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- Functionality cookies - These are used to recognise you when you return to the website and remember your account preferences.
Mimosa uses the following cookies:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
| __CookieConsentV300 | __CookieConsentV300 cookie is a plugin used to comply with EU guideline. | Strictly necessary | 180 days |
| AWSALB | Classic AWS load balancer first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generates a cookie named AWSALB that encodes information about the selected target, encrypts the cookie, and includes the cookie in the response to the client. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB |
Strictly necessary | 6 day |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 2 years |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 1 Day |
| _gat_UA-92763275-1 | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 10 Minutes |
| AMP_TOKEN | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 0 Day |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Non-essential | 1 Year | |
| _gac_ | Non-essential | 0 Day |
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