Cookies
Cookie Policy
A cookie is a small piece of data (which often includes a unique identifier) that is stored on your computer, mobile phone or tablet. It is generated when users access a certain website. The cookie is stored on your browser and then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit.
Only essential cookies are generated automatically. Optional cookies for marketing and analytics purposes have to be enabled by you.Cookies that are generated through the use of this website are not used to identify you personally but they are used to make the site work better for you by remembering activities and preferences chosen by you and your browser and allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently. Google Analytics are used to measure how many people are using this website service, and from where in the world they visit us.
Marketing
We use cookies to make our marketing more engaging and relevant to users. If enabled by users, we use cookie information to focus our marketing on what’s relevant to specific users, to improve performance reporting, and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen. For example, we use cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with our ads or search results, and your visits to our website.
We may also use data from conversion cookies to determine how many people who click on our ads go on to register on our site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for interest-based ad targeting and persist for a limited time only.
The following non-essential cookies are used on this site:
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | 3 months | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie |
| __cf_bm | 30 minutes | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _gat_UA-146595501-1 | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate |
| _gcl_au | 90 days | LinkedIn advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes |
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users |
| _gid | 1 day | Used to distinguish users |
| _gcl_aw, _gcl_dc, and _gcl_gb | 90 days | These are used by Google's Conversion Linker to help measure click data so that conversions are measured effectively. When a visitor clicks any ads on this website, the URL of the conversion page typically includes information about the click. Google Ads then uses the click information to associate that conversion with the click that brought the visitor here. |
| 1P_JAR | 90 days | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 1 month | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie |
| li_gc | 2 years | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
| muc_ads | 2 years | Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | 1 year | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| NID | 6 months | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| HSID | 2 years | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| APISID | 2 years | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| ANID | 6 months | Used by Google to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| CookieControl | 90 days | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie |
| _cfduid | 1 year | The '__cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do- |
| _fbp | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products on Facebook |
| fr | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products on Facebook |
| tr | Session cookie - expires when browser closed | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| act | Session cookie - expires when browser closed | Facebook cookie used for analytics and research |
| c_user | 1 year | Facebook user login cookie used to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| datr | 2 years | Facebook cookie used to detect browser |
| spin | 1 year | Facebook advertiser cookies are used for reporting on social campaign |
| sb | 1 year | Facebook cookie used to detect browser |
| xs | 1 year | Facebook cookie used alongside c_user to authenticate user's identity |
| guest_id | 2 years | Used by Twitter to distinguish users |
| personalization_id | 2 years | Twitter cookie used to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| mbox | 1 year | Twitter cookie used to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| anj | 90 days | Contains data denoting if the cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner |
| usersync | 90 days | Contains data denoting if the cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner |
| uuid2 | 90 days | Contains a randomly generated unique value to help AppNexus distinguish users |
| icu | 90 days | Used by AppNexus to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| poll_timestamp | 120 days | This cookie is set to control the display of the content poll form |
| hide_poll | 120 days | This cookie is set to control the display of the content poll form |
| bscookie | 2 years | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. |
| lidc | 1 day | Set by Linkedin and used for routing |
| UserMatchHistory | 6 months | Set by Linkedin to deliver adverts more relevant to the user and their interests |
| bcookie | 1 year | Used by Linkedin to distinguish users |
| lissc | 1 year | Used by Linkedin for the tracking of embedded services |
| AMCV | 1 year | Allows LinkedIn to enable sign-in functionality, user tracking, and ad targeting purposes |
| lang | Session cookie - expires when browser closed | Used for Sign-in with LinkedIn and/or for LinkedIn follow feature |
| sc_at | 390 days | Cookie associated with embedding content from Snapchat |
| _scid | 1 year | Snapchat pixel unique User ID |
| X-AB | 1 year | Cookie associated with embedding content from Snapchat |
Youtube
The video(s) embedded on this site from our official YouTube channel use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. If you click on the YouTube video player, this mode may set cookies on your computer but YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos.
You can find out more at YouTube's embedding videos information page.
If you wish to control, block or delete any cookies which are generated by this website, you can do so through your browser settings. You can find out how by looking at the help menu on your browser. Otherwise, we’ll assume you’re OK to continue using Cookies.
You can find more information about cookies on the About Cookies website.