UCLan Students’ Union – Cookies Policy
Like most websites, we use analytics and “Cookies” to help us make our website – and the way our members use it – better. Our Cookies Policy helps keep our members informed about their online behaviours and what information is stored about them when they are using the UCLan Students’ Union website.
By accessing, browsing and using our website, you confirm that you accept this Cookies Policy and that you consent to our use of Cookies on your computer or smart device (phone or tablet).
What are Cookies?
Simply put, Cookies mean a website will remember you.
A cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers, downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies are then sent back to originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.” – Text taken from ICO document ‘Guidance on the rules on use Cookies and similar technologies.’
How can I prevent Cookies being used?
You can, should you choose to, disable the Cookies from your browser and delete all Cookies currently stored on your computer or smart device. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking "help" on your browser's menu or by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html However, please be aware that should you choose to disable Cookies from your browser, it may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website and some features may fail to work properly -which will greatly impact on your use and enjoyment of our website.
You will see from the section below headed "How we use Cookies" that most of the Cookies used by us are recognised as being essential Cookies, which are required in order to make our website work.
How we use Cookies
We use Cookies on our website. However, we do not collect or store personal data via the Cookies used. When someone visits our website, we collect standard internet log information. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website. We collect this information in a way which does not individually identify you. If, in the future, we decide that we do want to collect personally identifiable information by using Cookies, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we will collect such personal information, how we will collect it and what we intend to do with it.
1st Party Cookies
These Cookies are used to collect information (non-personal information) about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports, which will help us to monitor our website’s performance and enable us to improve, where necessary. This Cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our website, where visitors have come from and the pages they have visited.
Google Analytics has been assessed as posing a very low intrusiveness level to you however Google has produced a plugin for browsers that helps you to opt out of this form of analytics if you do not wish us to use it. Find out more:
3rd Party Cookies
Third party Cookies are Cookies that have been written onto your browser or device by a website that is different from the website you are actually visiting (i.e. by a site other than ours, in this case).
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube will set Cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
We use live chat software on our website, this is provided by Click4Assistance, a 3rd party UK based software company. Information regarding how the data is processed and stored can be viewed here.
For more information about how UCLan Students’ Union uses and stores data, visit our Data Privacy page which features our data policy in full.
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