# Cookies Overview

## Necessary
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
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 that was clicked by the user.

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

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

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-fast-check-period  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: Used by YouTube to store user preferences for embedded YouTube videos.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-session-app  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: Used by YouTube to store user preferences for the interface of the embedded YouTube video player.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-cast-available  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: Used to store preferences regarding casting availability on YouTube video player.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-cast-installed  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

## Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

- **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 sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data.

- **Cookie**: _hjSessionUser_*  
  **Duration**: 1 year  
  **Description**: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits is attributed to the same user ID.

- **Cookie**: _hjSession_*  
  **Duration**: 1 hour  
  **Description**: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits are attributed to the same user ID.

- **Cookie**: _gid  
  **Duration**: 1 day  
  **Description**: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website.

- **Cookie**: YSC  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: YSC cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.

## Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website.

- **Cookie**: _gat  
  **Duration**: 1 minute  
  **Description**: Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate.

## Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements.

- **Cookie**: __Secure-YEC  
  **Duration**: past  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store video player preferences.

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

- **Cookie**: __Secure-YNID  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: Google cookie used to protect user security.

- **Cookie**: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: Used to manage feature rollout and experimentation by YouTube.

## Uncategorised
Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified.