Cookies created by Post Affiliate Pro

Post Affiliate Pro creates more types of cookies:
  • Browser cookies (1st and 3rd party) - are stored on a domain, where your clicks tracking code executes (called 'First party' cookies) and also on domain, where Post Affiliate Pro is installed (called 'Third party' cookies).
  • HTML 5 local storage cookie

The following cookies are created by Post Affiliate Pro, we can divide them into two categories: 

1. Tracking cookies

  • PAPVisitorId - the actual tracking cookie which stores the ID of the website's visitor. Cookie is created for 365 days.
  • PAPCookie_Imp_* - information about type of impression (raw or unique). Cookie is created for 365 days.
  • PAPAffiliateId - holds the last referral ID while the last click is processed via cron job (the validity of this cookie is 5 minutes)


2. Interface/application cookies

  • A_auth - authentication / remember me token to affiliate panel, cookie lifetime is 14 days
  • M_auth - authentication / remember me token to merchant panel, cookie lifetime is 14 days
  • M_pap_sid/M - holds ID of the active session in merchant panel, cookie lifetime is set to Session only
  • A_pap_sid/A - holds ID of the active session in affiliate panel, cookie lifetime is set to Session only
  • gpf_language - holds chosen language for merchant/affiliate panel, cookie lifetime is 20000000 seconds (~231 days)



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No longer used cookies (used before version 4.4):
PAPCookie_FirstClick - stores information about first click of visitor on tracked site
PAPCookie_LastClick - Information about last click on tracked site
PAPCookie_Sale - Information about affiliate, channel and campaign, where will be registered sale
PAPCookie_Time - contains number of clicks


More info about cookies:
How to setup cookies in PAP
How to delete cookies

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