Cookies
Use of Cookies
This Site uses “cookies”, which are small data files stored on your computer or another computer for use with your web browser software. Cookies are used on this Site to provide the user with access to functions available on the Site such as ordering information material and choice of language.
By accepting the Terms of Use as well as by accessing and using the Site, you consent to the use of the above stated cookies. You may also consent to our use of cookies by the settings you have made in your web browser. If you do not desire to accept our use of cookies, you must then exit this Site or disable the function for cookies in your web browser software. Disabling cookies functionality may prevent you from using all features on our web-pages.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
What cookies do Essity use?
Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Type |
1/2/3 Party Cookie |
Life Span |
PHPSESSID |
Identify the current browser session |
Functional |
1st |
Duration of the session: the cookie is deleted when the browser is closed. |
essity-cookieagree |
Confirms that the user agreed on the notices regarding the use of this website. |
Functional |
1st |
Duration of the session: the cookie is deleted when the browser is closed. |
_ga |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
1st |
2 years |
_gid |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
1st |
24 hours |
_gat |
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named dc_gtm<property-id>. |
Performance |
1st |
1 minute |
User Submissions
Essity may allow you to post information, comments or other material on our Site, social media networks or other online service. This is done in order to facilitate the flow of information about Essity and our products. Please note the terms for such user submissions set out in the Legal Statement.
Do not provide us with information about other persons unless you can prove that you have their consent to provide it.
Matomo tracking
Within the framework of this website we use the open-source software Matomo, which allows for an analysis of the usage of the website. We process the anonymous data for statistical evaluation and use it solely to enhance the attractiveness, content and functionalities of our website.