What does westernunion.com track?
Before any consent, westernunion.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 5 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.westernunion.com/de/de/home.html once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 29
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
cm.g.doubleclick.net
- Quantum Metric23 requestsAnalytics
ingest.quantummetric.com, cdn.quantummetric.com
- mParticle6 requestsAnalytics
jssdks.mparticle.com, jssdkcdns.mparticle.com, identity.mparticle.com, cookiesync.mparticle.com
- Adobe5 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com, dpm.demdex.net
- Optimizely3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.optimizely.com, a18802385558.cdn.optimizely.com, logx.optimizely.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust14 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Trustpilot2 requestsFunctional
images-static.trustpilot.com
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
- unpkg2 requestsContent delivery
unpkg.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_AACD3BC75245B4940A490D4D%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_AACD3BC75245B4940A490D4D%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | westernunion.com | 13 months |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Advertising | westernunion.com | 6 months |
| dtCookie | Analytics | westernunion.com | Session |
| optimizelySession | Analytics | westernunion.com | 6 months |
| AK_TLS_Version | Unclassified | westernunion.com | Session |
| akacd_www_Phased_Release | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Under a day |
| AKAreacode | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| akavpau_en | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| AKCity | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| AKCountry | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| AKCounty | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| AKRegioncode | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| AKZip | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| is_mobile | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| is_tablet | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| QuantumMetricSessionID | Unclassified | westernunion.com | Under a day |
| QuantumMetricUserID | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 12 months |
| resolution_height | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| resolution_width | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| userCookieOptIn | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 12 months |
| wu_device_id | Unclassified | www.westernunion.com | Session |
| WUCountryCookie_ | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 12 months |
| WULanguageCookie_ | Unclassified | westernunion.com | 3 months |
| _abck | Functional | westernunion.com | 12 months |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | westernunion.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | westernunion.com | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | www.westernunion.com | 7 days |
| bm_sz | Necessary | westernunion.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 21 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- 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.