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.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. 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.
- 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, remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language).
- 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie type | Name | Purpose | More information |
| HTML Cookie | rc::a
rc::b rc::c rc::d-15# _grecaptcha |
These cookies are used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the web site, in order to
make valid reports on the use of their web site. |
Strictly necessary cookie for the website to function properly |
| HTTP Cookie | OptanonConsent | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | Strictly necessary cookie for the website to function properly |
| HTTP Cookie | _ga
_gid _gat
|
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data |
Strictly necessary cookie for the website to function properly |
| 3rd party HTTP Cookie | CONSENT | Used by Youtube.
Used to detect if the visit r has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. |
Strictly necessary cookie for the website to function properly |
| HTTP Cookie | Mobile_detect | Cookie used for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). | Analytical/ performance cookie |
| HTTP Cookie | __dpla
__dplf __dplz |
Cookies used analytical purposes | Analytical/ performance cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | ub_campaign | Used by unibuddy. Identifies the initial source of a user’s interactions with Unibuddy, to enrich the data sent to MixPanel. | Analytical/ performance cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | UB_UUID | Used by unibuddy. Random identifier to distinguish the source of any software errors. | Analytical/ performance cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | AnalyticsSyncHistory
Lang li_gc li_mc liap lidc |
Used by LinkedIn.
Cookies used for performance purposes. |
Analytical/ performance cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | ub_content
ub_medium ub_source |
Used by unibuddy. Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the web site. Used for internal analytics by the website
operator. |
Analytical/ performance cookie |
| HTTP Cookie | wp-wpml_current_language | Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like
your preferred language or the region that you are in. |
Functionality cookie |
| HTTP Cookie | first_page | To store which page was visited first. | Targeting cookie
|
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | __mpq_#_# | Used by unibuddy. Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the web site and make advertisement
on the web site more relevant. |
Targeting cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | IDE | Used by doubleclick. | Targeting cookie |
| 3rd party HTML Cookie | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
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Used by Youtube | Targeting cookie |
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.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookies Settings’ button. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Confirm My Choices’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Enhanced Conversions
Our website also uses enhanced conversion by Google. Google uses this additional data to improve the reporting of online conversions driven by ad interactions. It supplements the existing conversion tags by sending hashed first-party conversion data from our website to Google in a privacy-safe way.
Google is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of your data. Google keeps your data confidential and secure using the industry-leading standards. Google only reports aggregated and anonymised conversions.
To read more about Google enhanced conversions visit this link.