Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer when you browse our website. They allow us to remember your computer. We also use other tracking technology, such as pixel tags. These technologies assist us with your requests and make your browsing experience easier by remembering your login information, content you have already viewed, your settings and preferences, etc. This gives you a more seamless browsing experience.
We use the following cookies:
- Required: These cookies are essential to support core site functionality. They include cookies that allow you to login, perform account-related functions, and store preferences.
- Analytics: These cookies allow us to understand how users interact with our site. We use this information to improve our site.
- Advertising: These cookies help serve advertising that is relevant to you.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Essential (required) | |
| Name | Purpose |
| fs_* | Bot detection and verification cookies. |
| html5volume | Accessibility cookie for widget volume on slideshows/videos. |
vtlsurv* | Cookies used to determine survey status |
| userway_status | This cookie is used to allow accessibility options to persist and is required for accessibility requirements |
| _xsrf | This cookie is used in protection against the cross-site request forgery (CSRF). |
| forum_history | This cookie allows proper functionality of forum history on a per-session basis. |
| _cookie_consent | Used to hold your consent preferences. |
| SSESS* | Used to manage your login session. |
| __cf_bm | This cookie is used as on-end user devices that access customer sites that are protected by bot management or bot fight mode. |
| Advertising (opt-out) | |
| Name | Purpose |
| IDE | Ads targeting cookie for DoubleClick |
| NID | This is an advertising cookie from Google. Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and products. |
| vglnk.Agent.p | A unique identifier given to each computer that allows log analysis to determine the number of unique users for various parts of redirect. |
| remote_sid | This cookie saved to your device to allow us to embed YouTube videos. |
| __Secure- | YouTube 3rd party cookies. |
| _ga | It is used for marketing |
| cid_* | This cookie is set through our site by our advertising partners. This is used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| __gpi | This cookie is used to enable sites to show ads, including personalized ads. |
| ljtrtb | This is an advertising cookie from Sovrn. Sovrn offers products and services to online publishers that help them grow, operate their business, and manage consumer data. |
| _ljtrtb_* | This cookie is used temporarily when multiple partners pass us their ID simultaneously. To avoid technical conflicts that arise from accessing the ljtrtb cookie for multiple partners at the same time |
| __cf_bm | Used by X (Twitter) to track user interactions. |
| mid | This cookie is set by Instagram (a service of Facebook). |
| csrftoken | This cookie from Instagram (an offer by Facebook) is used upon embedding an Instagram plugin into our Website. It used for IT security reasons and shall prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
| Analytics (opt-out) | |
| Name | Purpose |
| __gads | It serves purposes such as measuring interactions with the ads on our domain and preventing the same ads from being shown to you too many times. |
| _ga_* | Used to persist session state. |
| _gat_UA-* | This cookie is used to throttle request rate. |
| _gu | Used to distinguish users. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. For instance, Google will set additional cookies if you are logged into your Google account. These cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies, or targeting cookies.
How can you manage your cookies?
You can remove cookies stored on your computer via browser settings. For further information about removing cookies, visit whatarecookies.com/delete.asp.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy, which you can review by clicking here. If you would like to opt-out of tracking by Google Analytics, please visit Google Analytics opt-out page.
