## Cookie Categories

### 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.

- **Cookie:** rc::a  
  **Duration:** Never Expires  
  **Description:** This cookie is set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **Cookie:** wpEmojiSettingsSupports  
  **Duration:** session  
  **Description:** WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly.

- **Cookie:** rc::c  
  **Duration:** session  
  **Description:** This cookie is set by the Google reCAPTCHA service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **Cookie:** VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA  
  **Duration:** 6 months  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

- **Cookie:** cookieyes-consent  
  **Duration:** 1 year  
  **Description:** 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.

- **Cookie:** wordpress_test_cookie  
  **Duration:** session  
  **Description:** WordPress sets this cookie to determine whether cookies are enabled on the users' browsers.

### 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.

- **Cookie:** VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE  
  **Duration:** 6 months  
  **Description:** A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

- **Cookie:** yt-remote-connected-devices  
  **Duration:** Never Expires  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

- **Cookie:** ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY  
  **Duration:** Never Expires  
  **Description:** This cookie is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user.

- **Cookie:** yt-remote-device-id  
  **Duration:** Never Expires  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

- **Cookie:** yt-remote-session-name  
  **Duration:** session  
  **Description:** This cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player.

### 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.

- **Cookie:** _ga  
  **Duration:** 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  **Description:** Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data.

- **Cookie:** _gid  
  **Duration:** 1 day  
  **Description:** Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report.

- **Cookie:** _hjSessionUser_*  
  **Duration:** 1 year  
  **Description:** Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID.

### Performance Cookies

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

- **Cookie:** _gat  
  **Duration:** 1 minute  
  **Description:** Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites.

### Advertisement Cookies

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

- **Cookie:** __Secure-YEC  
  **Duration:** past  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences.

- **Cookie:** __Secure-YNID  
  **Duration:** 6 months  
  **Description:** Google cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud,

- **Cookie:** __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN  
  **Duration:** 6 months  
  **Description:** YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation.