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Rohde & Schwarz Topex’s website uses the following types of cookies
| _ga | Source: Google Analytics Expiration time: 2 years Role: gathers anonymous information about how users interact with the website (i.e. time and date of usage of different marketing materials or pages used by the visitor to enter the website). Details: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types |
| _gid |
Source: Google Analytics Expiration time: 24 hours Role: gathers anonymous information about how users interact with the website (i.e. time and date of usage of different marketing materials or pages used by the visitor to enter the website). Details: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types |
| _gat | Source: Google Analytics Expiration time: 1 minute Role: is used by Google Tag Manager to identify website’s users, events and the way they interact with the website. The data gathered are anonymous. Details: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types |
| NID | Source: Google
Expiration time: 6 months Role: Google uses cookies like NID to personalize the advertisements on Google’s websites (i.e. Google search). For example, such cookies are used to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website |
| Sucuri | Source: Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri
Expiration time: until the session expires Role: website security |
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