Cookies Policy
Introduction
This page, with our Privacy Policy, details our use of cookies on this website. By using this site you indicate that you accept this Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy and you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these, please do not use this website. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our website. Cookies save data about individual visitors to the website, such as the visitor's IP address, name, password, username, screen preferences, the pages of a website viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor.
What Do We Use Cookies For?
We use cookies to identify a visitor's browser, to anonymously track visits or to enhance the experience of the website. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. When a visitor revisits the website, we may recognize the visitor by the cookie and customise the visitor's experience accordingly.
Web Beacons
We employ a software technology called web beacons (a.k.a. clear gif, web bug, pixel, tag), that help us better manage content on our website by informing us what content is effective. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. Data collected can include IP addresses. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We link the information gathered to our users’ or customers’ personal information to enable website tailoring, providing a better user experience, producing more relevant communications, achieving insights and internal reporting.
3rd Party Tracking
The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company or service providers is not covered by this Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our third party partners employ web beacons, images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our website. We link the information gathered to our users’ or customers’ personal information to enable website tailoring, providing a better user experience, producing more relevant communications, achieving insights and internal reporting.
Behavioural Targeting / Re-Targeting
We partner with third party ad networks, including Facebook and Google, to either display advertising on our websites or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network partners use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
Third Party Cookies and Analytics
When you visit certain sections of our website and/or use our mobile application (if any), third parties may place cookies on your computer's browser and/or make use of web beacons to collect information. This information may include things such as your use of the website or mobile application, device and browser information and ad data. The information generated by the cookies and web beacons about your use of the website is transmitted to those third parties. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the site and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed; serving targeted advertising to you (including use to target advertising on other sites or applications based on your online activity); providing us with services and enhancing/improving our website, mobile application/s and the third party's technology products and services.
How To Manage Cookies and Targeted Advertising
There are a number of methods and tools visitors to our website can use to manage the how cookies are stored on their device and to restrict targeted advertising based on their browsing activities.
Using your browser settings to manage cookies
You can use your Internet browser to manage which cookies can be saved to your computer. You can remove existing cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. If you reject cookies, you may still have access to our website, but your ability to use some areas of our website, such as contests or surveys, may be limited. Instructions for amending cookie settings on popular browsers can be found:
Opting-out of targeted advertising
If you wish to not information on your activities used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking Here and Here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads or targeted ads where third parties do not honour opt-out capabilities.
Opting-out of Google Analytics
When you visit certain sections of the website, Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google"), will place cookies on your computer's browser. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the website and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Google Analytics to track or to collect any personal data of visitors to our website. We will not associate any data gathered via use of cookies with any personal data from any source as part of our use of Google Analytics. For further information about Google Analytics please visit www.google.com/analytics and for details of Google Analytics' Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on which you may access at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Cookies used on this website
Information on the cookies and web beacons used on this website are provided below, with cookies separated by type based on their purpose.
Category: Necessary
Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
Name: _cfduid Source: Google Analytics Purpose: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: JSESSIONID Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Preserves users’ states across page requests. |
HTTP |
Session |
Category: Statistics
Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
Name: _ga Source: Google Analytics Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
HTTP |
2 years |
Name: _gat Source: Google Analytics Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: _gid Source: Google Analytics Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: uvc Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Updates the counter for the website’s social sharing feature |
HTTP |
1 day |
Category: Marketing
Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
Name: _ab12# Source: Google Purpose: Used as part of the ShareThis service and monitors click-stream activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: _hssrc Source: Google Purpose: Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising. |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: _fbp Source: Google Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: _hjIncludedInSample Source: gapyear,com Purpose: It uniquely identifies a visitor during a single browser session and indicates they are included in an audience sample. |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: criteo_write_test Source: Google Purpose: Sets a unique ID for the visitor that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: cto_lwid Source: Google Purpose: Used by Google to collect anonymous information on visitor behaviour for use on Google Adwords. The data is anonymous and helps Google deliver relevant advertising on other websites. |
HTTP |
13 mths |
Name: cto_tld_test Source: Google Purpose: Used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement - The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: fr Source: Facebook.com Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. For more information about Facebook cookies visit facebook.com/policies/cookies/. |
HTTP |
3 mths |
Name: GoogleAdServingTest Source: Google Purpose: Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: GPS Source: YouTube Purpose: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: hubspotuk Source: HubSpot Purpose: Keeps track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to the marketing platform Hub Spot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: IDE Source: Google Purpose: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: MR Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
HTTP |
179 days |
Name: MUID Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: MUIDB Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: PREF Source: YouTube Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. |
HTTP |
8 mths |
Name: ra1_sid / ra1_uid / RA1balancer Source: Google Purpose: Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: test_cookie Source: YouTube Purpose: Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Source: YouTube Purpose: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
HTTP |
179 days |
Name: YSC Source: YouTube Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: yt-remote-cast-installed / yt-remote-fast-check-period / yt-remote-session-app / yt-remote-session-name Source: YouTube Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
HTML |
Session |
Name: yt-remote-connected-devices / yt-remote-device-id Source: YouTube Purpose: Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
HTML |
Persistent |
Category: Unclassified
Cookie details |
Type |
Expiry |
Name: _stn_uid Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
10 years |
Name: _y2 / _yi Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: _yi / 1014 Type: HTML Expiry: Persistent Purpose: Pending |
HTML |
Persistent |
Name: bp-activity-oldestpage Source: gapyear.com Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: cobrand Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
29 days |
Name: Coyote-2-4833a8c0 Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
1 day |
Name: global / lastWindowsRefresh / isTrailingTabActive Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTML |
Session |
Name: popover Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
Session |
Name: ra1_sgm_# Source: Google Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: sa_uuid Source: studentuniverse.co.uk / gapyear.com Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
10 years |
Name: sp Source: v2.dc.yieldify.com Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: st_browser_id Source: travelsmarter.net Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
1 year |
Name: stn-test-AD_VERTICAL / stn-test-EXIT_UNIT / stn-test-HOTEL_IN_AIR Source: Google Purpose: Pending |
HTML |
Persistent |
Name: SU_CURRENCY Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTML |
Persistent |
Name: SU_LANG Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTML |
Session |
Name: version_geolocation / version_suwebsite Source: studentuniverse.co.uk Purpose: Pending |
HTTP |
Session |
Web beacons
Web beacon details |
Type |
Expiry |
Name: _ptg.gif Source: Hubspot.com Purpose: Sends data to the marketing platform Hubspot about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Pixel |
Session |
Name: r/collect Source: doubleclick.net Purpose: This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
Pixel |
Session |
Name: r1/pixel/x43612 Source: gwallet.com Purpose: Marketing pixel from gwallet.com which now links through to rhythmone.com |
Pixel |
Session |
Name: tr Source: Facebook Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
Pixel |
Session |
Name: ddm/fls/z/src Source: Google Purpose: Marketing pixel by adservice.google.com |
Pixel |
Session |
Name: leavebehind / event Source: smarter-metrics.smartertravel.com Purpose: Marketing pixel by smarter-metrics.smarttravel.com |
Pixel |
Session |