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Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to the cookies we use when you visit Stanford University’s Summer Session website (summer.stanford.edu) and other websites owned or controlled by Stanford University’s Summer Session (together, the “Sites”).
This cookie policy provides you with more information about cookies, what types of cookies we use and how we use them. Our Sites use cookies with the intention of providing you with a user experience that best suits your needs, while concurrently allowing us to improve the design and functionality of our Sites. Cookies can be adjusted or disabled, and this policy provides you with instructions to do so.
Cookies
A cookie is a file designed to contain a small amount of user and website information stored on a user’s computer. The file interacts with the user and the website to provide a webpage tailored to the user through its awareness of information held within the file. Cookies also have the ability to carry all or parts of the information stored within the file to other websites that the user may visit or to third parties.
Types of Cookies
A third-party cookie is placed by a domain other than that of the website the user is visiting.
A session cookie is temporary, linking the actions of a user during any given browser session. When the browser is closed, the cookie is deleted.
A permanent cookie, also known as a persistent cookie, is stored for a specific period of time and activates each time the user visits the website that created the cookie.
Our Use of Cookies
We use third-party, session and persistent cookies and similar technology to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about Sites usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit the Sites. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. We also use technology to remember you the next time you log in. Some of these cookies are erased when you close your browser window and some persist for a period of time. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may allow selected third parties to place cookies through the Sites to provide us with better insights into the use of the Sites or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a user’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our Sites.
The cookies used on our Sites may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose description | Maximum storage duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieConsent | summer.stanford.edu | Registers how the user has reached the website to enable pay out of referral commission fees to partners. | 1 year
|
Preference cookies
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose description | Maximum storage duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| yt-player-bandwidth | youtube.com | Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings. | Persistent |
Statistic cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose description | Maximum storage duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjSession_# | stanford.edu | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | 1 day
|
| _hjSessionUser_# | stanford.edu | Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.
| 1 year
|
| _hjTLDTest | stanford.edu | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.
| Session
|
| hjActiveViewportIds | hotjar.com | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor's experience. | Persistent
|
| hjViewportId | hotjar.com | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Session
|
| image.aspx | global.siteimproveanalytics.io | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | Session |
| nmstat | stanford.edu | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor's experience. | 1000 days |
| yt-player-headers-readable | youtube.com | Used to determine the optimal video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings. | Persistent |
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.
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose description | Maximum storage duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| #-# | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session |
| _fbp | stanford.edu | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| _ga | stanford.edu | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| _ga_# | stanford.edu | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years
|
| _gcl_au | stanford.edu | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| iU5q-!O9@$ | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Session |
| lastExternalReferrer | connect.facebook.net | Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. | Persistent
|
| lastExternalReferrerTime | connect.facebook.net | Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address. | Persistent |
| LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| NID | google.com | Unclassified | 6 months |
| remote_sid | youtube.com | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Session |
| ServiceWorkerLogsDatabase#SWHealthLog | youtube.com | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | Persistent |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | youtube.com | Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. | 1 day |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Unclassified | 180 days |
| YSC | youtube.com | Unclassified | Session |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| YtIdbMeta#databases | youtube.com | Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. | Persistent |
| yt-remote-cast-available | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session |
| yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session |
Adjusting Cookie Settings
You can change your cookie settings by reviewing your internet browser’s cookie options. The links below to popular browsers may help you understand your cookie options better. Typically, such information can be found under the browser’s ‘Help’, ‘Preferences’ or ‘Options’ menus.
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Safari – iOS
- Cookie settings in Safari – macOS
Interest-Based Advertisements
Some of our Sites engage in online interest-based advertising to enhance your experience and show you advertisements that might interest you. Like many organizations, we and our advertising partners display tailored interest-based advertising using information you make available to us when you interact with our Sites. Interest-based ads, also sometimes referred to as personalized or targeted ads, are displayed to you based on information from activities such as searching on our Sites or visiting websites that contain our content or ads. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers.
To learn more about interest-based ads or to opt out of receiving third-party interest-based ads, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info or www.youronlinechoices.eu. Please note that if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you will still see advertisements – they will just not be tailored to your interests. Also, note that deleting browser cookies can remove the cookie preferences you have made, so you may need to opt out again in the future.
Blocking Cookies
Should you choose to decline or block cookies by adjusting your browser settings, including cookies essential to the Sites. Please note that all or parts of our Sites may not be functional or accessible to you. Our Sites will issue cookies as soon you visit the Sites, unless your browser cookie settings are adjusted to prevent such an occurrence. Please review the information provided in this cookie policy on adjusting cookie settings for the browser of your choice.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help operate our Sites more efficiently, to gather demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity of our Sites. For information on how Google uses data from sites that share information with Google, see https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (or other relevant URL that Google may provide from time to time). You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Sites by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.