Privacy and cookies

A list of all the cookies that might appear on the sites, but not necessarily all of them.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are automatically allowed because the website won't work without them. They are essential to allow you to navigate our site and to make sure the core processes work.


CookiesHow long is it on your computer?What is it for?
JSESSIONID, PHPSESSIONID, ASPSESSIONID, etc The length of time you're on the site. It's deleted when you leave or logout. A session cookie is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.
COOKIES_ENABLED The length of time you're on the site. It's deleted when you leave or logout. We use this cookie to check, which cookies have you enabled. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.
lytee-admin, lytee-website The length of time you're on the site. It's deleted when you leave or logout. We use this cookies for sLy, administrative tool for Lytee

Analytics cookies

We use a number of tools that monitor visitor behaviour on our website to help us improve our information and services. The tool we use most consistently is Google Analytics. Anonymous data about your visit is collected and amalgamated with that of other visitors so we can better understand how people use our website.


Cookie groupCookiesHow long is it on your computer?What is it for?
Google Analytics cookies _ga, __utma, __utmb,
__utmc, __utmv, __utmz
Indefinitely, unless you delete it. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (Google), to help us see how our website is used. In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit the University website, how the website is found (from advertising or referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

Social media cookies

These cookies allow you to connect with social media, so you can log in to pages using Facebook and share what you've been doing on pages on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,...


Cookie groupCookiesHow long is it on your computer?What is it for?
Facebook datr, lsd, reg_ext_ref,
reg_fb_gate, reg_fb_ref, wb,
act, _e_3qqF_0, wd
Varies There may be some occasions when we would use a Facebook "social plug in" tool to add various Facebook functions to our site, for example the "Like button". When we do this, Facebook sets browser cookies when a user visits a page on our site which includes an embedded Facebook function. Additionally, if the user is already logged into Facebook then Facebook will know that the user has visited our site.
Twitter twll, t1, original_refer,
_twitter_sess, guest_id , k, pid
Varies These cookies are used when integrating twitter feeds into our site's pages and to allow the sharing of content.
GooglePlus APISID, HSID, NID,
PREF, SAPISID, SID,
SSID, S, S_adsense,
BEAT, ULS
Varies These cookies are set by the Google +1 sharing button. They allow you to share content with your contacts on the Google Plus network. The majority of these cookies are set if you are logged into your Google account.
LinkedIn X-LI-DDC, X-LI-IDC,
NSC_MC_WT_FU_IUUQ
Varies Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a YouTube video. 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. This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account.

Youtube cookies

These cookies allow the usage of data associated with user browsing the youtube content.


Cookie groupCookiesHow long is it on your computer?What is it for?
Youtube SID, LOGIN_INFO, use_hotbox,
PREF, SSID, HSID,
watched_video_id_list, __utma,
__utmz, demographics, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Varies Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a YouTube video. 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. This cookie does not identify you personally unless you are logged into Google, in which case it is linked to your Google account.

Advertising cookies

These cookies allow us to know whether or not you&#39ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you've seen it.


Cookie groupCookiesHow long is it on your computer?What is it for?
Doubleclick - Google ads id Varies DoubleClick tags are used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns and to offer interest-based advertising to our visitors on third party websites. DoubleClick cookie information will not be used in conjunction with any personal information from other Google services unless you have opted-in and provided consent.