Cookie privacy settings
This document acts as an overview of the various cookie privacy-related settings that are available on the Microsoft Advertising platform. Below, you will find information about how to control use of cookie data on a given impression. For the purposes of this document, cookie data refers to information Microsoft Advertising stores on a user that is used for segment targeting, frequency capping, and conversion attribution.
Simple use cases for these settings include:
- If you typically want to use cookie data stored on users, but want the ability to not use cookie data when a user has expressed a desire to not be tracked:
- Leave the
enable_cookie_tracking_default
parameter set totrue
on the Publisher Service (this is the default setting). - For any users that do not wish to be tracked, include the
use_cookies=0
query string parameter as described in Placement Tag Parameters so no cookie data will be used or tracked for that user.
- Leave the
- If you only want to track or use cookie data on users that explicitly provide consent, you could:
- Set the
enable_cookie_tracking_default
parameter set tofalse
on the Publisher Service. - For any users that do provide consent, include the
use_cookies=1
query string parameter as described in Placement Tag Parameters so cookie data will be tracked for those users.
- Set the
- For third-party creatives, you can have the hosting ad server determine whether to set cookies by using the
${USE_COOKIES
} macro as described in Creative Macros.
For more information, see the linked documentation.