Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use this website, such as the pages you visit.

This page has a brief explanation of each type of cookie we use.

Necessary cookies

Essential for the website to function properly. These cannot be disabled.

These essential cookies do things like remember your progress through a form and enable core functionality such as page navigation, and access to secure areas.

Analytics and customisation cookies

To improve your experience of UCL Blogs by understanding visitor behaviour.

They collect information to help us:

Understand which pages are most popular
Monitor site performance and loading times
Track visitor journeys and navigation patterns
Identify technical issues and errors
Measure the effectiveness of our content

Advertising and marketing cookies

These deliver relevant ads and measure campaigns.

These cookies make advertising messages more relevant to you on external websites and platforms and help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

They perform functions like:

preventing the same advert from continuously reappearing
ensuring that adverts are properly displayed
in some cases, selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Third-party cookies

To support embedded content and features

Important: These third-party services may use their own cookies that we cannot control.

UCL content teams deliver content through third-party platforms such as YouTube and Soundcloud.

Our website cookie management settings on UCL Blogs will allow you to reject any cookies sent by these platforms if you choose to reject non-essential cookies.

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can choose which cookies you’re happy for us to use.

You can click the Cookie settings pop-up which is permanently visible on the bottom of all pages.
For other sites and applications on the ucl.ac.uk domains following the links to their cookie pages will allow you to accept/reject cookies for that URL.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.