What’s in this notice?

This notice explains how The Alan Turing Institute uses cookies and other tracking technologies when you visit our website www.turing.ac.uk. Please note that other websites, apps and digital platforms that the Turing uses have their own cookies and cookie notices.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or device by a website when you visit it. They contain details about your use of the website, and they distinguish you from other users. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise you and, for example, remember your preferences, as well as to improve the website.
Like ours, most websites use cookies and similar technologies such as ‘web beacons’, ‘clear GIFs’ and ‘pixel tags’.
You can find out more about cookies here.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies:

To let you do things on the website – for example, to consent to cookies and saving your preferences (necessary cookies).
To collect statistics – which helps us improve the website through analysis of usage patterns (for example, to see which pages are the most popular and how users are interacting with them) (analytics cookies).

The cookies we use are:

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_hjSessionUser_* (Hotjar): Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site.

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How do I change my cookie settings?

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Updating this cookie notice

We may update this notice and so we recommend that you check this page regularly. We aim to notify you of any significant changes by way of a notice on this website or by contacting you if reasonably possible.