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# Cookies
Cookies

GitHub provides a great deal of transparency regarding how we use your data, how we collect your data, and with whom we share your data. To that end, we provide this page which details how we use cookies.

GitHub uses cookies to provide and secure our websites, as well as to analyze the usage of our websites, in order to offer you a great user experience. Please take a look at our [Privacy Statement](https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement#our-use-of-cookies-and-tracking-technologies) if you’d like more information about cookies, and on how and why we use them and cookie-related personal data. You can change your preference about non-essential cookies at any time by following [these instructions](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-personal-account-settings/managing-your-cookie-preferences-for-githubs-enterprise-marketing-pages).

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Since the number and names of cookies may change, the table below may be updated from time to time. When it is updated, the data of the repo will change. Follow [these instructions](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/about-notifications) to subscribe to changes in this repo.

Provider of Cookie | Cookie Name | Description | Expiration*
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[Yahoo](https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/index.htm?redirect=no) | b | This cookie collects anonymous data related to the visitor's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used to categorize the users' interest and demographical profiles with the purpose of customizing the website content depending on the visitor. | One year

(*) The expiration dates for the cookies listed above generally apply on a rolling basis.

⚠️ Please note while we limit our use of third party cookies to those necessary to provide external functionality when rendering external content, certain pages on our website may set other third party cookies. For example, we may embed content, such as videos, from another site that sets a cookie. While we try to minimize these third party cookies, we can’t always control what cookies this third party content sets.