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## Cookies Overview

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, serve personalised ads or content, and analyse our traffic. Below is a summary of different categories of cookies we use:

### Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable basic features of the site. They do not store 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 from 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.

- **Cookie:** VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE  
  **Duration:** 6 months  
  **Description:** A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth to determine 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:** yt-remote-device-id  
  **Duration:** Never Expires  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

### Analytics
Analytical cookies help understand how visitors interact with the website. They provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors and traffic sources.

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

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