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First Party Cookies

First-party cookies are stored by Barnet and Southgate College. They allow us to collect analytics data and perform other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.

Cookie	Cookie Type	Purpose
Barnet and Southgate College	cookies_accept	Session cookie used to identify that the cookie notice has been shown and that cookies will now be sent on subsequent page views.
Barnet and Southgate College	ASP.NET_SessionId	Essential cookie to enable access to the online application portal
Recite Me	Recite.persist	Strictly necessary cookie which allows the accessibility toolbar to persist across subsequent web pages on client site once toolbar launched.
Recite Me	Recite.preferences	Strictly necessary cookie which allows user-selected settings of the accessibility toolbar to auto-load on subsequent web pages on a client site once toolbar launched.
Hubspot	__hs_cookie_cat_pref	To store cookie consent preferences for Hubspot. It expires after 6 month.
Hubspot	messagesUtk	This cookie is used to recognize users who use the live chat function on the website. If the visitor leaves before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser to save the conversation for when they return to the website. It expires after 6 months.
Facebook	_fbp	The _fbp cookie is used to store and track visits across the Barnet and Southgate College website, event tracking and remarketing purposes. The cookie expires after 3 months. We use Facebook and Instagram for advertising and this includes a 'Facebook pixel' on the Barnet and Southgate College website to improve targeting of ads to make them relevant and to improve efficiency. Manage your off facebook activity here (you need to be logged in) Manage your ads preferences here (you need to be logged in) Read More in the table at the bottom of this page*
Google Analytics	__GA __GID __GA_M71CHP6R0G	Barnet and Southgate College uses Google Analytics to enable the College to capture data about the use of its website so as to improve and provide a better service to our customers. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous information about how our website is being used. The information generated by the cookie is transmitted to Google which is then used to produce statistics. We will not attempt to identify or contact users. Learn more about these Google cookies here. To clear your these cookies please visit your browser settings. Learn more here _GA ‘_ga’ is the main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables us to distinguish one user from another by using coded identifiers in our analytics reports and this cookie expires after 2 years. _GID ‘_GID’ is a cookie installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing, this helps to improve our services. The coded data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. This cookie expires after 24 hours. _GA_M71CHP6R0G This cookie is used to persist session state. This cookie expires after 2 years.
Hotjar	_hjid _hjTLDTest _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress _hjIncludedInPageviewSample _hjIncludedInSessionSample _hjSession _hjSessionUser	We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Read more at the bottom of this page* _hjid Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. It lasts 1 year from the day it was set. _hjTLDTest When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. This cookie lasts during the users session. _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. This cookie is set for 30 minutes. _hjIncludedInPageviewSample This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the College's website pageview limit. _hjIncludedInSessionSample This cookie is set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by the College's website daily session limit. _hjSession This cookie holds the current session data of the user. 30 minute duration. _hjSessionUser This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. 1 year duration. You can opt out Hotjar tracking cookies here More information about Hotjar's privacy policy here

Third Party Content Providers

To enhance the functionality of our website we include content provided by third parties and links to third party websites. These content providers may set additional cookies. You can view the individual privacy policies of these companies using the links provided.

Cookie	Cookie Information	Purpose
Facebook	If you would like more information in regards to the Facebook Privacy Policy please visit http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy If you object to the Facebook Pixel recording your data in order to deliver Facebook ads to you, please visit https://facebook.com/ds/preferences/ where you can turn off these user data based ads. To access these settings you must be logged into Facebook.	We use Facebook and Instagram for advertising and this includes a 'Facebook pixel' on the Barnet and Southgate College website to improve targeting of ads to make them relevant and to improve efficiency Read More below this table*
Google Ads Remarketing	https://www.google.ca/settings/ads To manage your ads settings here: https://www.policies.google.com/technologies	Barnet and Southgate College uses google ads as a part of our marketing efforts, google uses cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of 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
Click4Assistance	https://www.click4assistance.co.uk/privacy-policy	Live chat services
EMSI-Career Coach	https://barnetsouthgate.emsicareercoach.co.uk/pages/?x-ResourceId=/privacy.php&type=all-users	Course related career information
YouTube	https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies#managing-cookies	Embedded video content
Twitter	https://twitter.com/privacy How to opt out of targeted Twitter ads: https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads	These cookies are placed on our website to allow the embedding of our Twitter feed, social sharing and to track advertisements we place within Twitter.
e-Careers.com	http://elearning.barnetsouthgate.ac.uk/privacy-policy	E-Learning provider
Hubspot	https://legal.hubspot.com/cookie-policy https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account/hubspot-cookie-security-and-privacy __hssc This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It expires in 30 minutes. __hssrc Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. It expires at the end of the session. __hstc The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). It expires in 6 months. hubspotutk This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It expires in 6 months.	HubSpot uses cookies to track your visit on the Barnet and Southgate College website. Data includes pageviews and button clicks. Data is anonymised unless a users fill out an application form, make direct contact with info@barnetsouthgate.ac.uk, signs up to an event using eventbrite, or completes a data capture form. The aim of processing the data is to provide communications and improve the customer experience. Personal data is stored for two years and re-permissioning emails are sent out to ask if users want to stay active in our database.

Facebook*

We use Facebook and Instagram for advertising and this includes a 'Facebook pixel' on the Barnet and Southgate College website to improve targeting of ads to make them relevant and to improve efficiency. If you are a user of Facebook or Instagram a third-party cookie may be set on your browser to facilitate the use of the Facebook Pixel if you use our website.

No personal information is collected by or for Barnet and Southgate College in this process. Facebook will use cookies to collect data such as advertising data and site usage data when visitors reach Barnet and Southgate College. We do not have any visibility of individual data or personal data in this process.

When you visit Barnet and Southgate College’s Facebook Page it may assign your visit to your personal Facebook account. The collection and processing of the data by Facebook has been stated in Facebook’s Data Policy. Barnet and Southgate College has no visibility on this personal data.

HotJar*

Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address in de-identified form (which is processed during your session), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.