What Cookies are
Cookies are small text files, placed on your hard disk by a web page server. They are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the Cookie to you. We have categorised the Cookies used on our site as follows: Necessary, Analytical and Extra functionality.
Necessary Cookies allow our website to function correctly (such as return search results for you).
Non-essential (Analytical and marketing) Cookies help us to improve the website experience for our users by analysing what they actually do on our site.
Additional Functionality Cookies are not needed for our site to work correctly but provide additional functionality.
How we use Cookies
We use cookies, pixels and tags (collectively “Cookies”) on our website in order to help improve our website, improve your online experience and provide you with a more personalised web service.
We use per session Cookies which are deleted when you leave our website. They help keep track of your progress so you don’t have to enter the same information more than once.
More specifically we use the following Cookies which carry out the functions described:
Statistical Analysis
The College’s website does not automatically capture or store personal data from visitors to the site, other than to log your IP address and session information. Session information includes the time and duration of your visit to the site, the files requested and the browser used. This information will only be used by persons authorised by the College and its agents. The information will be retained by the College and will only be used for managing the site and for statistical and audit purposes.
Google Analytics
We store cookies to support analysis and understanding of how people use the website (most popular pages, user journey through the website, the busiest time of day on the site, etc.). This analysis is to help improve the usage and effectiveness of the website. The data collection and reporting behind this analysis is currently provided by Google Analytics. More information is provided below:
__utma This Google Analytics cookie tracks the number of times you have visited our website.
__utmb and __utmc This Google Analytics cookie acts to calculate how long you have spent on our website in each session.
__utmz This Google Analytics cookie tracks what search engine you have visited the website from and which search terms you used to find our website.
Browser Cookies
Cookies are small text files passed to your computer by the web server via your browser and may be used to collect information to help identify you and to prepare customised pages for you. Cookies may remain on your computer for the duration of your visit or indefinitely. You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies However, please note that if you do, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website.
Google Adwords
We also use Google AdWords Remarketing to advertise across the Internet. AdWords remarketing will display relevant ads tailored to you based on what parts of the Fife College website you have viewed by placing a cookie on your machine. THIS COOKIE DOES NOT IN ANYWAY IDENTIFY YOU OR GIVE ACCESS TO YOUR COMPUTER The cookie is used to say “This person visited this page, so show them ads relating to that page.” Google AdWords Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.
Facebook Pixel
This is an analytical tool that helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising. For more information on our use of pixels please go here.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the respective privacy policies for how their cookies work.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. More information about how to do this is given in the link in the section below.
More about Cookies
If you want to learn more about what targeting and advertising cookies are on your device (whether or not related to this website) and how to disable them you can do so at youronlinechoices.eu
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. If you chose to restrict or block any cookies, this may result in certain features of the website not being provided and you may not be able to take full advantage of the websites features and functionality.