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Information provided by you will be kept for as long as is necessary to fulfil that purpose. Personal information collected and/or processed by the University is held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related UK data protection legislation.
Personal information will not be sold or given to third parties, or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations without your permission. However, if we are under a duty to disclose or share such information in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property or safety of the University, its members or others we may disclose your personal information to third parties.
When you visit some pages on this site, your web browser may be issued with a small piece of text (a "cookie") by this site ("1st party") or other sites ("3rd party'). Your web browser may communicate that cookie back to the originating site in subsequent visits.
Some cookies will be temporary and will be destroyed when the web browser is closed ("session cookies"), other cookies will remain until they expire or are removed ("persistent cookies").
It is very likely that there are some options in your web browser preferences that can show you all the cookies being stored, and lets you delete or block them if you wish.
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Below is a table listing the cookies that may be set / issued when visiting this site. (Cookies being issued that are part of services that are only accessible internally – those services accessible on an intranet that resides within the University of Oxford as an organisation but not outside – are not included).
| Strictly Necessary | |
| Functional | |
| Performance |
| CookieID | Purpose | Intended Audience | Category | Contains Personal or Sensitive Data? | The Data | Persistant / Session | Lifespan | Website domain | 3rd Party? | Secure transmission only? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Web Analytics | Public | Performance | No | Visitor ID | Persistant | 2+ years | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
| __umtb | Web Analytics | Public | Performance | No | Session ID | Persistant | 30 Minutes | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
| __utmz | Web Analytics | Public | Performance | No | Referer | Persistant | 6 Months | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
| wordpress_sec | Blogging | Public | Strictly Necessary | No † † Usernames are publically visible in blog URLs as part of the service. |
Username and authentication hash | Session | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | Yes | |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | Blogging | Public | Strictly Necessary | No † † Usernames are publically visible in blog URLs as part of the service. |
Username and authentication hash | Session | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No | |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Blogging | Public | Strictly Necessary | No | Session | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No | ||
| wp-settings-<number> | Blogging | Public | Functionality | No | Interface preferences | Persistant | 1 Year | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
| wp-settings-time-<number> | Blogging | Public | Functionality | No | Time format preferences | Persistant | 1 Year | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
| JSESSIONID | Web applications | Public | Strictly Necessary | No | Session ID | Session | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Video | Public | Functionality | No | Youtube interface version preference | Persistant | 6 Months | youtube.com † † Issued to set the default value |
Yes | No |
| PREF | Video | Public | Functionality | No | User interface preferences | Persistant | 10 years | youtube.com † † Issued to set the default preferences |
Yes | No |
| eprints_session | MSc Theses | Public | Strictly Necessary | No | Session ID | Session | cs.ox.ac.uk | No | No |
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If you have used a "do not track" option in your browser to signal that you wish to opt out of having page visits tracked, this site will honour that and not issue "performance" cookies such as those used by Web Analytics.
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