What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data given to your web browser by a website which may be stored as text files on your computer. Cookies are not programs and cannot collect information from your computer. They do not damage your computer and are defined as “a piece of text stored on a user’s computer by their web browser”.
A website may send cookie data to your web browser which may save it if your web browser’s preferences allow it to do so. To protect your privacy your web browser only returns a cookie to the website that sent you the cookie and does not send it to any other website. A website cannot access your cookie directory or information on your computer, instead relevant cookies are included by your web browser within each request you make to the website. A website can only obtain cookie data that your web browser sends to it.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Cookies used by the LSHTM website
We use the following cookies on our website
CMMID
- Cookies: ‘cmmid_repo_consent’
- Purpose: To save your preference regarding the use of cookies on this website, so we do not need to ask you again
Google analytics (only if you consent for the use of cookies)
- Cookies: ‘__utma’, ‘__utmb’, ‘__utmc’, ‘__utmz’
- Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and we use this information to help us improve our website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form such as the number of visitors to our website, where visitors have come to the website from, the pages they visited and what web browser was used. Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about website visitors.
- More information: Privacy and security of your Analytics data, Google Analytics cookies, Opting out of being tracked
What if you do not want to accept our cookies?
If you choose not to accept cookies, you can still keep using this website.