This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
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Manage your consent: Cookie settings
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| Functional | |
| bscookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. |
| bcookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID. |
| lidc | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| lang | LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting. |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. |
| li_gc | This is a cookie from LinkedIn and is used for storing visitors’ consent regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | ShareThis sets this cookie to track which pages are being shared and by whom. |
| liveagent_sid | LiveAgent sets this cookie to capture a unique pseudonymous ID when a user requests a chat during an active session. |
| liveagent_ptid | LiveAgent sets this cookie to link previous chats and transcripts from a single visitor. |
| liveagent_oref | This cookie is set by LiveAgent to allow Live Chat assistance for existing customers. |
| liveagent_vc | This cookie is set by LiveAgent to allow Live Chat assistance for existing customers. |
| X-Salesforce-CHAT | This cookie is set by LiveAgent to allow Live Chat assistance for existing customers. |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| NextPage | This cookie tracks the previous page to allow users to go back and forth between pages using the user interface buttons. |
| Necessary | |
| aka_debug | Vimeo sets this cookie which is essential for the website to play video functionality. |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | CookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-essential | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| BIGipServer* | Marketo sets this cookie to collect information about the user’s online activity and build a profile about their interests to provide advertisements relevant to the user. |
| webinarVideo | Recursive support screen share session tracking cookie |
| STYXKEY_api_token | AWS Cloud API |
| vuid | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Performance | |
| AWSALB | AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. |
| __jid | Cookie used to remember the user’s Disqus login credentials across websites that use Disqus. |
| Essential | |
| checkForPermission | This cookie is set by Beeswax to determine whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. |
| TS01a861d0 | Wix sets this cookie for security and anti-fraud purposes. |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| JSESSIONID | The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
| BIGipServer~VCC-WEB-INFRASTRUCTURE~defaultV10UIPool | This cookie is associated with a computer network load balancer by the website host to ensure requests are routed to the correct endpoint and required sessions are managed. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Others”. |
| BIGipServersjoweb-nginx-app_https | This cookie is associated with a computer network load balancer by the website host to ensure requests are routed to the correct endpoint and required sessions are managed. |
| elementor | This cookie is used by the website’s WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category . |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category . |
| __cflb | This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category . |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. |
| Analytics | |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube meta data |
| _gat_UA-* | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_335339_11 | Set by Google to distinguish users. |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | No description |
| SRM_B | Used by Microsoft Clarity as a unique ID for visitors. |
| CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| disqus_unique | Set by Disqus to record internal statistics for anonymous visitors. |
| ti_ | This cookie is set by Triblio to track the way a visitor uses the website and to monitor the performance of marketing campaigns. |
| _ga_N0Q7GW0J6L | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-335339-11 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| ANONCHK | The Microsoft Clarity ANONCHK cookie, indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, which is a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn’t use ANID and so this is always set to 0 indicating not for advertising. |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
| _clck | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site, on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| SM | This Microsoft Clarity cookie is used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. |
| loglevel | Collects data on visitor interaction with the website’s video-content – This data is used to make the website’s video-content more relevant towards the visitor. |
| CLID | Used by Microsoft Clarity. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording. |
| Advertisement | |
| S | Used by Yahoo to provide ads, content or analytics. |
| NID | Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
| yt.innertube::requests | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
| tuuid | The tuuid cookie, set by Demandbase via BidSwitch, stores an unique ID to determine what adverts the users have seen if they have visited any of the advertiser’s websites. The information is used to decide when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
| tuuid_lu | This cookie, set by Demandbase via BidSwitch, stores a unique ID to determine what adverts the users have seen while visiting an advertiser’s website. This information is then used to understand when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
| fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| bito | This cookie is set by Beeswax for advertisement purposes. |
| bitoIsSecure | Beeswax sets this cookie for targeting and advertising. The cookie is used to serve the user with relevant advertisements based on real time bidding. |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| MUID | Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations. |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| Others | |
| COMPASS | Description is currently not available. |
| __q_state_ajAThxcaogd4A5og | Description is currently not available. |
How can I control the cookie preferences?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
