# educators handbook

## Cookies Overview

### Necessary
| Cookie                          | Duration       | Description                                                                     |
|---------------------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| nabSegmentation                  | 4 months       | Description is currently not available.                                         |
| rc::a                           | Never Expires  | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports        | session        | 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. |
| rc::c                           | session        | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA        | 6 months       | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| _GRECAPTCHA                     | 1 year         | Google Recaptcha.                                                              |
| NID                             | 1 year         | Google Recaptcha NID.                                                          |

### Functional 
| Cookie                              | Duration       | Description                                                                                   |
|-------------------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE                 | 6 months       | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices        | Never Expires  | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY       | Never Expires  | Used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user.          |
| yt-remote-device-id                | Never Expires  | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-name             | session        | Used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences.                                 |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period        | session        | Used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos.    |
| yt-remote-session-app              | session        | Used by YouTube to store user preferences regarding the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-available           | session        | Used to store the user's preferences regarding whether casting is available on their YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed           | session        | Used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences.                               |

### Analytics
| Cookie                          | Duration           | Description                                                                                   |
|---------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| _ga_*                           | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.                           |
| _ga                             | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data.           |
| _hjSessionUser_*               | 1 year             | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjSession_*                   | 1 hour             | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID. |
| _gid                            | 1 day              | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website.        |
| YSC                             | session            | YSC cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on YouTube pages. |

### Performance
| Cookie                   | Duration  | Description                                                                             |
|--------------------------|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| _gat                     | 1 minute  | Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate.                   |

### Advertisement
| Cookie                           | Duration       | Description                                                                                   |
|----------------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| __Secure-YEC                     | past           | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences.                       |
| uid                              | Never Expires  | Set by publuu.                                                                            |
| __Secure-YNID                    | 6 months       | Google cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud during the login process.    |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN          | 6 months       | Helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users.           |

### Uncategorised
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| No cookies to display. |          |             |