What does seagate.com track?
Before any consent, seagate.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.seagate.com/de/de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Adobe29 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, assets.adobedtm.com, p.typekit.net
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- UserWay19 requestsFunctional
cdn.userway.org, api.userway.org, cdn77.api.userway.org
- PayPal6 requestsFunctional
www.paypal.com
- Monotype (Fonts.net)1 requestFunctional
fast.fonts.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| s_plt | Analytics | seagate.com | Session |
| s_pltp | Analytics | seagate.com | Session |
| cartId | Unclassified | seagate.com | Under a day |
| guest_cart_id___de_de | Unclassified | seagate.com | Under a day |
| OptConsentGroups | Unclassified | seagate.com | 12 months |
| permanentLocaleCookie | Unclassified | seagate.com | 2 months |
| stxEdgescape | Unclassified | seagate.com | Session |
| userSelectedLocaleCookie | Unclassified | seagate.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | seagate.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | fonts.net (third party) | Under a day |
| BIGipServershg_dmzprd_wwwaem | Functional | www.seagate.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | seagate.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 8 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.