A cookie is a small file downloaded on to your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. Cookies allow websites to recognise your device when you make a return visit.
We use several types of cookies on the EDINA website. Some are essential, like cookies that make sure our website works properly with your browser. They always need to be on.
Some cookies you can opt out of or block completely. Opting out or blocking these cookies might affect how the website looks or works for you.
When you leave our website or click on links that take you to an external websites, we can’t control what cookies they set. They will have their own cookie policy and you will need to set your cookie preferences for those websites too.
There are four reasons why a cookie might be stored on your device when visiting www.edina.ac.uk:
These cookies are placed on your device either by EDINA or by the third parties whose services we use as part of the website.
Some cookies are retained in your browser for only as long as you visit our website, while others persist for a longer specified or unspecified period.
Some cookies we place on your browser ensure that EDINA services and sites delivers you information and services securely and optimally. You must accept these cookies to be able to make use of our online systems.
Some cookies enable websites to remember choices their users make, for example, user name, language or text size. These cookies are known as “functionality cookies” and help to improve a user’s experience of a website by providing a more personalised service.
We use a number of tools that monitor visitor behaviour on our website to help us improve our information and services.
The tool we use most consistently is Google Analytics. Anonymous data about your visit is collected and amalgamated with that of other visitors so we can better understand how people use our website.
You can opt out of providing us with this information if you wish, with no impact on your experience of our website.
Opt out of providing us with website usage data via Google Analytics
Some EDINA services and sites use third party services or software, such as maps, online videos or social networking features. Many of these services may set cookies on your device.
However, you can block or remove cookies yourself by altering the settings of your browser. Blocking these cookies is unlikely to impact on your experience of our website.
Most browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Some cookies we place on your browser ensure that EDINA Services and Sites deliver you information and services securely and optimally. You must accept these cookies to be able to make use of our online systems.
| Cookie | Cookie name(s) | Data stored | When does it expire? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancer | NSC_ | A random unique number or string of letters and numbers. | The cookie is deleted when you close your web browser. | EDINA uses more than one server to provide web pages. When you visit the Services and Sites,
you are assigned to one of several servers. This cookie is required to track which server you are communicating
with in order to present a consistent user experience and remember information about the data you have entered.
This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. |
| Analytics enable | enable_analytics | The value "true" when the user allows non-necessary cookies. | This cookie expires 1 year after the user chooses to opt in or out of cookies. | This cookie reflects the user's answer to the cookie popup box, which appears when the website is first visited. |
We use a number of tools that monitor visitor behaviour on EDINA’s Services and Sites to help us improve our performance in provision of information and services. These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited.
| Cookie | Cookie name(s) | Data stored | When does it expire? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga, _gid, __opix_uid, _fbp | A random unique number or string of letters and numbers. | This cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. | Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us see how our website is used.
In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States
The information stored in this cookie is used to identify how frequently the same people revisit the EDINA website, and to detect how long people take between each visit. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. |