Cookie Statement Central European University/Közép-Európai Egyetem
(hereinafter CEU or the University)
This statement explains how we use cookies on websites using the CEU.EDU top level domain and/or hosted by Central European University-controlled servers.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time.
Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer's browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions. The website stores a corresponding file (with same ID tag) to the one they set in your browser and in this file they can track and keep information on your movements within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given while visiting the website, such as email address.
You can find out more information about cookies at: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
How do we use cookies on our websites?
Cookies served while visiting CEU websites are used for:
- Functionality purposes, e.g. to remember if the cookie consent agreement has already been submitted by a visitor.
- Analytical purposes, e.g. to track anonymized visitor browsing statistics, typically done by Google Analytics.
- Other marketing- or usage-related informational purposes - usually involving an embedded object like Facebook page or YouTube video.
How we do NOT use cookies on our websites?
We don't collect any personally identifiable information about you.
If a cookie collecting personal data will be set on a website, we'll inform you about the data process in a privacy notice and ask for your informed consent.
What type of cookies do we use?
1. First-party cookies – the cookies set by CEU and stored by the website you are visiting.
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose (or link found on CEU) | Further Information |
| Central European University | has_js | Functionality cookie, used to determine if the visitor’s browser has JavaScript enabled. | https://www.ceu.edu/privacy |
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Associated with the ShareThis service, which we use on article content to facilitate page sharing. |
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Google Analytics |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Overview of Google Analytics privacy |
2. Third-party Cookies - the cookies created by domains other than CEU.EDU domain.
| Provider | Cookie name | Purpose (or link found on CEU) | Further Information |
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Google (Maps, Calendar) |
NID |
This cookie is used by Google to track how many people are using their services. |
Overview of Google privacy |
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YouTube |
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YouTube may still set cookies on the user's computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. |
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UniBuddy |
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Used by UniBuddy, a chat service used to connect CEU graduates with prospective students, who are interested in learning more about the university. |
Unibuddy policy |
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dpr |
Advertisement targeting cookie used by Facebook. |
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Piktochart |
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Used to embed infographics on some web pages. |
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Infogram |
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Used to embed infographics on some web pages. |
Last updated
July 18, 2019
Future changes
Any changes we make in the Cookie Statement will be posted on this website.
Contact
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact the Web Team of CEU at ceuwebteam@ceu.edu.