Use of cookies on gold.ac.uk
Our website (www.gold.ac.uk) uses cookies and similar technologies.
Primary page content
Some cookies are necessary to help our website work properly and can't be switched off, and some are optional.
For instance, we and our partners may store cookies and other similar technologies to access personal data, page visits and your IP address. We use this information about you, your devices and your online interactions with us to provide, analyse and improve our services. This may include personalising content or the advertising you see on other websites and platforms.
We used cookies as the collective term for these technologies. You can control which of these are used on gold.ac.uk.
Cookies used on gold.ac.uk
| Domain | Description |
|---|---|
| www.gold.ac.uk | Our main website |
| sites.gold.ac.uk | Blogs and websites for 吃瓜网 projects and departments |
| geckoform.com | Service for forms used for data collection |
These are technically essential to the provision of the www.gold.ac.uk website. For example, some cookies are used to enable secure login to restricted areas.
| Cookie name | Domain | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cb---enabled---DATEYEAR | www.gold.ac.uk info.gold.ac.uk sites.gold.ac.uk |
This cookie records that you have seen and dismissed our notification that we use cookies |
| gold | www.gold.ac.uk | Session ID for staff who add events to the website (deleted on logout or browser session end). |
| PHPSESSID | www.gold.ac.uk | Maintains PHP sessions |
| info.gold.ac.uk | ASP .NET_SessionId | Maintains ASP sessions |
| appView | www.gold.ac.uk | Hides site header and footer from traffic coming from our 吃瓜网 App |
| resolution | www.gold.ac.uk | Records the screen resolution and a value that relates to the pixel density of the screen. Used across the whole site for adaptive images 鈥� delivering images of an appropriate size for the screen |
| AWSALB | geckoform.com | This cookie allows for multiple services using a load balancer to detect which server cluster is serving you |
| _RequestVerificationToken FormsWebSessionId MUID |
forms.office.com | Used when a page contains an embedded Microsoft form and helps manage that form |
These help us understand how people use our website and make improvements to what we do.
| Cookie name | Domain | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __ga __gat __gid __utma __utmb __utmc __utmt __utmz |
All | These cookies are used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. You can opt-out within your browser using |
| _clck | www.gold.ac.uk | This cookie is used by Microsoft Clarity to identify the browser session while it happens. You can use to see what data they hold. |
| __utma | geckoform.com | Enable tracking when cookies are disabled for google analytics |
| __utmc | geckoform.com | Enable tracking when cookies are disabled for google analytics |
| _ceg.s _ceg.u |
geckoform.com | This cookie name is associated with software provided by Crazy Egg Inc., a USA based company providing web analytics that tracks how visitors interact with pages on a site. |
| fs_intercom | geckoform.com | Used by intercom for statistical data on page use, miss clicks and 'rage' clicks |
| fs_uid intercom-id- bgu4tlgk |
geckoform.com | Used by intercom to a visitor ID that is used to generate statistical data on the number of visitors to the page |
| intercom-lou- xnmxp5mp | geckoform.com | Used by intercom for statistical data on page use, miss clicks and 'rage' clicks |
| intercom-session- xnmxp5mp | geckoform.com | Used by intercom to record a session ID |
| nmstat | geckoform.com | This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. |
| sc.ASP.NET_SESSIONID sc.UserId |
geckoform.com | This cookie name is associated with the SessionCam web analytics application from ServiceTick. |
We use Google Analytics, which you can opt-out within your browser using .
We use Microsoft Clarity, which is covered by the and you can access your data held by Microsoft through their .
Our advertising partners use cookies and code called pixels* on our website to help us monitor the effectiveness of our advertising.
Sometimes we use remarketing advertising services, which use the information from cookies and pixels to show adverts from 吃瓜网 on other websites that you visit. This is based on how you have interacted with our website.
We have advanced matching enabled on forms used by visitors who are enquiring about coming to study at 吃瓜网 (for example, open day registration).
We do not use advanced matching on pages containing forms unrelated to coming to study at 吃瓜网. It is not used on forms for current students and staff.
Advanced matching uses a secure method called hashing to compare the information you enter on a form with what the advertiser holds (this is limited to name, email, phone, gender and location). If this hashed information matches, the advertiser can serve advertised personalised to you.
If the hashed information does not match (ie the advertiser does not have the same information), the advertiser disregards the hash. At no point does the advertiser see your personal information in this case.
Advertising companies used by 吃瓜网
| Company | Website | Change your settings |
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| Amazon | ||
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Meta* |
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| Google (including DoubleClick) |
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| Microsoft (including Bing) |
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| TikTok | ||
| X (Twitter) |
You can also control adverting using:
* For Meta we use the Meta Conversion API to provide the information that would be collected by the Meta Pixel (this includes what is needed for advanced matching). We only do this for users who have enabled tracking cookies. We do not do this on pages containing forms unrelated to coming to study at 吃瓜网.
We embed content from the following services on our websites. They may use cookies from within their content.
Airtable
We use to show database tables. See Airtable's privacy policy for how they manage cookies:
bilibili
We use to show videos relevant to visitors from China. See bilibili's international privacy policy:
Google Maps
Our maps are served by . This includes our Campus Map, where we have overlaid our own map. This is governed by Google鈥檚 privacy policy:
Issuu
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SoundCloud
We have audio streams served by . See SoundCloud鈥檚 cookie policy:
Spotify
Some pages feature playlists. See Spotify's cookie policy:
Vimeo
Some pages include videos served by . This includes auto-playing videos featured in the top 鈥榟ero鈥� areas of pages. See Vimeo鈥檚 cookie policy:
YouTube
Some videos are served by , which is governed by Google鈥檚 privacy policy:
X (Twitter)
Some pages include the ability to share with . See X鈥檚 cookie policy: