About Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is automatically saved on your computer when you visit our website and is used to help track activity across a website. University of Washington Continuum College uses cookies on our websites for the following purposes:
Website Functionality and Performance
We use the following cookies to improve the experience of visitors to our website.
| Name | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| seen-cookie-message | Used to indicate you have seen the cookie message. | 30 days |
| hasConsent | Remembers the user's consent to the use of cookies on the website | 1 year 25 days |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Stores a temporary unique identifier for your session – no other information is stored. This cookie is removed when you close your browser. | Expires on exit of browser |
| CMSPreferredCulture | Stores the visitor's preferred content culture. | 1 year |
| CMSUserPage | Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities. | 20 minutes |
| CMSLandingPageLoaded | Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. Expires after 20 minutes and the expiration period of the key is renewed every time the website is accessed again. | 20 minutes |
| CMSCsrfCookie | Stores a security token (identification feature) that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against cross site request forgery. | Expires on exit of browser |
| VisitorStatus | Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics. | 10 years |
| ai_session, ai_user | Tracks users as they navigate the website; this data is used predominately for infrastructure performance insights. | 1 day |
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track the behavior of site visitors, to better understand our audience, to improve user experience, and to identify potential website performance optimization opportunities.
| Name | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 26 months |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | 30 minutes |
| _gat_UA-### | These cookies allow us to count user visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the site performance using Google Analytics services. | 1 year |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 1 day |
| Name | Provider | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| metrics_token | twitter.com | These cookies are used by Twitter to provide embedded content that is displayed in the site. | 36 days |
Advertising and Social SHARING Cookies
We use the following cookies to facilitate sharing of our content social media and for the purpose of showing ads to site visitors based on pages they may have visited on our website. Information on the use of advertising cookies and tracking technologies is available at www.youronlinechoices.eu (for visitors located in Europe) or at www.youradchoices.com.
Learn more about how Google Ads work and manage your Google Ad Settings.
| Name | Provider | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1P_JAR | www.google.com | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 1 week |
| DV, NID | www.google.com | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 2 years |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 2 years |
| UULE | www.google.com | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 1 day |
Read more about LinkedIn cookies and how they are used.
| Name | Provider | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| lang | .linkedin.com, ads.linkedin.com | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website | Expires on exit of browser |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | Used for routing, share buttons and advertising. | 1 day |
| UserMatchHistory | .ads.linkedin.com | Used for LinkedIn Ad analytics | 179 Days |
| BizoData, BizID, BizoUserMatchHistory | .ads.linkedin.com | LinkedIn insights and ads tags, LinkedIn Ad analytics | 6 months |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | Browser ID cookie Share buttons and ad tags | 1 year |
For more information, see Facebook's cookie policy.
| Name | Provider | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| datr | .facebook.com | Facebook cookies link the website with Facebook and count the number of likes or detect if the user is logged on. | 90 days |
| fr | .facebook.com | Cookie set by Facebook that tracks the browser ID and user ID. | 90 days |
YouTube
| Name | Provider | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days |
| YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Expires on exit of browser |
Managing Cookies
To learn more about cookies, including how to remove cookies from your browser, please visit All About Cookies.