Cookie Notice

When you visit our website, we store or retrieve information on or from your web browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about your preferences, the pages you visit, how you interacted with some parts of the website or the device you used. 

The information does not usually identify you as a person directly, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. On this page you can choose not to allow some categories of cookies. 

Cookie categories

Click on the different category headings below to find out more. If you would prefer us not to collect any information during your visit, you can easily opt-out on this page by changing your settings.
However, you should know that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on the website and the services we are able to offer.

1. Functional cookies

These required cookies allow us to provide additional features and remember your settings, such as a language that you selected during your first visit to this website.

 

ARRAffinit

This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

Expiration: end of session.

 

ASP.NET_SessionId

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

Expiration: end of session.

 

SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE

This cookie name is associated with the Sitecore Content Management System and is used for web analytics to identify repeat visits by unique users.

Expiration: 10 years.

 

__RequestVerificationToken

This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorized posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

Expiration: End of session.

 

ai_session

This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

ai_user

This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

consentAnalytics

This cookie stores whether the user has given consent to place cookies related to performance and anonymized analytics.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

consentChoiceMade

This cookie stores whether the user has made a choice regarding cookie consent.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

consentFunctionalSocial

This cookie stores whether the user has given consent to place cookies related to website functionality supplied by third parties.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

consentMarketing

This cookie stores whether the user has given consent to place cookies related to marketing and targeting.

Expiration: 1 year.

2. Analytics cookies

We use Adobe Analytics to produce aggregated and anonymous reports on how visitors use our website. These cookies allow us to analyze behavior of users on our website in order to measure and improve the user experience of this website. 

Adobe Analytics uses the following cookies to collect analytics information:

 

s_cc

Set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled.

Expiration: end of session.

 

s_sq

Set and read by the JavaScript code when the ClickMap functionality and the Activity Map functionality are enabled; it contains information about the previous link that was clicked on by the user

Expiration: end of session.

 

s_vi

Used to identify a unique visitor

Expiration: two years.

 

s_fid

Used to identify a unique visitor (if the standard s_vi cookie is unavailable due to third-party cookie restrictions)

Expiration: five years.

 

s_vs & s_visit

Used to determine if a new visit is starting.

Expiration: 30 minutes.

 

s_cstack

Used to store campaign history.

Expiration: five years.

 

s_nr

Used to identify whether a visitor is a new or returning visitor.

Expiration: 1 month.

 

s_lastvisit

Used to store the number of days since last visit.

Expiration: 3 years.

 

adv_marketing_consent_level

Used to make sure that an analytics value is only set once.

Expiration: end of session.

 

adv_icmp

Used to make sure that an analytics value is only set once.

Expiration: end of session.

 

adv_gtm_env

Set if a test environment for Google Tag Manager should be loaded.

Expiration: end of session.

3. Functional social media cookies

Functional social media cookies are necessary for users to use services that interact with social media platforms, such as YouTube and Google Maps.

 

GPS

Set by Youtube, registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. .

Expiration: 1 day.

 

PREF

Set by Youtube, this cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

Expiration: 2 years.

 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.

Expiration: 6 months.

 

YSC

This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos

Expiration: end of session.

 

4. Marketing cookies

These cookies are used to tailor advertising to your interests, both within and beyond this website. The intention is to display ads that might be relevant and engaging for you.

 

reddaid

.reddit.com.

Expiration: 2 years.

 

edgebucket

.reddit.com / Enables the visitor to share content from the website onto social media platforms or websites.

Expiration: 2 years.

 

personalization_id

.twitter.com / 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.

Expiration: 2 years.

 

guest_id

.twitter.com / This cookie is set by Twitter to identify and track the website visitor.

Expiration: 2 years.

 

_twitter_sess

.twitter.com /This cookie lets website visitors use Twitter-related features from within the web page they are visiting.

Expiration: end of session.

 

external_referer

.twitter.com / Used to aggregate button usage.

Expiration: 1 week.

 

ct0

.twitter.com / This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

Expiration: end of session.

 

gt

.twitter.com.

Expiration: 30 minutes.

 

bcookie

.linkedin.com / Browser ID cookie, Share buttons and ad tags.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

BizoID

.ads.linkedin.com / LinkedIn Ad analytics, LinkedIn insights and ads tags

Expiration: 6 months.

 

bscookie

.linkedin.com / Secure browser ID cookie, Share buttons and ad tags.

Expiration: 1 year.

 

Lidc

.linkedin.com / Used for routing, Share buttons and ad tags.

Expiration: 1 day.

 

BizoUserMatchHistory

.linkedin.com / LinkedIn Ad analytics, LinkedIn insights and ads tags.

Expiration: 6 months.

 

L1c

.linkedin.com / Browser ID cookie, LinkedIn insights and ads tags.

Expiration: end of session.

 

BizoData

ads.linkedin.com /LinkedIn Ad analytics, LinkedIn insights and ads tags 6 months.

Expiration: 6 months.

 

BizoNetworkPartnerIndex

ads.linkedin.com /LinkedIn Ad analytics, LinkedIn insights tags .

Expiration: 6 months.

 

act

.facebook.com / Timestamp and counter of user actions.

Expiration: end of session.

 

c_user

.facebook.com / Facebook ID

Expiration: end of session / 30 days when checkbox logged in.

 

datr

.facebook.com / Browser ID

Expiration: 2 years.

 

Fr

.facebook.com / Encrypted Facebook ID and Browser ID.

Expiration: 1 month.

 

presence

.facebook.com / Chat state.

Expiration: end of session.

 

sb

.facebook.com / This is a persistent cookie

Expiration: 2 years.

 

spin

.facebook.com

Expiration: Expires in 1 day and 1 hour from the creation time.

 

wd

.facebook.com / Browser window dimensions.

Expiration: end of session / 30 days when checkbox logged in.

 

xs

.facebook.com / Session number and secret.

Expiration: end of session / 30 days when checkbox logged in.

 

sct

.facebook.com / unix timestamp value.

Expiration: end of session / 30 days when checkbox logged in.