Cookie Policy

Effective 22 January 2025

What are cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Types of cookies we use

The types of cookies we use are listed below. 

Necessary cookies

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.

• .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.*: This cookie is set by Microsoft AspNet for the purpose of Anti-forgery protection. Session.
• _GRECAPTCHA: Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. 6 months.
• rc::a: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Never expires.
• rc::f: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Never expires.
• rc::c: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Session.
• rc::b: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Session.
• cookieyes-consent: CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users' consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. 1 year.
• client_id: This cookie is used for passing authentication information. 1 hour.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

• yt-remote-device-id: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. Never expires.
• ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY: The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. Never expires.
• yt-remote-connected-devices: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. Never expires.
• yt-remote-session-app: The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. Session.
• yt-remote-cast-installed: The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Session.
• yt-remote-session-name: The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Session.
• yt-remote-fast-check-period: The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. Session.
• yt-remote-cast-available: The yt-remote-cast-available cookie is used to store the user's preferences regarding whether casting is available on their YouTube video player. Session.

Analytics cookies

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.

• _ga_*: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. 1 year 1 month 4 days.
• _ga: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. 1 year 1 month 4 days.

Advertisement cookies

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

• YSC: Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. Session.
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. 6 months.
• VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. 6 months.

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