Cookies
We use Cookies for a number of purposes, including enhancing the user experience and allowing website owners to gather statistics on website usage. This page allows you to find out about the Cookies used on this site.
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Our website uses cookies to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your device when you browse websites. Cookies can allow websites to recognise your device when you make a return visit. You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Why the University uses cookies
The University uses different types of cookies for a variety of reasons. Some are essential to website functionality whilst others you can opt out of or block.
The University uses cookies to:
- make the website work as you'd expect
- remember your preferences during and between visits
- allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- collect anonymous data that helps the University improve the website
- highlight relevant information to you via our online marketing activities.
Cookie settings
The cookies we use on the site fall into three groups: Functional Cookies, Analytics Cookies and Advertising Cookies. Details of these are outlined below with options for you to control your preferences.
Functional cookies
These are necessary cookies that we use to make the site function correctly. For example, if you are completing an online form that has multiple steps, a Cookie is used to use manage 'session data'.
They always need to be on.
Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to provide us with insight into how users are accessing our webpages, and users' activity around the site to help us improve the user experience and the online services we offer. The data collected is anonymised.
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Google Analytics |
We use Google Analytics to provide us with insight into how users are accessing our webpages, and users' activity around the site. User data does not include personally identifiable information but does include things like city location, browser and platforms used, and demographic information from the user's Google profile such as gender, age-bracket and interests. |
Advertising Cookies
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Adroll |
We use the AdRoll display advertising network to collect visitor data on our site and then serve targeted display ads and measure advertising performance on other sites. Our partners use technology such as Cookies and web beacons to collect this data. |
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| Bing (Microsoft) | We use Bing tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site and measure Bing advertising performance. | Microsoft Bing Ads Privacy Policy |
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We use Facebook tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site to serve relevant advertising and measure advertising performance on Facebook, Instagram and other websites and apps. |
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Google Ads |
We use Google Adwords tracking Cookies to serve relevant advertising and measure advertising performance (on third-party sites) based on user actions on our website. |
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We use LinkedIn tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site and measure LinkedIn advertising performance. |
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| Snap Inc. (Snapchat) |
We use Snapchat tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site and measure Snapchat advertising performance. |
Snap Inc. Privacy Policy |
| The Student Room | We use The Student Room tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site and measure The Student Room advertising performance. | The Student Room Privacy Policy |
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We use Twitter tracking pixels to collect visitor data on our site, and then serve relevant advertising and measure advertising performance on Twitter and other websites and apps. |
How to opt out of or block cookies
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on our Cookies page and adjusting the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. This setting will persist each time you return to the site unless you clear all Cookies for the www1.chester.ac.uk domain in your browser settings.
You can restrict or block cookies by adjusting your browser's settings. Doing so however can limit the functionality of our website. Please check your browser's help guide on how to do this. Websites such as www.allaboutcookies.org provide further information on how to opt out of or block cookies.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Control your Cookie Settings
You can change which types of Cookies you receive from us using the the slider below. This setting will persist each time you return to the site, unless you clear all Cookies for the www1.chester.ac.uk domain in the your browser settings.