Privacy
Your data
Cookies
To make this website work properly, and to provide the most relevant products and services to our site visitors, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This policy provides you with information about cookies and how to control them for this website.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first-party (set by the UX Brighton website) or third-party (set by another website) – or they may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.
Cookies help us enhance your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users and members.
First-party Cookies
Essential (Technical) Cookies. These cookies, set by us, are essential for enabling user movement around our website and providing access to features such as your profile and purchases, member-only resources, and other secure areas of the website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled since that would render the website unusable. The table below provides more information about these cookies:
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | Assigns a random number to site visitors so that subsequent visits to our site can be associated with the same user. |
| _cfduid | Clicky | 1 year | Web analytics tool designed to give us information about the visitors to our website (which pages and links are popular, where people come from etc.). |
Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than the website owner for purposes such as collecting information on user behaviour, demographics, or personalized marketing. When using our website, you may encounter embedded content, such as YouTube videos, or you may be directed to other websites. These websites and embedded content may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if you are directed to them from our website.
| Cookie Name | Source | Expiry | Purpose | How to Opt Out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YSC | YouTube | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. | Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or delete these cookies through your browser settings. |
| GPS | YouTube | Session | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or delete these cookies through your browser settings. |
| PREF, VISITOR_INFO_LIVE | YouTube | 243 days 180 days |
Used by YouTube to manage the display of adverts within the YouTube service | Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or delete these cookies through your browser settings. |
| IDE | Google Marketing Platform (DoubleClick) | 390 days | Used for serving targeted ads that are relevant to you across the web. These may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website or about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site. Also help measure the conversion rate of ads presented to you. | Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or delete these cookies through your browser settings. |
| bcookie, bscookie | 1 year | Browser ID cookies used by the LinkedIn share button and ad tagging to track visitors | Opt-out page (LinkedIn) |
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. The following table has more information about these cookies.
To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
Blocking & Deleting Cookies with Your Browser
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
- Clear, allow and manage cookies in Chrome
- Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox for desktop (Firefox)
- Manage cookies in pages (Opera)
- Delete and manage cookies (Internet Explorer)
- Managing cookies in Safari
- Windows 10 Microsoft Edge and privacy
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
Cookies that Have Been Set in the Past
Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience.
Questions
For more information, feel free to contact us at [email protected] or Twitter @uxbri.