What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used in order to ensure websites work efficiently, alongside providing insight about the volume of visitors to the website and how visitors move around the website. Cookies are sent automatically by websites as they are viewed, but in order to protect a user’s privacy, a computer will only permit a website to access the cookies it has sent, and not the cookies sent by other sites. Users can also adjust the settings on their computer to restrict the number of cookies that it accepts, or notify them each time a cookie is sent. For further information about cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org
What sort of cookies do we use on our website?
There are a number of Cookies that are stored when you visit our website. These are used by us to monitor the performance of the website.
We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytic service, to analyse how users use the site. It counts numbers of visitors and tells us things about their behaviour overall, such as typical length of stay on the site or average number of pages a user views. We do not directly control these cookies. You can check Googles Analytics privacy policy here for more information: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Can I browse your website without receiving any cookies?
Cookies don’t stay around forever and your web browser will eventually delete them. When a website stores a cookie, it states how long the cookie should stay on the computer for – this can be for the current visit only or for a period of time, for example one week.
You can choose to delete our, or any websites’ cookies from your web browser at any time (for help on how to do this, go to www.aboutcookies.org. You can also set your web browser to not accept any cookies if you wish.
Please note that we only use cookies for the purpose of enhancing your online experience and no personal data is collected from you through this process.
Use of cookies on our website
We use the following categories of cookies on our website:
Necessary
Cookie name | Description | Scope and expiry |
|---|---|---|
_cflb | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | 1 day |
_GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | 180 days |
CookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | 1 year |
rc::a | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Persistent |
rc::b | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Session |
rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Session |
rc::f | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Persistent |
Statistics
Cookie name | Description | Scope and expiry |
|---|---|---|
_clck | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. | 1 year |
_clsk | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. | Session |
_cltk | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. | Session |
_ga | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. | 2 years |
_ga [underscore] # | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. | 2 years |
_hjSession [underscore] # | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 day |
_hjSessionUser [underscore] # | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 year |
_hjTLDTest | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. | Session |
c.gif | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. | Session |
hjActiveViewportIds | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. | Persistent |
hjViewportId | Saves the user's screen size in order to adjust the size of images on the website. | Session |
Marketing
Cookie name | Description | Scope and expiry |
|---|---|---|
__Secure-ROLLOUT [underscore] TOKEN | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 180 days |
__Secure-YEC | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session |
__Secure-YNID | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 180 days |
_uetsid | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | Persistent |
_uetsid | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. | 1 day |
_uetsid [underscore] exp | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent |
_uetvid | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | Persistent |
_uetvid | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | 1 year |
_uetvid [underscore] exp | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent |
ANONCHK | Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. | 1 day |
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session |
LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
MR | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. | 7 days |
MUID | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | 1 year |
SM | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. The ID is used to allow targeted ads. | |
TESTCOOKIESENABLED | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 1 day |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 180 days |
YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
yt-icons-last-purged | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Persistent |
YtIdbMeta#databases | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
Unclassified
Cookie name | Description | Scope and expiry |
|---|---|---|
savedTrackingParams | Unclassified | Session |