Cookie FAQs
Company may gather information to track user trends and site usage with the goal of improving our website users' experiences and optimizing our websites. Company also uses the information to administer websites and prevent abuse. Cookies are text files stored on your computer and accessible only to the websites which create them. Company websites may use cookies to keep you logged into secure areas of the website and/or to keep track of your preferences as you interact with certain services. You may disable cookies in your browser; however, Company websites may not work as designed if you do so. Company may automatically collect certain data in conjunction with third party tools to gather metrics on site usage including geographic location of visitors, pathways navigated through the website, and which portion of our audience is internal to the Company network. The information Company collects in this manner does not identify you as an individual. Company may use technical methods to determine if individuals have viewed emails Company sends. This information is often used to make Company websites, and emails you have agreed to receive, more interesting to you. As outlined above, non-personally identifiable web information (cookies, site navigation, etc.) gathered may also be shared with third parties to improve programs, outreach, and other campus initiatives. Additionally, aggregated metrics may be shared with vendors to improve communications related to these activities.1. The Role of Cookies on Our Website
We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.