# Cookie Categories

## Necessary

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: __cf_bm  
  **Duration**: 1 hour  
  **Description**: This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.

- **Cookie**: wpEmojiSettingsSupports  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly.

- **Cookie**: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

- **Cookie**: cookieyes-*  
  **Duration**: 1 year  
  **Description**: CookieYes sets this cookie for consent solution management.

- **Cookie**: PHPSESSID  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie stores and identifies a user's unique session ID to manage user sessions on the website.

## Functional

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: lidc  
  **Duration**: 1 day  
  **Description**: LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection.

- **Cookie**: li_gc  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes.

## Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: _ga  
  **Duration**: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  **Description**: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

- **Cookie**: pys_session_limit  
  **Duration**: 1 hour  
  **Description**: PixelYourSite plugin sets this cookie to manage the analytical services.

## Performance

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: _uetsid  
  **Duration**: 1 day  
  **Description**: Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website.

## Advertisement

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: _gcl_au  
  **Duration**: 3 months  
  **Description**: Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.

## Uncategorised

Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

### Example Cookies
- **Cookie**: _twpid  
  **Duration**: 1 year 24 days  
  **Description**: Description is currently not available.

- **Cookie**: _scc_session  
  **Duration**: 20 minutes  
  **Description**: Description is currently not available.