Cookie Policy

The Website uses “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience, including cookies from Google Analytics and Communigator.

A cookie is a text ﬁle that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a speciﬁc page. For example, if you register with us for services, a cookie helps us to recall your speciﬁc information, such as your contact address, on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our services or websites you visit.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to aboutcookies.org.

We use the following cookie on this website:

Essential 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, and to use online forms.
Analytical 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.
Marketing 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. These cookies also 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, the advertising displayed on it and communications sent more relevant to your interests.

Full list of cookies used:

Full Tag (cookie) Name	Lifespan e.g. session, persistant	Full Description	Essential / Analytics / Marketing	Intrusiveness / Justification
wow.session	Session	IIS Session Code	Essential	ZERO // Standard session cookie served by the web server
				Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post-back
wow.schedule	Session	Load Balance Session Queue	Essential	ZERO // Standard session cookie served by the web server
				Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post-back
wow.trackingdata	Session	Communigator encrypted identifier for the session	Marketing	MEDIUM // GatorMail/GatorLeads cookie used to identify email contacts visiting the website
				GatorMail/GatorLeads cookie used to identify email contacts visiting the website
Google Analytics	_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz	Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about our website visitors. 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. Google’s privacy policy Opt out of Google Analytics	Analytics	LOW //