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- Recording user preferences
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- Logging anonymous website access statistics
- To show relevant advertising on 3rd party websites
- To measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
Further details about each of the cookies are available below.
Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
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CookieControl | .uos.ac.uk | Stores cookie consent choices | 3 months | Necessary |
phpSaml | www.uos.ac.uk | stores login session information | 12 hours | Necessary |
_shibsession* | www.uos.ac.uk | stores login session information | session | Necessary |
AWS* | www.uos.ac.uk | Load balancing cookies | 1 week | Necessary |
saved_courses* | www.uos.ac.uk | Keeps a record of any courses saved by the user | 1 month | Necessary |
searchcookie | www.uos.ac.uk | For collection anonymous search statistics | 1 hour | Analytics |
ViewedCourses | www.uos.ac.uk | Keeps track of recently viewed courses | 1 month | Personalisation |
ms_visitorid | www.uos.ac.uk | For collection anonymous search statistics | 1 week | Analytics |
_ga_* | .uos.ac.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
_ga | .uos.ac.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
_fbp | .uos.ac.uk | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months | Analytics |
sa-user-id | www.uos.ac.uk | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a third party advertising cookie to record information about a user's website activity, such as the pages visited and the locations viewed, to enable us to provide users with interest-based content and personalised advertisements on external websites. | 1 year | Marketing |
sa-user-id-v2 | www.uos.ac.uk | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a third party advertising cookie to record information about a user's website activity, such as the pages visited and the locations viewed, to enable us to provide users with interest-based content and personalised advertisements on external websites. | 1 year | Marketing |
sa-user-id-v3 | www.uos.ac.uk | StackAdapt sets this cookie as a third party advertising cookie to record information about a user's website activity, such as the pages visited and the locations viewed, to enable us to provide users with interest-based content and personalised advertisements on external websites. | 1 year | Marketing |
wisepops | .uos.ac.uk | Used by Wisepops pop-ups. Stores persistent data to personalise visitor experience. | 2 years | Advertisment, Personalisation |
wisepops_visits | .uos.ac.uk | Used by Wisepops pop-ups. Stores the last 10 visit dates. | 2 years | Analytics, Advertisment, Personalisation |
wisepops_props | .uos.ac.uk | Used by Wisepops pop-ups. Stores custom properties across sessions | 2 years | Analytics, Advertisment, Personalisation |
wisepops_noshow | .uos.ac.uk | Disables Wisepops when a visitor clicks "Don’t show popups again" | 2 years | Personalisation |
wisepops_session | .uos.ac.uk | Wisepops session cookie | session | Analytics, Advertisment, Personalisation |
viewedOuibounceModal | .uos.ac.uk | Used for exit-intent detection | session | Analytics, Advertisment, Personalisation |
wisepops_activity_session | .uos.ac.uk | Analytics identifier for campaign performance reports | session | Personalisation |
fanplayr_sc | uos.ac.uk | user session analysis and segmentation, deployment of onsite offers | 1 year | Analytics, Advertisment, Personalisation |
anj | .adnxs.com | AppNexus sets the anj cookie that contains data stating whether a cookie ID is synced with partners. | 3 months | Marketing |
test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes | Marketing |
uuid2 | .adnxs.com | The uuid2 cookie is set by AppNexus and records information that helps differentiate between devices and browsers. This information is used to pick out ads delivered by the platform and assess the ad performance and its attribute payment. | 3 months | Marketing |
TDCPM | .adsrvr.org | TDCPM cookie is set by Cloudflare service to store a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device which is then used for targeted advertising. | 1 year | Marketing |
TDID | .adsrvr.org | TDID cookie is set by Cloudflare service to store a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device which is then used for targeted advertising. | 1 year | Marketing |
__Host-unauth | goto.uos.ac.uk | Unauthenticated sessions, stores language preference, mobile mode, and some other variables required for when a session becomes authenticated (e.g. which forms are submitted) | session | Necessary |
__Host-user | goto.uos.ac.uk | Authenticated sessions for users (logged in state) | session | Necessary |