Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer or mobile device. A number of cookies may be created when you visit our website.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that remember your cookie choice. This is then used to honour that choice when you return to our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Third Party cookies. Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We also use third party functionality cookies so that visitors can sign up to our newsletter and watch our video content.
Deactivating Cookies
The third party analytical or performance cookies and any other cookies we use, which are not strictly necessary, are only stored once you have provided your consent.
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Host | Category | Description | Lifespan |
| _gid | stmellitus.ac.uk | Performance Cookies | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | PERSISTENT |
| mailerlite :webform :shown | mailerlite.com | Strictly Necessary Cookies | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. - Strictly necessary | PERSISTENT |
| vuid | vimeo.com | Functional Cookies | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | PERSISTENT |