Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

frontend

This website

One day

Stores a random ID which ensures that a user can be uniquely identified as a guest or logged-in user. Fun action such as ‘items last view ed” or retention of the logged in state are connected with this cookie.

Frontend_cid

This website

One day

Stores a random ID which ensures that a user can be uniquely identified as a guest or logged-in user on encrypted pages. Fun action such as ‘items last view ed” or retention of the logged in state are connected with this cookie.

Rc::c

google

Session

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx

This website

36 minutes

This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.

gdpr, gdpr-consent-given

This website

One year

This cookie stores the user's confirmation/permission for the storage of cookies.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

_ga

This website

2 years

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

_gid

This website

One day

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

PREF

.youtube.com

4 years

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This is a common Google cookie, used across several of their services. Stored user preference, can be used to personalise ads on google searches.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

.youtube.com

6 months

This YouTube cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos.

GPS

.youtube.com

27 minutes

YouTube cookie.

YSC

.youtube.com

Session

YouTube cookie.

S

.docs.google.com

One hour

Cookie name

Source

Expiry

Purpose

IDE

.doubleclick.net

One year

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google's real time bidding advertising exchange.

1P_JAR

.google.com

One month

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

APISID

.google.com

2 years

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

CONSENT

.google.com

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

HSID

.google.com

2 years

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites.

NID

.google.com

6 months

This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customers advertisements appear.

SAPISID

.google.com

2 years

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

SID

.google.com

One year

Google uses this cookie to help customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search. For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website.

SIDCC

.google.com

3 months

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

SSID

.google.com

2 years

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

fr

.facebook.com

3 months

As a third party host provider, Facebook mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. Facebook also serves up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.

_fbp

.facebook.com

3 months

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.