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By continuing to use this site, you are accepting our use of these cookies that make advertising and communications more relevant to you and your interests, and further help us to improve the site.
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.session |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | IIS Session Code |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Essential |
Intrusiveness / Justification | ZERO Standard session cookie served by the web server. |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.anonymousid |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | 2 year |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Anonymous Visitor ID |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | LOW Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post-back |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.schedule |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Load Balance Session Queue |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Essential |
Intrusiveness / Justification | ZERO Standard session cookie |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.utmvalues |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Stores the UTM values for the session |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | LOW Does not store user data, only stores active menu node over post- back |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.trackingdata |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | CommuniGator encrypted identifier for the session |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Marketing |
Intrusiveness / Justification | MEDIUM 1st party cookie which is only used by GatorMail integration so GatorLeads (previously known as WOW Analytics) knows email contacts visiting website. |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: wow.data |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | 2 years |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Encrypted GatorMail identification |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | MEDIUM 1st party cookie which is only used by GatorMail integration so GatorLeads (previously known as WOW Analytics) knows email contacts visiting website. |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: ASPXAUTH |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | CommuniGator Product Authentication |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Essential |
Intrusiveness / Justification | ZERO Authentication cookie served by the CommuniGator product |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: ASP.NET_Sessionid |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | Session |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | IIS Session cookie |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Essential |
Intrusiveness / Justification | ZERO Standard session cookie served by the web server |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: Google Analytics |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about our website visitors. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit the University website, how the website is found (from advertising or referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. Google’s privacy policy. Opt out of Google Analytics. |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | LOW 3rd party cookies which does not store personal user data. |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: Google Maps |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | SID, SAPISIS, APISID, SSID, HSID, NID, PREF |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Various unique identifiers, except for PREF which stores your options such as preferred zoom level. Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Map users. Google privacy policy. |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | LOW |
Full Tag (cookie) Name: YouTube |
Lifespan e.g. session, persistent | SID, LOGIN_INFO, use_hotbox, PREF, SSID, HSID, watched_video_id_list, _utma, _utmz, demographics, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Full Description (i.e. what it does) | Various unique identifiers, as well as login information that may relate to a Google account.Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Youtube video. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Youtube users, including information that links your visits to our website with your Google account if you are signed in to one. Information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States.This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account. Google privacy policy. Opt out of Google Analytics |
Essential / Analytics / Marketing | Analytics |
Intrusiveness / Justification | LOW |