Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. [By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.]
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Purpose | More information | Provider | Expires |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | university-direct.com | 2 years | |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | university-direct.com | Session | |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | university-direct.com | Session | |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | google-analytics.com | Session | |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location | youtube.com | Session | |
| PREF | Register a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos | youtube.com | 8 months | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | youtube.com | 179 days | |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | youtube.com | Session | |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Script tag | youtube.com | Persistent | |
| yt.innertube::requests | Script tag | youtube.com | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Session | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Persistent | |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Session | |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Session | |
| e.gif | Used to identify and track visitors | collect.albacross.com | ||
| nQ_visitId | Authentication token used to identify and track visitors | university-direct.com | Persistent | |
| nQ_cookieId | Used to identify and track visitors | university-direct.com | Persistent |
[Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies]
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