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KTU cookies policy

Cookies notification

This is to notify you that this website is using the technologies that ensure the proper operation of the website or monitor and analyse the behaviour of the website’s visitors during browsing.

General provisions

A cookie is a small text file sent by the website to your network browser when you browse and saved in your device. Therefore, the website can “remember” your actions and preferences for some time (for example, your registration name, font size and other view options) so that you would not have to enter them each time you visit the website.

The websites use first-party and/or third-party cookies. According to their function, the cookies are classified as follows:

  • Necessary cookies. These cookies activate the main browsing or access functions of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
  • Functional cookies. The website used these cookies to memorise the information essential for its performance and appearance, for example, the language selected by the visitor or the region of the visitor’s location. The website cannot function without these cookies.
  • Statistical or Performance cookies. These cookies collect anonymous information and submit its reports that allow the website owner to learn how the visitors use the website.
  • Marketing or Tracking cookies. These cookies are used by many websites to track visitors aiming to provide them with customised advertisements. They also limit the number of displayed advertisements and enable to assess the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Usually, these are the third-party cookies.

According to their validity term, the cookies are classified as session and persistent cookies.

According to the location of their creation, there are two types of cookies:

  • First-party cookies – created on the website you are visiting;
  • Third-party cookies – created on other websites. These websites own certain content on the website you are visiting, for example, ads or images.

Trackers are a type of cookies that send the report on the website visitor’s browsing and his/her IP address to the third-party database for analysis, usually for marketing purposes.

Which cookies do we use?

The following cookies are used on our website:

Third-party services

For the optimisation of marketing notifications, we constantly use the analytical software Google Analytics from Google LLC. It enables tracking of behaviour online: the time spent on the website, the geographic location and the usage of the website. This information is collected by using the tracking pixels and/or cookies. The information received via the tracking pixels and/or cookies is anonymous and not linked to personal data. Google processes personal information in servers in various countries of the world. Personal information can be processed in the server located in a country other than the country of the user’s residence. We do not share this information with any third parties that could freely use it. If you disagree with the performance of this analysis, you can submit the refusal of your personal data processing here.

Since this website has an interface with the third-party communication channels Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube in which we upload the information about the University’s activities, the cookies of the data processors of these channels provide us with the aggregated statistics and insights into the manner of the visitors’ interaction with our posts, advertisements, this website, videos and other content in these social media.

To enable the visitors of our website to contact us more efficiently, we have installed the Messenger plugin controlled by Facebook.

More information on the third-party tracking technologies is available here:

Identifier of the cookie Description Moment of creation Validity term
Facebook and Messenger user monitoring technologies Facebook and Messenger user monitoring technologies are used for the user’s identification, the monitoring of his/her behaviour and the improvement of content. At the time of the visit More information about Facebook and Facebook Messenger cookies: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies
Instagram user monitoring technologies Instagram user monitoring technologies are used for the user’s identification, the monitoring of his/her behaviour and the provision of customised content. At the time of the visit More information about Instagram cookies: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig
LinkedIn user monitoring technologies LinkedIn user monitoring technologies are used for the user’s identification, insurance of the security of his/her account, the monitoring of his/her behaviour and the provision of customised content, including the advertisement. At the time of the visit More information about LinkedIn cookies: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
YouTube user monitoring technologies YouTube user monitoring technologies are used for the monitoring of the behaviour of the users aiming to constantly improve and provide better customised content to the user. At the time of the visit More information about YouTube cookies: https://policies.google.com/privacy#footnote-cookies

How to control cookies?

You do not have to accept all cookies for the website to function, but if you do, your browsing will be easier. You can delete or block all the cookies except for the necessary ones; however, in this case, not all functions of the website may work as expected and you may have to set some options each time you visit our website.

Most of the browsers allow to:

  • check which cookies are saved and delete individual cookies;
  • block the third-party cookies;
  • block the cookies from specific websites;
  • block the sending of all cookies
  • delete all cookies when closing the browser.

How to opt-out of cookies?

You can opt-out of cookies on the main page of our website by resetting your cookies.

All modern internet browsers allow changing your cookie settings. Usually, they are available on the menu of your settings or internet options:

If you disagree with cookies to be saved in your computer or another device, you can undo your consent to use them by changing your settings or deleting the saved cookies. If you choose to delete cookies, do not forget that all your chosen options will be deleted as well. Moreover, if you block the cookies completely, most of the websites (including our website) will not function properly. Therefore, we do not recommend disabling the cookies when you are using our website.

Cookies notification versions

We regularly review the cookies used on our website and update this cookies notification if we need to inform you about the substantial changes in the user monitoring technologies used herein.
The latest update on this notification was on 13 09 2024.