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| CookieLawInfoConsent | 1 year | CookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | |
| geot_country | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Used to define what country is attributed to you to aid showing the correct content. | |
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user's unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and will be deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 1 year | The GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets the cookie to store whether or not the user has consented to use cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
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| _ga | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | |
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| _gat_gtag | 1 minute | Used to throttle too many requests from being issued within a short time. This is part of the Google Analytics suite of services. | |
| _gat_gtag | persistent | 1 minute | Used to throttle too many requests from being issued within a short time. This is part of the Google Analytics suite of services. |
| _gid | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | |
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| _hjFirstSeen | Session | 1 year | This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
| _hjid | persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| ajs_anonymous_id | persistent | 365 days | This cookie is set by Segment as a randomly generated ID for anonymous users. |
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
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| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | |
| _hjSession_* | 30 minutes | Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. | |
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