COOKIE
POLICY
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The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS COOKIES
_ga — Used to distinguish unique visitors to the site by generating a unique identifier — Expires after 2 years
ga[container-id] — Used to persist session state for Google Analytics 4 — Expires after 2 years
_gid — Used to distinguish unique visitors — Expires after 24 hours
_gat / dc_gtm[property-id] — Used to throttle the rate of requests sent to Google Analytics — Expires after 1 minute
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BING / MICROSOFT ADVERTISING (UET) COOKIES
_uetsid — Records statistics and helps track visitor behaviour across the site for advertising purposes; used by Bing Ads (Universal Event Tracking) — Expires after 1 day (data retained by Microsoft for 180 days)
_uetvid — Used by Bing to track visitors across visits, supporting ad retargeting — Expires after 13 months (Microsoft cookie/MUID retention aligns to 13 months)
MUID — Microsoft's unique identifier used to identify unique browsers visiting Microsoft sites, used in conjunction with UET for ad tracking — Expires after 13 months
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YOUTUBE COOKIES (ANALYTICS & PLAYBACK)
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE — Estimates the user's bandwidth to determine the appropriate video playback quality and helps track video engagement — Expires after 6 months (up to 8 months in some implementations)
YSC — Tracks user interactions with embedded YouTube videos (e.g. views, session activity) to maintain video playback statistics — Session cookie (expires when browser is closed)
PREF — Stores user preferences for video playback, such as preferred player settings — Expires after 8 months (can persist up to 2 years depending on settings)
CONSENT — Records the user's cookie consent status for Google/YouTube services — Expires after up to 20 years
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WIX OPERATIONAL COOKIES (STRICTLY NECESSARY)
XSRF-TOKEN — Security cookie used to prevent cross-site request forgery — Session cookie
hs — Security cookie used to protect the site — Session cookie
svSession — Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's session on the site, needed for login and core site functionality — Expires after 2 years
smSession — Identifies logged-in site members — Session/persistent (2 days to 2 weeks depending on login settings)
SSR-caching — Indicates how a page was rendered, used to improve page load performance — Session cookie
_wix_browser_sess — Used for system monitoring and debugging of the Wix platform — Session cookie
consent-policy — Stores the visitor's cookie consent banner preferences — Expires after 12 months
fedops.logger.sessionId — Used by Wix to measure platform stability and effectiveness — Expires after 12 months
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WIX ANALYTICS / FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
wixLanguage — Remembers the visitor's language preference on multilingual sites — Expires after 12 months
RequestID — Tracks visitor behaviour and measures site performance for Wix's internal analytics — Session cookie
TS[xxxxxxxx] / TS[xxxxxxxx]_d — Security cookies used for fraud prevention and bot detection — Session cookie