- Website Visitor and Cookie Notice
Website Visitor and Cookie Notice
DNOW L.P. and its Affiliates, Parents and Subsidiaries
Effective Date: 1 Jan 2020
Last Revision: 06 February 2025
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- Cookies Information
- What are cookies?
- Why do we use cookies?
- What cookies do we use?
- Blocking Cookies
Cookies Information
DNOW L.P. and its affiliates, parent and subsidiaries (‘DNOW’ ‘we’ ‘our’ ‘us’) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This website is operated by DNOW L.P. This section is our Cookie Notice; it tells you what cookies and similar technologies are, which technologies we use and why, and how you can manage the use of such technologies on your devices. For further information on how we process your personal data and on your rights, please read our Website Privacy Notice (https://www.dnow.com/privacy-notice/).
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small removable data file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a computer, smartphone or other device when the user accesses certain websites. Software on the user’s device (for example, a web browser) can store cookies and send them back to the website next time the user visits. This can allow a website to ‘remember’ a user or their device. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by another website.
A web beacon is a clear picture file used to keep track of a user’s navigation through a website or series of websites. Web beacons can be used in conjunction with cookies to understand how a user navigates and processes content on a website.
Why do we use cookies?
Cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons (all referred to as ‘cookies’) are used for a variety of reasons, from making a website function more efficiently, to recognising a user’s device and tailoring that user’s experience to fit prior preferences. Cookies can also provide the owners of a site with valuable information about how that site is being used.
Cookies often consist of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identify your computer, but they can contain other information as well, such as anonymized Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring and exit websites, operating systems, date/time stamp and clickstream data from our YouTube videos.
In some of our email messages, we may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the DistributionNOW website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page of our website. We track the click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to receive these communications, we do provide an unsubscribe link on all email communications so that you can manage your subscription.
What cookies do we use?
The type of cookies we use are session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary files which last only as long as your browsing session and are erased once you close your browser. Persistent cookies are files that stay in your browser’s subfolders after you close your browser. These are stored on your device for longer periods of time, subject to your browser settings.
Please review the table below for more detailed information on the specific cookies we use.
Cookie List
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
Certain cookies are strictly necessary for our website to function and cannot be switched off. If you block them, our website will not work properly with your computer or device.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Description | Lifespan |
www.dnow.com | _cfuvid | This cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. | Session |
www.dnow.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie | Session |
hubspot.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches the criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | Session |
hubspotvideo.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service to identify and mitigate automated bot traffic, thereby safeguarding website security and ensuring optimal performance. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic by distinguishing between genuine human users and potential bots. | Session |
hsforms.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service to identify and mitigate automated bot traffic, thereby safeguarding website security and ensuring optimal performance. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic by distinguishing between genuine human users and potential bots. | Session |
hs-scripts.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is utilized by Cloudflare’s bot management services to distinguish between human users and automated bots. This functionality is essential for maintaining website security and performance, as it helps filter out malicious bots that could compromise site integrity. The cookie contains information related to the calculation of Cloudflare’s proprietary bot score and, when Anomaly Detection is enabled, a session identifier. The information in the cookie is encrypted and can only be decrypted by Cloudflare. | Session |
hs-analytics.net | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare to distinguish between human users and bots. It helps protect website security and prevents malicious activity. | Session |
hsadspixel.net | __cf_bm | This cookie is deployed by Cloudflare’s Bot Management system to identify and mitigate automated bot traffic, thereby safeguarding website security and ensuring optimal performance. This cookie distinguishes between genuine human users and potential bots, helping to prevent malicious activities and reduce server load. | Session |
hs-banner.com | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service to distinguish between human users and bots. This functionality is crucial for maintaining website security and performance, as it helps filter out malicious bots that could compromise site integrity. | Session |
hsleadflows.net | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service to identify and mitigate automated bot traffic, thereby safeguarding website security and ensuring optimal performance. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic by distinguishing between genuine human users and potential bots. | Session |
hsforms.net | __cf_bm | This cookie is set by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service to identify and mitigate automated bot traffic, thereby safeguarding website security and ensuring optimal performance. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic by distinguishing between genuine human users and potential bots. | Session |
hsforms.com | _cfuvid | This cookie is set by Cloudflare, a content delivery network (CDN) and security provider utilized by HubSpot’s hsforms.com domain. This cookie is part of Cloudflare’s services for load balancing and DNS (Domain Name System) connection optimization. It helps Cloudflare manage incoming traffic and enhance website performance and security. | Session |
hubspot.com | _cfuvid | This cookie is set by Cloudflare, a content delivery network (CDN) and security provider utilized by HubSpot on domains such as hubspot.com. This cookie is used to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address, which aids in enforcing rate-limiting policies and enhancing security measures. | Session |
google.com |
_GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by Google’s reCAPTCHA service to perform risk analysis and protect websites from spam and abuse. This cookie distinguishes between human users and bots, ensuring that automated software cannot engage in abusive activities on the site. It is considered a necessary security measure and is essential for the proper functioning of forms and other interactive elements on websites. | 5 months |
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to measure and improve the performance of our site by counting visits, return visits and proving us with information about the pages that are most visited. All this information is collected and reported anonymously.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Description | Lifespan |
js.hs-analytics.net | __hssc | This cookie is utilized by HubSpot to monitor sessions. Its primary function is to determine whether HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. This cookie contains the domain, the number of page views (which increments with each page view during a session), and the session start timestamp. | Session |
js.hs-analytics.net | __hstc | This cookie is HubSpot’s primary cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, hubspotutk (a unique user identifier), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | 6 months |
js.hs-analytics.net | hubspotutk | This cookie is utilized by HubSpot to monitor a visitor’s identity. It is transmitted to HubSpot upon form submission and aids in deduplicating contacts. This cookie contains an opaque GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) representing the current visitor. | 6 months |
js.hs-analytics.net | __hssrc | This cookie is utilized by HubSpot to determine if a visitor has restarted their browser. Whenever HubSpot modifies the session cookie, this cookie is also set. If the __hssrc cookie is absent when HubSpot manages cookies, it is interpreted as a new session. This cookie contains the value “1” when present and expires at the end of the session. | Session |
Functional Cookies
These cookies are a type of website cookie that enables essential site features and enhances user experience by remembering user preferences and settings. Unlike strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the website to function, functional cookies improve usability without being essential for core operations.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Description | Lifespan |
youtube.com | VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | This cookie is set by YouTube to store information about a user’s privacy settings, such as their consent choices regarding cookies and data collection. This ensures that a user’s privacy preferences are respected during their interactions with YouTube videos embedded on websites. | 5 months |
youtube.com | __Secure-xxxxxxx | YouTube employs cookies with names prefixed by __Secure- to securely store and manage user preferences over encrypted connections. | 5 months |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not directly store personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Cookie Subgroup | Cookies | Description | Lifespan |
youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by YouTube to manage user preferences and monitor interactions with embedded videos. This cookie does not collect personally identifiable information. Its primary function is to enhance user experience by managing preferences and ensuring the efficient delivery of content and advertisements. | 5 months |
youtube.com | YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube to track user interactions with embedded videos on YouTube pages. It registers a unique identifier to gather statistics on the videos a user has viewed. This data helps YouTube analyze user preferences and improve the user experience. This cookie does not collect personally identifiable information. Its primary function is to store and track interactions with embedded YouTube videos. | Session |
Blocking Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject certain cookies where their use is not essential to the operation of the website, although this does not include cookies that are necessary for the website to function (such as those used for site security) which do not require your consent. For targeting or performance cookies, however, you can refuse consent when prompted in the cookie banner and can also exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate options provided in the cookie banner on our website or follow the links and instructions provided below.
You can alternatively set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. This may alter your experience of the DNOW website and the applications within it. As how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, for instructions on how to eliminate or restrict cookies through your browser settings please visit All About Cookies.org.
To change your current cookies preferences on our website, click on the “cookie settings” button below:
Alternatively, please note that these links are not affiliated with DistributionNOW and have their own privacy and cookie policies, however, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service ultimately provided by Google Inc. ("Google") that is integrated in the website by Sketchfab. Google Analytics works using cookies. Google Analytics cookies collect your IP address; however, because IP anonymization is used on this website, your IP address will be shortened (and therefore anonymized) as soon as technically possible and before it is stored or otherwise used in connection with Google Analytics. The anonymization process takes place within the European Union or the European Economic Area, except in exceptional cases, where your full IP address may be sent to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. We use the information collected by Google Analytics cookies to find out about how visitors use our website. Google will not combine the IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics with other data. You can prevent Google Analytics cookies from being stored by setting your browser software accordingly.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all website, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our use of cookies, or if you want to exercise any of your data protection rights, you can contact us at privacy@dnow.com. For more information on how we protect your information please view our full Privacy Notice.