COOKIE PREFERENCES

Name
_uoeCookiePrefs
 
Data Stored
True or false cookie retention preferences.
 
Purpose
The cookie preferences are stored to retain visitor choices in the main
cookie banner. This means that the main cookie banner can be
minimised on future visits, and so that analytics and advertising
cookies are not set for visitors who opt out of this tracking.
 
Expires
One year

Wikipedia page about Session IDs

Name
JSESSIONID
 
Data Stored
A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

Purpose
A session cookie is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor.

Expires
This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.

Name
has_js

Data Stored
A binary value of 1 (true) or 0 (false).

Purpose
This cookie helps the website understand if the browser javascript functionality is enabled or not, so as to proceed accordingly.

Expires
The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.

Name
Takes the format of NSC_xxx.fe.bd.vl. Most likely to be NSC_tubhjoh.vxt.jt.fe.bd.vl

Data Stored
A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

Purpose
The University uses more than one server to provide web pages. When you visit the website, you are assigned to one of several servers. This cookie is required to track which server you are communicating with in order to present a consistent user experience and remember information about the data you have entered. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

Expires
The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.

Name
_uoeSurveyStatus

Data Stored
No data stored. The survey application just looks for the presence of a cookie or not.

Purpose
To check if website visitors have completed the survey before. This is to stop the user experience of the site being degraded by offering the survey multiple times.

Expires
3 months

Name
Kms_ctamuls

Data Stored
It stores an identifier for the current session. This is a completely random string of letters and numbers.

Purpose
The purpose is to be able to identify the session and know if a website visitor is logged in to the system.

Expires
It expires after the current session is over

ed_accept_cookies  

Data Stored 
These cookies store information in text strings, i.e. youtube00, vimeo,  

Purpose 
These cookies store information regarding user consent on loading  specific features which then set third party cookies e.g. YouTube videos.  This consent is requested on the first time the user loads a page which  ses a relevant feature. It is then stored for reference during future visits  to the University of Edinburgh website. 

Expires 
All cookies expire 4 years after they 're set for the first time 

Google privacy policy These are essential cookies, used by the  Google reCAPTCHA service used in our forms to stop submissions  from spammers.  

Name 
NID  

Data Stored 
unique ID  

Purpose 
Unique ID used to remember preferences and also sometimes  to customize ads  

Expires 
20 years  

Name 
CONSENT  

Data Stored 
unique ID  

Purpose 
Used by Google for cookie consent settings  

Expires 
20 years

Google's privacy policy Opt out of Google Analytics  

Name 
_ga, _gat  

Data Stored 
A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your  browser, the times and dates that you interacted with the site recently and  the marketing materials or referring pages that led you to the site.  

Purpose 
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 may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. IP addresses, which can be used to identify an individual user, are  anonymised by Google Analytics. 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.  

Expires 
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.

When viewing content that has been password protected cookies  are set by the University login system in order for this process to work.  

Name 
Cookies used by the web-login service and services using it are  named 'cosign' or start with the word 'cosign'  

Data Stored 
The web-login service uses cookies to store the fact that you have  logged in, what your username is and that you should be given access  for a certain period of time  

Purpose 
When logging in to view content that has been password protected by  the University login system cookies are set as this is strictly necessary  for the login process to work. As such the University is justified in having a legitimate interest to process and store the cookie information.  Non acceptance of these cookies will mean you will not get access to  websites protected by the authentication service. We do not use cookies  to track any information other than the fact that you have logged in and  used a particular web service  

Expires 
These cookies are only valid for the time of your login and are deleted  when you quit your browser

FindAPHD privacy policy  

Name 
Google analytics: _ga, _gid  

Data Stored 
Google analytics - records visitor numbers and demographicsGoogle  analytics cookies record visitor numbers and demographics in the  aggregate.  

Purpose 
Google analytics - _ga expires after 2 years, _gid expires after  

Expires 
24 hours   

Name 
optimizelyBuckets, optimizelySegments, optimizelyEndUserId  

Data Stored 
Optimizely cookies - random strings of numbers or letters  

Purpose 
Optimizely is split testing software that can serve different pages  to audiences for testing purposes.  

Expires 
Optimizely is split testing software that can serve different pages  to audiences for testing purposes.   

Name 
cfduit  

Data Stored 
Random strings of numbers or letters  

Purpose 
Set by the Cloudflare service. It is used to improve site speed and  performance and does not record any personal information.  

Expires 
6 months   

Name 
utmmedium, utmTrackIID, utmcampaign  

Data Stored 
UTM tagging of listings  

Purpose 
UTM tags help advertisers monitor the performance of their listings/adverts  on the internet. When enabled these cookies are used to tell Google Analytics  for the destination website (in this case ed.ac.uk) which PhD listing the visitor  has come from.  Data used in the aggregate.  

Expires 
The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.   

Name 
ServerID  

Data Stored 
Sets a number identifying a web server.  

Purpose 
Used to manage users’ sessions and balance website load to ensure that website performance is optimal.  

Expires 
The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser.   

Name 
FauVisitorId  

Data Stored 
Random string of numbers or letters  

Purpose 
The FauVisitorId is used to store user preferences and navigation  during a session.  

Expires 
Session only  

Name 
FauUserInfo  

Data Stored 
Stores users country and city E.G.  ctry=GB&city=Edinburgh  

Purpose 
FauUserInfo data is not used by PhD Connect and the cookie is overwritten  on any new session on FindAPhD or FindAMasters where users may be  hown different content depending on their location.  

Expires 
1 year  

Name 
ServerID  

Data Stored 
Sets a number identifying a web server.  

Purpose 
ServerID is used to manage users’ sessions and balance website load to  ensure that website performance is optimal.  

Expires 
Session only  

Name 
Emailed  

Data Stored 
Records if an email enquiry has been sent  

Purpose 
Records if a phd project email enquiry has been already sent this week by that user (used to prevent advertisers being spammed by a single user)  

Expires 
7 days  

Name 
EmailedDetails  

Data Stored 
Stores previous email details  

Purpose 
Stores previous email details to speed up future email enquiries.  

Expires 
24 hours