USE OF COOKIES ON YES!DELFT STUDENTS’S WEBSITE

This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help us customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.

This page contains information on what cookies are, the cookies used by the YES!Delft Students’ website, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically switch off advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on the YES!Delft Students’ website, please email info@yesdelftstudents.nl.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately.

HOW DOES YES!DELFT STUDENTS’ WEBSITE USE COOKIES?

A visit to a page on the YES!Delft Students’ website may generate the following types of cookie:

Site performance cookies
Anonymous analytics cookies
Geotargetting cookies
Advertising cookies

SITE PERFORMANCE COOKIES

This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on the YES!Delft Students’ website, so you don’t have to re-set them each time you visit. Examples include:

• Volume settings for our video player
• Whether you see the latest or the oldest article comments first
• Video streaming speeds that are compatible with your browser

ANONYMOUS ANALYTICS COOKIES

Every time someone visits our website, software provided by another organisation generates an “anonymous analytics cookie”.

These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones.

This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site.

We cannot use these cookies to identify individuals. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page.

GEO-TARGETING COOKIES

These cookies are used by software which tries to work out what country you are in from the information supplied by your browser when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous, and we only use it to help target our content and advertising.

ADVERTISING COOKIES

These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it.

HOW DO I TURN COOKIES OFF?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.

USEFUL LINKS

If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:

Microsoft Cookies guide
All About Cookies

The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:
youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk

If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us at info@yesdelftstudents.nl