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cookie d’option d’écran

English translation: screen options cookies

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French term or phrase:cookie d’option d’écran
English translation:screen options cookies
Entered by: Lara Barnett

21:01 Jun 12, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Privacy & Cookie policy
French term or phrase: cookie d’option d’écran
La durée de vie d’un cookie de connexion est de deux jours, celle d’un cookie d’option d’écran est d’un an.

I have no idea about this. I have never heard of "screen option cookie". Is this the English name?
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:13
screen options cookies
Explanation:
I must admit I hadn't heard of them either, but I don't read cookie policies, apart from the ones I've had to translate from time to time, which have never mentioned these. However, just as you can find many French pages with this:

"La durée de vie d'un cookie de connexion est de deux jours, celle d'un cookie d'option d'écran est d'un an."

So you can find many English ones with this:

"Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year."

With fairly rare exceptions it's "screen options cookies", not "screen option cookies". And the pages in question, or at least many of them, are in websites of English-language organisations (mostly UK, as far as I can see). So this expression is clearly original English and not translated.

This one gives a bit of explanation:

"When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year."
https://ssj.org.uk/privacy-policy/
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 03:13
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screen options cookies


Explanation:
I must admit I hadn't heard of them either, but I don't read cookie policies, apart from the ones I've had to translate from time to time, which have never mentioned these. However, just as you can find many French pages with this:

"La durée de vie d'un cookie de connexion est de deux jours, celle d'un cookie d'option d'écran est d'un an."

So you can find many English ones with this:

"Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year."

With fairly rare exceptions it's "screen options cookies", not "screen option cookies". And the pages in question, or at least many of them, are in websites of English-language organisations (mostly UK, as far as I can see). So this expression is clearly original English and not translated.

This one gives a bit of explanation:

"When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year."
https://ssj.org.uk/privacy-policy/

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 03:13
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PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: literal translations often work in this sort of field
36 mins
  -> Yes. Thanks!
agree  Daryo
11 hrs
  -> Thanks, Daryo :-)
agree  Anais Devenish: I have heard of cookies options. It depends on how the website has been set up by the owner
11 hrs
  -> Thanks, Anais :-) Yes, I presume so.
agree  Simon Mac: Convinced by the research :)
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Simon :-)
agree  Verginia Ophof
1 day 16 hrs
  -> Thanks, Verginia :-)
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