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We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Statistics cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests | netnews.com.mt | Session | HTTP |
| Statistics | _at.hist.# | Used by the social sharing platform Add This to store the user's usage history of the Add This sharing widget | netnews.com.mt | Persistent | HTML |
| Statistics | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | netnews.com.mt | 2 years | HTTP |
| Statistics | _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | netnews.com.mt | 1 day | HTTP |
| Statistics | _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | netnews.com.mt | 1 day | HTTP |
| Marketing | __asc | This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behaviour, which is sent to Alexa Analytics - Alexa Analytics is an Amazon company. | netnews.com.mt | 1 day | HTTP |
| Marketing | __atuvc | Updates the counter of a website's social sharing features. | netnews.com.mt | 13 months | HTTP |
| Marketing | ___atuvs | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, Add This. | netnews.com.mt | 1 day | HTTP |
| Marketing | __auc | This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behaviour, which is sent to Alexa Analytics - Alexa Analytics is an Amazon company. | netnews.com.mt | 1 year | HTTP |
| Marketing | _at.cww | Used by the social sharing service, Add This. | netnews.com.mt | Persistent | HTML |
| Marketing | at-lojson-cache-# | Used by the social sharing service, Add This. | netnews.com.mt | Persistent | HTML |
| Marketing | at-rand | Used by the social sharing service, Add This. | netnews.com.mt | Persistent | HTML |
| Marketing | atrk.gif | This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behaviour, which is sent to Alexa Analytics - Alexa Analytics is an Amazon company | certify.alexametrics.com | Session | Pixel |
| Marketing | loc | Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). | addthis.com | 13 months | HTTP |
| Marketing | OAID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | ads.netnews.com.mt | 1 year | HTTP |
| Marketing | r/collect | This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | doubleclick.net | Sessions | Pixel |
| Marketing | uvc | Detects how often the social sharing service, Add This, encounters the same user. | addthis.com | 13 months | HTTP |
| Marketing | xtc | Registers the user's sharing of content via social media. | addthis.com | 13 months | HTTP |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
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