Privacy & Cookies

The ESRC Genomics Network (the EGN)  is committed to preserving your privacy. Please read the following cookie policy to understand how we use and protect the information obtained from those visiting and using the EGN’s website www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk (the “Site”). By using the Site you consent to the collection/retention and use of your personal information in accordance with this policy.

Cookies

We use a third party product “Google Analytics”, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us analyse how our Site is used. The information collected is anonymous and is statistical data about users' browsing actions and patterns. It is used to generate Site web statistics and inform improvements to the website. In using Google Analytics, information about your use of our Site, including your IP address, operating system and browser type may be transmitted to, and stored by, Google. This information will be subject to Google's Privacy Policy. See Google's Privacy Policy

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

We use 5 x Cookies on the EGN website:

• Third party cookies - Google Analytics:

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A unique identifier that represents your browser, the date of your first visit to the website, the date of your two most recent visits to the website, and the total number of times you’ve visited the website in the past including today.
This cookie does not identify you personally and expires 2 years after your last visit to the Site.

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Stores the exact time you started your current website visit.
This cookie does not identify you personally and is deleted when you close your browser window.

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Stores the last time you interacted with the website.
This cookie does not identify you personally and is deleted 30 minutes after your last visit to the Site.

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A unique identifier that represents your browser and keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where you were in the world when you accessed the Site.
This cookie does not identify you personally and is deleted 6 months after your last visit to the Site.

• EGN cookies:

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A javascript file that remembers your font selection e.g. text sizes.
This cookie does not identify you personally.

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Contact for further information:
Clare de Mowbray, EGN webmaster
c.demowbray@ed.ac.uk