COOKIE FILE INFORMATION
1. What are cookie files?
A cookie file is a small data file that is stored on your endpoint device and contains data such as personal page settings and user information. This file is created and sent to you by the web server that connects with your web browser. We generally use cookie files to analyze interest in our web pages and to enhance the user-friendliness of our website. You can also view our web pages without cookie files. However, to fully or comfortably use our website, you should accept the cookie files that enable or simplify the use of certain functions. MESPA uses these cookie files to make its offerings more user-friendly, efficient, and reliable. Cookie files do not contain any personal information.
When accessing our web pages, if your browser settings accept cookie files, you agree to their use. Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookie files. However, you can configure your browser to display a warning before a cookie file is saved, allowing you to accept or reject certain cookie files, or to completely reject them.
At this point, we would like to emphasize that any changes made to your settings will only apply to the specific browser in use. If you use a different browser or change your device, you will need to reset the settings. Additionally, you always have the option to delete cookie files from the storage location on your device. For information on cookie settings, changes, and deletion of cookie files, please refer to your web browser’s help function.
Below is a list of the most commonly used types of cookie files and their purposes.
2.1. Session cookie files
When you open a web page, a session cookie file containing the session code is temporarily stored on your device. The purpose of this file is to prevent you from having to log in again during your session, for example, with each page change. Session cookie files are deleted when the session ends or when the session automatically expires.
2.2. Persistent or protocol cookie files
Persistent or protocol cookie files allow certain data to be stored on your computer until a predefined date. Thanks to these cookie files, web pages remember your information and settings during your next visit. For example, this allows for faster and easier access by preventing the need to reset language preferences on our portal. After the expiry date, this cookie file is automatically deleted when you revisit the website that created it.
2.3. First-party cookie files
These cookie files are created by the website itself (within the domain shown in the browser's address bar) and can only be read by that website. These cookie files typically store your information (e.g., your settings) for use during your next visit to the site.
2.4. Third-party cookie files
Third-party cookie files originate from a provider other than the operator of the website. These are used, for example, to collect information for advertising purposes, user-defined content, and web statistics.
3. Cookie files in use
The following cookie files are used on this website:
Cookie Provider: Google Analytics
- Cookie File Name: _gat_UA-XXXXXXXX-X
- Cookie File Name: _gid
- Cookie File Name: _ga
Cookie Provider: youtube.com and .youtube.com
- Cookie File Name: SID
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: Used by Google to make advertising more engaging for users and more valuable for publishers and advertisers. Common applications include selecting ads based on what is relevant to a user, improving campaign performance reporting, and preventing ads that the user has already seen from being shown again. Google uses NID and SID cookies to help personalize ads in Google services like Google Search. For example, these cookies remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps Google show you personalized ads.
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en
- Cookie File Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
- Expiration: 3 months
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track video viewing.
- Cookie File Name: PREF
- Expiration: 5 years
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. This is a common Google cookie used across all their services, storing preferences and personalizing ads in Google searches.
- Cookie File Name: APISID
- Expiration: 10 years
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
- Cookie File Name: YSC
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
- Cookie File Name: GPS
- Expiration: 1 day
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
- Cookie File Name: SSID
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
- Cookie File Name: LOGIN_INFO
- Expiration: 2 years
- Description: YouTube is a platform owned by Google for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through embedded videos on websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
- Cookie File Name: demographics
- Expiration: 6 months
- Description: Most likely used for demographic profiling and targeting for advertising.
- Cookie File Name: HSID
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: Used together with SID to verify a Google user account and most recent login time.
Cookie Provider: google.com and .google.com
- Cookie File Name: APISID
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a wide range of products and services. However, advertising remains its main source of income. Google extensively tracks users through a wide range of its own services and sites, and through the use of various technologies embedded in millions of websites worldwide. The data collected from most of these services is used to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organizations based on such interest profiles, as well as to align advertisements with the content on the pages where its customers' ads appear.
- Cookie File Name: PREF
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a wide range of products and services. However, advertising remains its main source of income. Google extensively tracks users through a wide range of its own services and sites, and through the use of various technologies embedded in millions of websites worldwide. The data collected from most of these services is used to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organizations based on such interest profiles, as well as to align advertisements with the content on the pages where its customers' ads appear. This is a common Google cookie used across all their services, storing preferences and personalizing ads in Google searches.
- Cookie File Name: HSID
- Cookie File Name: SSID
- Expiration: 1 year
- Description: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a wide range of products and services. However, advertising remains its main source of income. Google extensively tracks users through a wide range
Cookie Name: SSID
- Cookie Provider: google.com
- Expiration Time: 1 year
- Description: This cookie belongs to Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company offers a wide range of products and services. However, its main source of revenue is advertising. Google extensively tracks users through its products, websites, and various technologies embedded in millions of websites worldwide. The data obtained from these services is used to align ads with the content on the pages where their clients' ads are displayed and to sell advertising space to organizations based on the profiling of web users and their interest profiles.
Cookie Name: SID, NID
- Cookie Provider: google.com
- Expiration Time: 1 year
- Description: Google uses NID and SID cookies to help customize ads on Google properties like Google Search. For example, we use these cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser's website. This helps us to show you customized ads on Google.
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en
Cookie Name: SAPISID
- Cookie Provider: google.com
- Expiration Time: 1 year
- Description: This cookie belongs to Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company offers a wide range of products and services. However, its main source of revenue is advertising. Google extensively tracks users through its products, websites, and various technologies embedded in millions of websites worldwide.
Cookie Provider: doubleclick.net
- Cookie Name: id
- Expiration Time: 1 year
- Description: This cookie is used by DoubleClick to record the actions of a user on the site after viewing or clicking on an ad.
Cookie Name: IDE, DSID
- Cookie Provider: doubleclick.net
- Expiration Time: 10 years
- Description: Google uses one or more cookies for advertising served across the web. One of the main advertising cookies used on non-Google sites is "IDE," which is stored in browsers under the doubleclick.net domain. Another is stored on google.com and is called ANID. We use other cookies with names like DSID, FLC, AID, TAID, and exchange_uid.
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en
