Cookies

Introduction

Forth Valley College may collect information about you when you visit our website.

To do this we will use cookies which are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.  Most browsers allow visitors some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Categories and Types of Cookies

Forth Valley College use a number of Google related cookies described below. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Users can also control the ads they see on Google and find out more about how the ads are selected for them by visiting google.com/adsettings. Alternatively, users can also manage and opt out of Google products and other third party cookies by visiting www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

Below is a summary of the cookies we use.

Cookie

Description

Category

Type

_gat_UA-3012210-1

This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.

Session

Performance

_ga

This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to report the traffic that comes to the website, information on the source of where users come from or what campaign to explain how a user reaches the website.  This is a third party cookie with an expiration time of 2 years.

Session

Performance

_gid

This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to distinguish between users on the website. This is a third party cookie and expires after 24 hours.

Session

Performance

_hjIncludeInSample

This cookie is associated with web analytics functionality and services from Hot Jar, a Malta based company. It uniquely identifies a visitor during a single browser session and indicates they are included in an audience sample.

Session

Performance

ARRAffinity

This cookie is present in our contact/client portal and is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. Cookie expires after the user's session has ended.

Session

Performance