Cookie Policy

Stanford University provides the following information relating to your privacy when using websites in the Stanford.EDU domain. This privacy policy covers all Stanford.EDU websites unless otherwise indicated on a specific website.

This Cookie Policy applies to the cookies we use when you visit Stanford University’s main website (www.stanford.edu) and other websites that we own or control and link or refer to this Cookie Policy (together, the “Sites”).

This cookie policy provides you with more information about cookies, what types of cookies we use and how we use them. Our Sites use cookies with the intention of providing you with a user experience that best suits your needs, while concurrently allowing us to improve the design and functionality of our Sites. Cookies can be adjusted or disabled, and this policy provides you with instructions to do so.

Cookies

A cookie is a file designed to contain a small amount of user and website information stored on a user’s computer. The file interacts with the user and the website to provide a webpage tailored to the user through its awareness of information held within the file. Cookies also have the ability to carry all or parts of the information stored within the file to other websites that the user may visit or to third parties.

Types of Cookies

A third-party cookie is placed by a domain other than that of the website the user is visiting.

A session cookie is temporary, linking the actions of a user during any given browser session. When the browser is closed, the cookie is deleted.

A permanent cookie, also known as a persistent cookie, is stored for a specific period of time and activates each time the user visits the website that created the cookie.

Our Use of Cookies

We use third-party, session and persistent cookies and similar technology to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about Sites usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit the Sites. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. We also use technology to remember you the next time you log in. Some of these cookies are erased when you close your browser window and some persist for a period of time. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may allow selected third parties to place cookies through the Sites to provide us with better insights into the use of the Sites or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a user’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our Sites.

The cookies used on our Sites may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Description	Cookie Name	Category
These cookies expire when the browser is closed. The purpose of these cookies is to temporarily retain information related to the user’s visit to a Site, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, and what pages have been loaded.	`_atrfs _lorid __lotl _lo_u AWSELB BIGipServerab15web-app_https cas_user cas_cookie_test2 CMDD CMPS CMRUM3 CMSC CMST gig_hasGmid gsbstanford_1_init pgn_new_browser pgn_rta2 remote_sid requests rlas3 su-homesite-show-alert symfony TS0115db8a TS01e902af TS01fc008b TS01ba2ef2 TS015271e5 lo_session_in nextId ma_hash UserMatchHistory xtc YSC`	Session
These cookies remain in operation, even when the browser is closed. The purpose of these cookies is to retain information to help the user avoid retyping data.	`cas_perm2 pgn_user2 webauth_at WMDsecureLogin`	Permanent
Third parties install these cookies to collect certain information for statistical purposes and conducting research into behavior, demographics, and similar topics about our users.	`__atuvc __atuvs __cfduid __gads _gig_llp _gig_llu APISID AWSALB Blaze DSID DV FormSpringFormSession21642262 FormSpringFormView214262 fr gmid hasGmid HSID lang LOGIN_INFO metrics_token PHPSESSID PREF SAPISID SID SSID tfw_exp ucid uvc VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE`	Third-party
These cookies help us understand how our visitors engage with our Sites. These cookies collect information and report website usage statistics. Some of these cookies are used to see how people use our Sites, which helps us improve it.	`__adroll __ar_v4 __gat_Destiny _A_time _ceg.s _ceg.u _ceir _gat _gat_exec _gat_rollUpTracker _gat_UA-17324310-1 _gat_UA-5950986-19 _gd_svisitor _gd_visitor _gid _ivu _litra_id.dc12 _unam _utma _utmc _utmt _utmv _utmz _uuid AMCV_ bcookie buid_1038693605 buid_1830491566 buid_2015930208 buid_692015568 buid_741299734 C3UID C3UID-312 cto_lwid demdex dextp dpm DST DSTJS gpv_pn JSESSIONID mbox MentAdUserID s_cc s_fid s_invisit s_lv s_lv_s s_nr s_ppv s_ppvl s_vnum sess t_gid uuid2`	Analytics
These cookies allow our Sites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks for you, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. For instance, by remembering your region, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can personalize. Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working.	`has_js khaos put_2760 put_3644 rpb tuuid tuuid_last_update Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight`	Preferences
We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. Some of these cookies may collect the request made by your browser to the server hosting the website which includes the IP address, the date and time of connection and the page you ask for. We use this information to ensure the security of our Sites. Some of these cookies help make the Sites work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the Sites cannot function properly.	`ajs_group_id ajs_user_id atlassian.xsrf.token cloud.session.token HTML_VisitCountCookie SimpleSAMLAuthToken SimpleSAMLSessionID`	Security
We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of these cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and, to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. We use cookies like NID and SID to help customize ads on Google websites and other online properties, like Google Search. Some uses include remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customized ads.	`_#sess _#srchist _#uid _#vdf __atuvc __gads __sonar _ct_rmm _ga 1P_JAR anj APID BizoID bku c Doubleclick (IDE) IDE IDSYNC KRTBCOOKIE_10 lidc loc mus na_id na_tc NID pgn_eventId pgn_tparty pgnData PUBMDCID PugT rpx ssc ssh sshs taboola_usg uid uvccas_perm`	Advertising

Adjusting Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie settings by reviewing your internet browser’s cookie options. The links below to popular browsers may help you understand your cookie options better. Typically, such information can be found under the browser’s ‘Help’, ‘Preferences’ or ‘Options’ menus.

Interest-Based Advertisements

Some of our Sites engage in online interest-based advertising to enhance your experience and show you advertisements that might interest you. Like many organizations, we and our advertising partners display tailored interest-based advertising using information you make available to us when you interact with our Sites. Interest-based ads, also sometimes referred to as personalized or targeted ads, are displayed to you based on information from activities such as searching on our Sites or visiting websites that contain our content or ads. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers.

To learn more about interest-based ads or to opt out of receiving third-party interest-based ads, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info or www.youronlinechoices.eu. Please note that if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you will still see advertisements – they will just not be tailored to your interests. Also, note that deleting browser cookies can remove the cookie preferences you have made, so you may need to opt out again in the future.

Blocking Cookies

Should you choose to decline or block cookies by adjusting your browser settings, including cookies essential to the Sites. Please note that all or parts of our Sites may not be functional or accessible to you. Our Sites will issue cookies as soon you visit the Sites, unless your browser cookie settings are adjusted to prevent such an occurrence. Please review the information provided in this cookie policy on adjusting cookie settings for the browser of your choice.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help operate our Sites more efficiently, to gather demographic information, and to monitor the level of activity of our Sites. For information on how Google uses data from sites that share information with Google, see https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ (or other relevant URL that Google may provide from time to time). You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Sites by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.