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How we use cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser and contain a unique number, but no personal data. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site and a more tailored site experience to you.
Most browsers allow you to choose whether cookies are used or not. The 'help' portion of your browser's toolbar will usually tell you how to configure your browser to refuse cookies, to delete cookies or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, by turning off cookies you may make the website less efficient and some services may not function properly.
We use cookies to make sure our website works effectively. They help us monitor visitors' movement from page to page, so we can ensure any choices you make and/or details you submit are 'remembered' as you navigate the site – and when you return to it within a set period.
Below is a summary of the cookies we use on www.shu.ac.uk, including those set by add-ons.
| Name | Cookie type | Purpose |
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| Google Analytics | Functional cookies | This collects information about how visitors use the website, to be able to compile reports and make improvements to better meet our users' needs. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Google Analytics data and privacy information Opt out add-on for Google Analytics |
| Google Analytics | Targeting cookies | We use Google Analytics Audience Demographics and Interest Reporting within Google Analytics to further our audience understanding so we can improve our content, retargeting and user experience accordingly. Opt out of Google’s interest advertising |
| adform | Functional cookies | We may use adform's "remarketing" service to target our ads to you based on your prior use of the Site. Opt out of the adform cookie. |
| Sitecore | Necessary and functional cookies | The Sitecore cookies enable you to use functions of the site such as favourite pages, recent pages and course comparison. The cookies also identify repeat visits helping us tailor our content and user experience. To opt out please disable cookies from within your browser |
| AddThis | Targeting cookies | We use AddThis, a popular social bookmarking toolbar, to allow you to share content via social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. It uses cookies to find out how pages are shared so we can find out what our visitors like. It may also use that data to deliver tailored advertising on other websites you go on to visit. When you share content via social media, these sites may set a cookie if you are also logged in to their service. We don't control third party cookies but we recommend you visit the relevant websites for more information. AddThis privacy information and opt out option |
| Google Conversion Tracking | Targeting cookies | We use conversion tracking to understand user behaviour and to improve our site. The Googleadservices.com cookies help website owners who buy ads from Google to determine how many people who click their ads end up purchasing their products. The conversion tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click an ad delivered by Google where the advertiser has opted in to conversion tracking. These cookies expire within 30 days and do not contain information that can identify you personally. If this cookie has not yet expired when you visit certain pages of the advertiser's website, Google and the advertiser will be able to tell that you clicked the ad and proceeded to that page. Each advertiser gets a different cookie, so no cookie can be tracked across advertiser websites. Opt out of Google’s interest advertising |
| Crimtan (ctsnet) | Targeting cookies | The Crimtan cookies allow us to serve our adverts online. We use it to understand behaviour and how users arrive at our site and interact with it and re-target accordingly. There is no personal identifiable information sent in the tag. Privacy information and opt out option from cookies and opt out option from ads |
| MediaMath | Targeting cookies | The MathTag.com cookies enable us to display more tailored advertising to our users. Privacy information and opt out option |
| Microsoft’s Universal Event Tracking | Functional and targeting cookies | We use Universal Event Tracking (UET) to understand user behaviour and to improve our site. The Microsoft Advertising cookies help website owners who buy ads from Microsoft to determine how many people who click their ads end up purchasing their products. UET collects the data and Microsoft Advertising retains it for 180 days. UET will also collect the IP address and the Microsoft cookie (with an expiration date of 13 months). This cookie contains a GUID assigned to the user’s browser, and/or an ID assigned to a user as long as it authenticated through their Microsoft account. In general, the cookie in the relevant domain and IP address are always passed with every http request and not just via UET. Microsoft Advertising doesn't resell this data to third parties or share it with other advertisers. Microsoft Advertising privacy information and how to manage your privacy settings Opt out of Microsoft’s interest advertising |
| YouTube | Functional cookies | YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics and prevent fraud. We embed some videos on our site from our official YouTube channel; when we do this, we aim to use the privacy-enhanced mode which means YouTube will not set a cookie unless a user clicks to play the video. YouTube cookies contain the count of views of embedded videos YouTube privacy enhanced mode information |
| Functional cookies | We use Twitter to display relevant feeds on our site to enhance our content. Twitter widget data such as page visit and browser information is held within the cookie. Twitter also used logged in status information and may tailor content to improve your experience. Twitter privacy information and preference options |
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| Functional and targeting cookies | We use Facebook to display relevant feeds on our site to enhance our content. Facebook cookies indicate logged in status information to show relevant and social information for the social plugins and services. The Facebook cookies allow us to serve adverts on social media platforms and to improve our content, retargeting and user experience. Facebook privacy information and opt out options |
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| Functional and targeting cookies | We use LinkedIn to display relevant feeds on our site to enhance our content. LinkedIn cookies indicate existing user status information and may tailor content accordingly as well as containing page load information. LinkedIn cookies allow us to serve adverts on social media platforms and to understand user actions on our site and improve our content, retargeting and user experience. LinkedIn privacy information and opt out options |
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| LiveChat | Functional cookies | We use LiveChat to improve the ease of communication with our users. The cookies are used to identify a user and allow for user personalisation. To opt out please disable cookies from within your browser and remove them from your storage media LiveChat privacy information |
| Hotjar | Functional cookies | Hotjar is an analysis and feedback tool that reveals the online behaviour and feedback of website visitors. Examples of the type of information collected include, but is not limited to, pages visited, how pages are used and interacted with, type of device and browser used and the country you are in. Hotjar uses cookies to collect non-personal information. To opt out please disable cookies from within your browser and remove them from your storage media Hotjar privacy information and opt out option |
| SmartSurvey | Functional cookies | We occasionally deliver pop-up surveys using SmartSurvey. A cookie is set on the visitor's device once an invitation pops up. While the cookie is present, the popup won’t trigger again. This cookie does not contain information that can identify you personally. To opt out please disable cookies from within your browser. |
| Tiktok | Targetting cookies | Tiktok cookies allow us to serve adverts on social media platforms and to understand user actions made on our site once they have viewed or clicked an advert. We use it to improve our content, retargeting and user experience. Tiktok privacy information and opt out options |