--- title: "Cookie Policy" description: "Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users who visit our website. Find out how we use cookies here." canonical: "https://ads.pr1.ops.ads.arden-prod01.arden.ac.uk/cookie-policy" published: 2022-07-20 updated: 2025-11-12 author: "Arden University" --- # Cookie Policy ## INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES The Arden University website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We use the following cookies: • **Strictly necessary cookies -** These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. • **Analytical/performance cookies -** They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. • **Functionality cookies -** These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). • **Targeting cookies -** These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Arden University does not use cookies in order to identify a person, nor to store personal information about a user. Cookies will typically expire automatically after 2 years, though you can choose to delete your cookies at any point manually or disable cookies on your computer. However, as cookies are essential for the functioning of certain parts of the website you may not be able to access certain important functions and services of the website if you activate the manual disable facility. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: Cookie Name Purpose More Information Google Analytics \_\_utma \_\_utmb \_\_utmc \_\_utmz These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. [Click here for an overview of privacy at Google](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245) Google Services APISID HSID NID PREF SAPISID SID SSID \_\_utma – webmasters \_\_utma – analytics \_\_utma – settings \_\_utmb – webmasters \_\_utmb – analytics \_\_utmb – settings \_\_utmd – analytics \_\_utmz – webmasters \_\_utmz – analytics \_\_utmz – settings \_ga – analytics GAPS – accounts N\_T – support rtMessageDisabled – analytics/web These cookies are set IF you are logged into any of Google’s services. This may include Google Mail, Google Plus, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, DoubleClick etc [View Google’s Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/) Hotjar \_hjClosedSurveyInvites \_hjDonePolls \_hjMinimizedPolls \_hjDoneTestersWidgets \_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets \_hjIncludedInSample These cookies are used in line with Hotjar’s services and include on-site survey pop ups and polls. [View Hotjars privacy policy](https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/) ResponseTap JSESSIONID This cookie is used to collect information how users are connecting with us from website to telephone calls [https://www.responsetap. com/us/privacy-policy/](https://www.responsetap.com/us/privacy-policy/) Dotmailer \_\_cfduid This cookie is used to collect information on the impact of our email campaigns. [https://www.dotmailer .com/terms/privacy-policy/](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/) Facebook pl fr xs wd c\_user sb datr presence /tr This cookie is used to collect information on how users from facebook interact with our website [https://www.face book.com/policy.php](https://www.facebook.com/policy.php) Twitter \_\_utmz \_gid remember\_checked\_on dnt syndication\_guest\_id csrf\_same\_site external\_referer \_ga \_\_utma eu\_cn csrf\_same\_site\_set \_twitter\_sess This cookie is used to collect information on how users from twitter interact with our website [https://twitter.com /en/privacy](https://twitter.com/en/privacy) Bing MUID MUIDB This cookie is used to collect information on how users from Bing interact with our website [Click here to view Bing's privacy policy](https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement) Pardot \_ga \_gid pdType previewHash recent\_history RememberMe \_pendo\_accountId \_pendo\_meta \_pendo\_visitorId Ipv462002 pardot visitor\_id \_ga\_gid Pardot cookies track visitor activities on our website and landing pages. For example, cookies are set to remember preferences (like form field values) when a visitor returns to our site [View Pardot's cookie policy](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=pardot_basics_cookies.htm&type=5) LinkedIn UserMatchHistory bcookie lang lidc lissc lang This cookie is used to collect information on how users from LinkedIn interact with our website [View LinkedIn's cookie table](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table) [Cookie Policy](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/37698699/cookie-policy/section/technical-cookies "Cookie Policy") [Cookie Policy](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/37698699/cookie-policy/section/other-types-cookies "Cookie Policy") ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Cookie Policy", "description": "Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users who visit our website. 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