# proactive strategies

**Brookes Publishing**  
P.O. Box 10624  
Baltimore, MD 21285-0624  
Phone: 1-800-638-3775  
Fax: 410-337-8539

## Necessary

### Cookies

- **nabSegmentation**  
  - Duration: 4 months  
  - Description: Description is currently not available.

- **rc::a**  
  - Duration: Never Expires  
  - Description: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **wpEmojiSettingsSupports**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on  a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly.

- **rc::c**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.

- **VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA**  
  - Duration: 6 months  
  - Description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

- **_GRECAPTCHA**  
  - Duration: 1 year  
  - Description: Google Recaptcha

- **NID**  
  - Duration: 1 year  
  - Description: Google Recaptcha NID

## Functional

### Cookies

- **VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE**  
  - Duration: 6 months  
  - Description: A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

- **yt-remote-connected-devices**  
  - Duration: Never Expires  
  - Description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

- **ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY**  
  - Duration: Never Expires  
  - Description: The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user.

- **yt-remote-device-id**  
  - Duration: Never Expires  
  - Description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

- **yt-remote-session-name**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: 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**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: 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**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: 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**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: 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**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

## Analytics

### Cookies

- **_ga_* **  
  - Duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  - Description: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

- **_ga**  
  - Duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days  
  - Description: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report.

- **_hjSessionUser_* **  
  - Duration: 1 year  
  - Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID.

- **_hjSession_* **  
  - Duration: 1 hour  
  - Description: Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID.

- **_gid**  
  - Duration: 1 day  
  - Description: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance.

- **YSC**  
  - Duration: session  
  - Description: YSC cookie is set by YouTube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on YouTube pages.

## Performance

### Cookies

- **_gat**  
  - Duration: 1 minute  
  - Description: Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites.

## Advertisement

### Cookies

- **__Secure-YEC**  
  - Duration: past  
  - Description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

- **uid**  
  - Duration: Never Expires  
  - Description: Set by publuu.

- **__Secure-YNID**  
  - Duration: 6 months  
  - Description: Google cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process.

- **__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN**  
  - Duration: 6 months  
  - Description: YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation.