When you interact with the UC Berkeley Extension website, like many websites, we use cookies to enhance your experience. This statement explains what cookies are, how we use them on our site, and how they benefit you. For detailed information about how we handle your personal information more broadly, please refer to our comprehensive Privacy Policy.
What are Cookies and Why We Use Them?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. At UC Berkeley Extension, using cookies allows us to distinguish you from other users, personalize your browsing experience, and continuously improve our website to better meet your needs. This means when you browse our site, including pages related to our programs and services potentially offered near or related to locations like Oxford Street in Berkeley, CA, cookies help ensure a smooth and relevant online journey.
We utilize cookies and similar technologies to optimize your interaction with our website and to tailor our communications and marketing efforts to be more relevant to your interests. To support these activities, we may share some collected information with trusted partners, including Google and Meta/Facebook, among others, always in accordance with data privacy regulations. By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to the practices outlined in our Privacy Policy, which includes our cookie usage. You have the option to withdraw your consent for monitored browsing and targeted marketing at any time by selecting “Disable All Cookies,” if such an option is provided.
Types of Cookies We Use
We employ several categories of cookies to support different functionalities and user experiences:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the basic operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use essential features, such as accessing secure areas or filling out forms. Without these cookies, services you request, like logging into your account or managing your course registrations, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies gather anonymous information about how visitors use our website. This includes details like which pages are visited most frequently, how users navigate through the site, and if they encounter any errors. We analyze this data to improve the performance and design of our website, and to help us troubleshoot any issues reported by users. Importantly, these cookies do not collect any information that could directly identify you.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable our website to remember choices you make to personalize your experience. For example, functionality cookies might remember your language preference or region, or save items you have placed in a shopping cart for course enrollment. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymized and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Most web browsers offer settings to manage cookies. You can typically control or disable cookies through your browser settings. To learn more about cookies in general, including how to check what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, you can visit resources like https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Specific Cookies We Use
Below is a list of the specific cookies we currently use on the UC Berkeley Extension website and a description of their purpose. Please note that this list may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our cookie usage.
- JSESSIONID: This cookie is used by our application server to uniquely identify your active session on the website. This ensures that your actions and requests are correctly associated with your browsing session.
- registrarToken: This cookie is used to remember the items you have added to your shopping cart, for example, when registering for courses. It ensures that your selected courses are saved as you navigate through the registration process.
- locale: This cookie stores your preferred locale and language settings. This allows the website to be displayed in your chosen language and regional format upon your return visits.
- cookieconsent_status: This cookie records whether you have already acknowledged and dismissed the cookie consent notice. It prevents the notice from being displayed repeatedly during your subsequent visits.
- _ga_UA-########: These cookies are part of Google Analytics and are used to collect data about website traffic and user behavior. We use this information to generate reports and analyses that help us understand how visitors interact with our website and how we can improve it. The data collected is anonymized and includes metrics like the number of visitors, where visitors originated from, and the pages they accessed. This anonymized data is stored within Google Analytics.
Changes to our Cookie Statement
Any updates or modifications to this Cookie Statement will be posted on this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies.
