Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit our website. It allows us to recognise your device and store some information about your visit or past actions.
Why do we ask to put cookies on your device?
By aggregating data from all our website visitors, we can better understand what content our visitors find useful and what content needs to be improved. By allowing cookies onto your device you are helping us continually improve the Research on Research registry and community hub website for everyone.
Do you collect and can you see my personal data?
No. Our cookies don’t collect, store, or process any personal data. We only see anonymised, aggregated data.
What types of cookie do we use?
- Strictly Necessary (Functional) cookies – these are needed to make the website work.
- Performance cookies – to give us insight into how people use our content and help us improve it.
- Targeting cookies – for example when you interact with a Youtube video on our pages, Youtube places a number of cookies on your device. From time-to-time we track the performance of our social media campaigns and may place a cookie on your device to help do this.
Can I decline or customise which cookies I accept?
Yes. With the exception of strictly necessary, functional, cookies that make the site work, you can do this at any time using the cookie icon banner to change your choices. The cookie icon can be found on the bottom left of your screen.
Precisely which cookies do we use, what do they do and how long do they stay on my device?
We’ve listed below the cookies used on the Research on Research registry and community hub website.
We use a third-party specialist product developed by OneTrust Inc to audit our webpages for cookies. We use their scans to ensure that we are transparent about which cookies we use.
Embedded YouTube video content
We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode to show embedded video content. We do this so that viewing an embedded Youtube video on our website will not be used to personalise your YouTube browsing experience, either within the embedded player, or in your subsequent YouTube viewing on the same device.
Google signals
We use a feature called Google Signals to collect and understand data from our website visitors who sign in to their Google accounts and choose to see personalised ads. This feature helps us to see how you use different devices, such as phones or computers, to access our website. The data we collect through Google Signals includes things like your location, your searches, your YouTube activity, and your visits to other websites that work with Google. We use this data for the following purposes:
- To better understand our audience and their demographics, and to tailor our communications to suit your interests and needs.
We use this data in a way that supports the aims of the RoR registry and hub website. You can always opt out of Google Signals by visiting the Ads Settings page or by adding the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. If you want to know more about how Google uses your data, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.
Which websites are covered by this policy?
The RoR registry and hub website: https://ror-hub.org/