What are Cookies?
Cookies are small electronic files which a website can transfer to a user’s hard drive to identify a user and personalise their use of that website. Our web server automatically collects standard information such as a user’s IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, etc.. We do not use cookies to customise web page content.
Google Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics software which places cookies on a user’s device to provide us with aggregated usage data of this website.
Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. Browsers do not share first-party cookies across domains.
Analytical cookies allow us to count the number of visitors to our website, and to see how users move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the quality of the delivery of our web materials. No personal information is collected or retained by means of the cookies used to generate this statistical information.
Cookies Set By Google Analytics
Analytical cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve your website experience and the services we provide. No personal information is collected about you or about your computer.
Information on the cookies used by the default configuration and use of Google Analytics is available here – https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies#cookiesSet.
Any information collected indirectly will be used by Jisc Legal only to:
- monitor the volume, type and pattern of traffic using this website
- develop the design and layout of the website and
- for other administrative and planning purposes.