine Marketing
(Expires: 3 months)
_clck - Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store a unique User ID
(Expires: 1 year)
_fbp - Facebook Pixel
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products.
(Expires: Up to 90 days)
_ga - Google Analytics
Used to collect information about how visitors use our site. For example, the number of visitors and location of these visitors on our sites.
(Expires: 1 year)
_gat_UA-353912-1 - Google Analytics Throttle
Used to track performance.
(Expires: 1-10 minutes)
_gcl_au - Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
(Expires: 3 months)
_gid - Google Analytics ID
Used to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
(Expires: 1 year)
_sctr - Snap
Used to determine whether a third party tag will be called in Snap Ads Pixel.
(Expires: 1 year)
_tt_enable_cookie - TikTok
Tiktok set this cookie to collect data about behaviour and activities on the website and to measure the effectiveness of the advertising.
(Expires: 1 year 24 days)
_ttp - TikTok
TikTok set this cookie to track and improve the performance of advertising campaigns, as well as to personalise the user experience.
(Expires: 1 year 24 days)
_uetsid - Bing Ads
Used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that are relevant to the visitors perusing the site.
(Expires: 390 days)
_uetvid - Bing Ads
Bing sets this cookie to store and track visits across websites.
(Expires: 13 months)
AWSALB - widgets.guidestar.org
AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target.
(Expires: 7 days)
AWSALBCORS - widgets.guidestar.org
Amazon Web Services set this cookie for load balancing.
(Expires: 7 days)
cookie_consent_settings_set - Cookie Notice
Stores the display status of the cookie notice once a user clicks “OK”.
(Expires: 1 year)
JSESSIONID - Engaging Networks
Session ids preserve data for retrieval during a visitor’s time on a site and expire when they close their browser. They are functionality related.
(Expires: Session)
lightbox-xxx - Lightbox
Used to control display of lightboxes to visitors.
(Expires: Session)
MUID - Bing
Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.
(Expires: 1 year 24 days)
sa-user-id - tags.srv.stackadapt.com
StackAdapt sets this cookie as a third party advertising cookie to record information about a user's website activity, such as the pages visited and the locations viewed, to enable us to provide users with interest-based content and personalized advertisements on external websites.
(Expires: 1 year)
sa-user-id-v2 - StackAdapt
StackAdapt sets this cookie as a third party advertising cookie to record information about a user's website activity, such as the pages visited and the locations viewed, to enable us to provide users with interest-based content and personalised advertisements on external websites.
(Expires: 1 year)
Session ID - Engaging Networks
Session ids preserve data for retrieval during a visitor’s time on a site and expire when they close their browser. They are functionality related.
(Expires: Session)
test_cookie - .doubleclick.net
doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
(Expires: 15 minutes)
uuid - MediaMath
MediaMath sets this cookie to avoid the same ads from being shown repeatedly and for relevant advertising.
(Expires: 1 year 27 days)
How Do I Control Cookies?
You may refuse to accept cookies from the Sites at any time by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider's website via your “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser screen. You may wish to refer to for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of the Sites may operate as intended. There are some cookies, indicated in table above that are not able to be refused.
Contact Information:
If you have questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us by sending an email to privacy@defenders.org.
You may also contact us via mail at:
Data Protection Officer
Defenders of Wildlife
National Headquarters
1130 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
