Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use this website, such as the pages you visit.
This page has a brief explanation of each type of cookie we use.
Cookie types
Necessary cookies. Essential for the website to function properly. These cannot be disabled. These essential cookies do things like remember your progress through a form and enable core functionality such as page navigation, and access to secure areas.
Analytics and customisation cookies. They improve your experience of the UCL website by understanding visitor behaviour. They collect information to help us:
- Understand which pages are most popular
- Monitor site performance and loading times
- Track visitor journeys and navigation patterns
- Identify technical issues and errors
- Measure the effectiveness of our content
- Advertising and marketing cookies
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- These deliver relevant ads and measure campaigns.
- These cookies make advertising messages more relevant to you on external websites and platforms and help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
- They perform functions like:
- preventing the same advert from continuously reappearing
- ensuring that adverts are properly displayed
- in some cases, selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
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Third-party cookies. Support embedded content and features
- Important: UCL content teams deliver content through third-party platforms such as YouTube and Soundcloud. These third-party services may use their own cookies that we cannot control. Our website cookie management settings on the main UCL website will allow you to reject any cookies sent by these platforms if you choose to reject non-essential cookies.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can choose which cookies you’re happy for us to use.
- You can click the Cookie settings pop-up which is permanently visible on the bottom of all pages.
Necessary cookies
The icwp-wpsf-notbot cookie is set by the Shield Security (ICWP) WordPress plugin to verify that a visitor is human (not a bot) and prevent spam or malicious automated requests.
Third-party cookies:
YouTube’s __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN cookie tracks feature rollouts and experiments, ensuring a user consistently sees the same test versions of features securely.
YouTube’s VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie estimates a user’s connection speed and helps optimize video quality and interface performance on the platform.
YouTube’s VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA cookie stores metadata about a user’s privacy settings to help YouTube apply appropriate privacy preferences consistently.
YouTube’s YSC cookie tracks a user’s YouTube video sessions to measure and maintain video playback activity during a browsing session.