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Cookie & Tracking Technology Information

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a computer or other device and is used to identify the user or device and to collect information. Cookies are typically assigned to one of four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: absolutely necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes.

Pages of our the Website may contain small electronic files known as clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited a particular page and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.)

 

Types Of Cookies and Why We Use Them

  • Absolutely necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to move around a website and use its features.
  • Performance/Analytical cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our websites. Information collected includes, for example, the Internet browsers and operating systems used, the domain name of the website previously visited, the number of visits, average duration of visit, and pages viewed. These cookies don’t collect information that personally identifies you and only collect aggregated and anonymous information. Performance/Analytical cookies are used to improve the user-friendliness of a website and enhance your experience. More information about our use of this type of cookie is provided below.
  • Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username or ID, language preference, or the area or region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of web pages. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
  • Targeting and advertising cookies: These cookies track browsing habits and are used to deliver targeted (interest-based) advertising. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
     

Cookies and Pixels Used

Our website uses the cookies listed below. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.

The cookies we use are from third party services that help make your experience on our website better. Some of them allow us to identify the topics and subjects visitors find most interesting and useful, allowing us to provide content to visitors based on aggregate demographic information provided, while others enable you to easily share information on social media networks. The list of cookies used is below.

Advertising cookies



Cookie

Description

Expiration

_lockh0 DCM floodlight tag - Used to track and report the use of other pixels used on the site Not Set
-3A_insight The Trade Desk Pixel - This tag may be used to track audiences, serve relevant and useful ads and track ad performance 180 days from set/update
-_dstill Dstillery Pixel- This pixel may be used to serve relevant and useful ads to website visitors (stored inside of DCM floodlight) Not Set
uid Adform- This pixel may be used to serve relevant and useful ads to website visitors 60 days from set/update
Analytics cookies



Cookie

Description

Expiration

_utmc Google Analytics - Sets visitor session (used together with _utmb) Not Set
_utmb Google Analytics - Sets visitor session (used together with _utmc) 30 minutes from set/update
_utma Google Analytics - Identifies unique user 2 years from set/update
_utmz Google Analytics - Used to track traffic sources and navigation 6 months from set/update
Social Media cookies



Cookie

Description

Expiration

_atuvc AddThis - Used to show updated share counts to social media as a person uses the sharing buttons 2 years from set/update
_bizo LinkedIn Insight Tag - This tag may be used to serve relevant and useful ads to website visitors on LinkedIn 6 months from set/update
_fr Facebook Pixel - This tag may be used to serve relevant and useful ads to website visitors on Facebook 90 days from set/update
_twttr Twitter Pixel - This tag may be used to serve relevant and useful ads to website visitors on Twitter 6 months from set/update
Survey cookies



Cookie

Description

Expiration

Survey completion This cookie signals survey completion. Not Set
Site History Session This cookie tracks the Urls of the web pages that the user visited. The pages should have the project deployment code for tracking to work. This cookie can grow up to 2000 bytes, unless Maximum Cookie Size is set. Not Set
Sampling The cookie name is QSI_S_{ZoneID} and the value is “{v|r}:{1}:{2},” where “v” means visitor sampling, “r” means request sampling, variable 1 is the percentage (for the individual visitor), and variable 2 is the number of times the visitor has visited the site. 1 week
Prevent Repeated Display This cookie is used to track whether we should display the Intercept on repeated user visits. Persistent (based on intercept settings)
Popunder Target Session This prevents multiple windows from crowding a client by checking if other Pop Unders are being displayed already, and preventing repeated display. Not Set
Intercept Targeting This value contains the unix timestamp of all Intercept Impressions made on the domain. We use these timestamps to decide whether or not to show another Intercept when evaluating Intercept targeting logic. The value is a JSON object with a Siid as the key and timestamp as the value. Not Set
Site Exit PopUnder Embedded Data update This value contains the Intercept ID mapped to any Pop Under opened by said Intercept. This is then used to update the Pop Under with updated Embedded Data upon navigation (unload). Not Set
Hash of the sessionID and query parameters that maps to a sessionID Storing mutiple sessions on the same browser; this cookie is placed when you start a survey session on the same browser where you are working on another one. 1 year, or until session complete
Prevent multiple sessions enabled This cookie records the survey taken and prevents the user from taking the survey again. 6 months
Resuming an SSO authenticated survey This cookie is for surveys using an SSO Authenticator. This cookie helps inform Qualtrics what session to reload after the respondent leaves and comes back. 15 minutes
Hash of the url that may be appended with '-singleReload' This cookie appears when you start a session with the option "allow respondents to finish later" enabled Not Set
TLS Encryption This cookie is used for tracking clients connecting to Qualtrics using TLS1.0. Qualtrics is working to deprecate TLS1.0 in the future. Not Set
Security This is a temporary cookie used for security while survey taking. It is only stored as long as the broswer is open Duration of the browser being open
AK_BMSC This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used to track the progress of the session going through the standard detection workflow. When present, it is also used as the identifier instead of the IP address for bot rate control rules. 2 hours
BM_MI This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used to track the progress of the session through the browser validation detection method. 2 hours
BM_SV This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used as part of the session validation detection method and keeps track of the number of HTML pages and Ajax requests the client makes 2 hours
BM_SZ This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used as part of the behavior anomaly detection method of Bot Manager Premier, it is also known as the short term cookie. It references the telemetry collected during the session. 4 hours
_ABCK This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used as part of the behavior anomaly detection method of Bot Manager Premier, it is also known as the long term cookie. It is used to track a user’s past behavior on a protected site. It is also used to control the behavior of the JavaScript on the client side, in particular the telemetry collection process and plays a role in the Proof of Work challenge process. 1 year
SEC_CPT This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used as part of the challenge action (Captcha, PoW, behavioral) available in the behavior anomaly detection method of Bot Manager Premier. This cookie tracks the state of the challenge process. 5 - 120 minutes
AK_WFSESSION This cookie is related to our bot detection and prevention mechanism provided by our web application firewall provider. This cookie is used as part of the Bot Manager Standard and Bot Manager Premier workflow validation feature. 2 hours





Google Analytics

For more information about Google analytic cookies and pixels, please see Google's help pages and privacy policy:


Dstillery

For more information about Distillery Pixels, please see the linked privacy policy below:


Adform

For more information about Adform Pixels, please see the linked privacy policy below:


LinkedIn Insight Tag

For more information about LinkedIn Insight Tag, please see the link below:


Facebook Pixel

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Qualtrics

We use Qualtrics cookies, or similar technologies, to analyze trends and to gather anonymized demographic information about our user base as a whole. We also utilize a survey built in Qualtrics to collect feedback on www.lockheedmartin.com. The survey only collects feedback when the user opts into participating in the survey and the user’s feedback is collected on an anonymous basis. For more information about Qualtrics please see https://www.qualtrics.com.


The Trade Desk Pixel

For more information about The Trade Desk Pixel, please see the link below:


Twitter Pixel

For more information about Twitter Pixel, please see the link below:

Disabling Cookies

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We understand that you may want to know more about cookies. The following are some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences: www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers: