What are cookies
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.
What are cookies used for
Cookies allow our website to know if your computer or device has visited our site before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how our site is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
How we use cookies
There are generally four categories of cookies: strictly necessary, preference, statistics and marketing.
Strictly necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas of the website or navigation between the registration shopping cart and the Extended Learning website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies enable the Extended Learning website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
You can block or delete these cookies by changing your browser settings.
Statistics cookies
Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
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.
These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure visitors are finding what they need easily. The information collected through these cookies include anonymous traffic statistics, like number of page views, number of visitors and time spent on each page.
We use cookies from Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). The information collected by Google (including your internet protocol (IP) address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on the Websites activity and providing further services to us relating to our website usage.
You can block or delete these cookies by changing the browser settings. You can also prevent your data from being collected by Google Analytics on our website by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. Please note we don’t display ads on our website, but our ads may appear when you browse other websites or use a search engine like Google.
These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services. This information may be shared with advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate service usage statistics and aggregate service testing.
You can opt out of this collection and use of information for ad targeting at any time at YourAdChoices. Please note that if you opt out, you will still see ads but they may be less relevant.
How long will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
First and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to the Extended Learning website, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device. Third-party cookies are used to collect or receive non-personal information in aggregate and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. This information is kept indefinitely. This helps us promote our website (and UBC) to those who have already shown an interest in UBC.
What are my choices when it comes to cookies?
On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please note that if you reject cookies or disable cookies, certain features or functions on our website may be limited.