List of Cookie Providers
Essential tools
Microsoft 365
Our website may utilize services provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA (“Microsoft 365”) to enhance the user experience and deliver content efficiently. Microsoft 365 services, including but not limited to Microsoft Office Online, SharePoint, and OneDrive, use cookies to manage user sessions, store preferences, and ensure secure access to various features.
When you interact with content or services on our website that are powered by Microsoft 365, cookies may be set in your browser. These cookies serve multiple purposes, including maintaining session integrity, personalizing your experience by storing user preferences (e.g., language and region settings), and improving the performance of the services.
Tools used:
Name: MUID
Storage Period: 13 months
Purpose: This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier to track users across Microsoft services and their interactions with embedded content. It is also used for advertising, analytics, and improving the performance of Microsoft services.
Name: ANON
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Contains the ANID, a unique identifier for each user, and is used to help keep users anonymous. It also tracks consent preferences and advertising preferences across Microsoft services.
CC
Name: CC
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Stores the user's country code as determined by their IP address. This cookie helps deliver content in the appropriate language and regional settings.
Name: MSCC
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Stores the user’s consent status for cookies. This cookie is essential for complying with GDPR and other privacy regulations by remembering user choices regarding cookies.
Name: MSPRequ
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Contains information about the request, such as the session state, to help in load balancing and ensuring a consistent user experience across sessions.
Name: MSPBack
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Stores information about the user's session state to help navigate back to previous pages during a session, improving navigation and user experience.
Name: MSPOK
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Used to maintain session integrity and keep users logged into Microsoft 365 services. It ensures that users don’t have to re-authenticate each time they interact with different services within Microsoft 365
Name: RT
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: This is a performance cookie used to optimize the performance of the website by distributing traffic across multiple servers. It helps improve the speed and reliability of Microsoft 365 services.
Name: ESTSAUTH
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Contains authentication tokens and session data that allow users to securely access Microsoft 365 services. It is crucial for maintaining secure sessions and preventing unauthorized access.
Name: FPC
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used to store a unique ID for tracking user activity and preferences across Microsoft services. It helps personalize the user experience and ensures consistent delivery of content.
Name: Office365ShellExperience
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Stores user preferences and interactions with the Microsoft 365 interface, such as theme and navigation settings. It enhances the user experience by providing a personalized interface.
Name: SPOIDCRL
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Used by SharePoint Online (part of Microsoft 365) to manage user sessions and authentication. It ensures that users remain logged in as they navigate between SharePoint sites.
To know more about Microsoft's cookie usage, consult its privacy policy here.
Squarespace
Our website utilizes Squarespace, Inc., 459 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA (“Squarespace”) as our website hosting and content management platform. Squarespace uses cookies to enhance the functionality of the website, provide a seamless user experience, and ensure the effective operation of its services.
When you interact with our website, which is powered by Squarespace, several cookies may be set in your browser. These cookies serve various purposes, including session management, user preferences, and site analytics.
Name: _sqau
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used to track user activity and engagement on the Squarespace platform. This cookie helps Squarespace provide site analytics and improve site performance.
Name: _sqt
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Helps manage session data and track user interactions on the website. It ensures that users stay logged in and have a consistent experience during their visit.
Name: ss_cid
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Stores a unique identifier for the user, which helps Squarespace track user behavior across visits and sessions. This cookie is used to enhance the user experience by personalizing content and improving navigation.
Name: ss_cvt
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Tracks conversions and user interactions with various elements on the website. It helps analyze how visitors interact with the site and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
Name: ss_cvr
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used for tracking and reporting conversion events and user actions. This cookie aids in understanding user behavior and improving site performance.
Name: ss_cookie
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Stores user preferences and session information to ensure a consistent experience across different visits and sessions.
Name: ss_opt
Storage Period: 6 months
Purpose: Manages user consent preferences for cookies and helps Squarespace comply with privacy regulations.
These cookies are essential for the functionality of the Squarespace platform and help ensure that the website operates smoothly, provides personalized content, and delivers effective site analytics. Cookies themselves do not contain personally identifiable information unless you are logged into a Squarespace account, in which case certain data may be associated with your account to enhance your experience.
By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies by Squarespace for these purposes. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or by contacting us directly for further information.
Non-essential tools
Google Ad Manager
Our website uses Google Ad Manager, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Ad Manager”). This service is used to display Google ads on our website by setting cookies to the browser when a user visits a page that shows Google Marketing Platform advertising products and Google Ad Manager ads. Pages with Google Marketing Platform advertising products or Google Ad Manager ads include ad tags that instruct browsers to request ad content from our servers. When the server delivers the ad content, it also sends a cookie. But a page doesn’t have to show Google Marketing Platform advertising products or Google Ad Manager ads for this to happen; it just needs to include Google Marketing Platform advertising products or Google Ad Manager ad tags, which might load a click tracker or impression pixel instead. This way, cookies are used to improve advertising (e.g. target advertising based on what is relevant to the user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, to avoid showing ads the user has already seen), as well as to serve, render and personalise ads. Cookies themselves contain no personally identifiable information. Depending on the publisher’s and user’s settings, information associated with cookies used in advertising may be added to the user’s Google Account.
Tools used:
IDE
Name: IDE
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the user's actions on the website after viewing or clicking on one of the advertiser's ads. This helps in measuring the effectiveness of an ad and presenting targeted ads to the user.
ANID
Name: ANID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes to show ads and measure the performance of ads. It also helps in identifying users for targeted advertising.
NID
Name: NID
Storage Period: 6 months
Purpose: Contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, the number of search results you wish to have shown per page, and whether or not you want Google's SafeSearch filter turned on.
1P_JAR
Name: 1P_JAR
Storage Period: 1 month
Purpose: Used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. It also helps improve the relevance of the ads.
DSID
Name: DSID
Storage Period: 2 weeks
Purpose: Used to identify signed-in users versus non-signed-in users, and to enable ad personalization.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult it's privacy policy here.
Google Ads
We use the services of Google Ads, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland for persons from the European Economic Area and Switzerland and by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA for all other persons (“Google Ads”). Google Ads allows us to display advertisements in the Google search engine or on third-party websites when the user enters specific search terms on Google (keyword targeting). Additionally, targeted ads can be displayed based on user data available at Google (e.g., location data and interests) (audience targeting). As website operators, we can quantitatively analyze this data by, for example, analyzing which search terms led to the display of our ads and how many ads resulted in corresponding clicks.
Furthermore, we also utilize the Google Ads Conversion Tracking feature. In relation to the data from advertising campaigns, we can determine how successful individual advertising measures are. The goal is to show you advertisements that are of interest to you, make our website more interesting for you, and achieve a fair calculation of advertising costs. For instance, we can evaluate which buttons on our website are clicked most frequently, and which products are viewed or purchased most frequently. This information is used to create conversion statistics. We learn the total number of users who clicked on our ads and the actions they took.
We use the remarketing function within the Google Ads service. With the remarketing function, we can present users of our website with interest-based advertisements on other websites within the Google advertising network (in the Google search or on YouTube, so-called 'Google Ads' or on other websites). The interaction of users on our website is analyzed for this purpose, allowing us to display targeted advertising to users on other sites even after they have visited our website. Google stores cookies on users' devices for this purpose, which visit certain Google services or websites in the Google Display Network. These cookies record the visits of these users. The cookies serve to uniquely identify a web browser on a specific device and not to identify a person.
We use the Google Ads 'Conversion Linker' on our website. The Google Conversion Linker automatically captures information about ad clicks in the URLs of the conversion page and stores them in cookies within your domain for websites. Subsequently, the data is forwarded in URLs for AMP pages. We use Google Conversion Linker in conjunction with other Google Marketing Platform products, allowing unique IDs to be stored in these cookies.
Tools used:
Name: _gcl_au
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Used by Google AdSense to collect experimental data on the efficiency of advertisements on websites that use their services.
Name: _gcl_aw
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Used by Google Ads to track user actions on the website after clicking on an ad. This helps in measuring conversion rates.
Name: _gcl_dc
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Used by Google Ads to store conversion data. These data help in measuring and optimizing the performance of Google Ads campaigns.
Name: IDE
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the user's actions on the website after viewing or clicking on one of the advertiser's ads. This helps in measuring the effectiveness of an ad and presenting targeted ads to the user.
Name: ANID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes to show ads and measure the performance of ads. It also helps in identifying users for targeted advertising.
Name: NID
Storage Period: 6 months
Purpose: Contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, the number of search results you wish to have shown per page, and whether or not you want Google's SafeSearch filter turned on.
Name: 1P_JAR
Storage Period: 1 month
Purpose: Used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. It also helps improve the relevance of the ads.
These cookies support Google Ads in managing and delivering ads, as well as in measuring and optimizing ad performance.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult its privacy policy here.
Google Analytics 4
Our website uses the web analytics service Google Analytics 4, which is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Analytics 4”). If you have not consented to the use of the analytics tools, your data will not be collected as part of Google Analytics 4.
Google Analytics 4 uses JavaScript and pixels to read information on your terminal device and cookies to store information on your terminal device. This is used to analyse your usage behaviour and to improve our website. The access data is compiled by Google on our behalf into pseudonymous usage profiles and transferred to a Google server in the USA. We will process the information obtained in order to evaluate your use of the website and to compile reports on website activities.
The data collected as part of the usage analysis of Google Analytics 4 is enriched with data from the Google Search Console and linked to data from Google Ads, in particular to measure the success of our advertising campaigns (so-called conversions).
The following data may be processed by Google Analytics 4: IP address; user ID and device ID; referrer URL (previously visited page); pages viewed (date, time, URL, title, length of stay); downloaded files; clicked links to other websites; achievement of certain goals (conversions); technical information (operating system; browser type, version and language; device type, brand, model and resolution); approximate location (country, region and city, if applicable, based on anonymised IP address).
Tools used:
Name: _ga
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It helps track user interactions on the website and collect statistical data for reports.
ga<container-id>
Name: ga<container-id>
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used to maintain session state. This cookie stores a unique session ID, which allows GA4 to collect data on user interactions within a specific session.
Name: _gid
Storage Period: 24 hours
Purpose: Used to distinguish users and generate statistical data on how visitors use the website. It tracks the user’s journey across pages for a single day and resets after 24 hours.
Name: _gat
Storage Period: 1 minute
Purpose: Used to throttle request rates, limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. This ensures that data collection remains efficient without overwhelming the system.
gac_gb<container-id>
Name: gac_gb<container-id>
Storage Period: 90 days
Purpose: Contains campaign-related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, this cookie helps measure ad interactions and the subsequent behavior of the user on the site.
Name: ga<container-id>_session
Storage Period: 30 minutes
Purpose: Used to keep track of the visitor’s session, maintaining information about the visit duration and interactions within the session. This cookie is particularly useful in session-based analysis.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult its privacy policy here.
Google Fonts
Our website uses Google Fonts, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Fonts”). Google Fonts allow us to integrate the display of external fonts into the design of our website and to display them correctly to you, thus helping us to make the design of our website more user-friendly. Google Fonts do not set any cookies, however if you visit one of our pages on which we integrate Google Fonts, Google will be informed which of our Internet pages you have visited. In addition, the IP address of the browser of the visitor's terminal device is stored by Google.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult it's privacy policy here.
Google Maps
Our website uses Google Maps, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Maps”). Google Maps sends cookies in order to read the user's IP address for marketing and tracking purposes.
Tools used:
Name: SID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: This cookie is used for security purposes, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protecting user data from unauthorized access. It also stores the user's session state across page requests.
Name: HSID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: This cookie stores encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time, which is used by Google Maps to authenticate the user and protect against unauthorized access.
Name: SSID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising you may have seen before visiting the site. This helps Google provide more relevant content and ads on Google Maps.
Name: APISID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used to build a profile of the user’s interests based on their web usage patterns, including Google Maps. This cookie is used for ad personalization and to improve the user experience by providing more relevant content.
Name: SAPISID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: This cookie is also used to build a profile of the visitor's interests for showing personalized ads. It is essential for enabling features such as the “location history” on Google Maps.
Name: NID
Storage Period: 6 months
Purpose: Contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember user preferences and other information, such as preferred language and other personalization settings. It helps to personalize Google services, including Maps.
Name: OGPC
Storage Period: 1 month
Purpose: This cookie is used by Google to deliver and retain user preferences for Google Maps. It helps maintain consistent service delivery and user experience across different devices and sessions.
Name: 1P_JAR
Storage Period: 1 month
Purpose: Used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. This cookie helps improve the relevance of ads and tracks user interaction with Google Maps.
Name: CONSENT
Storage Period: 20 years
Purpose: This cookie stores the user's consent status for cookies. It is necessary for compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult it's privacy policy here.
Google Tag Manager
Our website uses Google Tag Manager, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google Tag Manager”). Google Tag Manager is used by us to manage the tools and external services that we use on our website and allows the use of so-called tags. A tag is a code element that is stored in the source code of the website in order to control, for example, which page or service elements and tools are activated and loaded in which order. In some cases, the data is processed on a Google server in the USA.
Google Tag Manager (GTM) itself does not set cookies directly. Instead, it facilitates the management of tags, including those that might set cookies for various purposes, such as tracking, analytics, and advertising. However, here are some common cookies that may be used by tags deployed via Google Tag Manager, their storage period, and their purpose:
Name: _ga
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: This cookie is typically used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It helps track user behavior and interactions on the website.
Name: _gid
Storage Period: 24 hours
Purpose: Also used by Google Analytics, this cookie distinguishes users and generates statistical data on how visitors use the website. It tracks the user’s journey across pages for a single day.
Name: _gat
Storage Period: 1 minute
Purpose: Used to throttle request rates, limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. This ensures that data collection remains efficient without overwhelming the system.
Name: AMP_TOKEN
Storage Period: 30 seconds to 1 year
Purpose: Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a client ID from the AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, requests, or errors related to client ID synchronization. This cookie is used to improve user experience in AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) contexts.
Name: dc_gtm<property-id>
Storage Period: 1 minute
Purpose: Used by Google Tag Manager to help identify and control the loading of other Google Analytics scripts on a page. This cookie is set when Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager.
Name: _gcl_au
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Used by Google AdSense to test advertising efficiency on websites using their services. It is often used for tracking conversions and linking them to ads.
Name: _gcl_dc
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Similar to _gcl_au, this cookie is used by Google Ads to store and track conversions, helping to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
While these cookies are commonly associated with tags deployed through Google Tag Manager, the specific cookies and their purposes depend on the tags you have implemented. Google Tag Manager itself is a container and does not set cookies unless it triggers tags that do so.
To know more about Google's cookie usage, consult it's privacy policy here.
LinkedIn Insight Tag
Our website uses LinkedIn Insight Tag, a service provided by LinkedIn Ireland, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn Insight Tag”). LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of Javascript code that we add to our website in order for us to be able to report on our ad campaigns and understand visitor usage of our website. With it we track conversions, retarget website visitors and view democraphic information on LinkedIn members who visit our website. It works by setting cookies on visitors' web browsers when our website are visited, allowing us to determine to which users ads are displayed to, in order to imrpove marketing campaign results and to better report the effectiveness of the used ads.
Tools used:
Name: li_gc
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. This helps LinkedIn comply with privacy regulations by remembering the user’s cookie preferences.
Name: li_mc
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member’s consent for the use of non-essential cookies. It is used to store the visitor's consent for using LinkedIn's third-party services.
Name: liap
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used by LinkedIn to remember that a user is logged in and to serve them personalized content and ads based on their LinkedIn profile and interactions.
Name: lms_ads
Storage Period: 30 days
Purpose: Used to identify LinkedIn members off LinkedIn for advertising and analytics purposes. This cookie allows LinkedIn to deliver more relevant ads and track conversions for LinkedIn ad campaigns.
Name: lms_analytics
Storage Period: 30 days
Purpose: Used to identify LinkedIn members off LinkedIn for analytics purposes. This cookie supports LinkedIn's analytics features by tracking user interactions with ads and content.
Name: UserMatchHistory
Storage Period: 30 days
Purpose: Used to track visitors across multiple websites to present relevant advertisements based on the visitor's preferences. It also helps with LinkedIn Ads retargeting by storing information about users who have visited the site.
Name: bcookie
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: A browser identifier cookie used by LinkedIn to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform.
Name: bscookie
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: A secure browser cookie used to identify users logged into LinkedIn and to protect against fraudulent use of LinkedIn services.
Name: li_sugr
Storage Period: 90 days
Purpose: Used to make a probabilistic match of a user’s identity outside of LinkedIn, facilitating targeted advertising and content recommendations.
These cookies are essential for LinkedIn's tracking, advertising, and analytics functionalities, allowing businesses to understand user behavior, measure ad performance, and improve user engagement through LinkedIn.
To know more about LinkedIn's cookie usage, consult it's privacy policy here.
Meta Pixel
Our website uses Meta Pixel, a service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Meta Pixel”). Meta Pixel is a tool that allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding the actions people take on our website. It helps us implement JavaScript code on our website to track and dynamically provide content to site visitors, by setting tracking cookies in order to help us understand how our website is used, as well as advertising cookies in order for us to reach customers in the future through Facebook ads. Site visitors are matched to their respective Facebook accounts and identified through cookies set on their devices. The Meta Pixel tracks URLs and domains visited, as well as the devices used by site visitors.
Tools used:
Name: _fbp
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. It helps track visits across websites and deliver targeted advertising based on the user's behavior.
Name: fr
Storage Period: 3 months
Purpose: This cookie is used by Meta to identify users across devices and browsers. It contains an encrypted Facebook ID and browser ID, allowing Meta to personalize ad experiences and measure ad performance. It is essential for tracking user behavior and showing relevant ads to users across Facebook and Instagram.
Name: datr
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used by Meta to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook, independent of the logged-in user. This cookie plays a key role in security and site integrity, such as recovering accounts that have been compromised.
Name: sb
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: This cookie helps Facebook identify and improve browser security. It works alongside the "datr" cookie to provide functionalities that protect user data from unauthorized access.
Name: c_user
Storage Period: Varies (based on session)
Purpose: This cookie contains the user ID of the currently logged-in Facebook user. It helps Facebook recognize the user and maintain their session when they navigate between pages or websites that integrate Facebook features.
Name: xs
Storage Period: Varies (based on session)
Purpose: Contains session number and secret, as well as an optional session security factor, to ensure secure interaction with the Facebook account. It is used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate the logged-in user's session.
Name: dpr
Storage Period: Session
Purpose: Used by Facebook to ensure the optimal performance of the website on different screens by adjusting the display resolution of the content.
Name: oo
Storage Period: 5 years
Purpose: Used by Facebook to opt users out of seeing targeted ads from Meta based on their browsing habits. This cookie is set when a user opts out of seeing ads from Meta.
Name: wd
Storage Period: 7 days
Purpose: Stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimize the rendering of its pages.
These cookies play a crucial role in Meta's ability to track user behavior, deliver personalized ads, measure ad effectiveness, and improve user experiences across its platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.).
To know more about Meta's cookie usage, consult its privacy policy here.
YouTube Videos
Our website uses YouTube Videos, a service which is offered to persons from Switzerland and the European Economic Area by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4, D04 V4X7, Ireland. When you visit a page on our website that has a YouTube video embedded, your browser connects to the YouTube servers, and data is stored and processed there. Regardless of whether you have a YouTube account or not, YouTube collects data about you. This includes for example your IP address, technical information about your browser type, operating system, session duration, bounce rate or basic device information. YouTube may track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies. If you are logged in to YouTube as a registered member, more data can usually be collected as more cookies may have already been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website are directly linked to your YouTube account. To prevent this, you must log out of YouTube while surfing on our website.
Below we show you tools that are set by YouTube when you visit a page of our website with an embedded YouTube video. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a YouTube account. When you watch the video other cookies may be set. These are also third-party cookies such as from Google Analytics or Facebook.
Tools used:
Name: YSC
Storage Period: Session (expires when the browser session ends)
Purpose: Used by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. This cookie helps maintain and store user actions while watching a video, such as preferences and play history within the session.
Name: PREF
Storage Period: 8 months
Purpose: Stores user preferences, such as language settings, and other customization options for YouTube videos. It also tracks whether the user has opted to use a new or old player interface and may contain data on user preferences for watching videos.
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Storage Period: 6 months
Purpose: Used to estimate the user's bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. It helps YouTube determine whether the user is on the new or old player interface and troubleshoot streaming issues.
Name: CONSENT
Storage Period: 20 years
Purpose: Stores the user's consent status for cookies. This cookie is essential for compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR and ensures that YouTube remembers user choices regarding cookies.
Name: GPS
Storage Period: 30 minutes
Purpose: A location-based cookie used to register a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on GPS location. It helps YouTube provide localized content and ads.
Name: SID, HSID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: These cookies contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. They are used for security purposes to protect user data from unauthorized access and to help Google authenticate users when interacting with YouTube services.
Name: LOGIN_INFO
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: Used by YouTube to store login details, preferences, and other user data. It helps in ensuring that the user remains logged in while browsing videos and can access their subscriptions and playlists.
Name: _Secure-3PAPISID, _Secure-3PSID
Storage Period: 2 years
Purpose: These cookies are used to deliver personalized ads based on the user’s interests and previous interactions with YouTube and other Google services. They help in targeting and retargeting ads across the web.
Name: _Secure-3PSIDCC
Storage Period: 1 year
Purpose: Used for security purposes to protect users' data and prevent fraudulent activity. It also supports ad personalization and tracking by Google.
These cookies are essential for providing a seamless user experience, securing user data, delivering personalized content and ads, and improving YouTube’s video streaming services.
To know more about YouTube’s cookie usage, consult Google's privacy policy here.