Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Cookie: _ga, _gat
Usage: Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and what content is most popular. This helps to ensure that our website is responding to your needs in the best way possible. Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
_ga (Expiry: 2 years)
_gat (Expiry: 1 day)
More Information: Read an overview of privacy at Google
Cookie: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz
Usage: These cookies are used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where
visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Expires: Range from End of session to 2 years.
More Information: Read an overview of privacy at Google
Cookie: PREF, NID
Usage: These cookies are used by Google to ascertain how many users are using their mapping service.
Expires: Range from 6 months to 2 years.
More Information: Find out more about these cookies.
Cookie: APISID, HSID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID
Usage: These Google cookies are all typically written to the browser upon the loading of Google Maps, Street View and YouTube videos.
Expires: Range from End of session to 2 years.
Cookie: metrics_token
Usage: this cookie helps Twitter count the number of users that have seen a particular embedded Tweet or timeline.
More Information: Find out more about Twitter cookies.
YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics, prevent fraud and to improve the site experience, among other things. YouTube use cookies on both youtube.com and on videos embedded from youtube.com. We use YouTubes Privacy-Enhanced mode on embeded videos. This mode restricts YouTube's ability to set cookies for a user who views a web page that contains a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed video player, but does not click the video to begin playback. YouTube may still set cookies on the user's computer once the visitor clicks the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
