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.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise 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.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| apbct_timestamp | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_site_landing_ts | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_page_hits | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_cookies_test | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_urls | This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and to store the addresses (urls) visited on the website. | 3 days | Necessary |
| apbct_site_referer | This cookie is placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to prevent spam and to store the referrer page address which led the user to the website. | 3 days | Necessary |
| ct_ps_timestamp | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| ct_fkp_timestamp | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| ct_pointer_data | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. | session | Necessary |
| ct_timezone | CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. | session | Necessary |
| ct_screen_info | CleanTalk sets this cookie to complete an anti-spam solution and firewall for the website, preventing spam from appearing in comments and forms. | session | Analytics |
| apbct_headless | Cleantalk set this cookie to detect spam and improve the website’s security. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_pixel_url | CleanTalk set this cookie to provide spam protection. | session | Functional |
| ct_checked_emails | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms and to act as the site’s complete anti-spam solution and firewall. | session | Necessary |
| ct_checkjs | CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. | session | Necessary |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _gat_gtag_UA_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| ct_has_scrolled | CleanTalk sets this cookie to store dynamic variables from the browser. | session | Necessary |
| apbct_prev_referer | Functional cookie placed by CleanTalk Spam Protect to store referring IDs and prevent unauthorized spam from being sent from the website. | never | Necessary |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Google Analytics
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Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after two years.
