What is a cookie?
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users and members.
Opt-In and Opt-Out
We use the following types of cookies:
Essential
Essential cookies make this website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled, and this website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | 6 months | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| rc::c | 2 years | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots |
Preference
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analytic
Analytics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors use their website. The cookies collect anonymous data which is aggregated to show us how the website is being used.
| Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1P_JAR | 30 days | These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests | |
| ANID | 6 Months | These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests | |
| CGIC | 6 months | These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests | |
| __utmb | Session | Used to track the exact moment in time when a visitor enters this website | |
| _gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
| _ga | Session | This first party Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users when collecting information about page visits. This cookie helps us to identify website areas to be improved and it does not allow us to identify user personally as no personal information or data is tracked. | |
| _gat | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | |
| NID | 6 months | These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests | |
| __utmb | Session | Used to track the exact moment in time when a visitor enters this website | |
| __utmz | 6 months | Used to track where a visitor came from before entering this website | |
| __utma | 2 years | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. | |
| __utmt | Session | Used to throttle request rate. | |
| __utmc | Session | Used to track the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves this website. | |
| IDE | Session | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the Website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is collect information that allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and provide you with more relevant marketing and advertisements.
| Name | Provider | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | YouTube | 1 day | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
| YSC | YouTube | Session | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video. |
How to Control and Delete Cookies
Many of the cookies used on our website and through emails can be disabled by disabling the cookies through your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” menus in your browser. Disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser. However, you can manually delete cookies through your browser function.