Cookie policies

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

They enhance your online experience by saving your browsing information. Thanks to cookies, websites can keep you logged in, remember your site preferences, and offer you personalized content. Cookies can also be used to compile statistics about your browsing experience and to display targeted advertisements.

In general, cookies can be classified by:

Domain:

• First-party cookies are set by the website that the user is visiting directly.
• Third-party cookies are not created by the website being visited, but by a third party such as Google Analytics, DoubleClick, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

Purpose:

• Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to function properly.
• Preference cookies allow a website to remember the choices you made in the past.
• Statistics cookies help the website owner collect statistical data and understand how visitors interact with the site.
• Marketing cookies track the user’s online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads.

Duration:

• Persistent cookies remain on the user’s device for a set period of time.

Session cookies are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Strictly Necessary cookies

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description

PHPSESSID
First-party Session Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.

Performance cookies

_gid
First-party 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.

_gat
first-party 1 minute This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
_ga
First-party 2 years This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

Targeting cookies

Cookie key Domain Path Cookie type Expiration Description
YSC
More info .youtube.com / Third-party Session This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
More info .youtube.com / Third-party 6 months 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.

When you first enter the site, a cookie banner will ask you to accept or refuse Cookies that are not essential to the site’s operation. You may refuse or deactivate Cookies at any time, with the exception of those necessary for the stable operation of the site. You can modify your cookie preferences at any time.