How British Antarctic Survey use cookies
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Name: piwik_visitor
Typical Content: Randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years Site:
Name: _ga
Typical content: randomly generated number used to distinguish users
Expires: 2 years
Name: _gat
Typical content: numeric value used to throttle request rate.
Expires: 10 minutes
Name: __cfduid
Typical content: The __cfduid cookie is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. For example, if the visitor is in a coffee shop where there are a bunch of infected machines, but the visitor’s machine is known trusted, then the cookie can override the security setting. It does not correspond to any userid in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
Reference: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do-