Website Cookie Policy

This website www.falmouth.ac.uk uses cookies to function, improve performance and enhance our users' experience.

At Falmouth we value transparency and our web users' privacy. You'll find clear guidance to help you understand the cookies we use, how they impact you and how to easily set and change your preferences, in the following sections of this page:

  1. What are cookies?: Summary of what cookies are and how they work.
  2. Falmouth's cookies: Details of types of cookies we use, why we use them, what they do, how they impact your access to the site, your experience, web functionality and privacy.
  3. Managing your preferences: Introducing our Cookie Controller. How to use it to Accept, Delete and Block cookies at a category level, in line with your preferences. How to manage cookies through your web browser instead.
  4. Changing your settings: How to access and change your cookie settings at any time, should you change your mind whilst visiting the site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They can contain information such as a unique identifier, preferences, settings and other data needed to support the website's functionality.

  1. Cookies can help websites provide core functionality and useful features, remember preferences you've asked the website to keep, such as language or accessibility settings, and understand how the website is being used and performing.
  2. Cookies generally contain a limited amount of information and often use a unique identifier rather than directly identifying you by name. However, cookies can be used to identify or track individuals when combined with other information, particularly for analytics, advertising and personalisation.
  3. Some cookies are session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser. Others are persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. Whether a cookie requires your consent depends on its purpose and how it is used.
  4. You can manage, delete or block cookies through your web browser's settings. You can also manage the cookies used by this website through our cookie settings. Blocking some cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
  5. Some cookies are essential for the website to function, while others provide optional functionality such as analytics, personalisation or advertising. Where consent is required, optional cookies will only be used where you have given your consent. Refusing optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the website, although some functionality may be affected.

Falmouth cookies

We like to keep things simple, so we only use cookies that help us operate, understand and improve our website and our users' experience. These include:

  1. Necessary cookies – cookies that are essential for the website to function correctly and provide core features.
  2. Analytical cookies – cookies that help us understand how our website is being used and how well it is performing, so we can identify areas for improvement.
  3. Functional cookies – cookies that enable additional features and tools that can improve your experience, such as Live Chat, Google Maps, Unibuddy and YouTube.
  4. Marketing cookies – cookies that help us measure and improve the effectiveness of our marketing activity, for example by limiting how often you may see a Falmouth advert on Facebook.

A full list of the cookies we use, organised across these four categories, including their purpose, provider and duration, can be found in the tabs below.

Managing your preferences

There are two ways you can manage your cookie preferences while visiting the www.falmouth.ac.uk site:

  1. Using the cookie controller pop-up we've integrated across our Falmouth site, or
  2. Updating your web browser cookie management settings

Both sections below will tell you how to Accept, Delete and Block cookies using each option.

Falmouth's cookie controller

Our cookie controller panel pops up when you first visit the website as a new user and gives you the option to either 'Accept All', 'I DO NOT Accept Cookies' or turn cookies on or off at a category level by selecting 'Manage Cookies'.

If the controller doesn't automatically pop up you can also access it at any time by clicking the cog icon on the bottom-left of the screen on all web pages.

The controller provides detailed guidance to help you update your preferences and functionality to help you action those preferences immediately in the pop-up. Each cookie category section tells you what the cookies in that category do and what the impact might be if you turn them off.

You won't automatically be opted in for cookies, you must give us your consent first by either clicking the 'Accept All' button or turning cookies 'On' at a category level by using the toggles in the cookie controller pop-up. Without this consent we will block our cookies from being saved to your web browser. However, this is likely to affect your access to functionality, our capacity to provide a responsive service and a good user experience, so we recommend you consider these options carefully.

Exceptions

There are two exceptions to this rule: Necessary cookies and selected functional cookies.

As per guidance on this page and in the cookie controller pop-up, cookies within the 'Necessary cookies' category will automatically be set and updated any time you visit the website, as they are critical to making the website work.

Some cookies specified in the 'Functional cookies' category are set directly by the tool provider when you use the tool featured on our site i.e. Google Maps, YouTube. Because they aren't set by us we can't prevent these cookies from being used without removing the tool from the website entirely. However, we've checked these cookies and their purpose is to provide functionality and monitor tool use and performance, in the same way as our own Necessary and Analytical cookies would, which indicates that no personal identifiable data is used or collected without your consent.

Deleting cookies at a category level using the cookie controller pop-up is easy. Simply open the pop-up, navigate to the category of cookies you want to delete, switch the toggle button to 'Off' and click the 'Save Cookie Preferences & Close' button at the bottom of the pop-up. Or, to turn off all cookies, select the 'I DO NOT Accept Cookies' button which will toggle all options to 'off'.

This will automatically update your preferences, delete all cookies associated with that category from your web browser and save your preference to keep those cookies blocked until you explicitly change the toggle back to 'On' and 'Save Cookie Preferences & Close' using the cookie controller pop-up.

Please note that this will delete all cookies associated with that category, which may impact your experience or web performance. A full list of cookies within each category can be found in the 'Falmouth cookies' section of this page.

It is possible to delete cookies at an individual cookie level, should you want to remove one or more specific cookies but keep the rest of the cookies within that category. However this can only be done by managing cookies through your browser. Details of how to do this can be found in the 'Managing cookies through your web browser' section of this page.

Exceptions

As per above 'Necessary cookies' and some specific 'Functional cookies' can't be deleted using the cookie controller pop-up, but can be deleted at website or individual level by managing cookies through your browser. Details of how to do this can be found in the 'Managing cookies through your web browser' section of this page.

Blocking cookies, to prevent them from being set any time you visit our website, is easy. Simply open the cookie controller pop-up and change your permissions at a category level by sliding the relevant cookie category toggle to 'Off', then clicking the 'Save Cookie Preferences & Close' button at the bottom of the pop-up. This will automatically delete and block all cookies within that category until you expressly change your mind by turning them back on in the cookie controller pop-up.

Or, to turn off all cookies at once, select the 'I DO NOT Accept Cookies' button which will toggle all options to 'off'.

Please note that this will delete and block all cookies related to the category, which could impact your experience or web performance. A full list of cookies within each category can be found in the 'Falmouth cookies' section of this page.

It's possible to block cookies at an individual cookie level instead of at a category level by managing cookies through your browser. Details of how to do this can be found in the 'Managing cookies through your web browser' section of this page.

Exceptions

Necessary and specified functional cookies can only be blocked by managing cookies through your browser. Details of how you can do this can be found in the 'Managing cookies through your web browser' section of this page.

Managing cookies through your browser

As an alternative to our cookie controller pop-up, you can independently manage your cookie preferences at a website or individual cookie level directly through your web browser.

You can accept, clear and block cookies by updating your web browser's cookie settings. Independent instructions on how to do this across a number of different web browsers can be found at: https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies*.

*This is not part of our website and the University is not responsible for its content.

Changing your settings

You can change your cookie settings at any time, either by updating your saved preferences in the cookie controller pop-up or by changing the cookie settings directly in your web browser.

Using cookie controller to change your settings

To change your settings: block or allow cookies at a category level, on our website, simply locate the cog icon on the bottom left-hand side of any Falmouth website page and click it to open the cookie controller pop-up.

Once the pop-up is open either click the 'I Accept Cookies' button to allow all cookies, or click the cookie category toggle buttons to 'On' or 'Off' accordingly, should you want to allow some types of cookies but not others.

Don't forget to click the 'Save Cookie Preferences & Close' button at the bottom of the pop-up to update your preferences.

Or, to turn off all cookies, select the 'I DO NOT Accept Cookies' button which will toggle all options to 'off'.

Changing your web browser cookie settings

You can also change your cookie settings directly through your web browser.

Full details of how you can do this across web browsers can be found at: https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies*.

*This is not part of our website and the University is not responsible for its content.

Contact us

If you have any questions about how to manage your cookies while using Falmouth's site then you can contact our Information Governance Office using the details on our Data Privacy page.

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