About NIE Networks
Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited (Company No. NI26041) (‘NIE Networks’) is the owner of the electricity transmission and distribution networks in Northern Ireland and the operator of the electricity distribution network which transports electricity to over 900,000 customers.
If you have any question relating to this policy, or about how NIE Networks your personal information, you can see our Privacy Statement here, write to the Data Protection Officer, NIE Networks, 120 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5HT or email us.
What are cookies?
Our website (www.nienetworks.co.uk) uses cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies when you visit our website to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website, preventing fraud and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree to the use of cookies. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers allow control of cookies through settings. You can remove any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may prevent you from using parts of our website.
How NIEN Networks use cookies and other tracking technologies
We use the following cookies:
Necessary cookies. Necessary cookies enable core functionality on our website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. Please note that disabling all cookies may prevent you from using parts of our website. Some technical details of your visit may be logged by the server, including IP addresses, searched terms and the user agent (browser-type and operating system). This information will only be used for statistical and other administrative purposes.
Analytics cookies. Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how the site is used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address and a unique identifier) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google stores and processes your data in the United States. To learn more about Google’s data transfer policies, click here.
NIE Networks will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Functional cookies. Functional cookies enable us to provide enhanced functionality on our website. These are set either by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages, such as Vimeo. If you do not allow these cookies then these services may not function properly.
Marketing & social media cookies. We use third party marketing sharing plugins, to allow you to share certain pages of our website on social media. These plugins place cookies so that you can correctly view how many times a page has been shared. Third party cookies may cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed and share this information with third parties. We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information unless you play one of the embedded videos on the website.
Which cookies are used on our website?
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Necessary cookies
| Name | Description | Third Party | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. It is used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | Session |
| _dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | A few seconds |
| _dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| CMSCookieLevel | Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 1 year |
| CMSCsrfCookie | Store's a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against Cross site request forgery. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | Session |
| CMSLandingPageLoaded | Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. Expires after 20 minutes and the expiration period of the key is renewed every time the website is accessed again. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 20 minutes |
| CMSPreferredCulture | Stores the visitor's preferred content culture. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 1 year |
| CMSUserPage | Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 20 minutes |
| CurrentContact | Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 50 years |
| VisitorStatus | Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | 20 years |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | 30 minutes |
| __cfduid | The '__cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | 5 years |
| __cflb | When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a __cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new __cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | 30 minutes |
| __cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | Session |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | Session |
| cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/website-terms | Session |
| cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | 1 year |
| JSESSIONID | Preserves users states across page requests. | https://www.kentico.com/privacy-policy | Session |
Analytics Cookies
| Name | Description | Third Party/Host | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| AspNetCore.Antiforgery. | Anti-forgery cookie is a security mechanism to defend against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. | No | Session |
| ASP.NET_Sessio | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | No | Session |
| ASP.NET_Sessio_Fallback | Fallback session cookie to support older browsers that haven't implemented the Secure flag, in modern evergreen browsers this cookie is never set as it haven't got the Secure flag. | No | Session |
| CLID | The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording. | No | 1 year |
| MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryDeviceId | Used to store a unique device ID for tracking behavior and usage of the website | No | 1 year |
| SM | This is a Microsoft cookie used to measure the use of the website for internal analytics | No | Session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. | No | Session |
| _clck | This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | No | 1 year |
| _clsk | This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | No | 24 hours |
| _ga_H2VEX8W7LG | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | 2 years |
| _ga_H2VEX8W7LG | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | 2 years |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | A few seconds |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | 1 day |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | A few seconds |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | cc.cdn.civiccomputing.com | A few seconds |
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | 1 day |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | www.nienetworks.co.uk | Session |
| _dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | No | 1 minute |
Functional Cookies
| Name | Description | Third Party | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vuid | This cookie is used by the Vimeo video player on websites. | Vimeo.com | 2 years |
| __cf_bm | This cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | Vimeo.com | A few seconds |
Marketing & Social Media Cookies
| Name | Description | Third Party | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Ads targeting cookie for Yahoo | No | 1 year |
| A1S | Ads targeting cookie for Yahoo | No | 1 year |
| A3 | Ads targeting cookie for Yahoo | No | 1 year |
| AADSSO | Microsoft Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | Yes | Session |
| ACH01 | Maintains information about which ad and where the user clicked on the ad. | Yes | Session |
| ACL | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | Yes | 3 months |
| ACLUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| ANON | Contains the A, a unique identifier derived from your Microsoft account, which is used for advertising, personalization, and operational purposes. It is also used to preserve your choice to opt out of interest-based advertising from Microsoft if you have chosen to associate the opt-out with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 1 year |
| ANONCHK | Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation. | No | 10 minutes |
| APID | Collects information on visitor behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used on the website, in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement. | Yes | 1 month |
| APIDTS | This is a Yahoo! Cookie used in the targeting of relevant adverts and content on the Yahoo! platform. | Yes | 1 day |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. | No | 30 days |
| BCP | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| BFB | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| BFBUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | Yes | 1 yes |
| CC | Contains a country code as determined from your IP address. | Yes | 1 year |
| IDSYNC | Identifies if the cookie-data needs to be updated in the visitor's browser - This is determined through third-party ad-serving-companies. | No | 1 year |
| KievRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| MC0 | Detects whether cookies are enabled in the browser. | Yes | Session |
| MC1 | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | No | 1 year |
| MH | Appears on co-branded sites where Microsoft is partnering with an advertiser. This cookie identifies the advertiser, so the right ad is selected. | Yes | Session |
| MR | Used to collect information for analytics purposes. | No | 7 days |
| MS0 | Identifies a specific session. | No | Session |
| MSFPC | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| MSNRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| MSPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| MSPProf | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | No | 1 year |
| MUIDB | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| NAP | Contains an encrypted version of your country, postal code, age, gender, language and occupation, if known, based on your Microsoft account profile. | Yes | 1 year |
| OID | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | Yes | 3 months |
| OIDI | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | Yes | 3 months |
| OIDR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | Yes | 3 months |
| PPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| SRM_B | Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor's behavior. | No | 1 year |
| ToptOut | Records your decision not to receive interest-based advertising delivered by Microsoft. | Yes | 1 year |
| UserMatchHistory | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | No | 30 days |
| WLSSC | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | Yes | 5 years |
| _HPVN | Analysis service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. | Yes | 1 year |
| _RwBf | This cookie helps us to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network. | Yes | 1 year |
| _UR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | Yes | 1 year |
| _fbc | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Yes | 2 years |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | No | 3 months |
| _twitter_sess | This cookie is set due to X integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Yes | Session |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | No | 24 hours |
| _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | No | 1 year |
| ads_prefs | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| aks | Determines the login state of a person visiting accountkit.com | Yes | 30 days |
| aksb | Authenticates logins using Account Kit | Yes | 30 minutes |
| auth_token | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| bcookie | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | No | 1 year |
| brcap | Microsoft Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | No | 1 year |
| bscookie | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | No | 1 year |
| c_user | Used in conjunction with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. | Yes | 90 days |
| campaign_click_url | Records the Facebook URL that an individual landed on after clicking on an ad promoting Facebook | Yes | 30 days |
| childinfo | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | Yes | 50 years |
| csm | Insecure indicator | Yes | 90 days |
| csrf_same_site | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| csrf_same_site_set | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| ct0 | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| datr | Used to prevent creation of fake / spammy accounts. Datr cookie is associated with a browser, not individual people. | No | 2 years |
| dbln | Used to enable device-based logins. | Yes | 2 years |
| ddid | Used to open a specific location in an advertiser's app upon installation | Yes | 28 days |
| dnt | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | Yes | 2 years |
| eu_cn | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | Yes | 2 years |
| external_referer | Our Website uses X buttons to allow our visitors to follow our promotional X feeds, and sometimes embed feeds on our Website. | Yes | 2 years |
| fr | Contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. | No | 90 days |
| gt | Twitter uses these cookies to support plugin integration with our website. If you use the Tweet plugin and log into your X account, X will set some of these cookies to remember that you are logged in. X will also use cookies for their own analytics purposes. | No | 1 year |
| guest_id | This cookie is set by X to identify and track the website visitor. Registers if a users is signed in the X platform and collects information about ad preferences. | No | 1 year |
| guest_id_ads | This cookie is for advertising when logged out. | No | 1 year |
| guest_id_marketing | This cookie is for advertising when logged out. | No | 1 year |
| ick | Stores an encryption key used to encrypt cookies. | Yes | 2 years |
| js_ver | Records the age of Facebook javascript files. | Yes | 7 days |
| kcdob | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | Yes | 5 years |
| kcrelid | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | Yes | 5 years |
| kcru | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | Yes | 5 years |
| kdt | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | Yes | 2 years |
| lang | Used to remember a user's language setting | No | Session |
| li_gc | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | Yes | 2 years |
| li_oatml | Collects information about how visitors use our site. | Yes | 30 days |
| li_rm | Used as part of the LinkedIn Remember Me feature and is set when a user clicks Remember Me on the device to make it easier for him or her to sign in to that device | Yes | 1 year |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | No | 3 months |
| liap | Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or to allow for the Linkedin follow feature. | Yes | 90 days |
| lidc | Used by the social networking service LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | No | 24 hours |
| lissc | Pending | Yes | 1 year |
| ln_or | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain. | No | 1 day |
| locale | This cookie contains the display locale of the last logged in user on this browser. This cookie appears to only be set after the user logs out. | No | 7 days |
| lu | Used to record whether the person chose to remain logged in. | Yes | 2 years |
| m_user | Used to authenticate your identity on Facebook's mobile website. | Yes | 90 days |
| muc_ads | These cookies are placed when you come to our website via X. A cookie from X is also placed on our website, with which we can later show a relevant offer on X | No | 1 year |
| oo | Ad optout cookie | Yes | 5 years |
| pcfm | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | Yes | 5 years |
| personalization_id | Unique value with which users can be identified by X. Collected information is used to be personalize X services, including X trends, stories, ads and suggestions. | No | 1 year |
| pl | Used to record that a device or browser logged in via Facebook platform. | Yes | 90 days |
| presence | The presence cookie is used to contain the user’s chat state. | Yes | Session |
| rc | Used to optimize site performance for advertisers. | Yes | 7 days |
| remember_checked_on | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. These cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| rweb_optin | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. These cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| s | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | Yes | 90 days |
| sb | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | No | 2 years |
| sfau | Optimizes recovery flow after failed login attempts | Yes | 1 day |
| spectroscopyId | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | Yes | Session |
| syndication_guest_id | Used to collect information about users browsing behaviour for marketing purposes including digital display and social media advertising. | Yes | 2 years |
| tfw_exp | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| trkCode | This cookie is used by LinkedIn to support the functionality of adding a panel invite labeled 'Follow Us' | Yes | 1 year |
| trkInfo | This cookie is used by LinkedIn to support the functionality of adding a panel invite labeled 'Follow Us' | Yes | 1 year |
| twid | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | Yes | 2 years |
| usida | Collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users. | No | Session |
| wd | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. | No | Session |
| x-ms-gateway-slice | Identifies a gateway for load balancing. | No | Session |
| xs | Used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. | Yes | 90 days |
| CONSENT | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | youtube.com | 13 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | youtube.com | 6 months |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | youtube.com | Session |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. | google.com | Session |
| d/px | Collects data on visitors' preferences and behaviour on the website - This information is used to make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. | google.com | Session |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | google.com | 1 day |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | facebook.com | Session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Session |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Session |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | youtube.com | Session |
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Last updated: September 2023
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