This cookie statement was last updated on 26 March 2026
PatSnap Cookie policy
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.patsnap.com (hereinafter: “the website”) and Services offered by PatSnap (“Service”, “Services”, or “PatSnap Services”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Accept all”, you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in the pop-up and this cookie statement. You have the right to opt-out and to object against the further use of non-functional cookies. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
6. Cookies
We may from time to time use the following cookies:
6.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
6.2 Analytical cookies
We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.
6.3 Advertising cookies
We use advertising cookies on this website. We ask your permission to place advertising cookies.
6.4 Social media buttons
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook and Instagram to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook and Instagram themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Instagram are located in the United States.
7. Key cookies
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
| –uniform-setting-locale | This cookie is used to record the user’s language preference (cn/tw/en/jp). | 1 year | .patsnap.com.zhihuiya.com,.patsnap.eu |
| ARMS RUM (automatically generated) | This cookie is used to monitor frontend performance and track user behavior. | Session | .zhihuiya.com |
| COMMON_WIDGET_UNAUTHORIZED_LOGIN_* | This cookie is used to indicate the unauthorized login status flag in the Widget component. | Session | .zhihuiya.com |
| COMMON_WIDGET_USE_QIYU_AND_ZENDESK_* | This cookie is used to indicate the enablement status of the Qiyu / Zendesk customer service component. | Session | .zhihuiya.com |
| DEVICE_ID | These cookies are used for binding user’s access devices to enable device-level identification for account security verification and device traceability. | 30 days | .zhihuiya.com |
| DEVICE_ID | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| X-Device-ID | This cookie is used for device-level identification for Synapse module. | 6.5 months | synapse.patsnap.com |
| ajs_anonymous_id | These cookies are used for user identification and event tracking. | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 299 days | .eureka.zhihuiya.com | |
| ajs_group_id | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| ajs_group_id | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| ajs_group_id | 179 days | .eureka.zhihuiya.com | |
| ajs_user_id | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| ajs_user_id | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| ajs_user_id | 299 days | .eureka.zhihuiya.com | |
| eureka_login | This cookie is used to indicate the Eureka login status. | Session | .eureka.zhihuiya.com |
| eureka_visited | This cookie is used to record whether the user has visited the Eureka module, supporting product onboarding and personalized module display | 180 days | .eureka.zhihuiya.com |
| pvChemicalHl | This cookie is used to indicate the enable status of life sciences patent highlighting feature | Session | .analytics.zhihuiya.com.analytics.patsnap.com.analytics.patsnap.eu |
| pt_1e2kbc95 | These cookies are used for product analytics and user behavior tracking | 1 year | .patsnap.com |
| pt_66be4504 | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| pt_s_66be4504 | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_anonymous_id | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_group_id | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_group_trait | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_trait | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_user_id | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| _clck | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| _clck | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga | 2 years / 1 minute | .zhihuiya.com | |
| _ga | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_1VSFBZ36NW | 6 months | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_21K2Q2C80Y | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_6F46BNDTQ7 | 7 months | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_8L0KMBBYGR | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_9J9K01393M | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_H739326MPM | 5 months | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_J6QVDPGZCD | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_NDSJ4RFDK4 | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_Q81M9DD908 | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_QZQZZQ3H08 | 11 months | .patsnap.com | |
| _ga_RXWFW46M6R | 2 years / 1 minute | .zhihuiya.com | |
| _ga_YEJ3XH99FF | 1 year | .patsnap.com | |
| refreshInit | This cookie serves as an initialization flag before logout/login redirect to prevent duplicate processes. | Session | .analytics.zhihuiya.com.analytics.patsnap.com.analytics.patsnap.eu |
| remember-me | These cookies are used to maintain the user’s login session and remember authentication state across visits. | 30 days | passport.zhihuiya.com |
| SESSION | Session | passport.zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_page_init_referrer | These cookies are used for attribution. | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com |
| rl_page_init_referring_domain | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com | |
| rl_session | This cookie is used to track the current analytics session, including session ID, expiry and timeout information. | 1 year | .zhihuiya.com |
| SEARCHQUERYHISTORYRECORD | This cookie is used to search history flag (value is NEW or a specific job ID), pass search state across sub-applications | Session | .analytics.zhihuiya.com.analytics.patsnap.com.analytics.patsnap.eu |
| SESSION | These cookies are used to verify the user’s login status and maintain the validity of the current access session. | Session | .zhihuiya.com |
| sy_session | 1 year | synapse.patsnap.com | |
| tgw_l7_route | This cookie is used for layer-7 load balancing routing, ensuring requests are directed to the correct backend server. | Session | passport.zhihuiya.com |
8. Your rights with respect to personal data under GDPR, UK GDPR and applicable Data Privacy regulations
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Right to be informed: You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- Right to erasure: You have the right to obtain from us the erasure of your personal data without undue delay when the data is no longer necessary, you withdraw consent, or the processing is otherwise unlawful.
- Right to withdraw your consent: If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we limit the processing of your data, meaning we may store the data but not use it, in specific circumstances such as contesting data accuracy.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
You can find information on how to manage cookie settings on certain browsers via the following links:
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
- Cookie settings in Safari
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
10. “Do Not Track”
Some newer Internet browsers have incorporated Do Not Track features, and when turned on, they send a signal to the websites you visit, telling the website that you do not want to be tracked while browsing. Our website will respond to the browser Do Not Track signal.
11. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement,
please contact us by using the following contact details:
PatSnap (UK) Limited
Website: https://www.patsnap.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: +44 (0)203 880 6999
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