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Privacy

When you visit any of the websites within the University of Cambridge domain we collect certain information about you for service and security reasons.

Details of the personal information collected

More information about how we handle your personal information and about your rights under data protection legislation

Cookies

Cookies are used on this site if a user logs in with the Raven/Shibboleth authentication system. These are all session cookies, which means they expire at the end of the browsing session.

Cookie Returned to Function
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Ucam-WLS-Session shib.raven.cam.ac.uk Authentication
JSESSIONID shib.raven.cam.ac.uk Authentication
_idp_session shib.raven.cam.ac.uk Authentication
_ZopeId hps.cam.ac.uk Session management

See the Raven privacy policy for further details.

Third-party services

Google Analytics

When you visit our website, we use the third-party Google Analytics service to collect standard internet log information. We use Google Analytics 4, which does not log or store individual IP addresses. We use analytics to find out how visitors use our website and to improve its usability. The data is anonymised before it is stored and before we see or use it for analytics processing. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our site. For more information about how Google Analytics uses this information, please see the Google privacy policy.

Funnelback

Our website search is powered by Funnelback. Search queries and results are logged anonymously to help us improve our website and search functionality. No identifiable personal information is collected by us or Funnelback.

Qualtrics

At times, we use a third-party service, Qualtrics, to gather answers to survey questions. We collect your IP address if you submit a response. For more information about how Qualtrics uses your personal information, please see the Qualtrics privacy statement.