A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
| Name | Provider | Cookie Classification | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | ESSENTIAL | Supports Cloudflare Bot Management by distinguishing legitimate visitors from automated or malicious traffic. | 30 minutes after inactivity |
| ak_bmsc | Akamai | ESSENTIAL | Helps protect the website by distinguishing human traffic from bots and automated attacks. | 2 hours |
| osano_consentmanager | Osano | ESSENTIAL | Stores the user's current consent status. | 1 year |
| osano_consentmanager_uuid | Osano | ESSENTIAL | Stores the user's unique consent identifier. | 1 year |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube Llc | ESSENTIAL | Stores the visitor’s privacy and consent settings for embedded YouTube content. | 180 Days |
| __Secure-YNID | Youtube Llc | MARKETING | Stores YouTube preferences and supports analytics, advertising where permitted, and detection and resolution of service problems. | 180 Days |
| mid | Meta | MARKETING | Enables Instagram's social media functionality within the site. | 400 days |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Google LLC | MARKETING | Set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites | 180 days |
| YSC | Google LLC | MARKETING | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Session |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Youtube Llc | ANALYTICS | Used to introduce new YouTube features and measure their impact when other identifiers cannot be used. | 180 Days |
| _ga | Google LLC | ANALYTICS | Associated with Google Universal Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 2 Years |
| _ga_ | Google LLC | ANALYTICS | Used to persist session state. | 2 years |
| dtCookie | DYNATRACE LLC | ANALYTICS | Tracks a visit across multiple requests for application-performance monitoring. | Session |
| dtPC | DYNATRACE LLC | ANALYTICS | Required to identify proper endpoints for beacon transmission; includes session ID for correlation. | Session |
| dtSa | DYNATRACE LLC | ANALYTICS | Temporarily stores user-action names across page loads so Dynatrace can correlate page-spanning actions. | Session |
| rxVisitor | DYNATRACE LLC | ANALYTICS | Used to store an anonymous ID for the user to correlate across sessions on the world service. | |
| rxvt | DYNATRACE LLC | ANALYTICS | Used to determine session length and the end of a session. | Session |