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Remembering items in a shopping cart
Saving language or theme preferences
Personalization:
Tailoring content or ads based on your previous activity
Tracking & Analytics:
Monitoring browsing behavior for analytics or marketing purposes
Types of Cookies:
Session Cookies:
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Used for things like keeping you logged in during a single session
Persistent Cookies:
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First-Party Cookies:
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Third-Party Cookies:
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Authentication cookies are a special type of web cookie used to identify and verify a user after they log in to a website or web application.
What They Do:
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Can persist across sessions if you select "Remember me"
What's Inside an Authentication Cookie?
Typically, it contains:
A unique session ID (not your actual password)
Optional metadata (e.g., expiration time, security flags)
Analytics cookies are cookies used to collect data about how visitors interact with a website. Their primary purpose is to help website owners understand and improve user experience by analyzing things like:
How users navigate the site
Which pages are most/least visited
How long users stay on each page
What device, browser, or location the user is from
What They Track:
Some examples of data analytics cookies may collect:
Page views and time spent on pages
Click paths (how users move from page to page)
Bounce rate (users who leave without interacting)
User demographics (location, language, device)
Referring websites (how users arrived at the site)
Here’s how you can disable cookies in common browsers:
1. Google Chrome
Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
Choose your preferred option:
Block all cookies (not recommended, can break most websites).
Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
2. Mozilla Firefox
Open Firefox and click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy & Security.
Under the Enhanced Tracking Protection section, choose Strict to block most cookies or Custom to manually choose which cookies to block.
3. Safari
Open Safari and click Safari in the top-left corner of the screen.
Go to Preferences > Privacy.
Check Block all cookies to stop all cookies, or select options to block third-party cookies.
4. Microsoft Edge
Open Edge and click the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies and site permissions.
Select your cookie settings from there, including blocking all cookies or blocking third-party cookies.
5. On Mobile (iOS/Android)
For Safari on iOS: Go to Settings > Safari > Privacy & Security > Block All Cookies.
For Chrome on Android: Open the app, tap the three dots, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies.
Be Aware:
Disabling cookies can make your online experience more difficult. Some websites may not load properly, or you may be logged out frequently. Also, certain features may not work as expected.
FOI #23-354 (07-19-23, 3:10 pm) - Subject - Athletics: Men's Basketball Game Contracts
Name - Charles Pipkins
Affiliation - The D1 Docket
I am requesting digital copies of the following:
Contractual agreements entered into by this institution with other institutions and/or event planners for the purpose of scheduling contests to be played by the varsity men's basketball team during the 2023-24 and forthcoming seasons. These include, but are not limited to contracts with the following entities
- Mississippi Valley State University
- The Gazelle Group
- ESPN Events
- Gonzaga University
I am interested in receiving purchasing records from University of Connecticut School of Medicine for purchases made from 01/17/23 to present. I work for a company called SciLeads and would like to use the information for commercial purposes.
The information I'm interested in includes:
1. Purchase order number or equivalent
2. Purchase order date
3. Line item details
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor name
7. Delivery Address
I am interested in receiving purchasing records from University of Connecticut for purchases made from 02/28/23 to present. I work for a company called SciLeads and would like to use the information for commercial purposes.
The information I'm interested in includes:
1. Purchase order number or equivalent
2. Purchase order date
3. Line item details
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor name
7. Delivery Address
FOI #23-351 (07-18-23, 2:51 pm) - Subject - UConn Law Private Funding Sources and Speaker Costs
Name - Stephen Kennedy
Affiliation -
All documents related to amounts and sources of private funding for the UConn School of Law covering all semesters from Fall 2018 to Spring 2023.
All documents related to budgets and expenses for speakers, including but not limited to speakers invited by student organizations, UConn Law faculty, UConn Law administration, or UConn Law staff for all semesters from Fall 2018 to Spring 2023.
This letter is a request for any/ all records you maintain regarding any incident; to which the Fire Department responded at Kappa Alpha Lambda, Building B2, 25 Laurel Way, Husky Village,
and it's adjacent building, Gamma Phi Beta, 20 Laurel Way, Husky Village, on November 18, 2022.
FOI #23-349 (07-17-23, 5:50 pm) - Subject - Non-conference football game contracts
Name - Kevin Kelley
Affiliation - BRI Solutions, LLC
1. All University of Connecticut football game contracts, amendments, and/or cancellations for non-conference opponents for the 2024 season through the 2040 season (DATED OR EXECUTED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2023).
2. If not covered by No. 1, a copy of the contract with Syracuse University for a football game in 2024.
FOI #23-348 (07-17-23, 4:03 pm) - Subject - Third-party Vendors
Name - Taela Dudley
Affiliation - The Century Foundation
All agreements to date, including agreement addendums, that the University of Connecticut has entered into with Trilogy, 2U, and any other online program manager or third party for the purposes of delivering online learning services. For the purposes of this request, “delivering online learning services” encompasses the following operations: student recruitment, marketing, program development, curriculum design, and instruction.
FOI #23-345 - Subject - Central Utility Plant Boiler Replacement project #300151
Name - Hope Redding
Affiliation -
I have updated and attached our FOIA letter requesting additional certified payroll records submitted by the following list of contractors for work performed on UConn’s Central Utility Plant Boiler Replacement project #300151, located at 240 Glenbrook Road, Storrs CT. We can accept the responsive records electrically. If you have questions or need anything further on our end, please let me know.
• Ferguson Electric for Wk ending 5.21.23 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanical for Wk ending 5.21.23 through to the present
• Sullivan Benson for Wk ending 5.6.23 through to the present