Privacy, data protection and cookies

In addition to personal information you may provide when you visit our website, the following information is received and stored by our web servers:

• Details of your IP address;
• Browser type and operating system;
• The web pages you visited.

This data is known as web server logs. We use this information strictly to analyse how our website is used by our visitors and we may archive this information in an anonymous form for statistical purposes.

Cookies are used on some parts of the Kingston University website. These are small pieces of information that are sent to and stored on your computer (unless you block them). They help us to recognise you if you return to our site at a later stage and to identify individual people in our database. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

If you do not want to receive certain categories of cookies on this site, you can opt-out below.

We will still need to set a cookie so that we can remember your choices when you next visit the website from the same browser. Please note that at present it is not technically possible for us to allow you to carry your settings with you between your browsers and devices so you will need to change these settings on each browser you use.

Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit All about Cookies.

The PHP session cookie is strictly necessary for the functioning of our site. This cookie is used in various parts of our website to help preserve the choices you make above in a session. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. You can find out more about Google Analytics and opt out of being tracked across all websites.

We also use cookies for advertising, remarketing and retargeting purposes across all audiences, social media and web. This enables us to serve more relevant advertising as well as helping to improve our site for users. These include, but are not limited to, Facebook, Instagram and Google. Google uses cookies like NID and SID to help customise advertising on Google properties, like Google Search.

The cookies used in this process remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with our website, search results and engagement with our advertising. This helps us to show you tailored advertising on Google based on your interests.

To opt-out from Google's remarketing programme, please edit your Google Ad settings.

We also use cookies for advertising we produce across the web. Some of our other cookies may be used to help us assess how effective our marketing and recruitment campaigns are.

We use third-party platforms, such as DoubleClick Bid Manager to carry out our retargeting activities.

Note: We do not use cookies to collect personal data unless you have opted in to receive more personalised marketing from us.

We work with Education Cubed and Akero Labs to deliver our advertising and you can view their privacy policies on their websites.

To support our content, we sometimes embed material from websites such as YouTube. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Kingston University does not control the dissemination of these cookies and the share tool will not block cookies from those websites.

The following cookies may be set during your visit to this site:

PHP session

• Name: PHPSESSID
• Purpose: This cookie is used in various parts of our site to help preserve the choices you make above in a session. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.

Google Analytics

• Name:
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• Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. View the Google privacy policy.