Introduction
By accessing and using our website or other services, you are agreeing to the terms of this policy. Please do read this cookie policy carefully so you know what we are doing with your information.
We may update this cookie policy from time to time and will post any changes here so it’s a good idea to come back occasionally and read through it again.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers. These files are either stored in the memory of your computer or other device such as mobile phones or tablet devices (these cookies are generally known as session cookies) or are placed on the hard drive of your device (generally known as persistent cookies).
Cookies are created when you visit a website or other service that uses cookies. Cookies are commonly used to help the user’s browsing experience and provide more information about the user’s experience and interests. This information is generally used to make content, services and advertising more relevant and useful during future visits.
How do we use cookies?
Our website and services use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our services and to provide increased functionality when you are using our services. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website and our services.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings (where possible) to refuse cookies, our systems will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website or access other services. If you have switched off cookies then some of the functionality of our services may not be available to you.
The cookies that we use on our website only collect anonymous information to optimise our services, and do not collect personal information.
What cookies are on our website?
The cookies on our website generally fall into the following category: Analytical cookies.
Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies allow us to recognise and to count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it and to record which content viewers view and are interested in. This helps us to determine how frequently particular pages and advertisements are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our website and/or services. This helps us to improve the service which we offer to you by helping us make sure our users are finding the information they are looking for, and by tracking the success of advertising campaigns on our website.
Cookies on this website
Table of Cookies Used
| Site/domain |
Set by |
Cookie Name |
Expiration Time |
Purpose |
Strictly Necessary Cookies
|
| gmhigher.ac.uk |
Cookie Control |
CookieControl |
90 days |
This cookie is set in order to remember the user’s preferences in regards to cookies. |
| More information on Cookie Control |
| gmhigher.ac.uk |
WordPress |
wordpress_test_cookie |
End of session |
Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] |
2 weeks |
After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. |
wp-settings-[UID]
wp-settings-{time}-[UID] |
1 year
1 year |
WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
| More info on WordPress Cookies |
Analytical Cookies
|
| gmhigher.ac.uk |
Google Analytics |
_ga |
2 years |
Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid |
24 hours |
Used to distinguish users. |
| _gat |
1 minute |
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. |
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited
More information on Google Analytics Cookie Usage
Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data |
| youtube.com |
YouTube |
visitor_info1_live |
8 months |
We embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. |
| ysc |
Expires at the end of your session |
This cookie is set by the YouTube video service and aims to limit repeat advertising and deliver more relevant advertising to you. |
| pref |
8 months |
Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. |
More info on YouTube Cookies
More information on YouTube embedding |
Functionality Cookies
|
| vimeo.com |
Vimeo |
vuid |
1 minute |
This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to assign a Vimeo Analytics unique id. |
| player |
1 minute |
This first party cookie created by Vimeo is used to remember user’s player mode preferences. |
| More info on Vimeo Cookies |
How to disable Cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
The following links provide information on how to modify the cookies settings on some popular browsers:
Chrome
Safari
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Edge
Further information
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
