Cookies
We want to make our online services as user-friendly and relevant as possible. To do this, we sometimes place small amounts of information on your device (eg. your computer or mobile phone), including small files known as cookies, to help us understand how you use our web services.
These files cannot identity you personally, but can be used by us to, for example:
- Deliver a service that recognises your device so you don’t have to give the same information twice
- Personalise and improve your user experience
- Measure how many people are using our services, the relevance of our web content and other performance-related data
If we do collect any personal information (eg. through a form) we will be clear about it and draw your attention to our Privacy and Cookies Policy.
You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them at www.allaboutcookies.org
You can also edit your own cookie preferences in your web browser options (eg. IE, Firefox or Chrome or similar).
Our use of cookies
We’ve listed the cookies we set, their purpose and the third-party services we use below.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Duration | Domain |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Set by CMS and not used by Eduserv | End of session | .eduserv.org.uk |
| _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
Visitor and performance analytics, enabling us to understand things like duration of visit, content browsed and browser version. No personal information is collected that will uniquely identify you. | 2 years |
.eduserv.org.uk |
| wow.ananoymousId wow.session wow.lastVisit |
Visitor analytics that allow us to understand the sort of companies that visit our site, how long they spend there and the pages they interact with. No personal information is collected that will uniquely identify you. | 1 year 30 mins 30 mins |
.eduserv.org.uk |
ath_Idom |
For OpenAthens customers, this contains the organisation number of the user’s selected home organisation. |
5 years | .athensams.net |
ath_ltoken |
Opaque session identifier, denoting that a user has a valid session in OpenAthens MD |
End of session | .athensams.net |
| ath_username | Logged in username | End of session | .athensams.net |
| ath_adusername | Logged in administrator username | End of session | .athensams.net |
| ath_da | A numerical value representing the type of login | End of session | .athensams.net |
| MyAthensCt | Opaque session identifier, denoting that a user has a valid session in MyAthens | End of session | .athensams.net |
| ath_tbactive | Set it user has the Athens toolbar |
End of session | .athensams.net |
Third party cookies
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube player, but they will not store personal cookie information for playbacks for embedded videos.
Eduserv doesn’t control cookies set by third parties and we suggest you check their websites for more information about the cookies they use and how you can manage them.
To opt out of Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
If you’d like any more information, please get in touch.