Privacy & Cookie Policy
User anonymity and personal privacy
Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files
on this website's web servers. Log files do not capture personal
information but do capture the user's IP address, which is
automatically recognised by our web servers.
Aggregated analysis of these log files is used to monitor
website usage. These analyses may be made to available to Plymouth
College staff and partner agencies to allow them to measure, for
example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths
through the site.
Except as stated already, Plymouth College will make no attempt
to identify individual users. You should be aware, however, that
access to web pages will generally create log entries in the
systems of your ISP or network service provider. These entities may
be in a position to identify the client computer equipment used to
access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of
network services and is beyond the responsibility or control of
Plymouth College.
Plymouth College will make no attempt to track or identify
individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that
unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In the case of
all users, Plymouth College reserves the right to attempt to
identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of
trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources
operating as part of Plymouth College web services.
As a condition of use of this site, all users must give
permission for Plymouth College to use its access logs to attempt
to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or
attempting to gain, unauthorised access.
All log file information collected by Plymouth College is kept
secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third
party.
Use of cookies
This website does not store any information that would, on its
own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without
their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are
used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user
preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.
| Cookie Name |
Description |
Expiration |
pmcAllowCookies
pmcShowCookieIcon |
Cookie Control: When you click "I'm happy with this..." on the
Cookie Control user interface, a cookie is set in order to remember
your preference. These cookies are set only after the
user has given consent to us to use cookies. |
|
| __utma |
This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first
visit to your site from that web browser. If the cookie has been
deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently
visits your site, a new __utma cookie is written with a different
unique ID. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to your
site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this
cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to
ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an
extra security measure. |
2 years from set/update. |
| __utmb |
This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session
with your site. When a user views a page on your site, the Google
Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find
the cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established.
Each time a user visits a different page on your site, this cookie
is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing a single
session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute
intervals. This cookie expires when a user pauses on a page on your
site for longer than 30 minutes. |
30 minutes from set/update. |
| __utmc |
This cookie is no longer used by the ga.js tracking code to
determine session status.
Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the
__utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new
session for the user. For backwards compatibility purposes with
sites still using the urchin.js tracking code, this cookie will
continue to be written and will expire when the user exits the
browser. However, if you are debugging your site tracking and you
use the ga.js tracking code, you should not interpret the existence
of this cookie in relation to a new or expired session.
|
Not set. |
| __utmz |
This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to
reach your site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a
website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is
used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page
navigation within your own site. The cookie is updated with each
page view to your site. |
6 months from set/update. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This is a third party cookie set by YouTube.com and allows a
bandwidth estimate of every video played to be associated with a
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie and with the IP address that requested
the video, but NOT with a YouTube user name. |
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| PREF |
This cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences when
viewing pages containing video content. |
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Data protection and confidentiality
Some services on this website require us to collect personal
information from you. To comply with the Data Protection Act, we
have a duty to tell you how we store the information we collect and
how it is used.
Any information you do submit will be stored securely and will
never be passed on or sold to any third party.