What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. Cookies are stored on your device when the website loads in your browser. These cookies help us make the website work properly, make the website more secure, provide a better user experience and understand how the website works and analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
Like most online services, our website uses its own and third-party cookies for various purposes. First-party cookies are primarily necessary for the website to function properly and do not collect any of your personally identifiable information.
Third-party cookies used on our websites are primarily used to understand how the website works, how you interact with our website, keep our services secure, provide advertisements that are relevant to you, and generally provide a better user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
The following list details the cookies used on our website.
| COOKIE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Mandatory Cookies | |
| _GRECAPTCHA | The Google recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots and protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on, this cookie is used to record user consent for cookies in the “Advertising” category. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on and is used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on. Cookies are used to store user consent for cookies in the “Required” category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record user consent for cookies in the “Functional” category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on. The cookie is used to store the user’s consent to cookies in the “Performance” category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on. The cookie is used to store the user’s consent to cookies in the “Analytics” category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by the GDPR cookie consent add-on. The cookie is used to store the user’s consent to cookies in the “Other” category. |
| Analytical Cookies | |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to learn whether a user is included in the data sample defined by the site’s pageview limit. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user’s first pageview session. This is a True/False indicator set by the cookie. |
| _gcl_au | Hotjar sets this cookie to know if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s page view limit. |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, set by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also tracks site usage for site analytics reporting. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | Set by Google Analytics, the _gid cookie stores information about how visitors use a website, while creating an analytics report on website performance. Some of the data collected includes the number of visitors, their source and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-193562263-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behavior and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website to which it relates. |
| _ga_J6VM8MGVMH | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. Stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s daily session limit. |
| Advertising Cookies | |
| test_cookie | test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| Uncategorized Cookies | |
| _hjSessionUser_2328000 | No description |
| _hjSession_2328000 | No description |
How can I control my cookie preferences?
You can manage your cookie preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories in the pop-up window according to your preferences.
If you decide to change your preferences later in your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy and Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again, allowing you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent completely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change your browser settings to block / delete cookies. For more information on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
