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
Session ID
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.
Load balancer
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.
Javascript check
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.
University website surveys
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
University Media Hopper service
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
Consent cookie preferences for 3rd party services
Name
ed_accept_cookies
Data Stored
These cookies store information in text strings, i.e. youtube00, vimeo, y
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 uses 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 reCaptcha
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
Various but tend to be approximately 6 months
Name
CONSENT
Data Stored
unique ID
Purpose
Used by Google for cookie consent settings
Expires
20 years
Google Analytics
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.
University login for protected content
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
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 shown 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
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