Cookie Policy
Last updated January 03, 2023
This Cookie Policy explains how Virginia Department of Aviation (“Organization,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://doav.virginia.gov (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work or work more efficiently as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Virginia Department of Aviation) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Essential website cookies:
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features.
| Name: | ASP.NET_SessionId |
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| Purpose: | Used by Microsoft .NET-based sites to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. This cookie expires at the end of a browsing session which is determined by the application configuration. |
| Provider: | doav.virginia.gov |
| Service: |
.NET platform View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | session |
Performance and functionality cookies:
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
| Name: | AWSALB |
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| Purpose: | These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. |
| Provider: | |
| Service: |
Amazon Web Services View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 7 days |
| Name: | AWSALBCORS |
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| Purpose: | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). |
| Provider: | |
| Service: |
Amazon Web Services View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | server_cookie |
| Expires in: | 7 days |
Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
| Name: | #collect |
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| Purpose: | Sends data such as visitor’s behavior and device to Google Analytics. It is able to keep track of the visitor across marketing channels and devices. It is a pixel tracker type cookie whose activity lasts within the browsing session. |
| Provider: | doav.virginia.gov |
| Service: |
Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | pixel_tracker |
| Expires in: | session |
| Name: | _gat# |
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| Purpose: | Enables Google Analytics to regulate its request rate. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session. |
| Provider: | .virginia.gov |
| Service: |
Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 minute |
| Name: | _ga |
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| Purpose: | It records an ID to generate data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years. |
| Provider: | .virginia.gov |
| Service: |
Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 year 11 months 29 days |
| Name: | _gid |
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| Purpose: | Keeps an entry of a unique ID which is then used to produce statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie and expires after a browsing session. |
| Provider: | .virginia.gov |
| Service: |
Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 1 day |
How can I control cookies on my browser?
As the method of managing cookies varies from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following information explains how to manage cookies in the most popular browsers:
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
No.
How often will you update this cookie policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at betty.wilson@doav.virginia.gov or write us:
Virginia Department of Aviation
5702 Gulfstream Road
Richmond, VA 23250-2422
United States