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zoom	app.powerbi.com	Used by Bing Maps as part of PowerBI reports to remember zoom level details
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LPSID-6368614	digital.nhs.uk	Placed by LivePerson to enable chat functions
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hjViewportId	digital.nhs.uk	Used by HotJar to help us see what users do on the site, so we can improve
lpLastVisit-#	digital.nhs.uk	Used by LivePerson real time messaging platform to store the timestamp of the user's last visit.
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Name	Provider	Purpose
ai_session	app.powerbi.com	Preserves users states across page requests.
WFESessionId	app.powerbi.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
_EDGE_S	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
_EDGE_V	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
_SS	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
MUID	bing.com	Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.
MUIDB	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
SRCHD	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
SRCHUID	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
SRCHUSR	bing.com	Placed by Microsoft PowerBI
_hjIncludedInSample	digital.nhs.uk	Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder.
IDE	doubleclick.net	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
test_cookie	doubleclick.net	Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
ads/ga-audiences	google.com	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.
rc::c	google.com	Used in context with video-advertisement. The cookie limits the number of times a visitor is shown the same advertisement-content. The cookie is also used to ensure relevance of the video-advertisement to the specific visitor.
GPS	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
PREF	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt-remote-cast-installed	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-connected-devices	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-device-id	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-fast-check-period	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-app	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-name	youtube-nocookie.com	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
r/collect	doubleclick.net	Pending

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