Student Matching System Cookies Policy

About Cookies

In order to provide easy, useful, and reliable services with our visitors we place small amounts of information on your device (e.g. computer or mobile phone) that it will then retain during your logged in session and will be refreshed the next time you visit us. These small files are known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally, they are only temporarily linked to your device.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information during one task
• recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don't need to enter it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast
• remembering your audience type selection so we can show you more relevant options and information

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them from AllAboutCookies.org.

Our Use of Cookies

Sub-Domains and Related domains

Cookies set by the use of the Student Matching Scheme website may exist on the following domains:

• studentmatchingscheme.nhs.wales.uk

Cookies and web statistics

How We Collect Information

Some areas of the Student Matching Scheme website use cookies to aid the user experience (e.g. to save the user from re-entering personal details for every page in a section of the site, including the 'Quick links' area). Cookies are also used to compile general (not personal) site usage statistics. Cookies are not used to capture or store personal information for any other purpose.

Cardiff University host the NHS Wales Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) server (where the matching system is hosted) and maintains continuous logs of its web server activity. These log files include the details of web site users' IP address, browser type and page last visited etc. The log files are used to analyse how the web site is being used by visitors and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical records.

This website uses hosted web analytics software. These are hosted services provided and managed by third party companies. The main supplier of hosted web analytics is Google, Inc. The service 'Google Analytics' uses 'cookies' (a text file sent to user's computers as they browse our websites) to help analyse how users navigate our websites. The information generated by the cookie regarding our websites (including IP addresses) will be transmitted to and stored by Google, Inc. on servers that may be hosted in the United States. Google, Inc. will use this information for the purpose of evaluating use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other related services.

Google, Inc. may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google, Inc.'s behalf. Google, Inc. will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google, Inc. You may decline the use of cookies by configuring your web browser to do so. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google, Inc. in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Cardiff University does not sell or otherwise transfer any personal data to commercial companies or other organisations, with the exception of 1) web statistics (see above) which is hosted and managed by a third party company (Google, Inc. and other web analytics services) and 2) off-site hosted server environments for some website services (if applicable).

Read Google's Full Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for detailed information.

Further information about the use of your data, please read the Privacy Notice.

How To Manage Your Cookies

To manage individual cookies or to enable blocking of cookies please refer to the documentation for your browser.

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (Windows)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Opera (Win, PC, Linux)
• iOS - Safari web settings
• Android

Any changes to this policy will be made on these pages. NWSSP reserves the right to make changes to this policy document without notice.

If you have any queries about these cookies or would like more information about them, please email NWSSP.StudentStreamlining.Enquiries@wales.nhs.uk