This page provides comprehensive information about how we use cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience, improve website performance, and deliver personalized content. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our site. They help us understand how visitors interact with our website, allowing us to offer a smoother and more efficient user experience. In the table below, you will find detailed information about each type of cookie we use, their purpose, and how long they remain on your device. We are committed to respecting your privacy and providing transparency about the data we collect through cookies. For more information on how we handle your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
Essential
Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.
Comments
These cookies are needed for adding comments on this website.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| comment_author | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
| comment_author_email | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
| comment_author_url | Used to track the user across multiple sessions. | Session |
Google Consent Management Platform
This cookie is associated with Google Funding Choices. It is used to store and respect the user's data privacy consent preferences regarding advertisements and tracking.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| FCNEC | This cookie is set by Google Funding Choices to support the website's privacy consent banner. It helps ensure that user consent choices for advertisements and cookies are accurately remembered and respected across page views, even when third-party cookies are blocked. | 12 months |
| FCCDCF | This cookie is associated with Google Funding Choices. It is used to store and respect the user's data privacy consent preferences regarding advertisements and tracking. | 1 year |
WP Consent API
WP Consent API is an open-source framework for WordPress websites that standardises how cookie consent is registered and communicated to other plugins. It operates locally on the website server to ensure that the site automatically respects and applies your chosen privacy preferences across all pages, without transmitting your data to any external third parties.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| wp_consent_statistics-anonymous | This cookie is set by the website's WordPress consent framework. It is used to remember if the user has opted for anonymous, non-tracking statistics collection, ensuring the site respects this privacy preference on subsequent page visits. | 4 weeks |
| wp_consent_statistics | This cookie is set by the website's WordPress consent framework. It is used to record and remember whether or not the user has granted permission for statistics and analytics cookies to be placed on their browser. | 4 weeks |
| wp_consent_preferences | This cookie is set by the website's WordPress consent framework. It is used to record and remember whether or not the user has granted permission for preference and customisation cookies to be placed on their browser. | 4 weeks |
| wp_consent_marketing | This cookie is set by the website's WordPress consent framework. It is used to record and remember whether or not the user has granted permission for marketing and advertising cookies to be placed on their browser. | 4 weeks |
| wp_consent_functional | This cookie is set by the website's WordPress consent framework. It is used to remember whether or not the user has accepted the use of functional cookies and preferences on this site. | 4 weeks |
| wpconsent_preferences | This cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. | 30 days |
Statistics
Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.
Gauges Analytics
Gauges Analytics is a real-time web analytics service provided by Fastly. It tracks website traffic data—such as visitor numbers, page views, and geographic locations—to help us understand how users interact with our site and to improve performance. The service focuses on website metrics and does not track users across different websites for targeted advertising purposes.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gauges_unique_year | This cookie tracks whether a visitor is unique within a single calendar year. It provides high-level data on annual traffic growth and returning visitor trends. | 12 months |
| _gauges_unique_month | This cookie tracks whether a visitor is unique within a specific calendar month. It helps determine the number of monthly active users and long-term engagement. | 4 weeks |
| _gauges_unique_hour | This cookie tracks whether a visitor is unique within a single hour. It is used to identify peak hours of website traffic throughout the day. | 1 hour |
| _gauges_unique_day | This cookie tracks whether a visitor is unique within a single calendar day. It helps calculate the number of daily active users on the website. | 1 day |
| _gauges_unique | This cookie assigns a unique, randomly generated ID to each visitor. It is used to distinguish unique users from repeat visitors to ensure accurate traffic metrics. | 12 months |
| _gauges_cookie | This cookie is set by the Gauges analytics service. It collects anonymous data on website traffic and user interactions, allowing us to understand how visitors use our site and improve its overall performance. | a few seconds |
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| __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 after last activity |
| __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. | End of session (browser) |
| __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 after last activity |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked | 30 seconds |
| _ga_ | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
| _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 |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to follow visitors to websites. The intention is to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.
Youtube
A video-sharing platform for users to upload, view, and share videos across various genres and topics.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 179 days |
| 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 from set/ update |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| 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. | 179 days |
| LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie | 180 days |