We use different types of cookies for different things, such as:
- Analysing how you use our website
- Giving you a better, more personalised experience
- Giving people outside the UK the international version of the Leeds Beckett website.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided.
Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Signing into systems, such as MyBeckett, MyHub, Apply Online, Online Welcome, Accommodation Booking, Library and other account-based systems accessed by website visitors
- Remembering previous actions such as text entered into a registration form when navigating back to a page in the same session
Functional cookies
These help us personalise our websites for you. For instance, if you have visited our website previously, our website would be able to serve personalised content based upon related pages you have viewed beforehand, in order to give you the most tailored website experience.
We can also use these cookies to remember screen resolution, font size and other accessibility preferences that you have set.
Performance cookies
These help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can make them better. We sometimes get our approved partner companies to analyse how people are using Leeds Beckett Websites and they may set their own performance cookies in order to do this. You can find details of how to opt out of these cookies below.
Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- To collect information about which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve the online experience
- Identify and solve errors to make sure the website is working properly
- Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of the website.
Cookies used on the Leeds Beckett website
- resolution: Stores a user's screen resolution for webpage sizing/styling purposes.
- ASP.Net_SessionId: A cookie which is used to identify the users session on the server. The session being an area on the server which can be used to store data in between http requests.
- SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE: To identify repeat visits from a single user, Sitecore (our content management system) sends a persistent session cookie to the web client. The name of the persistent session cookie is SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE. The persistent session cookie expires one year after the last page requested from the solution by the web client.
- _ga: Google Analytics cookie used for visitor tracking. Google Analytics identifies users by a unique number they call “Client ID.” This client ID along with other parameters are stored within this cookie. This does not include any contact information, the only personal information contained within this is your computer ISP address
- _gid: Google Analytics cookie used to store Session ID and to group the entire session’s activity together for each user. Structure of its value is very similar to _ga cookie.
- _gat: Google Analytics cookie used for throttling (limiting) requests to Google Analytics. To limit the requests being sent from your browser to Google doubleclick, this cookie is created. It makes sure that doubleclick doesn’t get choked by too many requests. (Google privacy policy)
- hjIncludedInSampleHotjar: This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. Hotjar allows us to see where people are looking on our website. (Hotjar privacy policy)
- LeedsBeckettAcceptCookie: A cookie that indicates that you have accepted the cookie policy
What happens if third party cookies are disabled on my browser
If third-party cookies are disabled on your browser, some features on the Leeds Beckett websites may not work quite as you'd expect. This is because, like most websites, your Leeds Beckett accounts rely on cookies to provide some services like personalisation.
If your browser is blocking third-party cookies, some of these features can't work properly so you may experience the website being less focused on your requirements. If you’ve chosen to block third-party cookies on your browser and want to avoid problems using the Leeds Beckett site(s) in future, be sure to set exceptions for leedsbeckett.ac.uk. This won't affect your privacy settings on other websites and services you use.