Cookies and Internet Privacy Policy

By using the Birmingham Newman University website you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy. Though the policy has been developed to take account of changes in Internet technology it is subject to change and any such changes will only be notified on this page.

When you use the Newman University site we automatically issue your computer with a small piece of code (a ‘cookie’) that enables the web pages to be displayed correctly, and the information the cookie allows us to manage and improve the services on the website – this cookie does not however contain any personally identifying information.

How we use cookies on the Newman University website

Session Cookies

We use cookies to allow the Birmingham Newman University website to uniquely identify a user’s browsing session on the Newman University website. No personally identifiable information is stored.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics cookies which, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to identify unique, but anonymous users. These cookies can also calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Birmingham Newman University website, the date and time of a user’s visit to the Birmingham Newman University website, the pages a user has viewed and the time spent by users at the Birmingham Newman University website. This helps us gather feedback so that we can improve the Birmingham Newman University website and better serve our users.

Further information on each cookie is set out in the table below.

Cross platform advertising and user recognition

We also use cookies provided by Facebook and Instagram. These cookies operate in different ways but they are both used in connection with Birmingham Newman University advertising served to a user of the Birmingham Newman University website on Instagram and Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access Instagram and Facebook website. Further information on each cookie is set out in the table below.

Third party websites and platforms

Your use of third party websites and platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, and the privacy practices of these platforms, are governed by separate terms, conditions and policies for which Birmingham Newman University is not responsible. You should review Facebook’s terms, conditions and policies where you will find more details on how information about you is used on their platforms and how you can set your privacy preferences.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which they are used in the table below:

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Cookie Subgroup	Cookies	Cookies used
libguides.newman.ac.uk	sts	First Party
my.newman.ac.uk	TSxxxxxxxx , TSxxxxxxxxxx	First Party
mycareer.newman.ac.uk	JSESSIONID	First Party
newman.ac.uk	eupubconsent , OptanonAlertBoxClosed	First Party
www2.newman.ac.uk	cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary , PHPSESSID , cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	First Party
login.newman.ac.uk	ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX , ASP.NET_SessionId	First Party
www.newman.ac.uk	OptanonConsent , wordpress_test_cookie	First Party
externalvle.newman.ac.uk	MoodleSession	First Party
mahara2.newman.ac.uk	SimpleSAMLSessionID	First Party
payments.newman.ac.uk	AWSALB , AWSALBCORS , __cf_bm , _cfuvid	First Party
cookielaw.org	__cfduid	Third Party
attachments.office.net	ClientId, OIDC	Third Party
upload.wikimedia.org	WMF-Uniq	Third Party
c.office.com	SM, ANONCHK, MR	Third Party
cloudflareinsights.com	__cfduid	Third Party
tandf.co.uk	__cf_bm	Third Party
onetrust.com	__cfduid	Third Party
hcaptcha.com	__cf_bm	Third Party
app.acuityscheduling.com	PHPSESSID	Third Party
embed.ly	__cfduid	Third Party
cloudflare.com	__cfduid	Third Party
outlook.office.com	ClientId, RoutingKeyCookie, HostSwitchPrg, OptInPrg, OIDC	Third Party
public-api.wordpress.com	wp_api_sec, wp_api	Third Party

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Cookie Subgroup	Cookies	Cookies used
libguides.newman.ac.uk	_ga	First Party
www.newman.ac.uk	_hjIncludedInPageviewSample , _hjIncludedInSessionSample , _clsk , sa-user-id-v2	First Party
newman.ac.uk	_hjTLDTest , _ga_xxxxxxx , _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx , _hjFirstSeen , _ga_1HQTECX51M , _gclxxxx , _gat , _hjSession_xxxxxx	First Party
estore.newman.ac.uk	_ga_xxxxxxxxxx , _gid , _gat_UA-	First Party
ac.uk	_uetvid , _clck , _ga_KH9W3DJHVD , _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	First Party
panopto.eu	_gid, _gat	Third Party
www.googletagmanager.com	_ga_xxxxxxxxxx	Third Party
sagepub.com	_gid, _ga	Third Party
snapchat.com	sc_at	Third Party
unibuddy.co	mp_e9a59680aa5ae8a896c08d61ee24712a_mixpanel	Third Party
nr-data.net	JSESSIONID	Third Party
script.hotjar.com	_hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _hjIncludedInSessionSample	Third Party
student-crm.com	_gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, _ga, _gid	Third Party
panopto.com	_gat, _gid	Third Party

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Cookie Subgroup	Cookies	Cookies used
www.newman.ac.uk	sa-user-id , sa-u-date	First Party
c.clarity.ms	SM, MR, ANONCHK	Third Party
youtube-nocookie.com	CONSENT	Third Party
forms.office.com	.AspNetCore, __RequestVerificationToken, FormsWebSessionId	Third Party
crm.student-crm.com	ECRM	Third Party
clarity.ms	MUID	Third Party
unibuddy.co	__cfduid	Third Party
www.clarity.ms	CLID	Third Party
issuu.com	__qca, _dlt, iutk	Third Party
office.com	MUID	Third Party
livechatinc.com	__livechat	Third Party
tourdash.com	_gid, _gat, _ga	Third Party
accounts.livechatinc.com	__lc2_cid, __oauth_redirect_detector, __lc_cid, __lc2_cst, __lc_cst	Third Party
live.tourdash.com	AWSALB, AWSALBCORS, session	Third Party
embed.ly	_cfuvid	Third Party
forms.cloud.microsoft	__RequestVerificationToken, FormsWebSessionId	Third Party

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. To see how Google will use your personal data when you give consent view their business safety & privacy and terms site

Cookie Subgroup	Cookies	Cookies used
www.newman.ac.uk	_scid , _schn , sa-u-source , sa-user-id-v3	First Party
mycareer.newman.ac.uk	AWSALBAPP-0 , AWSALBAPP-3 , AWSALBAPP-1 , AWSALBAPP-2	First Party
newman.ac.uk	ttcsid , _gcl_au , ttcsid_CT26M5RC77UANHJ2L1V0 , _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X , _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , _ttp	First Party
ac.uk	_fbp , ttcsid_CAK9FGJC77U1E8B1DH10 , _uetsid , _tt_enable_cookie	First Party
www.youtube.com	nextId, TESTCOOKIESENABLED	Third Party
youtube-nocookie.com	CONSENT	Third Party
youtube.com	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, GPS, YSC, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, __Secure-xxxxxxx, CONSENT	Third Party
srv.stackadapt.com	sa-user-id-v3, sa-user-id, sa-user-id-v2	Third Party
tiktok.com	_ttp	Third Party
quantserve.com	mc	Third Party
facebook.com	fr	Third Party
bing.com	MSPTC, MUID	Third Party
microsoft.com	MS0, MC1	Third Party
doubleclick.net	test_cookie, ar_debug, receive-cookie-deprecation, IDE	Third Party
qvdt3feo.com	sa-user-id-v2, sa-user-id, sa-user-id-v3	Third Party
pool.admedo.com	tuuid_lu, c, tuuid	Third Party
c.bing.com	MR, SRM_B	Third Party
www.facebook.com		Third Party
tags.srv.stackadapt.com	sa-user-id-v3, sa-user-id, sa-user-id-v2	Third Party
login.microsoftonline.com	fpc, x-ms-gateway-slice, esctx-xxxxxxxxxx, buid, esctx, stsservicecookie	Third Party
linkedin.com	li_gc, lidc, bcookie	Third Party

UniBuddy – Functionality and Targeting Cookies

Embeds UniBuddy iFrames to allow users to communicate with staff and students. Cookies are set up Unibuddy

Cookie Subgroup	Cookies	Cookies used
unibuddy.co	_ga	Third Party

Cookie Type	Purpose
Google Analytics_ga _gid _gat_UA-3174190-1	This Cookie is placed by Google. It enables Birmingham Newman University to learn information about our users use of the Newman University website such as the time of visit, the pages viewed, whether the user has visited before and the website visited prior to visiting the Newman University website.To opt-out please see https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
PHPSESSID	A session cookie generated by the Birmingham Newman University website to uniquely identify the user’s session. No personally identifiable information is stored.
Facebook Pixel_fbp	This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables Birmingham Newman University to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables Birmingham Newman University to see how our users move between devices when accessing the Newman University website and Facebook, to ensure that Newman University’s Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the Newman University website.See Facebook’s help page to learn more about opting out of this cookie
Content Management System cookies Cookies with names prefixed by the following: wordpress_ wfwaf-authcookie- wp-	These cookies are set by our content management system upon arrival to website. They are not used for any other purpose other than for security or the functioning of the website.
Cookie Pop UpeuCookie	This Cookie is placed by Birmingham Newman University. It is used to record when a user of the Birmingham Newman University website has viewed the cookie notice to prevent it re-appearing on return visits.

We also use the following cookies from HotJar.com to monitor usability:

Cookies set by the Hotjar script

Name	Description	Duration	Data type
_hjClosedSurveyInvites	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor interacts with an External Link Survey invitation modal. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown.	365 days	Boolean true/false
_hjDonePolls	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in.	365 days	Boolean true/false
_hjMinimizedPolls	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site.	365 days	Boolean true/false
_hjShownFeedbackMessage	Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to show.	365 days	Boolean true/false
_hjid	Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer 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 behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.	365 days	UUID
_hjRecordingLastActivity	This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).	Session	Numerical Value (Timestamp)
_hjTLDTest	When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.	Session	Boolean true/false
_hjUserAttributesHash	User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.	Session	Hash
_hjCachedUserAttributes	This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool.	Session	JSON
_hjLocalStorageTest	This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.	Under 100ms	Boolean true/false
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit.	30 minutes	Boolean true/false
_hjIncludedInSessionSample	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s daily session limit.	30 minutes	Boolean true/false
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.	30 Minutes	Boolean true/false
_hjFirstSeen	This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.	Session	Boolean true/false
hjViewportId	This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions.	Session	UUID
_hjRecordingEnabled	This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session.	Session	Boolean true/false

Visitors with Disabled Cookies and HotJar.com

Hotjar.com does not track or record visitors who have cookies disabled. In fact, the Hotjar script doesn’t properly load its different components if it detects that cookies are disabled. Learn more

Further information

We analyse demographic and other statistical information about user behaviour to analyse the popularity and effectiveness of our site. In performing such analysis and in the course of our business we will only ever disclose such information in an aggregated form that is not capable of identifying an individual user.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS, ADS CONVERSION TRACKING AND REMARKETING

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland („Google“). In addition, our website uses Google Ads conversion tracking and Ads remarketing and Google Signals, which are also services by Google.

Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyse and improve our website based on your usage behaviour. Google Ads conversion tracking and Ads remarketing also use cookies and similar technologies in order to measure the performance of advertisements placed (so-called Ads campaigns) and to show you individualised advertising messages on websites that collaborate with Google. Google Signals compiles for us multi-platform data reports on Google users that have enabled personalised advertising in their Google accounts. To change what information Google collects visit My Activity.

The data collected in this context may be transferred by Google to a server in the United States and stored there. For the event that personal data is transferred to the United States, Google has agreed to the conditions of the EU-US Privacy Shield.

Google will truncate your IP address before analysis of the usage statistics, which means that conclusions cannot be drawn as to your identity. For this purpose, the code “anonymizeIP” has been added to Google Analytics on our website to guarantee collection of anonymised IP addresses.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing the website operator with other services relating to website and Internet use.

The Google Ads conversion tracking cookies ordinarily remain enabled on your computer for around 30 days. If you visit our website during this period, both Google and we will be informed that you saw the displayed advertisement.

In case that you use a Google account, Google can, depending on the settings stored in your Google account, associate your Internet and browser cache with your Google account and use information from your Google account to personalise advertisements. You must sign out of your Google account before visiting our website if you do not want this association with your Google account.

If you have enabled personalised advertising in your Google account, Google will be able to prepare data models and reports on website habits, which show for instance on which device you first clicked on an advertisement and on which device any eventual purchase took place. These data models and reports are based on random samples and are pseudonymised to ensure anonymity, which means that we are unable to draw any conclusions as to the identities of the individual Google users.

To see how Google will use your personal data when you give consent view their business safety & privacy and terms site.

FACEBOOK PIXEL

In addition, our website uses remarketing tabs for marketing purposes (also the “Facebook Pixel”) by Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). This tag establishes a connection between your browser and a Facebook server when you visit our website. Facebook therefore receives information that you have accessed our website with your IP address.

For the event that personal data is transferred to the United States, Facebook has agreed to the conditions of the EU-US Privacy Shield Facebook uses this information to send a statistical and anonymous data about the general use of our website, as well as on the efficiency of our Facebook advertising (“Facebook Ads”).

If you are a member of Facebook and have made the appropriate privacy settings on your Facebook account, Facebook will also be able to associate the information stored with us about your visit with your personal account, which it can use for the targeted display of Facebook Ads.

You can access and change the Privacy Settings for your Facebook profile at any time.

For more information, visit the Facebook Privacy Policy.

Questions

If you have any queries or concerns about privacy on the Birmingham Newman University website please contact us via the website or via e-mail at dpo@newman.ac.uk.

Cookies and Internet Privacy Policy