Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This serves to ensure you on the one hand better navigation and on the other hand allows us to improve our website. By browsing our website, you agree to the use of cookies.
A cookie is a small text and number file that we store in your browser or on your computer hard drive if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
These are the cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that allow you to connect to secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or use online billing services.
They allow us to identify and count the number of visitors to find out how visitors are using our website. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that the search method is easy to use.
These are used to identify you when you return to our website. This allows us to customize our content for you, welcome you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your language or region selection).
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to display ads relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Keep in mind that third parties (including, for example, ad networks and external service providers such as web traffic analysis services) may use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies may be analytics / performance cookies or targeting cookies, however, you should contact the respective parties for any further information.
You can block cookies by activating the setting in the browser that allows you to refuse the activation of all or some cookies. However, if you use the browser settings to block all cookies (including the required cookies), you may not have access to all or some parts of our website.
You can find more information about each cookie we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| NAME: | DURATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| CookieScriptConsent | 1 month | This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
| _ga | 2 years |
This cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
| _gid | 1 day | This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used by gtag.js and analytics.js scripts and according to Google Analytics this cookie is used to distinguish users. |
| _gat_UA-173164121-1 | 1 minute | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| _gcl_au |
3 months |
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| test_cookie |
15 minutes |
This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
| _fbp |
3 months |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| IDE |
2 years |
This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| YSC | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
6 months |
This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| SM | Session | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
| MUID | 1 year | MUID cookie is a Microsoft cookie that contains a GUID assigned to your browser. It identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites and is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. |
| SRM_B | 1 year | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
| ANONCHK | 10 minutes | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| csrftoken | 12 months 4 days | This cookie is associated with the Django web development platform for Python. It is designed to help protect a site against at particular type of software attack on web forms. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| MR | 7 days | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
| CLID | 1 year | This cookie is usually set by Dstillery to enable sharing media content to social media. It may also gather information on website visitors when they use social media to share website content from the page visited. |
| sessionid | 14 days | This cookie is an anonymous session identifier. |
| _clsk | 1 day | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
| _clck | 1 year | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. |
| _ga_TPKXLHZT4D | 1 year 1 month | It is for Google Analytics cookies, and it's a unique identifier associated with a specific user or session. The information collected by these cookies is generally used by website owners to analyze and improve their website's performance, user experience, and content. |