Cookie Policy and Register

Introduction

1. Northeastern University London’s (the University’s) website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. Cookies help the University to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site, they secure it, and also enable improvements to the website.

What is a Cookie?

2. A cookie is a small text file that a website’s server places on your browser to store information about your visit. Only that server can retrieve or read the contents of the cookies it places. Our cookies do not contain programmes, viruses or malicious software and usually expire after a certain length of time.
3. We use two categories of cookie: ‘Session’ cookies are temporary and will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser or after a period of inactivity. ‘Persistent’ cookies remain on your computer until the expiration date/time set by the cookie creator.

What Does a Cookie Do?

4. A cookie can collect a range of information about your visit to our website. Cookies are commonly used to store any preferences you’ve selected, such as privacy settings and whether you are logged in. Cookies can compile information about your browsing habits. For the most part, cookies enhance your experience of our website by preventing the need for you to select the same options each time you visit.
5. A cookie can also be used to serve you advertising targeted to your particular interests based on the preferences you’ve selected or the content of the pages you have visited. For this reason, some web users choose to reject cookies of certain types or from specific companies.

How Does the University Use Cookies?

6. The University uses cookies to enhance and secure the user’s experience on our sites and to provide tailored information about our programs, content and services. We also use cookies to collect online information, such as your mobile device ID, IP address, and other information about your device, as well as how you are using our site (e.g. pages viewed, links clicked, documents downloaded).
7. The University categorises the cookies on its website into three different groups:  Required, Functional, and Advertising.  Required cookies are required to enable core website functionality, such as enabling secure login.  Functional cookies enable additional functionality such as saving preferences, analysing website usage or conducting analytics for website optimization.  Advertising cookies are used to provide you with advertising on this or third-party websites.  As noted above, the University’s cookie preference management tool gives you control over which cookies (other than Required cookies) you would like to accept or reject.
8. Certain cookies you will encounter when browsing the University’s website are ‘third-party’ cookies, meaning that the University’s website has used a feature supplied by an external provider, such as Facebook or Google Maps which sets the cookie. Third-party cookies are not inherently more or less risky than first-party cookies, and it is the external provider, not the University, which determines the type of information stored and how it is used.
9. Specific information about the cookies on the University’s website is available on the cookie preference management tool.

Can I Control the Placement of Cookies on my Browser?

10. Yes, the University’s cookie preference management tool allows you to control what Functional and Advertising cookies are placed on your browser.  In other words, you can block all cookies that are not required for website operation.  Because Required cookies are required for the functioning of our site, that are required to be placed on your browser.
11. Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may be presented with a banner at the bottom of the University’s site when you arrive that asks for your consent for the placement of cookies that are not Required.  This is true in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and certain other jurisdictions.  In such cases, if you do not affirmatively consent, then only Required cookies will be placed on your browser.  In all cases, you can manage your cookie preferences by clicking on the link to cookie preference management tool.
12. You can also block cookies by using the settings on your browser that allow you to refuse permission to place all or some cookies. Please note that by disallowing cookies some functionality on the site may be restricted.

Can I Delete Cookies?

13. Yes, you can view any cookies stored on your computer and delete some or all of them. In some cases, deleting cookies will impact your experience in revisiting a website.

Further Information About Cookies

14. Please check the ‘Help’ menu of your browser to learn about your cookie preferences, and how to remove cookies from your system. The website www.allaboutcookies.org will provide you with further information about cookies.

Cookie Register

15. For a complete list of the cookies found on the University’s website, please consult our cookie preference management tool.  In addition to listing each cookie placed on this site, it also allows users to opt out of individual Functional and Advertising cookies.

What are Web Beacons and How Does The University Use Them

16. Web beacons are small invisible graphics files, which are downloaded from a server when you open or click on most HTML email newsletters.
17. The University does not place web beacons on its website but does work with third party service providers to create and deliver HTML email newsletters that include web beacons. Web beacons and similar technologies are used by these newsletters to enable the University to know which recipients open the newsletters, when they do so, the browsers that they use, and the links that they click on in the newsletters. This information allows the University to improve the service provided to you via email newsletters and potentially to customise the service and information the University provides to you so that they are relevant to your interests.
18. The University and its service providers store any information collected in a confidential and secure environment, and never share this information with any third parties. To stop receiving email newsletters that contain web beacons, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the relevant link at the bottom of the newsletter.

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