1. INTRODUCTION
University College of Estate Management (“UCEM”, “we, “our”) uses cookies on its website. This Cookies Notice explains more about cookies and why we use them. It also explains how you can control and opt out of receiving them.
This notice should be read together with our Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
We update this Cookies Notice from time to time in response to changes in applicable laws and regulations, changes to our processing practices and to products and services we offer. When changes are made, we will update the last updated date of this notice. Please review this Cookies Notice periodically to check for updates.
2. ABOUT COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file which may be downloaded to your device when you visit our website. We use cookies to allow our website to function correctly, remember your preferences and to track visitors to our website.
The cookies we use on our website fall into the following categories:
Strictly Necessary
Strictly necessary cookies are essential and need to be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings and allow the LiveChat tool to work correctly if you interact with it.
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies are used to collect information such as the number of visitors to the site and the most popular pages. Enabling these cookies helps us to improve our website and your experience using the website.
Targeting Cookies
Targeting cookies are used to identify users who have profiles with third party websites and track their actions across different websites. Enabling these cookies will allow us to create more relevant and personalised advertising.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies are used to enhance the performance of the website but are not vital for the website to run. Enabling these cookies will provide you with increased functionality whilst using the website.
Learn More About Cookies
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see details in the table below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
3. COOKIES USED BY UCEM
The cookies we use on our website and their purposes are as set out in the following table:
Strictly Necessary
Cookie category |
Cookie name |
Domain |
Duration of processing |
Description |
| Third-party | __lc_cid | .accounts.livechatinc.com | 13 months | Necessary for the functionality of the website’s chat-box function. |
| Third-party | __lc_cst | .accounts.livechatinc.com | 13 months | Necessary for the functionality of the website’s chat-box function. |
| Third-party | __oauth_redirect_detector | .accounts.livechatinc.com | 56 seconds | Used to support login functionality by detecting the final redirect URL after an OAuth authentication flow is completed. |
| First-party | obcookies | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 year | Used to remember if you have already responded to the message notifying you that cookies are used on this website. |
| First-party | obcookies-performance | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 year | Used to remember if you have agreed to allowing performance cookies to be used on this website. |
| First-party | obcookies-targeting | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 year | Used to remember if you have agreed to allowing targeting cookies to be used on this website. |
| First-party | obcookies-functionality | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 year | Used to remember if you have agreed to allowing functionality cookies to be used on this website. |
Performance
Cookie category |
Cookie name |
Domain |
Duration of processing |
Description |
| First-party | _ga | .ucem.ac.uk | 13 months | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. |
| First-party | _ga_ID | .ucem.ac.uk | 13 months | Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| First-party | _gat_ID | .ucem.ac.uk | 56 seconds | Used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
| First-party | _gcl_au | .ucem.ac.uk | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
| First-party | _gid | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 day | Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| First-party | _hjSession_ID | .ucem.ac.uk | 30 minutes | Hotjar cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
| First-party | _hjSessionUser_ID | .ucem.ac.uk | 1 year | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
Targeting
Cookie category |
Cookie name |
Domain |
Duration of processing |
Description |
| First-party | _fbp | .ucem.ac.uk | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| Third-party | bcookie | .linkedin.com | 1 year | This is a Microsoft MSN first-party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| Third-party | lidc | .linkedin.com | 1 day | This is a Microsoft MSN first-party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
4. COOKIE SHARING WITH THIRD PARTIES
Please note that the information collected by the cookies we set may be shared with third parties such as Google Analytics, Facebook, Vimeo and YouTube. Please visit their privacy policies for more information, using the links set out in the table below.
Cookie name |
What their cookies are used for |
| Facebook advertising conversion tracking and re-targeting pixels, which collect or receive information from www.ucem.ac.uk and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target advertising. The cookies set by Facebook do not identify you personally unless you are logged into Facebook, in which case it is linked to your Facebook account.
Facebook’s Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ |
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| Google Analytics | Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of www.ucem.ac.uk, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
| Hotjar | Hotjar is used on www.ucem.ac.uk to help us better understand our users’ needs and experience whilst using our website. Their technology is used to track insights such as how much time users’ spend on which pages, which links they choose to click and what they do and don’t like. This enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.
Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymised user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. HotJar’s privacy policy: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/ |
| LiveChat | LiveChat is used on www.ucem.ac.uk as a method for users to contact UCEM via a web based live chat messaging service. LiveChat uses cookies to remember your chat history, previous interactions, and settings within LiveChat, even whilst navigating different pages of the site.
Whilst we categorise these cookies as strictly necessary for LiveChat to be able to work, cookies will only be set if a user interacts with the chat functionality and personal data will only be sent to LiveChat if entered by the user for the purposes of contacting UCEM. LiveChat’s privacy policy: https://www.livechat.com/legal/privacy-policy/ |
| Vimeo | When you visit a Vimeo website, Vimeo and third parties will set cookies in your browser. Vimeo sets essential cookies to enable certain features and remember your preferences. For example, cookies keep you logged in, allow you to purchase items, and maintain your language and volume settings. Third parties set cookies for both essential and non-essential purposes including analytics (e.g., Google Analytics) and advertising (e.g., Google DoubleClick for Publishers).
Vimeo’s privacy policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy |
| YouTube | 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 used 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’s privacy policy: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/ |
5. CHANGING YOUR COOKIES PREFERENCES
You can edit your cookie settings for this website anytime via this page and clicking the link below to open your cookie settings.
You can allow or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that permits you to change the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the availability or functionality of our website. Most of the website will function normally, however, functions that rely on cookies such as the chat-box function, will be disabled.
If you would like more information on how to manage cookies on some popular browsers, please click on the links below.
6. CONTACT US
Please contact using the details set out in our Privacy Notice if you have any questions about this Cookies Notice or the information we hold about you.
7. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
This notice was published on 24th January 2025 and last updated on 24th January 2025.