Cookie policy

Effective Date: 02-May-2025
Last Updated: 20-May-2025 at 10:10 EST

What are cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we employ, the information we collect through them, how we use that information, and how to manage your cookie settings. Cookies are small text files that store small pieces of information on your device when you load a website in your browser. These cookies help ensure the website functions properly, enhance its security, provide a better user experience, and help us understand how the website performs and identify areas for improvement.

How do we use cookies?

Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes. First-party cookies are essential for the website’s proper functioning and do not collect any personally identifiable information. Third-party cookies on our website help us understand website performance, track your interactions with our site, maintain security, deliver relevant advertisements, and generally enhance your user experience and expedite future interactions with our site.

Types of Cookies we use

Necessary/Functional

These cookies are required for the functioning of the website.

Name Description
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN Cookie used by YouTube to manage the rollout of new features and updates. It helps assign users to specific test groups for new features, ensuring a smooth and controlled introduction of changes. The __Secure- prefix indicates that this cookie is only transmitted over secure HTTPS connections, enhancing data security
NID This cookie is set by Google to remember preferences and other information, such as your preferred language.
_cfuvid The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. Visitors who do not provide the cookie are likely to be grouped together and may not be able to access the site if there are many other visitors from the same IP address.
bcookie This cookie is set by LinkedIn for enabling social media functionality.
lang This cookie is set by LinkedIn to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user.
lidc This cookie is set by LinkedIn to facilitate routing.

Analytics

These cookies help us to keep track of how many people visit the site and other metrics. All data is anonymous.

Name Description
_ga This cookie is set by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report.
_ga_WB5CGHPT9V This cookie is set by Google Analytics to track user interaction and measure site usage.
vuid This cookie is set by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information.
YSC This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.

Preferences

These cookies make visitor’s lives easier by remembering preferences they set for 6 months so they don’t need to set things up again on every visit.

Name Description
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE This cookie is set by YouTube to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Manage cookie preferences

Additionally, different browsers offer various methods to block and delete cookies. You can adjust your browser settings to manage and delete cookies. Below are links to support documents for managing cookies in major web browsers:

How to manage cookies on Firefox

How to manage cookies on Chrome

How to manage cookies on Internet Explorer

How to manage cookies on Safari

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.