INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
The Arden University website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies -
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies -
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies -
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies -
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Arden University does not use cookies in order to identify a person, nor to store personal information about a user. Cookies will typically expire automatically after 2 years, though you can choose to delete your cookies at any point manually or disable cookies on your computer. However, as cookies are essential for the functioning of certain parts of the website you may not be able to access certain important functions and services of the website if you activate the manual disable facility.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
| Optimizely | optimizelyBuckets optimizelyEndUserId optimizelyPendingLogEvents optimizelySegments |
Optimizely is a simple way to perform A/B testing across our site. Using Optimizely we are able to test multiple layouts against the current design and determine which ones produce positive results. | Optimizely’s privacy policy |
| Google Services | APISID HSID NID PREF SAPISID SID SSID __utma – webmasters __utma – analytics __utma – settings __utmb – webmasters __utmb – analytics __utmb – settings __utmd – analytics __utmz – webmasters __utmz – analytics __utmz – settings _ga – analytics GAPS – accounts N_T – support rtMessageDisabled – analytics/web |
These cookies are set IF you are logged into any of Google’s services. This may include Google Mail, Google Plus, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, DoubleClick etc | View Google’s Privacy Policy |
| Hotjar |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites _hjDonePolls _hjMinimizedPolls _hjDoneTestersWidgets _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets |
These cookies are used in line with Hotjar’s services and include on-site survey pop ups and polls. | View Hotjars privacy policy |
| ResponseTap | JSESSIONID | This cookie is used to collect information how users are connecting with us from website to telephone calls | https://www.responsetap. com/us/privacy-policy/ |
| Dotmailer | __cfduid | This cookie is used to collect information on the impact of our email campaigns. | https://www.dotmailer .com/terms/privacy-policy/ |
| DoubleClick |
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This cookie is used to collect information on a range of advertising campaigns and their impact | https://policies.google .com/technologies/ads |
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This cookie is used to collect information on how users from facebook interact with our website | https://www.face book.com/policy.php |
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| __utmz
_gid remember_checked_on dnt syndication_guest_id csrf_same_site external_referer _ga __utma eu_cn csrf_same_site_set _twitter_sess |
This cookie is used to collect information on how users from twitter interact with our website | https://twitter.com /en/privacy |