Effective Date: January 1, 2023
Overview
At Symbotic Inc. (“Symbotic,” “we” or “us”) we respect the privacy of visitors using this website https://www.symbotic.com.
Individuals have the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data (“privacy information”). For privacy information please see our Privacy Notice, which can be found at https://symbotic.com/privacy-notice/.
This policy applies to the use of cookies and similar technologies, including pixels, (collectively “cookies”), that we or permitted third parties may use in connection with your interaction with this website. This policy explains how we use cookies, when your consent is required, how they are used on this website and provides you with information as to how you can exercise your rights in relation to the cookies.
You can reach out to our data protection officer (DPO) via email at: legal@symbotic.com.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. In addition, cookies can help us to analyze the use of our websites and online content (analytics cookies) and they can also facilitate/track the interaction on our websites and online content with social media (e.g., links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.).
What are ‘Session’ and ‘Persistent’ Cookies?
Cookies that expire at the end of a browsr session (normally when a user exits their browser) are called “session cookies.” Cookies that can be stored for longer are called “persistent cookies.”
• Session cookies allow websites to recognize and link the actions of a user during a browsing session. They may be used for a variety of purposes such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping basket as they browse around a site. Cookies can also be used for security purposes, such as when a user logs in to internet banking or their webmail. These session cookies expire after a session ends, so would not be stored beyond this.
• Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device in-between sessions. They can allow the preferences or actions of the user across a site (or across different websites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposesincluding remembering users’ preferences and choices when using a site or to target advertising
What are ‘First-Party’ and ‘Third-Party’ Cookies?
• First-party cookies are set directly by us.
• Third-party cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. This typically occurs when a website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising.
What Types of Cookies are on this Website?
• Strictly necessary cookies (aka essential cookies). These cookies are essential, e.g., to enable a website to be browsed. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies.
• Preferences cookies (aka functional cookies). These cookies allow this website to remember choices made by you, e.g., username and password.
• Statistics cookies (aka analytics and performance cookies). These cookies collect information e.g., which pages on a website are visited and which links are clicked on.
• Marketing cookies (aka targeting cookies). These cookies track your online activity.
Using cookies, web beacons, pixels and/or SDKs helps us to better understand which content is of interest to our website visitors, subscribers to our newsletters etc.
Cookies and Personal Data
Cookies use unique codes that act as an identifier and can be treated as “personal data”. This is because they can enable the user of a device to be uniquely recognized as the same user, even if their ‘real world’ identity is unknown. Cookies are also typically used in combination with other identifiers such as the IP address for your device which is automatically assigned to that device by your internet service provider and shared by your device when online content is requested and displayed. IP addresses can be logged automatically in our server log files whenever our website, applications or online content are accessed and can be associated with cookies unless separate IP anonymization features are enabled.
We are the data controllers for the processing of personal data in connection with cookies used on this website.
Communications
If you receive an electronic communication from us, such as a marketing email, event invitation or other direct promotional communication, we may collect information using cookies about you.
Social Plugins
Social plugins allow website users to share items of interest with their connections on social networks.
This website contains social plugins for:
• YouTube.com (‘YouTube’)
• Twitter.com (‘Twitter’)
• LinkedIn.com (‘LinkedIn’)
• Facebook.com (‘Facebook’)
• Instagram.com (‘Instagram’)
• Vimeo.com (‘Vimeo’)
This means that when visiting this website your browser may set up a direct connection to the servers of those social networks listed above. If so, the servers of those social networks may recognize this website and the content you are currently visiting.
If you are a member of any of these social networks and you are logged-in while you are visiting this website, that social network may assign this information to your personal user account. By interaction with one of the plugins, e.g., by clicking a ‘Like’ button, this information will be sent via your browser directly to that social network where it will be stored on your respective personal user accounts. This means that the information that you share from this website, will be transmitted to that social network.
We, as the provider of this website, have no control over, or knowledge about, the data that may be collected by any of these social networks. For details about their data collection practices please see their privacy notices and related policies.
What Cookies are on this Website?
We use the following cookies on this website:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain | 1st/3rd Party | Purpose | Lifespan/Duration |
| OptanonConsent | symbotic.com | 1st | This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. | PERSISTENT 365 DAYS |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | symbotic.com | 1st | It enables the website not to show the cookie information more than once to a user. | PERSISTENT 365 DAYS |
Functional Cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain | 1st/3rd Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
| _gh_sess | github.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by Github. The main business activity is: Source code repository and collaboration platform | SESSION 0 DAYS |
| vuid | vimeo.com | 3rd | This cookie is used by the Vimeo video player | PERSISTENT 729 DAYS |
| _octo | github.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by Github. The main business activity is: Source code repository and collaboration platform | PERSISTENT 364 DAYS |
| logged_in | github.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by Github. The main business activity is: Source code repository and collaboration platform | PERSISTENT 364 DAYS |
| hubspotutk | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. | PERSISTENT 179 DAYS |
Performance Cookies
| Cookie Name | Domain | 1st/3rd Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
| _ga | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | PERSISTENT 729 DAYS |
| _gclxxxx | symbotic.com | 1st | Google conversion tracking cookie | PERSISTENT 89 DAYS |
| _hjTLDTest | symbotic.com | 1st | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | SESSION 0 DAYS |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | symbotic.com | 1st | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | PERSISTENT 364 DAYS |
| _hjSession_xxxxxx | symbotic.com | 1st | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| _hjFirstSeen | Symbotic.com | 1st | Identifies a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar’s seeing this user for the first time. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| __hstc | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | PERSISTENT 179 DAYS |
| __hssrc | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | SESSION 0 DAYS |
| __hssc | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It is reported by them as being used for website analytics. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| ln_or | symbotic.com | 1st | LinkedIn- Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | symbotic.com | 1st | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
Targeting Cookies
| sCookie Name | Domain | 1st/3rd Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
| li_sugr | linkedin.com | 3rd | This cookie is used in relation with LinkedIn. | PERSISTENT 89 DAYS |
| CONSENT | youtube.com | 3rd | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | PERSISTENT 729 DAYS |
| _fbp | symbotic.com | 1st | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | PERSISTENT 89 DAYS |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | 3rd | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is real time bidding advertising exchange | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | 3rd | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is real time bidding advertising exchange | PERSISTENT 389 DAYS |
| bcookie | linkedin.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. | PERSISTENT 364 DAYS |
| lidc | linkedin.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | linkedin.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. | PERSISTENT 29 DAYS |
| lang | ads.linkedin.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn’s marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting. | SESSION 0 DAYS |
| UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. | PERSISTENT 29 DAYS |
| muc_ads | t.co | 3rd | Twitter – Advertising cookie | PERSISTENT 729 DAYS |
| personalization_id | twitter.com | 3rd | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third party host, it collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. | PERSISTENT 729 DAYS |
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | 3rd | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | PERSISTENT 0 DAYS |
| hubspotutk | js.hs-analytics.net | 3rd | This cookie name is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. HubSpot report that its purpose is user authentication. | PERSISTENT 179 DAYS |
Google Analytics
We make use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), which uses cookies to analyze how visitors use our website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. To learn more about the use of Google Analytics please see Symbotic’s Privacy Notice or additional visit Google’s Analytics Terms of Service & Privacy.
How Can You Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
You can exercise your cookie preferences when you first arrive at this website where you will see a notice about our use of cookies.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie settings tab that can be found at the bottom left-hand corner of each page of this website. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Please note that this website may not operate properly if the non-essential Cookies are switched off.
You can also disable non-essential cookies by changing your browser settings. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Most browsers, for example, Microsoft and Google have dedicated privacy pages that explain how sites collect, handle, and pass on information to third parties.
We may from time to time make changes to this Cookie Policy. Any changes will be published on this website and will be effective as of the date of publication.