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This statement explains how we use cookies on the University's main web pages (www.au.edu). Please note that most units of the University run and maintain their own websites. These sites may carry their own cookie statement or provide additional information relating to their activities.

How we use cookies

All our web pages use "cookies". Cookies are text files with small pieces of data that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. This does not mean that it can identify “who are you”, it just be used to distinguish between your transactions and others.

Types of cookies we use

We use the following types of cookies:

• strictly necessary cookies - necessary cookies for browsing the website. Without these cookies, you may be unable to browse the website at all.
• performance cookies - these cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for example, which pages visitors go to most often. We use this information to improve our websites. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor.
• functionality cookies - these cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide more personal features. For example, a functional cookie can be used to remember the volume level you prefer to use when watching videos on our websites. The information these cookies collect are anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

However, since the website embedded some video clips stored in YouTube, there may be some Ads-relative cookies stored in your browser depending on how you allow YouTube running on your browser.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.