RedTube Cookie Notice changes — 20260729_rev01

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Last Modified: 20th May 2025

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This Cookie Notice applies for cookies and other similar technologies which may be placed when you visit different pages on www.redtube.com (the "Website") which is operated by Aylo Freesites Ltd (hereinafter "we" or "us"). In this Cookie Notice we explain what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage them.

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## What are cookies?

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A cookie is a small piece of data that, when browsing a website, will ask your browser to collect and store on your computer or internet-compatible end user devices for example, smartphones and tablets (collectively "Computer") in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference, online activity, or login credentials (collectively "cookies").

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First and Third-Party Cookies. The cookies set by us are called first party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different than our Website. Both types of cookies are text files made up of bits of information that websites use to collect your user data. First-party cookies are mostly used to improve your user experience by remembering user preferences and settings, also used to store information, such as usernames, passwords, and language preferences. Third-party cookies track your browsing history and activities so that we can show you targeted or personalized ads and marketing related to our content, products, and services.

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Session and Persistent Cookies. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you quit your browser. A persistent cookie will be saved on your Computer until it expires, or until you delete your cookies. Each cookie has a different expiration date; some may expire after a few minutes while others after some years (collectively, "cookie(s)").

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## What are Local Storage Objects?

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Local storage enables our Website to store information locally on your device. Local storage can be used to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the state or settings of a site or an app. Local storage may be used to improve your experience with our Website for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences, and improving our Website's functionality.

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The main difference between Cookies and Local storage is how they function, cookies are sent to the webserver with your requests while Local storage can only be read by your browser.

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## How we use cookies

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## Essential Cookies

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These are cookies necessary for the functioning of the Website and cannot be switched off in our systems as they enable core website functionality. They are used to carry out the transmission of a communication (e.g. Load balancing cookies), provide you with the requested services or are set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms (UI customization cookies).

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| www.redtube.com | LBSERVERID | Used for a load balancer. They identify the server the visitor was forwarded to when last calling up the website. They also enable all enquiries by a user in the same session to be forwarded to the same server | First Party | Session |

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| www.redtube.com | tosUpdateModal | Controls the display of the Terms of Service (ToS) modal popup during browsing. This cookie ensures that users who have already accepted the ToS are not shown the popup again, improving user experience and reducing repetitive prompts | First Party | 1 year |

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You can set your browser to block these cookies, but that will cause some parts of the Website to not work.

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## Functional Cookies

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These cookies are set to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance. These cookies help us personalize and enhance your online experience on the Website. This type of cookies also allows us to recognize you when you return to the Website and to remember your choices

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## Targeting/Advertising Cookies

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These cookies enable us to make the Website more relevant to your interests and to help us serve ads that might be of interest to you. The Website and our advertising partners set these cookies to provide behavioural advertising and define the number of ads that will be displayed to you. Collected data can be any type of browsing information necessary to understand your browsing habits.

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If you choose to disable this type of cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they will be less relevant and will not be tailored to your interests.

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| .google.com | \_\_Secure-1PSIDTS, \_\_Secure-3PSIDTS | Collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It is used to measure advertising effectiveness and deliver personalised content based on your interests | Third Party | 12 months |

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## Analytics Cookies

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These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and explore the Website, for example they allow us to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions, and paths a user takes through the Website to improve the performance of our Website. This is known as 'digital analytics,' where this information allows us to know what content on our Website is the most and least popular. Additionally, we use third party session recording technologies that help us better understand our users' experience, however, the recording data is pseudonymized.

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| .redtube.com | \_gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier to store and count pageviews, for statistics purpose | Third Party | 1 day |

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## Third Party Cookies

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Third party cookies originate from a domain different to the Website. For example, when you visit the Website, some content or applications, including advertisements, may link to a third-party website. These third parties may set cookies on your computer to collect information about you, such as your IP address or location, when you click to view, access, or use any of their features on the Website. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not share any personal information with these third parties or control how these third parties use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them. You can set your browser to refuse all third-party cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Our systems do not recognize browser "Do Not Track" signals.

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## Google Analytics

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You can learn more on [how Google uses data](https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). You can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the [Google Analytics opt-out page](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) or by accepting only essential cookies.

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To view an overview of your Google Analytics cookie please go here:

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[https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245)

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## Local Storage

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| www.redtube.com | videoPornstarRated | Used for detecting the already voted videos by the user on page load, only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button | First Party | Non-Essential |

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| www.redtube.com | commentsRated | Used for tracking already rated by the user comments only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button. This Local storage is being set if "rating" feature is ungated | First Party | Non-Essential |

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| www.redtube.com | videoRated | Used for tracking already rated by the user videos only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button. This Local storage is being set when "rating" feature is ungated | First Party | Non-Essential |

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| www.redtube.com | RNLBSERVERID | Used for a load balancer. They identify the server the visitor was forwarded to when last calling up the website. They also enable all enquiries by a user in the same session to be forwarded to the same server | First Party | Essential |

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## **How To Control and Delete Cookies**

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### Cookie Banner

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You can use our cookie banner to accept all cookies or choose to accept only essential cookies. The cookie banner will record when and in which cookies you have consented to. For logged-in users, we will ask for consent once a year or when we have major changes to our cookies, to ensure you stay up to date with changes in our Cookies and Privacy Notice. For non-logged in users, your cookie banner selection will be saved only during each specific session.

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### Manage Cookies Option

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Analytics, Functional and Targeting cookies can be switched on or off at any time by accessing the 'Manage Cookies' option located at the footer of the Website. However, if you choose not to accept these cookies, some functionalities of the Website may be disabled or your access to certain parts of the Website might be interrupted.

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### Browser Settings

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You can set your browser to automatically accept all cookies (usually this set as default), to alert you when cookies are being used or not to allow the use of cookies. To manage and disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the "Help," "Tools" or "Edit" menus in your browser. You can also delete Local Storage from your browser at any time you like by visiting your web browser settings.

+Last Modified: 20th May 2025
+This Cookie Notice applies for cookies and other similar technologies which may be placed when you visit different pages on www.redtube.com (the "Website") which is operated by Aylo Freesites Ltd (hereinafter "we" or "us"). In this Cookie Notice we explain what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage them.
+## What are cookies?
+A cookie is a small piece of data that, when browsing a website, will ask your browser to collect and store on your computer or internet-compatible end user devices for example, smartphones and tablets (collectively "Computer") in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference, online activity, or login credentials (collectively "cookies").
+First and Third-Party Cookies. The cookies set by us are called first party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different than our Website. Both types of cookies are text files made up of bits of information that websites use to collect your user data. First-party cookies are mostly used to improve your user experience by remembering user preferences and settings, also used to store information, such as usernames, passwords, and language preferences. Third-party cookies track your browsing history and activities so that we can show you targeted or personalized ads and marketing related to our content, products, and services.
+Session and Persistent Cookies. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you quit your browser. A persistent cookie will be saved on your Computer until it expires, or until you delete your cookies. Each cookie has a different expiration date; some may expire after a few minutes while others after some years (collectively, "cookie(s)").
+## What are Local Storage Objects?
+Local storage enables our Website to store information locally on your device. Local storage can be used to maintain preferences, a history of usage, or even the state or settings of a site or an app. Local storage may be used to improve your experience with our Website for example, by enabling features, remembering your preferences, and improving our Website's functionality.
+The main difference between Cookies and Local storage is how they function, cookies are sent to the webserver with your requests while Local storage can only be read by your browser.
+## How we use cookies
+## Essential Cookies
+These are cookies necessary for the functioning of the Website and cannot be switched off in our systems as they enable core website functionality. They are used to carry out the transmission of a communication (e.g. Load balancing cookies), provide you with the requested services or are set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms (UI customization cookies).
+| Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookies used | Duration |
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+| www.redtube.com | LBSERVERID | Used for a load balancer. They identify the server the visitor was forwarded to when last calling up the website. They also enable all enquiries by a user in the same session to be forwarded to the same server | First Party | Session |
+| www.redtube.com | platform | This cookie is used for website to load the correct template for the user's device | First Party | 13 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | showAgeDisclaimer | This cookie saves user's age disclaimer selection | First Party | 12 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | accessPH | This cookie is used for age disclaimer for Utah users | First Party | 12 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | Utah | This cookie is used for age disclaimer for Utah users | First Party | 180 Days |
+| www.redtube.com | ss | Is used for user authentication and the submission of forms, such as Content Removal Requests | First Party | 1 year |
+| www.redtube.com | Language | This cookie stores the User's language selection (UI customization cookies) | First Party | 1 Month |
+| .redtube.com | cookieConsent | It is used to store User's Cookie Consent selection | First Party | 180 Days |
+| www.redtube.com | flash\_values | It is used to persist error messages between requests | First Party | 24 Hours |
+| www.redtube.com | prerollShown, PopShown | This cookie is used to prevent intrusive popunder ads from appearing constantly | First Party | 6 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | videoPageViews | Used to limit the rate of advertisements you see during your session | First Party | Session |
+| www.redtube.com | sideMenu | This cookie stores the user's affirmative action to close the left drawer menu | First Party | Session |
+| www.redtube.com | \_\_l, \_\_s | These cookies are used for logging technical parameters of user's session , used for helping security tracking and preventing fraud | Third Party | 12 months |
+| www.redtube.com | tosUpdateModal | Controls the display of the Terms of Service (ToS) modal popup during browsing. This cookie ensures that users who have already accepted the ToS are not shown the popup again, improving user experience and reducing repetitive prompts | First Party | 1 year |
+You can set your browser to block these cookies, but that will cause some parts of the Website to not work.
+## Functional Cookies
+These cookies are set to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance. These cookies help us personalize and enhance your online experience on the Website. This type of cookies also allows us to recognize you when you return to the Website and to remember your choices
+| Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookies used | Duration |
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+| www.redtube.com | thumbTrDate | This cookie is used for thumbnail size adjustment | First Party | 4 days |
+| www.redtube.com | currentUrl | This cookie is used for report form filling. (when user goes to CRR form it will fill link field automatically via this cookie) | First Party | 1 minute |
+| www.redtube.com | adjustVideoPagination | This cookie is used to determine how many items to show on a given page - 10 items per page, 25 items per page, 50 items per page, etc. | First Party | 1 year |
+| www.redtube.com | hide\_subscriptionsPanel | This cookie is used for displaying an informative message to the user for subscription feature | First Party | 1 day |
+| www.redtube.com | promoBannerPersistant | This cookie is being set if "banner" feature is ungated, this cookie is used to display promo banner | First Party | 2 days |
+| www.redtube.com | premiumPromoBanner | This cookie is used to prevent intrusive popunder ads from appearing constantly | First Party | 1 day |
+| www.redtube.com | removeBecomeMemberBanner | This cookie is used for storing user's preference to close top banner. This cookie is being set if "banner" feature is ungated | First Party | 7 days |
+| www.redtube.com | adBlockClosed | This cookie helps to display or hide adblocker banner message. This cookie is being set if "banner" feature is ungated | First Party | 30 days |
+| www.redtube.com | isNotFlagable | This cookie is used to prevent the user from flagging the same video more than once | First Party | 900 seconds |
+| www.redtube.com | recommendations | Gives the ability to the users to disable recommended content according to EU DSA requirements | First Party | 24 hours |
+| www.redtube.com | Dvs | This cookie is used for ID tracking for Video Discovery | First Party | 1 year |
+## Targeting/Advertising Cookies
+These cookies enable us to make the Website more relevant to your interests and to help us serve ads that might be of interest to you. The Website and our advertising partners set these cookies to provide behavioural advertising and define the number of ads that will be displayed to you. Collected data can be any type of browsing information necessary to understand your browsing habits.
+If you choose to disable this type of cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they will be less relevant and will not be tailored to your interests.
+| Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookies used | Duration |
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+| www.redtube.com | tj\_UUID | This cookie is used to uniquely identify the current user for the purposes of ad targeting | First Party | 1 month |
+| www.redtube.com | tj\_UUID\_v2 | This cookie is used to uniquely identify the current user for the purposes of ad targeting | First Party | 1 month |
+| www.redtube.com | bs | This cookie is used to generate video recommendations when performing a search | First Party | 13 months |
+| www.redtube.com | ua | This cookie is used for user agent detection (browser detection) | First Party | 13 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-1PAPISID, \_\_Secure-3PAPISID | Is set by Google and is used to store user preferences and information when viewing pages and to provide personalized advertising | Third Party | 13 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-1PSIDTS, \_\_Secure-3PSIDTS | Collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It is used to measure advertising effectiveness and deliver personalised content based on your interests | Third Party | 12 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-1PSID, \_\_Secure-3PSID | Is set by Google and is used to authenticate users, store session preferences, and perform security measures | Third Party | 13 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-ENID, SAPISID | Is set by Google and is used to store user preferences and information, such as language preferences and customized search results | Third Party | 13 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-1PSIDCC | Is set by Google and is used to protect users' data from unauthorized access | Third Party | 12 months |
+| .google.com | \_\_Secure-3PSIDCC | Is used by Google to build a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting | Third Party | 2 years |
+| .google.com | NID | Is set by Google and is used to store user preferences and information, such as language preferences and customized search results | Third Party | 6 months |
+| .google.com | SSID | Is set by Google and is used to store user preferences and information, such as the preferred language and browsing preferences | Third Party | 2 years |
+| .google.com | APISID | Is used for personalizing Google Ads on website based on recent user searches and interactions | Third Party | 2 years |
+| .google.com | SID | Provides ad delivery or retargeting, and fraud prevention. | Third Party | 13 months |
+| .google.com | HSID | Is used for authenticating users, storing session preferences, and performing security measures | Third Party | 2 years |
+| www.redtube.com | d\_fs | Used by TJ for tracking users and analytics | First Party | Session |
+## Analytics Cookies
+These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users use and explore the Website, for example they allow us to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions, and paths a user takes through the Website to improve the performance of our Website. This is known as 'digital analytics,' where this information allows us to know what content on our Website is the most and least popular. Additionally, we use third party session recording technologies that help us better understand our users' experience, however, the recording data is pseudonymized.
+| Cookie Domain | Cookie Name | Purpose | Cookies used | Duration |
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+| www.redtube.com | \_gat | This cookie is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites | First Party | 1 Minute |
+| www.redtube.com | \_ga | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier | Third Party | 13 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | \_ga\_\* | This cookie is used for measurement if tag manager for GA4 | Third Party | 13 Months |
+| www.redtube.com | d\_uidb | Used by TJ for users' analytics | Third Party | 1 Month |
+| .google.com | SIDCC | Is set by Google and is used to protect users' data from unauthorized access. | Third Party | 2 years |
+| www.redtube.com | rt\_vidsrc | Used for tracking certain video sections on home page for google analytics purpose. | First Party | Session |
+| .redtube.com | \_gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier to store and count pageviews, for statistics purpose | Third Party | 1 day |
+| www.redtube.com | d\_uid | This cookie helps to enable user to share pages through social networking websites | Third Party | 1 month |
+## Third Party Cookies
+Third party cookies originate from a domain different to the Website. For example, when you visit the Website, some content or applications, including advertisements, may link to a third-party website. These third parties may set cookies on your computer to collect information about you, such as your IP address or location, when you click to view, access, or use any of their features on the Website. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not share any personal information with these third parties or control how these third parties use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them. You can set your browser to refuse all third-party cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Our systems do not recognize browser "Do Not Track" signals.
+## Google Analytics
+You can learn more on [how Google uses data](https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). You can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting the [Google Analytics opt-out page](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) or by accepting only essential cookies.
+To view an overview of your Google Analytics cookie please go here:
+[https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245)
+## Local Storage
+| Domain | Name | Purpose | Used | Type |
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+| www.redtube.com | videoPornstarRated | Used for detecting the already voted videos by the user on page load, only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | commentsRated | Used for tracking already rated by the user comments only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button. This Local storage is being set if "rating" feature is ungated | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | last\_video\_id | Used for loading related videos based on previous watched | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | videoRated | Used for tracking already rated by the user videos only if the user has explicitly requested to save this info, e.g. Clicking on a button. This Local storage is being set when "rating" feature is ungated | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | recentlyViewedVideos | Used for tracking recently viewed videos IDs for logged out users | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | pauseWatchTracking | Used for tracking user's history | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | swipedOnce | Used for tracking user hint on mobile to show how swipe works for video preview on thumbnail | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | swipeInfo | Used for tracking user hint on mobile to show how swipe works for video preview on thumbnail | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | recentSearchListIsSafe | Used for detecting banned words in user's search. Essential for the platform safety | First Party | Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | recent\_searches | Used for instructing the page to store user searches and provide autocomplete feature | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | mgp\_player\* | Used to store technical data needed to play back video or audio content, such as image quality, network link speed and buffering parameters | First Party | Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | rt\_vidsrc | Used for tracking certain video sections on home page for google analytics purpose, this cookie is being set if "tracking" feature is ungated | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | playlist\_shuffle | Keep tracking next video URL should be displayed during video shuffling | First Party | Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | jsDebug | QA to active console error log if there is any on js loading | First Party | Non-Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | RNLBSERVERID | Used for a load balancer. They identify the server the visitor was forwarded to when last calling up the website. They also enable all enquiries by a user in the same session to be forwarded to the same server | First Party | Essential |
+| www.redtube.com | d\_fs | Used by TJ for tracking users and analytics | First Party | Non-Essential |
+## **How To Control and Delete Cookies**
+### Cookie Banner
+You can use our cookie banner to accept all cookies or choose to accept only essential cookies. The cookie banner will record when and in which cookies you have consented to. For logged-in users, we will ask for consent once a year or when we have major changes to our cookies, to ensure you stay up to date with changes in our Cookies and Privacy Notice. For non-logged in users, your cookie banner selection will be saved only during each specific session.
+### Manage Cookies Option
+Analytics, Functional and Targeting cookies can be switched on or off at any time by accessing the 'Manage Cookies' option located at the footer of the Website. However, if you choose not to accept these cookies, some functionalities of the Website may be disabled or your access to certain parts of the Website might be interrupted.
+### Browser Settings
+You can set your browser to automatically accept all cookies (usually this set as default), to alert you when cookies are being used or not to allow the use of cookies. To manage and disable cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the "Help," "Tools" or "Edit" menus in your browser. You can also delete Local Storage from your browser at any time you like by visiting your web browser settings.

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