Cookie Policy

DOVER CORPORATION — COOKIE NOTICE

This Cookie Notice (Notice) explains how Dover uses cookies and other tracking technologies on and through our website dovercorporation.com.

This Notice is to be read alongside the Dover Privacy Notice which explains how Dover uses personal information. If you do not accept our use of cookies please disable them following our guidance below.

1. What are web cookies?

Web cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by a website when you visit it. They contain details of your browsing history on that website and distinguish you from other users. Cookies send data back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or allow another website to recognise the cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and, for instance, remember your preferences and generally improve your online user experience. Like most websites, the Dover website uses cookies.

Although this Notice refers to the general term “cookie”, which is the main method used by our website to store information, the browser’s local storage space is also used for the same purpose and we may use other tracking technologies through this website such as web beacons, clear GIFs or pixel tags. We usually use such tracking technologies to count users who visit certain pages of our website and to deliver branded services as well as to help determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.

As a result, the information included in this Notice is likewise applicable to all such tracking technologies that we use.

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

2. Why do we use cookies?

To let you do things on our website – for example, cookies enable you to fill in application forms or view content.
To collect anonymous statistics – the information collected by cookies enables us to improve the website through use of figures and patterns. For example, it is really useful to see which pages of the website – and therefore which of our services – are the most popular and how users are interacting with them.
To improve your experience of our website – for example, to prevent you having to re-enter details when you have already done so, or by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
To ensure that our website is secure

STRICTLY NECESSARY (ESSENTIAL) COOKIES

These cookies are strictly necessary for our websites to function properly and ensure our services are accessible to you (e.g., accessing website functionalities, navigation, filling in forms). You may disable them by changing your browser settings described in section 3 below. However, some of the website’s functions may not work properly without these cookies.

Cookies Settings

Name of Cookie	Purpose	Provider	Type	Duration
ASP.NET Session ID	General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.	Dover, First Party	Session	Session
OneTrust Acceptance Cookie	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user's browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.	OneTrust, First Party	Persistent	1 year
OneTrust Cookie Alert Box Closed	This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.	OneTrust, First Party	Persistent	1 year
Time Zone Check	This cookie is set by the website to calculate the display of date fields for logged in users.	Dover, First Party	Session	Session
Amazon Load Balancer	This cookie is used by Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing function for routing client requests on the server.	Dover, First Party	Session	Session
Drupal Visitor Mobile Check	On the investors site, this cookie determines whether the visitor is originating from a mobile device, and routes the user to a mobile-version if applicable.	Dover, First Party	Session	Session

FUNCTIONAL (PREFERENCE) COOKIES

Preference cookies enable us to remember information that changes the way the websites behave or look, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Cookies Settings

Name	Purpose	Supplier, first/third	Session/Persistent	Expiration
Cookie Consent	Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box.	Adobe, First Party	Session	Session
Adobe Analytics	This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality or the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was selected on by the user.	Adobe, First Party	Session	Session
Akamai Cache	This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website.	Akamai, First Party	Persistent	1 day
Akamai Security	This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots.	Akamai, First Party	Persistent	1 day
MyFonts	This is a CloudFoundry cookie for display of web fonts.	MyFonts.net, Third Party	Persistent	A few seconds

PERFORMANCE (ANALYTIC/STATISTIC) COOKIES

Analytic cookies allow us to collect data, so that we can better understand how visitors engage with our websites. Such tracking tools collect information regarding usage of our websites (e.g., time of access, pages and content viewed, links clicked, referral sites, information regarding prior visits to the website).

Cookies Settings

Name	Purpose	Supplier, first/third	Session/Persistent	Expiration
Adobe Marketing Cloud, AMCVS_	This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organization identifier.	Adobe, First Party	Session	Session
Adobe Marketing Cloud, AMCV_	This is a pattern type cookie name associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier, and uses an organization identifier to allow a company to track users across their domains and services.	Adobe, First Party	Persistent	729 days
Adobe Site Catalyst	This cookie is associated with the Adobe Site Catalyst. It determines whether cookies are enabled in the web browser.	Adobe, First Party	Session	Session
Google Analytics, _gid	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and counts pageviews.	Google, First Party	Persistent	A few seconds
Google Analytics, _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X	This cookie is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google Analytics on high traffic volume websites.	Google, First Party	Session	A few seconds
Google Analytics, _gat	This cookie is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.	Google, First Party	Persistent	A few seconds
Google Analytics, _ga	This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site's analytics reports.	Google, First Party	Persistent	728 days
Google Analytics, _ga_xxxxxxxxxx	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to store and count pageviews.	Google, First Party	Persistent	728 days
Google Analytics, AEC	Cookie set by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites.	Google, First Party	Persistent	6 months
Google Analytics, 1P_JAR	This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates.	Google, First Party	Persistent	1 month

TARGETING (MARKETING) COOKIES

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across our websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Cookies Settings

Name	Purpose	Supplier, first/third	Session/Persistent	Expiration
Google, CONSENT	This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.	Google, Third Party	Persistent	730 days
YouTube, YSC	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. 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.	YouTube, Third Party	Session	Session
YouTube, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.	YouTube, Third Party	Persistent	180 day
YouTube, CONSENT	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. 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.	YouTube, Third Party	Persistent	6112 days
YouTube, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. 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.	YouTube, Third Party	Persistent	179 days

3. How to block cookies through your browser

By accepting our cookie notification when you visit the website and/or using the tool above, you can choose to consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time.

You can also set up your browser so that cookies cannot be placed on your device. Click on the links below to find out how to change your cookie settings in:

We may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Site.

4. Updating this notice

We may update our use of cookies from time to time and consequently we may update this Notice. We therefore recommend that you check this Notice regularly. We will notify you of any significant changes by way of a notice on our website or by contacting you directly when reasonably possible.

5. Contact Us

If you have any question or requests in connection with these Disclosures or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to info@dovercorp.com.