- It helps us to understand the use of the website so that we can improve the information and services that we provide.
- It provides you with access and authorisation when a logon is required to access any part of the site.
- It stores preferences that you've made so you need only make them once per visit or visits.
Some of these cookies are required in order for the site to function, these cookies will be set without prompting you. Some are not we will allow you to turn these off. Additionally, where possible, we will use the same cookie to store your preferences for our site in order to minimise the number of cookies set by our site on your computer.
In order to help you identify the cookies set by our website, or by third parties on our site we have listed them below.
Strictly Necessary
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Service |
Identifiers |
Expiration |
Usage |
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Cookie warning notification |
dcc_cookieWarningSeen |
730 days |
This cookie is used to store the number of times the disclaimer at the bottom of the page about the use of essential cookies has been seen by a visitor to our site. We store this setting in a cookie so that once the warning has been seen after a set number of times, presently 3, the warning is no longer displayed again. |
Third party services that set cookies.
We use many forms of embedded content from other content providers on the internet, such as social media feeds, maps and videos to provide a richer more informative browsing experience on our site. These services set numerous cookies which change frequently. Below is a disclosure of the services we use, and the cookies we observed at the time of writing along with a link to each services privacy and cookie policies.
Analytics
Google Services
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Google Analytics |
_gat_gtag_UA_130532221_1 _gat, _ga, _gid |
The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. Others are deleted 6 months, 30 minutes and the moment you close your browser. |
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us see how our website is used. In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit the University website, how the website is found (from advertising or referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. |
Twitter Services
Twitter uses a cookie that will track that you have visited a site with one of it's buttons or widgets (This site uses a Twitter widget if you select yes to the, display twitter feeds), unless you have asked it not to or have enabled 'Do Not Track (DNT) in your browser.'
To find out more please visit
Blocking Cookies via the browser
For information about blocking the use of cookies, please refer to the instructions / help screen on your Internet browser.
Most modern web browsers will also list the cookies that a site page is using when it loads into its window. Site cookie information can usually be found listed with the web developer tools and is sometimes grouped under the heading storage.