What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website puts on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit. Almost every website uses them. They do things like remember a choice you made, keep a page working properly, or count how many people read an article.
This page explains which cookies Dementia Researcher uses and what each one is for.
Dementia Researcher is hosted by University College London. UCL’s own cookie policy is at ucl.ac.uk/legal-services/privacy/cookie-policy.
The cookies we use
Keeping the site working. Our security provider, Cloudflare, sets a short-lived cookie to tell real visitors apart from automated traffic. If you leave a comment and tick the box to save your details, WordPress stores your name and email so you don’t retype them. If you have an account and log in, we store a session cookie so you stay logged in. These are needed for the site to function and can’t be turned off without breaking it.
Remembering your choices. If you use the translation tool, a cookie remembers the language you picked. If you dismiss a pop-up, vote in a poll, or recommend an article, a cookie remembers so we don’t ask you again.
Understanding how the site is used. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages, jobs, funding calls and podcasts people find useful. It tells us things like how many people read an article and which pages they came from. It does not tell us who you are, and we don’t use it for advertising. Google sets two cookies for this, which last up to two years. We use what we learn to decide what to publish and to report to our funders.
UK law allows cookies like these, used only to understand and improve a service, without asking first, as long as we explain them and make it easy to say no. You can opt out at any time using the button below.
We also use Microsoft Clarity to see how people use our pages: where they click, how far they scroll, and where something doesn’t work, so we can fix it. We run Clarity without cookies, so it can’t link your visits together or recognise you when you come back. Clarity hides anything typed into forms.
Content from other websites. Some of our pages include videos from YouTube and podcast players from Captivate. When one of these loads or you press play, that company may set its own cookies on your device, under their control rather than ours. Their policies apply:
- YouTube (Google) — policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- Captivate — captivate.fm/privacy-policy
How to control cookies
You can opt out of analytics at any time with the button below. If you do, we switch Google Analytics off for you and remove its cookies. We store your choice in a small cookie so we remember it for six months. You can opt back in with the same button.
You can delete or block cookies through your browser settings — every major browser lets you do this, and aboutcookies.org explains how for each one. Blocking all cookies will stop parts of this site working properly.
To opt out of Google Analytics across every website you visit, Google provides a browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Questions
Email us at dementiaresearcher@ucl.ac.uk.
We review this page when we change the tools we use. If we make a significant change, we’ll update the date at the top.
For more information on our host organisation and security visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/legal-services/privacy/cookie-policy