Cookies Policy

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to user’s computers or mobile devices. It saves information and settings, such as language preferences in a browser on user’s device, user’s current access status to facilitate users in continuously accessing a website, including collecting the browsing history of a website that users like in a file format. Cookies do not cause any harm to user’s devices and the content in cookies can only be retrieved or read by the website that created them.

2. Benefits of Cookies

Cookies are to inform the university which parts of the website users visit to provide a better experience of browsing the website and meet the needs of each user. Besides, saving the website preference at the first visit with cookies allows users to access the website with the preference afterwards. Unless cookies are deleted, all settings will revert to default.

3. Uses of Cookies

The university uses cookies to collect statistics and record user’s preferences while browsing the website. The purpose of the use of cookies is to improve the website for users as visitors. Types of cookies the university uses and how the university will use them can be classified into these following items.

• Essential Cookies This type of cookies are absolutely necessary on the website. It allows users to access information and efficiently use every part of the university’s website. Essential cookies will be stored and deleted after users have done accessing the website.

• Performance Cookies This type of cookies are used to collect information about the performance of the website, including visits and uses of the website by users, such as the number of users who accessed the website; and the most popular web page of the website. Even though these cookies collect the IP address of devices used to access the website, it does not collect any information that directly identifies users. Such information is used for the purpose of improving the website and general user experience. Without performance cookies, the university will not be able to effectively update the website and its functions to provide users the best browsing experience. If users do not allow the use of these cookies, the university will not count user’s visits to the website and cause a negative impact on efforts to improve the website.
• User Grouping Cookies This type of cookies allow the university to measure performance by processing the number of pages that users visit as well as the number of characteristics of each group of users. Such information will be used to analyze the behaviors of the users, and the results of the analysis will be used to improve the website to meet the needs of users and better browsing experience. However, the obtained and processed information will be anonymous or unable to identify any users. Only statistical data will be collected. Personal data such as names, email addresses, etc. will not be collected.
• Assistant Cookies This type of cookies allow the website to remember user’s preferences such as username, language preferences, and/or region where users access from. These cookies provide more personalized and effective features. These cookies can also remember any changes users made to font size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that users can customize, or to provide requested services, such as watching a video, using chat function, or commenting on a blog. These cookies do not track the user’s browsing activities on the other websites.
• Unclassified Cookies This type of cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are still in the progress of classification. Please note that some types of cookies on the website are managed by third parties, such as activities related to videos, maps, social media, and other third-party website providers, website traffic analysis services, etc. These cookies usually are analytics/performance cookies, or cookies for matching related content to individual users. Users are encouraged to consult the Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy on the third-party websites to understand how they may use user’s information.

4. Disable Cookies

Users can disable cookies by setting the user’s browser and privacy settings to stop collection of cookies. However, some services on the website are required to use cookies. If users disable cookies, it may cause inconsistently accessing some or all of the website functions. To learn more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been placed, and how to manage and delete them, please check www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org