Xiaomi's websites and online services may use "cookies"(small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters) and other similar tracking technologies to render our website’s functionality and improve your experiences. We may use them for a range of purposes when you visit our websites, reading, clicking or downloading information. Other similar technologies such as Pixel and LocalStorage, are used to store information on your devices and record your actions or preferences over times. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies”.
Different cookies remain for different periods of time on your devices. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies still remain after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website or service.
The cookies we use can be categorized as either: (a) First-party cookies: where cookies are stored by us for Xiaomi’s purposes; or (b) Third-party cookies: where cookies stored when you visit our website may be accessed by other companies, for example, when you press a “like” or similar button of a social networking site displayed on our website, that site may contains third-party cookies, which are used by the third party provider to improve the button’s functionality or for other purposes. We encourage you to consult the privacy policies of the relevant third party provider’s on their websites for information regarding their use of cookies.
This policy explains how we and our partners use cookies and other tracking technologies (including the subcategories of such technologies being used), what they are used for, and how you can change your preferences. To the extent that we use cookies to process your personal information, our Privacy Policy applies https://privacy.mi.com/all/en_GB/.
Cookies can be used for a variety of purposes, most of them are set to maintain the essential functionality of our website and to detect website performance to help us work more efficiently, as well as improving your experience by providing personalized content. For example, we use cookies to remember the goods you wish to buy when you go to the checkout or add goods to you shopping basket, or to help you automatically log in to your next visit by recording your credentials.
Further information about the specific cookies and other technologies we use is explained below.
We use the following categories of cookies on our website:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential to the users’ movement around our website. They provide access to certain features such as your profile, member-only resources, and other secure areas of the website. For example, we use cookies to record the pages you have recently visited and when, so that we can personalise the content for you. These cookies are also used to encrypt your data and prevent your data from being maliciously tampered with in an attack. Essential cookies are necessary for the website’s functionality and cannot be switched off by users without affecting the use of the site.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies track users’ activities in their browsers, so that we can better understand how our website is being accessed and used. These cookies collect information for purposes as follows:
Here is a list of the cookies we use, and what we use them for:
Essential Cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS2Y_409f_saltkey | These cookies are used for encrypting information and verifying data legitimacy to prevent malicious tampering | 1 Month | Xiaomi |
| MS2Y_409f_loginuser | These cookies are used to record the current user's login status | Session | |
| MS2Y_409f_sid | Identity number for communication with the serve | 2 Days | |
| MS2Y_409f_st_p | These cookies are used to encrypt the user Id, timestamp and secret key in order to verify the legitimacy of the user request. | 1 Day | |
| MS2Y_409f_auth | These cookies are used for encrypting information and verifying data legitimacy to prevent malicious tampering | 1 Month | |
| bbs_serviceToken | These cookies are used to verify the validity and authenticity of a user's login. | Session | |
| cUserId | These cookies record the community account ID obtained by the back-end, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | Session | |
| mUserId | These cookies record the Xiaomi ID obtained by the back-end, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | Session | |
| APP_LOCAL | These cookies record the current country code, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | 4 Hours | |
| TIME_ZONE_ID | These cookies are used to obtain the standard time corresponding to the time zone, which is used to convert the time stamp for the corresponding region. | Session | |
| MS2Y_409f_atarget | These cookies are used to record whether the @ function is enabled or not, in order to provide you with a personalised presentation of your content | 1 Month | |
| userId | These cookies record the community account ID obtained by the back-end, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | 1 Month | |
| userPhoto | These cookies record the community account avatar obtained by the back-end, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | 1 Day | |
| username | These cookies record the community account name obtained by the back-end, which is used for the template logic and page rendering of the front-end. | 1 Day | |
| MS2Y_409f_visitedfid | These cookies are used to record the Plate IDs to provide you with a personalised content presentation. | 1 Month | |
| MS2Y_409f_lastvisit | These cookies are used to keep track of when you have been active in the recent past in order to provide you with a personalised presentation of your content | 1 Month | |
| MS2Y_409f_pmnum | These cookies are used to record and display the number of your private messages in order to provide you with a personalised presentation of your content. | 1 Day | |
| MS2Y_409f_ulastactivity | These cookies are used to record the last active time a user was logged in incognito in order to provide you with a personalised presentation of your content | 4 Day | |
| MS2Y_409f_sendmail | These cookies are used to determine whether mailbox verification is required to open the mailbox authentication portal. | 4 Hour | |
| xm_bbs_oc_sid | These cookies are used to maintain the user's identity number for login and server communication | Session | |
| MS2Y_409f_st_t | These cookies are used to verify whether the request is legitimate when dynamics are posted | Session | |
| MS2Y_409f_home_diymode | These cookies are used to determine whether or not you visit the homepage | Session | |
| oc_privacy_agreed | These cookies are used to record the consent status of the individual country's privacy pop-ups, so that the privacy pop-ups will not pop up again if it is true. | 1 Year | |
| MS2Y_409f_forum_lastvisit | These cookies are used to record which boards you have recently visited and when, thus providing you with a personalised presentation of your content. | 7 Days | |
| MS2Y_409f_smile | These cookies are used to get the editor's emoji images | 1 Year | |
| Discuz_isblind | These cookies are used to determine if an user is blind | Session |
Analytics Cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS2Y_409f_ulastactivity | These cookies are used to record the last active time a user was logged in incognito in order to provide you with a personalised presentation of your content | 4 Hours | Xiaomi |
| sensorsdata2015jssdkcross | These cookies are used to generate an anonymous ID based on the browser, to verify the legality of the data. | 200 Years | |
| sajssdk_2015_cross_new_user | hese cookies are used to determine if you are a new user or not. | Session | Sensordata |
| sensorsdata_domain_test | Session | ||
| msttime1 | 1 Day | ||
| xm_vistor | Session | Xiaomi Analytic | |
| mstz | Session | ||
| msttime | 1 Day | ||
| oc_download_win | 1 Day |
You have full control over the cookies when you use our website. However, please note that disabling certain types of cookies may impact your experiences on accessing certain parts of the website functionalities.
You will be informed to manage your cookies settings through the cookie banner that appears when you access our website or web services. You can change your cookies settings at any time. Most devices and browsers provide a way to set your cookies preferences. These settings will typically be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
You may use the "help" or “settings” option in your browser for more details. And you can also find information about how to disable or manage your browser’s cookies by visiting the cookies policies of the following browsers:
If you have any comments on or questions about the use of cookies on our website, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our contact addresses are listed below. You may also visit our Privacy Policy https://privacy.mi.com/all/en_GB/ for further information generally and for details about the types of information we collect about you and the way you may exercise your Privacy Rights.
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