Cookie policy

This cookie notice is for the Cardiff University Kazakhstan website only (www.cardiff.edu.kz).

For information about data protection in general and privacy notices for enquirers, students and staff, please see our data protection policy website page.

Choose your cookie preferences

We use a third-party cookie software called CookieYes to manage cookies on the Cardiff University Kazakhstan website. You can decide which cookies are set by our website via the inbuilt CookieYes preferences page.

About cookies

The Cardiff University Kazakhstan website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. Some are created by our website and some by third-parties on our behalf.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are needed for our website to work. If you block all cookies from our website, it may not function properly.

Load balancing cookies

Visits to our website are distributed across several servers to help us handle large numbers of visitors. A cookie is set on your device so the website can remember which server you are allocated to.

Session cookies

When you visit our website, the things you do whilst you’re here are called a session. A cookie is set on your device so that the website can remember information you’ve given us as you move from page to page. Without session cookies, multi-page forms (for example) would not work.

Non-essential cookies

Usage statistics

As you use our website, data about your visit is sent to Google Analytics. This allows us to determine how many people are visiting our website and how they are broadly using it.

As a website visitor, Google Analytics will set cookies on your device so that it can associate multiple page visits or website visits to you, categorising you as one visitor. It can also collect demographic and hobby information from the DoubleClick cookie, a third party advertising cookie, if it’s present on your device.

Content from other sites

On pages that include YouTube videos, cookies are set by Google so that they can show more relevant adverts to you. You can opt out via Google’s Ads Settings.

Advertising effectiveness

On parts of our website, we may use code provided by Google, Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok or LinkedIn to serve adverts based on someone’s past visit (retargeting) and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. This code sets cookies which allow us to match our advertising to the right people across these platforms, and tells us which advert was the most successful.

You can opt-out of these cookies via the Facebook Your Information, Google’s Ads Settings, X privacy controls, Snapchat Support pages and LinkedIn account settings or visit Your Online Choices and switch off behavioural advertising from a large number of companies.

Changes to this cookie notice

We reserve the right to change this information without notice.