What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, improve performance, and provide information to website owners.

Cookies do not typically contain information that directly identifies you, but they may be linked to personal data we process in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

How we use cookies on this website

This website (applyto.newcastle.ac.uk) uses cookies to:

• Ensure the site functions correctly

• Enable secure login and session management

• Improve user experience and navigation

• Measure website performance and usage

• Support marketing and analytics (where consent is given)

Cookies are only used where permitted under applicable data protection and privacy laws.

Types of cookies we use

We have a range of cookies with different categories:

• Necessary cookies – these are required to allow the website to perform properly; for example, they help support the structure of the pages that are displayed to you, allowing you to navigate through the website.

• Preference cookies – these are required to enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

• Statistics related cookies - these are used to collect and report information on how you use the website; for example, whether it’s a first visit or a return visit to the website and how long you stay on the pages.

• Marketing cookies (tracking and social media) – these are used to track visitors and allow third party tracking; for example, to track you and your browsing behaviours and recognise if you’ve come via our paid media adverts.

Consent and control

When you first visit this website, you will be shown a cookie consent banner powered by Cookiebot.

You can:

• Accept all cookies

• Reject non-essential cookies

• Customise your preferences

You can also change or withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings link in the footer.

Managing cookies in your browser

You can control and delete cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site.

Find out more about cookies and get instructions on how to adjust your browser settings to accept, delete or reject cookies, visit 3rd party website All About Cookies.

Google Analytics - To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit Google Tools.

Twitter (now known as X) is changing the way they allow users to opt out of interest-based ads. Instead of a browser’s Do Not Track function they’re offering the following options:

• if you are on the web, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice tool to opt out of seeing interest-based advertising from Twitter

• on your mobile device, enable the 'Limit Ad Tracking' setting in your iOS phone’s settings, or the setting to 'Opt out of Ads Personalization' in your Android phone’s settings.

Relationship to our main privacy notice

This cookie policy should be read alongside our main University privacy notice:

Newcastle University corporate privacy policy.

Where there is any conflict, the main privacy notice takes precedence.

Contact

If you would like to discuss this further, please contact us on rec-man@ncl.ac.uk. 

Visit our main Data Protection website if you would like:

• more information about how we manage personal data more generally, including your rights under law

• the contact details of the University’s Data Protection Officer