What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or other devices. They are widely used to make websites work or improve the efficiency of a website. Cookies help with website functionality and user experience because websites can read and write to these text files, enabling the site to recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient (i.e., by remembering your language or font preference settings).
‘First-party’ cookies are set by the site domain listed in the address bar. ‘Third-party’ cookies come from other domain sources that have items such as adverts or images embedded on the page. The information below explains the cookies we use and why.
Google Analytics uses the following first party cookies on our site:
cfduid Cookie
Purpose of Cookie: The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.
Duration: 1 month
_ga Cookie
Purpose of Cookie: 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.
Duration: 2 years
_gid Cookie
Purpose of Cookie: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information on how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analutics 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.
Duration: 1 day
Gat_gtag Cookie
Purpose of Cookie: Google uses this cookie to distinguish users.
Duration: 1 minute