Our use of cookies
Cookies 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.
The table below shows the cookies that are used across Birkbeck's public web sites. On our public-facing pages we do not use any cookies that are essential for those pages to operate. You can use various tools to block those cookies if you wish, including adjusting your browser settings or using browser add-ons (such as the Privacy Dashboard Firefox Add-on).
We do not store any data relating to the personal identity of general site visitors in cookies. We do offer to Birkbeck students and staff the option of recording some personal data in cookies on our Library web site to enable access certain electronic resources, but there is a non-cookie alternative available. We also offer Birkbeck staff the opportunity to store personal details in a cookie for ease of use in our room bookings facility, and to students and staff in relation to our study skills booking system. Both of these are opt-in schemes.
| Cookie | Name | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Site cookies |
serverid |
End of session |
This cookie is set when you visit any of our pages being served from our content management system. It is used to help our server to handle your requests in the most efficient way and is deleted when you quit your browser. |
| Google Analytics | _utma | Long lived | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use Google Analytics 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. |
| _utmb | Long lived | ||
| _utmc | End of session | ||
| _utmz | Long lived | ||
| AddThis | di | Short lived | These cookies are used by the AddThis widget which is found in some areas of our site, to collect information about how visitors are bookmarking and sharing pages on our site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form and AddThis can use some of this to target advertising on other web sites based on your usage of the widget. You can read the full AddThis Privacy and Data Practices information here and you can opt out of this usage here. |
| dt | Short lived | ||
| loc | Short lived | ||
| psc | Long lived | ||
| uid | Long lived | ||
| uit | Short lived | ||
| ups | Long lived |
