## Tifo Blog

# Cookie Categories

### Necessary
- **Cookie**: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

- **Cookie**: _GRECAPTCHA  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **Cookie**: rc::a  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

### Functional
- **Cookie**: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

- **Cookie**: yt-remote-connected-devices  
  **Duration**: Never Expires  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

### Analytics
- **Cookie**: YSC  
  **Duration**: session  
  **Description**: YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.

- **Cookie**: _ga_*  
  **Duration**: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  **Description**: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

### Performance
- **Cookie**: _calendly_session  
  **Duration**: 21 days  
  **Description**: Calendly, a Meeting Schedulers, sets this cookie to allow the meeting scheduler to function within the website and to add events into the visitor’s calendar.

### Advertisement
- **Cookie**: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN  
  **Duration**: 6 months  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation.

- **Cookie**: _gcl_au  
  **Duration**: 3 months  
  **Description**: Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.

### Uncategorised
- **Cookie**: __Secure-YEC  
  **Duration**: past  
  **Description**: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.