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| Cookie | Category | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
1P_JAR | Marketing | These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. |
A | Marketing | Google uses this cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers |
aboutads_sessNNN | Strictly necessary | This cookie is used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. |
ACCOUNT_CHOOSER | Functional | Used to sign in with Google account. |
ACLK_DATA | Marketing | This cookie is used to help improve advertising. This targets advertising based on what's relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance. |
AdID | Marketing | Show Google ads on non-Google sites and personalize ads based on user settings |
ADS_VISITOR_ID | Marketing | Cookie required to use the options and on-site web services |
AEC | Functional | AEC cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user's knowledge. |
AID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
AMP_TOKEN | Analytics | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. Reference: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7486764?hl=en |
_an_uid | Marketing | The ANID cookie, often associated with Google and Google AdSense, is used for marketing purposes like tracking usage behavior, optimizing user experience, and enabling marketing functionalities. |
ANID | Functional | Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user's choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user's session, such as the content of a shopping cart. |
APC | Marketing | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
APISID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
ar_debug | Marketing | Store and track conversions |
CGIC | Functional | Improves search results delivery by autocompleting queries based on user input |
COMPASS | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
CONSENT | Functional | Google cookie consent tracker |
Conversion | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
cookiePreferences | Functional | Registers cookie preferences of a user |
cookies_accepted | Marketing | This functionality cookie is simply to verify that you have allowed us to set cookies on your machine |
_dc_gtm_ | Analytics | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests |
_dcid | Marketing | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
DEVICE_INFO | Functional | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
DSID | Marketing | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
DV | Marketing | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
__eoi | Strictly necessary | This cookie is used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. |
FCCDCF | Analytics | Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out. |
FCNEC | Analytics | Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out. |
FLC | Marketing | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. |
FPAU | Marketing | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user-visits for analysis and statistics. |
FPGCLAG | Marketing | The FPGCLAG cookie, similar to FPGCLDC and FPGCLAW, is used by Google to measure ad effectiveness and track user actions after clicking ads. |
FPGCLAW | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
FPGCLDC | Marketing | Used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site |
FPGCLGB | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
FPGSID | Functional | This cookie is an essential session and security cookie from Google. Its main purpose is to manage the session of a logged-in user, ensuring they remain logged in while navigating between Google services (like Gmail, Drive, YouTube) and to protect the account against unauthorized requests. |
FPID | Analytics | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
FPLC | Analytics | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours. |
G_AUTHUSER_H | Functional | Google Authentication |
g_enabled_idps | Functional | Used for Google Single Sign On |
_ga | Analytics | ID used to identify users |
_ga_ | Analytics | ID used to identify users |
GA_OPT_OUT | Functional | Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user's choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user's session, such as the content of a shopping cart. |
gac | Marketing | Measure user activity and ad campaign performance for advertisers |
_gac_ | Marketing | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. |
_gac_gb_ | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
__gads | Marketing | This cookie is used by Google for a variety of purposes (e.g., ensuring Frequency Caps work correctly). It includes AdSense if you have AdSense enabled. This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to monitor the showing of advertisements on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting/advertising. |
_gaexp | Functional | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. |
_gaexp_rc | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
_gali | Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked |
_gat | Analytics | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager |
_gat_gtag_ | Analytics | Used to set and get tracking data |
gcl | Marketing | Helps advertisers determine user actions on their site after clicking an ad |
_gcl_au | Marketing | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
_gcl_aw | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
_gcl_dc | Marketing | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
_gcl_gb | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
_gcl_gf | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
_gcl_gs | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
_gcl_ha | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
GCLB | Functional | This cookie is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers. |
GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Marketing | Improves targeting/advertising within the website |
_gid | Analytics | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity |
GN_PREF | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
GoogleAdServingTest | Marketing | Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
__gpi | Marketing | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
__gpi_optout | Marketing | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
GPS | Marketing | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
_GRECAPTCHA | Functional | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
__gsas | Marketing | Provides ad delivery or retargeting. |
__Host-1PLSID | Functional | Used to sign in with Google account. |
__Host-3PLSID | Functional | Used to sign in with Google account. |
__Host-GAPS | Functional | Used to sign in with Google account. |
HSID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
ID | Marketing | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
IDE | Marketing | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite |
LOGIN_INFO | Functional | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. |
LSID | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
LSOLH | Functional | This cookie is for authentication with your Google account |
NID | Marketing | This cookies is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
OGP | Marketing | This cookie is used by Google to activate and track the Google Maps functionality. |
OGPC | Marketing | These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing Google mapped pages. |
_opt_awcid | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
_opt_awgid | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
_opt_awkid | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
_opt_awmid | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
_opt_expid | Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user's experience. |
OSID | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
OTZ | Marketing | Aggregate analysis of website visitors |
PAIDCONTENT | Marketing | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. |
pm_sess | Functional | This cookie is used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user's choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user's session, such as the content of a shopping cart. |
pm_sess_NNN | Functional | This cookie is used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user's choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user's session, such as the content of a shopping cart. |
PREF | Functional | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. |
receive-cookie-deprecation | Functional | This cookie ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available. |
RUL | Marketing | Used by DoubleClick to determine if the website ad was properly displayed. This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. |
SAPISID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
SEARCH_SAMESITE | Functional | SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. |
__Secure-1PAPISID | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
__Secure-1PSID | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
__Secure-1PSIDCC | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
__Secure-1PSIDTS | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
__Secure-3PAPISID | Marketing | Profiles the interests of website visitors to serve relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. |
__Secure-3PSID | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to profile the interests of website visitors and display relevant and personalised Google ads. |
__Secure-3PSIDCC | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
__Secure-3PSIDTS | Marketing | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalised Google Ads to the user. |
_Secure-ENID | Functional | Remembers user preferences like language, search results per page, and SafeSearch settings |
__Secure-ENID | Functional | Used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login |
__Secure-OSID | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Marketing | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
Secure-YEC | Functional | Serve a similar purpose for , including detecting and resolving problems |
_Secure-YEC | Functional | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators |
__Secure-YNID | Functional | It's a YouTube cookie used to enhance user experience by storing video player preferences and aiding in secure log-ins and spam detectio |
SID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
SIDCC | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
SMSV | Functional | Used to sign in with Google account. |
SNID | Marketing | This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation |
SOCS | Functional | Stores a user's state regarding their cookies choices |
SSID | Marketing | Download certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. |
TAID | Marketing | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. |
td | Analytics | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. |
test_cookie | Functional | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
__utma | Analytics | ID used to identify users and sessions |
__utmb | Analytics | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. |
__utmc | Analytics | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. |
__utmt | Analytics | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests |
__utmv | Analytics | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. |
__utmx | Analytics | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. |
__utmxx | Analytics | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends |
__utmz | Analytics | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server |
UULE | Marketing | sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. The use of this cookie depends on your browser settings and whether you have chosen to have location turned on for your browser. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Marketing | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Marketing | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie |
YSC | Functional | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
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Last updated 2026-09-27.