Cookie Policy
Cookies are small pieces of data that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit. They are used to improve your online experience and make websites function more efficiently.
Our website uses a variety of cookies to collect anonymous details about your behaviour while you are on our site – this information that we collect does not personally identify you in any way.
The cookies that we use help us to monitor many aspects of our website such as web page visits, how many unique people are visiting our site, or what content is most popular. We use cookies to capture details about which channel led you to our site, for example whether you arrived on our site through a Google search or through a social media ad; and finally, we may also use cookies to inform our advertising so that any ads we serve you are relevant and related to the content that you viewed while on our website.
You are in control of your own experience, so you may delete or block cookies at any time, but please bear in mind that this may impact your experience and elements of our website may not work.
To learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit About cookies or All about cookies.
How to manage cookies on popular browsers:
You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Cookie Policy
Cookie Source
Cookie Name
Google (Universal Analytics)
These cookie are installed by Google Analytics. They are used to store information on how visitors use the website and they help us to understand how the website is performing. The data collected, which includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages they visited is collected in an anonymous format. If however a user completes a form on the website and freely provides personally identifiable information such as their name, email, or phone number, the anonymous data mentioned above will be combined with the personally identifiable data. This unified data helps us to understand the activities people are performing on our website before they fill in a form and helps us to enhance the performance of the website and optimise future marketing campaigns.
Cookie names:
_ga
_gid
_gcl_au
_gcl_au
_gat_
_gat_UA-1364797-30
Google (DoubleClick)
These cookie are installed by Google DoubleClick (Google Studio). They store information about how users interact with the website, and any other advertisement run through DoubleClick, before visiting the website. We install these cookies so that we can serve users with ads that are relevant to them.
Cookie names:
IDE
DSID
Google.com
These cookies are used to help customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search. They are also used to support sharing of content to Google Plus.
Cookie names:
SID
SSID
HSID
APISID
SAPISID
NID
Google.com
This cookie gathers website statistics and tracks conversion rates.
Cookie name:
1P_JAR
Google.com
This is a security cookie used to protect a user’s data from unauthorized access.
Cookie name:
SIDCC
Google.com
This cookie allows for embedded YouTube videos on our website.
Cookie name:
CONSENT
Google.com
This cookie is used to customise advertising across the web, but data captured is stored in Google.com (as opposed to DoubleClick).
Cookie name:
ANID
Google.com
This cookie is set to ‘strict’ and prevents the browser from sending cookie information stored on our site to other third-party sites. The main goal is to protect user information and to protect against cross-site request forgery attacks.
Cookie name:
SEARCH_SAMESITE
Google Maps
These cookies enable Google Maps functionality.
Cookie names:
OGP
OGPC
Salesforce
This cookie is installed to capture the channel, source, medium, campaign and content that the user interacted with before visiting the website for the first time. This data is collected so that we can determine which channels, sources etc. are most effective at driving users to our website.
Cookie name:
sf_firstTouchpoint
Salesforce
This cookie is installed to capture the Page Name and URL of the landing page that a user visits on their first visit to our website. We capture this data to build an understanding of which pages / information users are most interested in.
Cookie name:
sf_firstLandingPage
Salesforce
This cookie is installed to capture the channel, source, medium, campaign and content that the user interacted with before visiting the website on their most recent visit. This data is collected so that we can determine which channels, sources etc. are most effective at driving users to our website.
Cookie name:
sf_lastTouchpoint
Salesforce
This cookie is installed to capture the Page Name and URL of the landing page that a user visits on their most recent visit to our website. We capture this data to build an understanding of which pages / information users are most interested in.
Cookie name:
sf_lastLandingPage
These cookie are installed by Facebook and allow us to deliver relevant advertisements to users when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising after visiting our website. More information about Facebook cookies can be found in their cookie policy.
Cookie names:
_fbp
fr
sb
spin
wd
xs
These cookie are installed by LinkedIn and allow us to deliver relevant advertisement to users when they are on LinkedIn or a digital platform powered by LinkedIn after visiting our website.
Cookie names:
UserMatchHistory
_guid
li_oatml
This cookie is installed by LinkedIn and is used for routing from Share buttons and ad tags. For example if a user clicks the LinkedIn Icon on one of our blog posts LinkedIn will access this cookie so it knows which article to share.
Cookie name:
lidc
These cookie are installed by LinkedIn. The purpose of these cookies is to enable sign-in with LinkedIn and/or the LinkedIn follow feature.
Cookie names:
bcookie
bscookie
Used to track the use of embedded LinkedIn features such as share buttons.
Cookie name:
lissc
nr-data.net
This is a general-purpose platform session cookie used by our website to keep track of anonymous user sessions by server.
Cookie name:
JSESSIONID
Hotjar
This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether to include a visitor in a sample which is used to generate funnels.
Cookie name:
_hjIncludedInSample
Hotjar
This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script and is used to keep track of unique users across multiple sessions. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to our website will be attributed to the same user.
Cookie name:
_hjid
Hotjar
This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Hotjar Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear once it has been filled in.
Cookie name:
_hjDonePolls
sbs.ox.ac.uk
This cookie indicates that the user has accepted the Said Business School Cookie Policy.
Cookie name:
cookie-agreed
sbs.ox.ac.uk
This cookie prevents the cookie consent notice from reappearing once a user has accepted the Said Business School Cookie Policy.
Cookie name:
dontShowCookieNotice
AddThis
The __atuvc cookie is created by AddThis, a content sharing site. The cookie runs JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees an updated count of how many times piece of content has been shared. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis.
Cookie name:
__atuvc
Vimeo
We use Vimeo as an embedded video player to display videos from our Vimeo channel on our website. Vimeo sets essential cookies to enable certain features and remember user preferences. This cookie is not used for analytics or advertising purpose. More information about Vimeo cookies can be found in their cookie policy.
Cookie name:
vuid