About our cookies
When you use our website, a number of cookies are stored in your web browser. At the moment, your consent as a user to have these cookies stored is assumed. But the new Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR), which came into force on the 26 May 2011, mean that in time we will have to obtain your explicit consent before cookies are set. UK organisations have until May 2012 to look at the best way to do this (and discussion is underway across the UK HE sector). Until such a mechanism is implemented, we are making information available about the nature of the cookies which we use on our website.
The PECR legislation identifies one type of cookie, which is described as "strictly necessary" for the operation of the website, for which your consent as a user is not required. By implication, all other cookies are not "strictly necessary," and your explicit consent for these will be required. The cookies used by our website are explained below:
1. Cookies which we consider to be "strictly necessary"
The London Met website uses two cookies which are essential for its software (Coldfusion) to work properly: CFID and CFTOKEN. These are used as a pair to create a session ID for you, so that the system itself can identify you as a particular user, distinct from anyone else looking at our website. This information is not used or stored outside our systems.
2. Other cookies
Use of our website will, at the moment, also result in a number of other cookies being set.
2.1 Google Analytics: These are used by Google analytics software, and all our webpages use them. We use these to track how people use our website, and this helps us to make sure our content is relevant and up-to-date. Cookies with names beginning "__utm" are set by Google analytics, and the data they hold is sent to Google. More information on this can be found at Google Privacy Center and Cookies & Google Analytics
2.2 Twitter: Some pages include data from Twitter, and these will set additional cookies. Twitter "may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with [their] Services, to monitor aggregate usage [...] and web traffic routing on [their] Services..." For full details of Twitter's use of cookies, see the Twitter Privacy Statement
Below is a list of typical cookies which might be set during the use of our website. It is intended to be illustrative, and should not be considered comprehensive.
For more information on the new legistlation regarding cookies, see the Information Commisioner's Office guidelines (PDF).
For useful information on cookies, see AboutCookies.org
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