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Cookie Name	Description	Origin	Duration
_grecaptcha	Protects the site against spam enquiries on contact forms.	Google reCAPTCHA	6 months
_stripe_mid	Ensure secure online payments for a safe and seamless transaction experience.	Stripe	1 year
_stripe_sid	Ensure secure online payments for a safe and seamless transaction experience.	Stripe	30 minutes
amplify-signin-with-hostedUI	Indicates that a user is logged in using the authentication flow provided by the Cognito Hosted UI.	AWS Amplify	1 year
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analysisCookies	Set up Google Consent Mode.	Gemvision	1 year
CognitoIdentityServiceProvider.*	They are generated by Amazon Cognito when you implement user authentication. These cookies are used to manage sessions and store information necessary for the service to function properly.	AWS Cognito	1 year
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marketingCookies	Set up Google Consent Mode.	Gemvision	1 month
preferenceCookies	Set up Google Consent Mode.	Gemvision	1 month
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Cookie Name	Description	Origin	Duration
language	Remembers your language preference to display site content in your chosen language.	Gemvision	Session

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Cookie Name	Description	Origin	Duration
_clck	Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, 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.	Microsoft Clarity	1 year
_clsk	Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.	Microsoft Clarity	1 year
_ga	Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.	Google Analytics	2 years
_ga_FJKRRLFFFL	Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.	Google Analytics	1 year
CLID	Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.	Microsoft Clarity	1 year
MCSalesForce	Tracks conversion rates when making a purchase.	Sales Force	2 months
MR	Used by Microsoft Clarity to indicate whether to refresh MUID.	Microsoft Clarity	1 year
MUID	Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.	Microsoft Ads	390 days

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Cookie Name	Description	Origin	Duration
__Secure-1PAPISID	Collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It contains a unique identifier.	Google	1 year
__Secure-1PSID	Used for targeting purposes to create a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to display relevant and personalized Google advertising.	Google	1 year
__Secure-3PAPISID	Profiles the interests of website visitors to deliver relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	Google	1 year
__Secure-3PSID	Profile the interests of website visitors and display relevant and personalized Google ads.	Google	1 year
_fbp	Used by Facebook to track visits across websites to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.	Facebook Pixel	3 months
ANONCHK	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.	Microsoft Clarity	Session
APISID	Google collects information about visitors to videos played by YouTube.	Google Ads	1 year
ar_debug	Used by DoubleClick to debug ads.	Google Doubleclick	Session
bcookie	Browser identifier cookie to identify devices accessing LinkedIn and detect platform abuse.	Linkedin	1 year
datr	Provides fraud prevention.	Facebook	2 years
dfpfpt	Unique user identifier to prevent abuse of LinkedIn payment flows.	Linkedin	2 years
fptctx2	Used to prevent abuse in LinkedIn payment flows.	Linkedin	Session
HSID	Security cookie to confirm the authenticity of visitors, prevent fraudulent use of credentials and protect visitor data from unauthorized access.	Google	1 year
IDE	Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.	Google Ads	2 years
lang	It is used to remember a user's language settings to ensure that LinkedIn.com is displayed in the language selected by the user in the settings.	Linkedin	Session
li_gc	It is used to store guest consent regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.	Linkedin	6 months
li_mc	It is used as a temporary cache to avoid searching databases for a member's consent to the use of non-essential cookies, as well as to have information about the customer's consent to apply it.	Linkedin	6 months
lidc	To facilitate the selection of the data center.	Linkedin	1 day
NID	A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.	Google Ads	6 months
SAPISID	This DoubleClick cookie is generally set by advertising partners across the site and used to create a profile of the website visitor's interests and display relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.	Google Ads	2 years
sb	It is used to store browser details.	Facebook	1 year
SID	Provides ad delivery or retargeting and fraud prevention.	Google Ads	1 year
SRM_B	Installed by Microsoft Bing. Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites.	Microsoft	1 year
SSID	Carries information about how the end user uses the website and any advertisements the end user may have seen prior to visiting the website.	Google Ads	1 year
wd	Used to read screen resolution.	Facebook	1 week

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