Effective Date: December 22, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser.These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| wt_consent | 1 year | The WebToffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets this cookie to store the user’s consent preferences, allowing the website to recognise those choices on future visits. The cookie does not collect or store any personal or identifiable information about the visitor. |
| AWSELB | session | Associated with Amazon Web Services and created by Elastic Load Balancing, AWSELB cookie is used to manage sticky sessions across production servers. |
| SERVERID | 10 minutes | This cookie is set by Slideshare’s HAProxy load balancer to assign the visitor to a specific server. |
| AWSELBCORS | 2 hours | This cookie is used by Elastic Load Balancing from Amazon Web Services to effectively balance load on the servers. |
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to manage the phased rollout of new features or experiments on embedded videos. |
| SESSION | session | Generic session cookie used to maintain temporary user state or session during browsing (may originate from a plugin or server integration). |
| li_gc | 6 months | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| ct_pointer_data | never | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. |
| apbct_page_hits | never | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on comments and forms and act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. |
| ct_timezone | never | CleanTalk–Used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site. |
| ct_has_scrolled | never | CleanTalk sets this cookie to store dynamic variables from the browser. |
| apbct_visible_fields | never | CleanTalk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments/forms, and to act as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for the site. |
| apbct_headless | never | Cleantalk set this cookie to detect spam and improve the website’s security. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| ct_screen_info | never | CleanTalk sets this cookie to complete an anti-spam solution and firewall for the website, preventing spam from appearing in comments and forms. |
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| ct_checkjs | never | Clean Talk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments or forms. |
| ct_ps_timestamp | never | Clean Talk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments or forms. |
| ct_fkp_timestamp | never | Clean Talk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments or forms. |
| ct_checked_emails | never | Clean Talk sets this cookie to prevent spam on the site’s comments or forms. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | never | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-name | session | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | session | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-app | session | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-available | session | The yt-remote-cast-available cookie is used to store the user’s preferences regarding whether casting is available on their YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | session | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| elementor_split_test_client_id | 1 year | Used by Elementor Split Test to store a client ID and ensure visitors see the same version of A/B tested content across visits. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | YouTube security cookies used to detect spam, fraud, abuse, and invalid traffic on embedded video content. |
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube security cookies used to detect spam, fraud, abuse, and invalid traffic on embedded video content. |
| JSESSIONID | session | New Relic uses this cookie to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
| suid | 1 year | Simpli. fi sets this cookie to store a distinct session ID. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| cee | 3 months | Stape sets this cookie to track events and user interactions on its platform, enabling analytics and performance tracking. The collected data helps optimize the service and improve user interaction analysis. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No cookies to display. | ||
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| uid_syncd_secure | 7 days | Secure cookie used for synchronized user identification across devices, primarily for targeted advertising purposes. |
| __141_cid | 1 year | Client ID cookie used for tracking user behavior and personalizing marketing campaigns or ads. |
| __141_exp | 7 days | Stores experiment or variation data for A/B testing in marketing and personalized content delivery. |
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. |
| _fbp | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to store and track interactions. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. |
| suid_legacy | 1 year | Collects information on user preferences and interaction with web-campaign content which is used on CRM-campaign-platforms used by website owners for promoting events or products. |
| TapAd_TS | 2 months | TapAd sets this cookie to track users across devices to enable targeted advertising. |
| TapAd_DID | 2 months | TapAd sets this cookie to offer personalized content, social media features, and traffic analysis for its retargeting of online advertising. |
| anProfile | 6 months | This cookie is set by the provider pro-market.net. This cookie is used for personalizing online ads based on the behaviour of the online customers. |
| uid_syncd | 7 days | The domain of this cookie is owned by Simpli.fi. This cookie is used for targeted advertising based on visitor preferences. |
| TapAd_3WAY_SYNCS | 2 months | TapAd sets this cookie for data synchronization with advertising networks. |
| anHistory | 1 month | The domain of this cookie is owned by Datonics. This cookie is used for tracking the visitor on multiple websites inorder to serve them with relevant advertisements . |
| __io_cid | 1 year | This cookie is set by the provider bfmio.com. This cookie is used for detecting where the video advertisement should be displayed on the website. |
Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No cookies to display. | ||
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the Consent Preferences button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.