Cookies Policy

We perform cookie scans on our website on a regular basis and maintain our cookie list updated. We classify cookies in four categories:

Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable website visitors to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping basket or make use of e-billing services.

-YSC Expiration: Session Description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

-illow-consent Expiration: Session Description: This cookie is used to keep track of a given consent in the platform

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

-CLID Expiration: 365 days Description: The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording.

-SM Expiration: Session Description: This is a Microsoft cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics

-_gid Expiration: 1 days Description: ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity

-_ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users

-gat_gtag Expiration: 1 hours Description: Used to set and get tracking data

-_clck Expiration: 365 days Description: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics 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.

-ga Expiration: 400 days Description: ID used to identify users

-hjSessionUser Expiration: 365 days Description: Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

-hjSession Expiration: 1 hours Description: A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.

-_clsk Expiration: 1 days Description: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics 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.

-hjActiveViewportIds Expiration: Session Description: Stores user active viewports IDs.

Preferences cookies. These are used to recognize users when they return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for them and remember their preferences (for example, their choice of language or region).

-VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Expiration: 180 days Description: Stores user preferences related to the YouTube

Marketing cookies. These cookies record users’ visits to our website, the pages they have visited and the links they have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to our website visitors interests.

-MUID Expiration: 390 days Description: Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.

-MR Expiration: 7 days Description: Used to collect information for analytics purposes.

-SRM_B Expiration: 390 days Description: Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor’s behavior.

-ANONCHK Expiration: 1 hours Description: Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation

-IDE Expiration: 390 days Description: This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite

-VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Expiration: 180 days Description: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

-_gcl_au Expiration: 90 days Description: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

Depending on user’s location, they will be able to opt-out from each cookie category (except necessary cookies) by clicking on the “set custom permission” in the cookie banner of our website.