Types of cookies
Cookies may be set either by uclan.ac.uk (“first party cookies”) or by third party websites (“third party cookies”). Cookies may be used or required for a number of reasons:
Essential cookies
Essential cookies enable the website to function correctly and are required to provide access to secure sections of the website (e.g., when you log in to staff or student areas). If you do not permit access to and use of such cookies then you may not be able to log in correctly.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies are used to enhance your experience of using our website. They remember the choices users make and provide a more personalised service.
Analytics & Advertising cookies
Third-party analytic cookies are used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. This may include how long you stay, what pages you visits, what you click on and what country you are accessing our site from. We analyse such data to help improve the content of the site and to aid us in investigating issues such as missing pages. The main tools we use for this are Google Analytics and Site improve. You can opt out of these cookies without affecting your user experience of the website.
We also make use of tracking cookies for advertising and remarketing purposes as well as to measure the performance and effectiveness of our online marketing and recruitment campaigns. We use this information and cookies to make advertising more relevant to you.
The following tables identify the cookies we use on our site and explains the purpose of each cookie.
Cookie
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Name
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Purpose
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uclan.ac.uk |
gdpr-basic |
We set this cookie to remember your preferences to our cookie policy notice |
Google & Google Universal Analytics
We use Google Tag Manager to track and manage other cookies used.
|
_ga
_utmz
_utmc
_utmb
_utma
_qca
_utmt
_gat
_gid
CONSENT
collect*
NID**
Ads/ga-audiences***
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We use Google Analytics cookies to understand how users browse our website in order to make it a better browsing experience for everyone. These are set across the UCLan web site to allow us to see how websites are being used and improve them, thereby improving the service provided to the user.
*A session cookie used to send data to GA about visitors device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
** Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device and remembers preferences.
***Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.
|
YouTube
|
GPS
PREF*
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE*
YSC
|
A functional cookie, these are set across the UCLan web services to enable additional elements to be displayed. These cookies are set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video. A third party cookie, this expires at the end of your session, except for those marked * which are eight months
|
Twitter
|
personalization_id
|
A functional cookie, these are set across the UCLan web services to enable additional elements to display. This allows us to embed Twitter feeds from our official channels.
|
Facebook Pixel
|
Tr
tf
|
A third-party cookie used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertising products. Allows measurement, optimising and building of audiences for advertising served on Facebook.
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Interest Based Advertising Cookies
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RadiumOne via gwallet.com
ra1_sid
ra1_pd
ra1_sgm
RA1balancer
ra1_uid
R1/pixel/
Doubleclick.net
IDE
r/collect
Test_cookie
Smartadserver.com
pid
*TestifCookieP
Csync
Casal Media
CMDD
CMID
CMPRO
CMPS
CMRUM3
CMSC
CMST
ad.360yield.com
Tuuid
Tuuid_last_update
Um
Umeh
Appnxs.com
anj
uuid2
*sess
Crwdcntrl.net
_cc_aud
_cc_dc
_cc_id
_cc_cc
Krxd.net
_kuid_
Quantserve.com
Mc
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Our key advertising partners and associated cookies are listed below.
Interest based advertising cookies and tracking technologies are used are used to collect information about website usage and interaction with targeting and service.
*Some cookies will be first used to check the user’s browser supports cookies.
We use Google Tag Manager to track and manage other cookies used.
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Please note, we review the following information and our use of particular cookies on a regular basis. The tables below represent a review of cookies as of May 2018. If you find a cookie set whilst browsing our website that is not mentioned here then please contact us and we will investigate thoroughly and update this page accordingly.