# Hero mobile

**Brookes Publishing**

### Cookies Explained

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, serve personalised ads or content, and analyse our traffic. This section elaborates on different types of cookies used on our platform.

## Necessary Cookies
necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

- **Cookie**: nabSegmentation  
  **Duration**: 4 months  
  **Description**: Description is currently not available.

- **Cookie**: rc::a  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **Cookie**: wpEmojiSettingsSupports  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly.

- **Cookie**: rc::c  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **Cookie**: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

- **Cookie**: _GRECAPTCHA  
  **Duration**: 1 year  
  **Description**: Google Recaptcha

- **Cookie**: NID  
  **Duration**: 1 year  
  **Description**: Google Recaptcha NID

## Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

- **Cookie**: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-connected-devices  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

- **Cookie**: ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: Used by YouTube to store the last search result entry.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-device-id  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-session-name  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: Used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences.

## Analytics Cookies
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website.

- **Cookie**: _ga_*  
  **Duration**: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  **Description**: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

- **Cookie**: _ga  
  **Duration**: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  **Description**: Google Analytics tracks site usage.

- **Cookie**: _hjSessionUser_*  
  **Duration**: 1 year  
  **Description**: Hotjar ensures data persistence for unique user identification across visits.

- **Cookie**: _hjSession_*  
  **Duration**: 1 hour  
  **Description**: Hotjar tracks sessions.

- **Cookie**: _gid  
  **Duration**: 1 day  
  **Description**: Google Analytics tracks visitor data anonymously.

- **Cookie**: YSC  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: YouTube tracks views of embedded videos.

## Performance Cookies
Performance cookies are used to understand the key performance indices of the website.

- **Cookie**: _gat  
  **Duration**: 1 minute  
  **Description**: Google Universal Analytics restricts request rates.

## Advertisement Cookies
Advertisement cookies provide customised advertisements based on prior page visits.

- **Cookie**: __Secure-YEC  
  **Duration**: past  
  **Description**: YouTube's cookie for video player preferences.

- **Cookie**: uid  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: Set by publuu.

- **Cookie**: __Secure-YNID  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: Google cookie for security.

- **Cookie**: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: YouTube manages feature rollout.