cookies extended
FHI uses cookies when offering its services. Below you can read the extensive list of cookies that are placed and the storage periods.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies are required for the website to function optimally.
Cookie: Cookie
Keeping track of whether a user accepts cookies
Retention period: 1 year
Cookie: FHI API
This temporary cookie (also called session cookie) is related to the programming language used to build the website and establishes a visitor session and passes status data (storing serialized status data). This cookie also temporarily stores the location of an image when it is uploaded via the FHI API file manager.
Retention period: the session cookie is stored until you close the browser.
Cookie: WordPress
This keeps track of whether a user is logged in and who the logged in user is. This cookie is set when the user goes to the login page and keeps track of whether or not the browser is allowed to accept cookies. This cookie is also used to store authentication details.
Retention period: session cookie, is stored until the user closes the browser
Cookie: WordPress interface
This cookie is used by WordPress to keep track of information about the WordPress interface
Retention period: 1 year
Cookie: return_url
This cookie is set on each page to keep track of the previous URL.
Retention period: 1 day
Cookie: Math Captcha
Captcha plugin for website forms (captcha is a computer program designed to distinguish between humans and machines).
Retention period: 10 minutes
Tracking cookies/marketing cookies
Cookie: YouTube
These cookies are set by embedded YouTube videos and collect anonymous statistics to determine how many times a video has been viewed, viewed and what the player settings are. If the visitor is logged in to Google/YouTube this data is linked to the logged in account.
YouTube ip_jar retention period: 1 month
YouTube Consent retention period: 20 years and 1 month
YouTube GPS retention period: 1 hour
YouTube IDE retention period: 1 hour
YouTube NID retention period: 6 months
YouTube PREF retention period: 8 months
Retention period YouTube VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE5: 8 months
Retention period YouTube YSC: session cookie, is stored until the user closes the browser
Retention period YouTube permutive-id, permutive-session: maximum 20 months
Analytical Cookies
Cookie: Google Analytics _gid
Google Analytics cookie to distinguish users
Retention period: 1 day
Cookie: Google Analytics _ga
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish between different users.
Retention period: 2 years
Cookie: Google Analytics _gat_xxxx (where xxxx represents the Google Tag Manager code)
Google Analytics cookie used to measure request speed
Retention period: 1 minute
Cookie: Google Analytics__utma
This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the website, when their first visit was and when their last visit occurred.
Retention period: 2 years
Cookie: Google Analytics __utmz
This cookie is used to determine where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked, what search term was used and where the visitor was located when visiting the website.
Retention period: 6 months