Necessary Cookies – Cookies required for the proper functioning of the website. They enable you to use certain features of the website, for example, to securely log into accounts created on the website. Cookies are used to ensure the technical functioning of the website.
If you disable cookies in your browser, some features of the website may not work partially or completely.
| Cookie | Expiry date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| pll_language | 1 year | This cookie name is associated with the Polylang plug-in for WordPress powered websites. it stores a language preference for the visitor to support multilingual websites. When set as a persistent cookie, or with the default lifespan of 1 year, it has to be considered Functional rather than strictly necessary. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category ‘Necessary’. |
| PHPSESSID | During the session | The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. (expires when you close your browser) |
| wordpress_test_cookie | During the session | WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. |
Analytical/performance cookies – these cookies are used to collect data about how many users use the website, what content, links they choose when browsing and other information. This information collected is anonymous and is needed to improve the functionality of the website. Cookies are used with your consent.
| Cookie | Expiry date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users to calculate visitor, session and campaign data. |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of the website |
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users on a website to generate statistical information about their use of the website |
| _gat_UA-47406720-5 | 10 minutes | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| DV | 7 minutes | This cookie is used to save the user’s preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not. |
| OTZ | 7 minutes | Cookie used by Google Analytics that provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors |
| _hjid | 1 year | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjTLDTest | During the session | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 30 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. |
| _ym_uid | 2 years | These cookies are used to measure and analyse the traffic of this website. These are the cookies used by Yandex Metrica script belonging to the company Yandex. |
| _ym_d | 1 year | Saves the date of the user’s first site session |
| CONSENT | 18 years | Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. |
| 1P_JAR | 15 days | Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. |
Functional Cookies – cookies used to identify the user revisiting the website. They help to personalize the content on the website, save the selected settings, etc. Cookies are used with your consent.
| Cookie | Expiry date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | 4 months | This cookie is used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 6 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| rs6_overview_pagination | 2 years | Cookie is set by Slider Revolution, tracks downtime and other browser related issues. Helps us track if something should go wrong in the UI |
Promotional / Third Party Cookies – these cookies are used to collect information about the use of the website, which is adapted for the presentation of advertisements or other relevant information of interest to the user. Cookies are used with your consent.
| Cookie | Expiry date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 2 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| _uetsid | 1 day | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. This is a Microsoft cookie. |
| SIDCC | 1 year | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| SAPISID | 2 years | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube. |
| SSID | 2 years | Google collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps. |
| SID | 2 years | Security cookie to confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. |
| __Secure-3PSID | 2 years | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
| HSID | 2 years | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. |
| ANID | 1 year | Lists ads on Google sites based on recent searches. |
| _uetvid | 16 days | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
| APISID | 2 years | Personalizes Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions. |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | 2 years | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | 1 year | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. |
| handl_ip | 1 month | It records your I.P address in your browser. |
| handl_original_ref | 1 month | Records the URL from which you came from to our site. |
| handl_url | 1 month | The URL on which we placed the code that generates this cookie is stored. |
| handl_landing_page | 1 month | This records the very first page you visited on our site in your browser. |
| handl_landing_page | 1 month | This records the very first page you visited on our site in your browser. |
