Cookies Policy
To make Fulbright Finland Foundation website work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
- First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
- Preference cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Every time you visit the Fulbright Finland Foundation website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
Cookies can also be used to establish anonymize statistics about the browsing experience on our site.
How do we use cookies?
The Foundation website mostly use “first party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Foundation, not by any external organization.
However, to see some of our content, you may have to accept cookies from third-party organizations. To view third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.
If you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.
The 3 types of first-party cookies we use are to:
- necessary cookies to make our websites operational
- preferences cookies store visitor preferences
- gather analytics data (about user behavior)
Necessary cookies
Some cookies are required to provide core functionality. The website won't function properly without these cookies and they are enabled by default and cannot be disabled.
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry | |
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| __cfduid | .fulbright.fi | / | 30 days | |
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The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. It may be placed on the devices of our customers' End Users to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It is necessary for supporting Cloudflare's security features. |
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| cookiehub | www.fulbright.fi | / | 365 days | |
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Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site. |
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Preferences
Preference cookies enables the web site to remember information to customize how the web site looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language or color theme.
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| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | / | 180 days | 3rd party |
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A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old. |
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Analytical cookies
Analytical cookies help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage.
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry | |
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| _ga | .fulbright.fi | / | 730 days | |
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Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. |
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| _gid | .fulbright.fi | / | 1 day | |
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Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. |
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| iutk | .issuu.com | / | 180 days | 3rd party |
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The Issuu’s analytics system uses cookies, log file data and embedded code to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products. Issuu uses this information to help improve the services it provides to its users. |
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| YSC | .youtube.com | / | Session | 3rd party |
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This cookie is set by YouTube video service on pages with YouTube embedded videos to track views. |
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Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements.
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry | |
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| GPS | .youtube.com | / | 1 hour | 3rd party |
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Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
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| IDE | .doubleclick.net | / | 390 days | 3rd party |
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Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. |
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Other cookies
The cookies in this category have not yet been categorized and the purpose may be unknown at this time.
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry | |
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| _gat_UA-32197735-1 | .fulbright.fi | / | 1 hour |
How can you manage your cookies?
You can manage/delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.
Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).
