Privacy notice for the website

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it), sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the DPA  2018 (the Data Protection Act), the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) and UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the data controller is the University of Brighton, Mithras House, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4AT.

If you have any questions about your data and how we use it please contact dataprotection@brighton.ac.uk or 01273 642010.

Read our other university privacy notices

Collecting and using your data

Giving us your data by filling in a form

If you fill in a form on our website or partner site you are giving your data to the University of Brighton to process.

Each form has its own privacy statement which outlines exactly the purpose of the data collection, how the University of Brighton will process it and how long the University of Brighton will retain the data. It is important that you take the time to read these privacy statements so that you fully understand the context in which you are providing your data to us, and are informed how to exercise your data subject rights.

Data collected by browsing our website

We use various analytics packages and other tools to assess and monitor how people use our website in order to ensure that we can develop it to be the best possible experience for our users. Anonymised web analytics are shared with some partner organisations.

In addition to our existing analytics tools, we use Adalyser tracking to measure the performance and effectiveness of our TV advertising campaigns.

This involves collecting data about user sessions, interactions, traffic sources, device categories, and conversion events. The data collected through Adalyser helps us link downstream user actions back to the initiating session for accurate advertising attribution.

In order for these tools to work, they set a number of cookies on the machines of people browsing our website. In addition if we display content for third party platforms (for example a YouTube video), these third parties will set their own cookies, some of which may contain analytics and targeting cookies.

We take your ability to control the cookies set on our website seriously, and have provided a tool which allows you to decide which cookies you would like set. In some cases, there are cookies that we need to set in order for our website to function properly and also to remember the choices that you have made about your preferences and cookie settings – such cookies cannot be disabled as they are strictly necessary.

Please note that if you visited our site prior to 23 May 2018 before the cookie tool was enabled on our site, cookies may have already been set. If this is the case and you wish to clear those cookies (we are unable to remove them retrospectively), please find instructions below on how they can be manually removed.

This privacy statement applies to all university websites that link to this page.

Please note that some sites related to the university may collect and use data differently. These sites will have a local privacy policy explaining these practices.

If the user leaves a university website and visits a website operated by a third party, the University of Brighton cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that users provide when visiting such third-party websites. Accordingly, users should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Managing cookies

If you want to manage individual cookies or to enable blocking of cookies you will need to refer to the documentation for your browser, however the following is provided for guidance.

Find out more about cookies.

Microsoft Edge

To allow or block cookies on Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, do the following:

  1. Open Edge browser.
  2. Click on the 3-dotted 'More' link to open its Settings.
  3. Scroll down and click on View Advanced Settings.
  4. Again scroll down till you see the setting for Cookies.
  5. When here, from the 3 options, select one.

Internet Explorer

From the browser toolbar, choose:
Tools -> Internet Options
Then click on the privacy Tab
Then click ‘Advanced Privacy Settings’ 
Once on this tab you can select how you wish your browser to deal with cookies.

Select the Override automatic cookie handling option.

First Party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting, and Third Party cookies refer to cookies that are set by a different website to the one you are visiting.

You have 3 choices for each type of cookie:

  • Accept - Accepts any cookies.
  • Block - Blocks all cookies.
  • Prompt - Asks you before storing a cookie.

Session cookies are cookies that will expire when you have finished your session on the website (some websites need these cookies enabled to function correctly).

Firefox  

To set Firefox to block cookies from the website you are currently visiting:

  • Go to the website you wish to block from setting cookies in Firefox.
  • Hold down the Ctrl key while you click within the page and select View Page Info.
  • In the Page Info window, select the Permissions panel.
  • Underneath Set Cookies, remove the check mark from Use Default.
  • Change the setting to Block.
  • Close the Page Info window.

To remove cookies which have already been set:

  • On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu and select Preferences
  • Select the Privacy panel.
  • Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history
  • Click Show Cookies.... The Cookies window will appear
  • In the Search: field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. The cookies that match your search will be displayed
  • Select the cookie(s) in the list to remove and click Remove Cookie.

Chrome

  • Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar
  • Select Settings
  • Click Show advanced settings
  • In the "Privacy" section, click the Content settings button

In the "Cookies" section, you can change the following cookies settings:

i) Delete cookies

Click All cookies and site data to open the Cookies and Other Data dialog.

To delete all cookies, click Remove all at the bottom of the dialog.

To delete a specific cookie, select the site that issued the cookie, then the cookie, and click Remove.

ii) Block cookies by default

Block all cookies: Select "Block sites from setting any data." Keep in mind that selecting this setting will prevent most sites that require you to sign in from working. You'll see an X in the address bar whenever a cookie has been blocked.

Block only third-party cookies: Select the "Ignore exceptions and block third-party cookies from being set" checkbox. Even if you've added a site to the Exceptions list and have chosen to allow its cookies, the site's third-party cookies won't be accepted if this checkbox is selected.

iii) Make exceptions for cookies from specific websites or domains

To control how cookies should be handled for a few specific sites or domains, click Manage exceptions. To add a rule in the Cookie and Site Data Exceptions dialog that appears, follow these steps:

  • 1. Click the "Add a new exception pattern" field and enter the domain name for which you want to create an exception.
    To create exceptions for an entire domain, insert [*.] before the domain name (e.g.[*.]google.com).
    You can also specify an IP address, an IPv6 address, or a non-http URL.
  • 2. Use the menu to choose whether the site can set cookies. If you select Session only, its cookies are deleted every time you close your browser.

You can also edit or remove exceptions using this dialog.

iv) Allow cookies by default

Safari  

Managing cookies in Safari

1. Choose Safari > Preferences and click Security.

2. In the “Accept cookies” section, specify if and when Safari should accept cookies from websites. To see an explanation of the options, click the Help button (looks like a question mark).

3. If you want to see more information about the cookies stored on your computer, click Show Cookies. The following information is displayed for each cookie:

  • Website that stored the cookie
  • Name
  • Path, or location, on your computer
  • Secure status; cookies marked “secure” are sent over an encrypted connection
  • Expiration date (when it will be removed from your computer)
  • Contents (normally a string of code)