Introduction
This page explains what personal information we gather when you visit this web site: https://www.cumeg.cam.ac.uk.
Who will process my personal information?
When you view this site the University of Cambridge (‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘the University’) is the data controller.
If you follow a link from this website to another website, we recommend that you read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.
What personal information is collected and why?
For site security and performance
When you visit our website, we use cookies and page-tagging techniques to collect the request made by your browser to the server hosting the website. This includes your IP address, the date and time of connection, the version of the web browser you are using, and the page you ask for. We use this information to ensure the security of our websites and we delete it after a maximum of 3 months. We may need to use and disclose it as necessary in the event of a security concern or incident.
To improve our service to you
If you opt in to ‘Site usage measurement’ cookies, when you visit our website we will use the third-party Google Analytics service to collect standard internet log information. We use Google Analytics 4, which does not log or store individual IP addresses. We use analytics to find out how visitors use our website and to improve its usability. The data is anonymised before it is stored and before we see or use it for analytics processing. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our site. For more information about how Google Analytics uses this information, please see the Google privacy policy.
Social and Marketing
Some of our embedded content will install marketing cookies if you enable social and marketing cookie via this site’s cookie banner. If you consent to these cookies, please see the Microsoft privacy statement and the Google Google privacy policy
Cookies
Necessary cookies
Some cookies are necessary if you login to the website, these cookies inlcude:
Ucam-WLS-Session – this is used to manage the University SSO, and will generally expire with your browsing session, you logout of Raven, or clear your cookie cache
cf.turnstile.u – this is a session-ID cookie set by the Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-focused CAPTCHA system we use on all of our forms to prevent spam. More information on the Turnstyle page , the Cloudflare blog and the Cloudflare GDPR statement.
Site usage measurement
If you consent to these cookies, the following may be set: ‘_ga’, ‘_ga*’, ‘_gid’, ‘_gat’, ‘__utma’, ‘__utmt’, ‘__utmb’, ‘__utmc’, ‘__utmz’, ‘__utmv’,’_clck’
Personalisation cookies
If you consent to these cookies, when you log in, several cookies will be set to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two weeks, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Social and marketing
If you use our embed podcast player, and you consent to these cookies, the following cookies will be set: ‘NID’, ‘IDE’, ‘id’, ‘gcl‘,’gac‘, ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’, ‘Secure-ENID’,’ANONCHK’,’CLID’,’MR’,’MUID’,’SM’,’SRM*’
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How do I get further information?
For more information about how we handle your personal information, for contact details and to understand your rights under data protection legislation, please see our general data protection notice.