Cookie policy
General information
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access a certain website. Cookies allow that website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user’s browsing habits or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way in which you use your device, can be used to recognise the user and improve the service offered.
Types of cookies
UDC uses its own and third-party cookies, which may be functionality cookies or analytical or performance cookies. The use of these cookies allows us to optimise your browsing, adapting the information and services offered to your interests, in order to provide you with a more agile and intuitive experience. The cookies are associated solely with an anonymous user and their computer/device and do not provide references that allow us to know personal data.
First-party cookies
UDC uses its own functionality cookies, which are used to recognise you when you return to our website and allow us to offer you enhanced and more personalised features, such as greeting you by name and remembering your preferences (e.g. your choice of language or region). These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track your movements on other websites.
A cookie specific to the FEDERICO system, which is proprietary to the UDC and used for the authentication of teaching staff, is used specifically on the PDI record to modify the information relating to the photo and/or summary of their record.
Third-party cookies
The UDC uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service developed by Google Inc., which allows the measurement and analysis of navigation on web pages. The cookies used by Google Analytics for statistical access control are:
- _utma: It is the visitor identifier. It stores session-related information and expires two years after its creation. Expires: 2 years from when it was initially created or reset.
- _utmb:It is used to determine how long the user spends on our website and the number of pages they visit. This cookie expires after 30 minutes. It expires 30 minutes after it was initially created or reset.
- _utmc:This cookie is used in conjunction with __utmb to determine whether a new session is established for the user. This cookie expires when the browser is closed. Expires: When the session ends.
- _utmz:This cookie is used to carry out visit attribution, that is, to determine where and how the user arrived at our website. Expires: 6 months from when it was created or reset.
- _atuvc: This cookie is used by the JavaScript of the “AddThis” social plugin on the user’s side to ensure that they see the updated count if a page is shared, liked or tweeted. Expires: 2 years from when it was initially created or reset.
Change cookie settings
You can restrict, block or delete the cookies installed on your device via the settings of your browser:
Configuring your browser to reject all cookies, or specifically UDC cookies, will not prevent you from browsing the website, although you will not be able to use any features that require the installation of any of them, in particular the features specified in the first-party cookies.