Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) defines a cookie as “a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things e.g. remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of people looking at a website.”
Cookies set by Imperial Venues (Imperial College London)
Imperial Venues does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
How we use this information
We use this information to ensure that:
- Content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer or mobile device.
- To administer our website and for internal operations including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so and if, and to the extent, applicable.
- As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as expected. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
| Cookies | Description | Cookies used |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | First Party |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | First Party |
Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to track website visits which allow us to measure and improve the performance of our website. This data is anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| _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. | First Party |
| _hjSessionUser_3730911 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user 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. | First party |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | First party |
| _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar’s seeing this user for the first time. | First party |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | First party |
| _hjSession_3730911 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | First party |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample_3730911 | Performance cookies | First party |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Performance cookies | First party |
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
| Cookies | Description | Cookies used |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. | Third Party |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are set by third party providers. They do not store any personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
| Cookies | Description | Cookies used |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer’s adverts appear. | Third Party |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | First party |
Updating your cookie settings
When you first visit the Celesta Venues website, the cookie banner will display. This gives you the option to accept or reject all cookies, or to customise which types of cookies are set.
Once you make your selection, you will no longer see this banner, unless you use a private browser window or different device to access the Imperial website. You can change your settings at any time by clicking on the Cookie settings logo in the right bottom of your screen.
Clearing or restricting cookies
If you like keeping your browsing private, you may wish to clear history and cookies after the session. You can do so by using the browser, device settings or 3rd party tools.
You may also wish to check and set any devices or browsers to restrict or block cookies by default for all or selected web sites only. You can manage cookie usage through your browser settings:
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Opera
- Safari (for Mac)
Mobile devices may have their own settings and you may need to refer to vendor manuals. Please note that disabling or restricting cookies may impact some parts of the Imperial Venues website and you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Contact us
For queries regarding privacy, use of cookies or other information please contact us at privacy@imperial.ac.uk or write to the address below:
Privacy
ICT, Level 4, Sherfield Building
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
SW7 2AZ London
United Kingdom