What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of Cookies we use
Necessary
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _GRECAPTCHA | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| cookieyesID | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie as a unique identifier for visitors according to their consent. |
| cky-consent | 1 year | The cookie is set by CookieYes to remember the users’ consent settings so that the website recognizes the users the next time they visit. |
| cookieyes-necessary | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Necessary’ category. |
| cookieyes-functional | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Functional’ category. |
| cookieyes-analytics | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Analytics’ category. |
| cookieyes-advertisement | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember the consent of users for the use of cookies in the ‘Advertisement’ category. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | 1 year | This cookie is set by Segment to count the number of people who visit a certain site by tracking if they have visited before. |
| ajs_user_id | never | This cookie is set by Segment to help track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and also measure application performance and stability. |
| m | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| cookieyes_privacy_policy_generator_session | 2 hours | CookieYes sets this cookie to identify a session instance for a user. |
| __stripe_mid | 1 year | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| XSRF-TOKEN | 2 hours | This cookie is set by Wix and is used for security purposes. |
| cookieyes_session | 2 hours | CookieYes sets this cookie to identify a session instance for a user. |
| __stripe_sid | 30 minutes | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| PHPSESSID | 1 day | This cookie is native to PHP applications and is used to store and identify a users’ unique session in order to manage user sessions on the website. |
| cky-action | 1 year | This cookie is set by CookieYes and is used to remember the action taken by the user. |
| cookieyes-performance | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember the user’s consent for cookies in the ‘Performance’ category. |
Functional
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | never | LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 1 day | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors. This is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. |
Analytics
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session, campaign data, and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain the request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high-traffic sites. |
| _hjTLDTest | session | To determine the most generic cookie path that has to be used instead of the page hostname, Hotjar sets the _hjTLDTest cookie to store different URL substring alternatives until it fails. |
| CONSENT | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| CLID | 1 year | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. |
| _clck | 1 year | Collects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner. |
| _clsk | 1 day | Registers statistical data on users’ behavior on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
| _hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| MR | 7 days | This cookie, set by Bing, is used to collect user information for analytics purposes. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | never | Hotjar sets this cookie when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket. |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | never | Hotjar sets this cookie when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized, to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
| _hjSessionUser_* | 1 year | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| _hjSession_* | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
| _cltk | Session | Registers statistical data on users’ behavior on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 1 day | This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors. This is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. |
Performance
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SRM_B | 1 year 24 days | Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors. |
| wp-wpml_current_language | session | Designates the country code that is calculated based on the user’s IP address. Used to determine what language should be used for the visitor. |
Advertisement
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when the user is either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
| __tld__ | session | This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites in order to present relevant advertisement based on their preferences. |
| fr | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months 27 days | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| SM | session | 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. |
| MUID | 1 year 24 days | Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
| ANONCHK | 10 minutes | The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user’s session ID and also verify the clicks from ads on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalization as well. |
| IDE | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
| yt.innertube::requests | never | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | never | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
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