When someone visits www.diamond.ac.uk, we place cookies on their device. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website as well as ensuring the security of our website and enable some functional features. Our use of cookies does not allow us to identify you personally.
Additionally, we systematically collect standard server logs for operation and security purpose; for more information, please refer to our privacy policy.
Use of Cookies by Diamond on the following website: www.diamond.ac.uk
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work (or work more efficiently). Cookies can also be used to provide information to the owners of the website about the behaviour of the visitors and collect analytical information.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse and also allows us to improve our website. It also enables us to remember your cookie preferences.
We use the following cookies on our website:
First-party cookies are cookies that are placed on your computer by Diamond or by our cyber security supplier Cloudflare and by our analytics provider Google. In the table below, we've listed the first-party cookies that we use, their name, their purpose and where you can find more information about each cookie.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
| CookieControl | This cookie is used to record if a visitor has accepted or rejected the use of analytical cookies. It is also used to hide the banner once a decision has been made. | 90 days |
| __cf_bm | Diamond uses Cloudflare to protect our website and our visitors. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for these bot solutions to function properly. More information: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/cookie-policy/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/policies-compliances/cloudflare-cookies/ |
30 mins |
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Diamond uses Cloudflare to protect our website and our visitors. The other cookies are for internal use by Cloudflare which allows them to identify production issues on clients.
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By default, the cf_clearance cookie has a lifetime of 30 minutes. |
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Those cookies are set up by our content management system to manage visitors’ session and to secure connection to the application. | Those cookies expire at the end of the session and are not persisted. |
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
| _ga | Google Analytics 4 cookie used to distinguish users for more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207?hl=en&sjid=7848739142017090794-EU https://policies.google.com/privacy |
Two years |
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Google Analytics 4 cookie used to persist session state. for more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207?hl=en&sjid=7848739142017090794-EU https://policies.google.com/privacy |
Two years |
We use third-party websites and providers such as YouTube, X (Twitter), Vimeo and Soundcloud, to provide some of the content on our website. Often this content will be embedded material hosted on other websites or the services will be provided by external websites. These third-parties have their own cookies which are controlled by them. Diamond has no control over third-party cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies. You can find a list of our most used providers at Third-Party Processors.
Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings, but each browser works in a different way. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please visit the help of your web browser. You may also at any time change your consent of analytics cookie usage by Diamond by using the “cookie control” branded button on the bottom left corner of our website. This will automatically revoke analytics cookies that were set previously.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at Diamond Communications.
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