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Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| AWSALB | These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. | 7 days | No |
| AWSALBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). | 7 days | No |
| AWSALBTG | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| AWSALBTGCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | Session | No |
| AWSELBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| aws-csds-token | Anonymous metrics validation token | 1 hour | No |
| aws-priv | Anonymous cookie for privacy regulations | 1 Year | No |
| aws-target-visitor-id | Used to collect anonymised information about how which web pages are visited, how long users spend on pages and what users search for. | 1 Year | No |
| aws_lang | Stores the language used with AWS. | Session | No |
Azure
Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing platform run by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| .ASPXANONYMOUS | Created by ASP.Net. This cookie configures anonymous identification for application authorization. This is required to identify entities that are not authenticated when authorization is required. | 2 months | No |
| .ASPXAUTH | Created by ASP.Net. .ASPXAUTH is a cookie to identify if the user is authenticated( As user's identity has been verified) | session | No |
| ARRAffinity | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
| ASLBSA | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
| ASLBSACORS | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
| ASPSESSIO | Browsing session: the asterisks identify an alphanumerical code that varies from session to session in automatic mode. | Session | No |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| RpsContextCookie | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | session | Yes |
| VisitorStorageGuid | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| __AntiXsrfToken | This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user's browser. | session | No |
| buid | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
| esctx | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | Session | No |
| fpc | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
| nSGt- | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | session | Yes |
| stsservicecookie | Cookie for Azure Active Directory B2C-verification | Session | No |
Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration services.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | 30 minutes | No |
| __cfduid | 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 | 5 years | No |
| __cflb | When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a __cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new __cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | 30 minutes | Yes |
| __cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Session | No |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session | No |
| cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | session | No |
| cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | 1 years | No |
CookieControl
Cookie Control is the well-known CMP created by CIVIC UK, to manage consent for your website's cookies. Cookie Control is used by the UK ICO.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| CookieControl | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months | No |
| CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months | Unknown |
Google Adsense
Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| ACLK_DATA | This cookie is used to help improve advertising. This targets advertising based on what's relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance. | 5 minutes | No |
| GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Improves targeting/advertising within the website | session | No |
| __gpi | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 1 years | No |
| __gpi_optout | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 13 months | No |
| __gsas | Provides ad delivery or retargeting. | 3 months | No |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |
| _gcl_dc | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and also the mobile app traffic & events, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. | 1 year | No |
| FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user-visits for analysis and statistics. | session | No |
| FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 years | No |
| FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours. | 20 hours | No |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years | No |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes | No |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | session | No |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes | No |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years | Unknown |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months | No |
| __utmxx | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends | 18 months | No |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months | No |
| _dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 1 minute | No |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 1 years | No |
| _ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years | No |
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days | No |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds | No |
| _gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data | 1 hour | No |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours | 24 hours | No |
Vimeo
Vimeo, Inc. is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| Player | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to remember user’s player mode preferences. | 1 minute | Yes |
| continuous_play_v3 | Used to keep track of whether continuous play is on or not for a user | 2 years | Yes |
| vuid | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to assign a Vimeo Analytics unique id. | 1 years | No |
Youtube
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| DEVICE_INFO | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 180 days | Yes |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 day | No |
| LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
| PREF | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | 10 years | No |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 6 months | No |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie | 6 months | No |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | No |
Analytics
Analytics cookies or performance cookies are used to track website visitors and their user behaviour. This data is then used to improve the way the website works and in turn, used to improve user experience.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. | 1 year | No |
| FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user-visits for analysis and statistics. | session | No |
| FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 years | No |
| FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours. | 20 hours | No |
| Player | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to remember user’s player mode preferences. | 1 minute | Yes |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years | No |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes | No |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | session | No |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes | No |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years | Unknown |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months | No |
| __utmxx | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends | 18 months | No |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months | No |
| _dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 1 minute | No |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 1 years | No |
| _ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years | No |
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days | No |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds | No |
| _gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data | 1 hour | No |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours | 24 hours | No |
| continuous_play_v3 | Used to keep track of whether continuous play is on or not for a user | 2 years | Yes |
| vuid | This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to assign a Vimeo Analytics unique id. | 1 years | No |
Necessary
Strictly Necessary cookies or Functional cookies are those that enable a website to function without them, it will either not work at all or will not work properly. These cookies include ones that enable users to log into secure areas of the website and use a shopping cart. These cookies do not track any personal data of visitors and can be dropped to the users' browsers without consent, according to the GDPR directive.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| .ASPXANONYMOUS | Created by ASP.Net. This cookie configures anonymous identification for application authorization. This is required to identify entities that are not authenticated when authorization is required. | 2 months | No |
| .ASPXAUTH | Created by ASP.Net. .ASPXAUTH is a cookie to identify if the user is authenticated( As user's identity has been verified) | session | No |
| ARRAffinity | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
| ASLBSA | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
| ASLBSACORS | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
| ASPSESSIO | Browsing session: the asterisks identify an alphanumerical code that varies from session to session in automatic mode. | Session | No |
| AWSALB | These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. | 7 days | No |
| AWSALBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). | 7 days | No |
| AWSALBTG | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| AWSALBTGCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | Session | No |
| AWSELBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session | No |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| CookieControl | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months | No |
| CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months | Unknown |
| RpsContextCookie | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | session | Yes |
| VisitorStorageGuid | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
| __AntiXsrfToken | This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user's browser. | session | No |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | 30 minutes | No |
| __cfduid | 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 | 5 years | No |
| __cflb | When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a __cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new __cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | 30 minutes | Yes |
| __cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Session | No |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session | No |
| aws-csds-token | Anonymous metrics validation token | 1 hour | No |
| aws-priv | Anonymous cookie for privacy regulations | 1 Year | No |
| aws-target-visitor-id | Used to collect anonymised information about how which web pages are visited, how long users spend on pages and what users search for. | 1 Year | No |
| aws_lang | Stores the language used with AWS. | Session | No |
| buid | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
| cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | session | No |
| cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | 1 years | No |
| esctx | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | Session | No |
| fpc | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
| nSGt- | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | session | Yes |
| stsservicecookie | Cookie for Azure Active Directory B2C-verification | Session | No |
Marketing
Marketing and advertising cookies are cookies that are related to online advertising platforms. This is the category of cookies and third party scripts that touches the user's privacy the most.
| Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
| ACLK_DATA | This cookie is used to help improve advertising. This targets advertising based on what's relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance. | 5 minutes | No |
| DEVICE_INFO | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 180 days | Yes |
| GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Improves targeting/advertising within the website | session | No |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 day | No |
| LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
| PREF | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | 10 years | No |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 6 months | No |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie | 6 months | No |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | No |
| __gpi | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 1 years | No |
| __gpi_optout | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 13 months | No |
| __gsas | Provides ad delivery or retargeting. | 3 months | No |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |
| _gcl_dc | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |