Cookies Policy
This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are, the cookies used by our website and how to amend your cookie preferences. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on our website, please email us.
What are ‘cookies’?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so that it can recognise you when you come back and respond appropriately.
How does this website use cookies?
A visit to a page on the website may generate the following types of cookie:
- Site performance cookies
- Anonymous analytics cookies
Site performance cookies
This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on the website, so you don’t have to re-set them each time you visit. Examples include:
- volume settings for our video player
- video streaming speeds that are compatible with your browser
Anonymous analytics cookies:
Every time someone visits our website, software provided by another organisation generates an ‘anonymous analytics cookie’.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones.
This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site. We cannot use these cookies to identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page.
How do I amend my cookie settings or turn them off?
You can amend your cookie settings by using the 'Update Cookie Settings' link at the bottom of this page. Here you can turn on or off analytics and advertising cookies. Please note that some elements of the site, such as the chat function, will not function fully with the analytics cookies turned off.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings, including disabling all cookies. Please note that disabling all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of the website, and some functions may not be available with these settings.
First Party Cookies
| Service | Cookie Name | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craft CMS | CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | This cookie is set by the website content management system. This cookie is used for the purpose of website security, Cross-Site-Request forgery prevention whenever a form is used. Duration: Session | Necessary |
| cliffcollege.ac.uk | {{announcement_id}} | Announcement cookies are set when a user closes an announcement to remember on subsequent page views to not show the announcement again. | Necessary |
| cliffcollege.ac.uk | cc-modal-{{message_id}} | These cookies remember a user’s preference to dismiss a banner message targeted to users of specific countries. | Necessary |
| cliffcollege.ac.uk | STP_SESS | This cookie monitors if a user is making a one-off donation to Cliff College by card via the Stripe Payment Processor. Duration: Session | Necessary |
| cliffcollege.ac.uk | GC_SESS | This college monitors if a user is setting up a regular donation to Cliff College via the GoCardless Direct Debit provider.
| Necessary |
| cliffcollege.ac.uk | cookiepreferences | Cliff College uses this cookie to store your cookie consent preferences. Duration: 6 months | Necessary |
Third Party cookies
| Service | Cookie Name | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | __ga __gid | These cookies, installed by Google Analytics, calculate visitor, session and campaign data and also keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | Analytics |
| Google Analytics | _gat_gtag_UA_139728699_2 | Set by Google Analytics this cookie is used to distinguish users. Duration: 1 minute | Analytics |
| GoSquared | gs_v_GSN-193447-M gs_u_GSN-193447-M | Set by GoSquared these cookies are used to distinguish site visitors and their device information as well as enable live chat functionality. Duration: 2 years | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjid _hjSessionUser_{{id}} | Hotjar sets this cookie when the user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. Duration: 1 year | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. Duration: 30 minutes | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit setting. Duration: 2 minutes | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. Duration: 30 minutes | Analytics |
| Hotjar | _hjSession_{{id}} | Hotjar sets this cookie to hold the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. Duration: 30 minutes | Analytics |
| Vimeo | vuid | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embedded videos on the website. Duration: 2 years | Analytics |
| YouTube | YSC | Used by YouTube to track statistics of videos you have watched. Duration: Session | Analytics |
| YouTube | PREF | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using the embedded YouTube video. Duration: 2 years | Analytics |
YouTube | CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. Duration: 2 years | Analytics |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to enable recommendations and analytics as well as to measure service availability. Duration: 6 months | Analytics |
| YouTube | yt-remote-connected-devices yt-remote-device-id yt.innertube::nextId yt.innertube::requests | Used by YouTube to store your video player preferences, remember the videos you have watched and queue up the next video for playback. Duration: N/A | Advertising |
| Stripe | __stripe_mid __stripe_sid m | Stripe (a card payment processor) sets these cookies for fraud prevention purposes to help assess the risk while processing transactions. Duration __stripe_mid (1 year) __stripe_sid (30 minutes) m (2 years) | Necessary |