We use Google Analytics software (Universal Analytics) to collect anonymised information about how you use https://novustechlab.com. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements to the site and to government digital services.
We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.
Google Analytics stores information about:
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| _ga | These help us count how many people visit https://novustechlab.com/ by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 2 years |
| _gcl_au |
These help us count how many people visit https://novustechlab.com/ by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 3 months |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _ga_* | Used to persist session state. | 2 years |
| _gat_UA-* | Google Analytics cookie to throttle the request rate. | At the end of your session |
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days |
| CONSENT | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years |
| YSCYSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | At the end of your session |
| Name | Preference | Expires |
| li_mc | Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member’s consent for use of non-essential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side. | 2 years |
| liap | Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member. | 1 year |
| lidc | To facilitate data center selection. | 24 hours |
| li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | 2 years |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | 2 years |
| lang | Used to remember a user’s language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | At the end of your session |
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They prevent the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensure that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases select advertisements that are based on your interests.
| Name | Preference | Expires |
| 1P_JAR | Used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. | 30 days |
| NID | Used to remember preferred language, how many search results a user prefers to have shown per page, and whether a user wishes to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | 6 months |
| IDE | Used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. | 13 months |