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Used by CookieHub (https://www.cookiehub.com) to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site.

to store language settings

The __cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management (https://www.cloudflare.com) by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption.

This cookie is set by Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com) for rate limiting policies.

Used by Google reCaptcha for risk analysis

This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

This cookie is used for storing the user login status in the Databases Tool

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.

The __cf_bm cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management (https://www.cloudflare.com) by managing incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption.

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP). The cookie is usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

Used by Matomo to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID

to send browser push notifications to our site visitors across all popular browsers

This cookie is set by Hotjar (https://www.hotjar.com) when a user first lands on a page. It persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site and ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.

This cookie is set by HotJar to Hold current session data. It ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.

This cookie is set by YouTube video service on pages with YouTube embedded videos to track views.

Short lived cookies used by Matomo to temporarily store data for the visit

Used by Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com) to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites)

Used by Matomo to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID

Short lived cookies used by Matomo to temporarily store data for the visit

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com) to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com) to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

Used by Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com) to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites)

Facebook Pixel advertising first-party cookie. Used by Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/business) to track visits across websites to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

Set by YouTube and used for various purposes, including analytical and advertising.

Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.

Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.