Jisc Community Cookies
Download as PDFVersion: 3
Issued: June 2019
Reference: IM-DOC-005
Owner: T Harris
Last Reviewed Date: 15/07/2022
We may use cookies.
A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from a web server to your browser and may be stored on your hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system.
You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. To find out more, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you refuse cookies, some websites may not function. In particular the Jisc websites rely on cookies for the following functions:
| Function | Cookie Name(s) | Further information |
| Jisc Community: community.jisc.ac.uk | ||
| Allows the website to serve content | ssess | Session allows the page to serve appropriate content to the user. |
| Keeping an anonymous record of how visitors use the website | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
The Google Analytics software is described at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Saml IdP | _saml_idp | Cookie to allow identity provider to identify you. |
| Shibboleth Session | _shibsession_<number> | Shibboleth session allows the page to serve appropriate content to the user. |
| Allowing the server to identify whether the browser is using Javascript | has_js | Identifies whether a browser has Javascript enabled to display Javascript elements or go to non-Javascript . |
| Remember your Library preferences | adaptiveLibraryDefaultState | Domain specific cookie, used to remember the closed/open state of the Library Finder Window between page requests. Session only, and is deleted on close of your browser |
| Used to aid caching of the website for authenticated users | authcache | Set when a user logs in, holding a role-specific random string which is sent with cache requests using AJAX. This aids us with our aggressive caching in providing customised Javascript-loaded content across page requests. Session only, and is deleted on close of your browser. |
| Used to aid caching of the website for authenticated users | drupal_user drupal_uid |
These are set only for logged-in users, and aid our caching of pages for authenticated users. These two cookies store the user’s unique username and unique User ID for quick and easy retrieval with javascript. They are essential for improving the speed of the site for authenticated users. Session only, and are deleted on close of your browser, or on logout. |
We use YouTube and Vimeo to serve the videos on the Jisc Community site. They will serve the cookies:
| Function | Name | Further information |
| YouTube: www.youtube.com | ||
|
Double Click advert |
__ar_v4 | Used by YouTube to serve advertising |
| YouTube activity | ACTIVITY | Used by YouTube to follow your YouTube activity |
| Session id | SID | YouTube session id |
| Session id | HSID | YouTube session id |
| Log in cookie | LOGIN_INFO | Login in functions for YouTube |
| YouTube preferences | PREF | YouTube preferences |
| Session Id | SSID | YouTube secure session id |
| YouTube page testing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Cookie to see if user wants to see a new home page |
| Demographic cookie | demographics | Cookie which adds the viewed content to an aggregated demographics system |
| Hitbox cookie | use_hitbox | Use Hitbox software |
| Watched video | watched_video_id_list_rXDVY | Cookie which follows whether a video has been watched |
| Function | Cookie | Further Information |
| Vimeo: www.vimeo.com | ||
| Quantcast cookie | __qca | Tracking cookie set by Quantcast software |
| Keeping an anonymous record of how visitors use the website, so we can improve the content and navigation of the website as well as report to the JISC on the level of use of services they pay for | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
The Google Analytics software is described at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Vimeo clip id | clip_id | The id of the clip being viewed |
| Vimeo user id | uid | The id of the logged in user |
| Double Click cookies | _drt_ id |
Cookies used by the Double Click advert serving software |
