Cookie Policy
Version: 13 August 2024
This website uses cookies
Depends on the features and services we provide, we may use cookies to personalize content, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We may also share information about your use of our site with our social media partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to enable websites to operate, or operate more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. The cookies we use enable us, among other things, to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure that the website functions as you expect it to.
What are the different types of cookies?
A cookie can be classified according to its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.
Depending on its lifetime, a cookie is either
- a session cookie that is deleted when the user closes the browser; or
- a persistent cookie that remains on the user’s computer/device for a predefined period of time.
With regard to the domains to which they belong, there are two types:
- First-party cookies: These are cookies set directly by the website or domain the user is visiting.
- Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or other software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies as well.
What categories of cookies may be used on our website?
In general, depends on the features and services we provide, there are 5 categories of cookies:
1. Essential cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website to which you, as a user, have requested access. Essential cookies also include cookies intended for communication purposes only (for the sole purpose of transmission over the network). These essential cookies are exempt from consent.
2. Cookies for audience measurement
These cookies make it possible to generate statistics on visits in order to improve the website. The solution used for this (Google Analytics) anonymizes IP addresses.
3. Cookies related to social network sharing plugins
These third-party cookies are set by social networks to use your browsing data in accordance with their terms, when you interact with sharing buttons of these networks integrated on the site.
4. Functional cookies
These cookies are used to personalize your user experience.
5. Video cookies
These cookies are set by a third-party service (YouTube) to use your navigation data in accordance with their conditions, when playing videos of the service embedded on our site.
Understand how and why we use cookies
The tables below detail the cookies we use on our website and their purposes.
Cookies Exempt from Consent
1. Essential
| Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | First-party / Third-party | Duration | Purpose |
| incap_ses_* | Session | First-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| visid_incap_* | Persistent | First-party | 1 year | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| vgl | Persistent | First-party | 30 days | Determines what website content visitors see. |
| geolocation | Persistent | First-party | 2 years | Preserves users states across page requests. |
| CookieControl | Persistent | First-party | 1 year | Stores acceptance of cookie policy. |
| CookieConsent | Persistent | First-party | 1 year | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| checkForPermission | Persistent | Third-party | 10 minutes | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. |
| displayed_btm_consent | Session | First-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| cdn.userway.org | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores settings on the website’s accessibility widget. This helps people with disabilities (eg vision impairment) to navigate the site. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Persistent | Third-party | 6 months | Provides risk analysis. Used by reCAPTCHA. |
Cookies Requiring Consent
1. Audience measurement
| Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | First-party / Third-party | Duration | Purpose |
| _utma | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
| _utmb | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| _utmc | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| __utm.gif | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer. |
| _utmt | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| ___utmvc | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. |
| _utmz | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
| _ga | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
2. Functional cookies (Management of widgets for contests, newsletter subscriptions or other third-party functions)
| Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | First-party / Third-party | Duration | Purpose |
| __cfduid | Persistent | Third-party | 30 days | Stores the usage of the stock quote charts. |
3. Video
| Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | First-party / Third-party | Duration | Purpose |
| PREF | Persistent | Third-party | 8 months | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. |
| YSC | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Persistent | Third-party | 6 months | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Persistent | Third-party | 1 day | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | Persistent | Third-party | 1 year | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-app | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-session-name | Session | Third-party | Deleted when browser is closed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
How do I change the cookie settings?
You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers allow some control over most cookies through the browser settings. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer or device by using the tool we provide or by setting your browser to not accept cookies. You can delete cookies already on your computer or device at any time. Find out how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
To find information about other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
Changes to the Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version.
Should there being any inconsistency between the English version and the Chinese version of this Cookie Policy, the English version shall prevail.
