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Purpose of Cookies:
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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:
Temporary; deleted when you close your browser
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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Commonly used for tracking across multiple sites
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:
Once you log in to a site, the server creates an authentication cookie and sends it to your browser. This cookie:
Proves to the website that you're logged in
Prevents you from having to log in again on every page you visit
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 #23-142 - Subject - Bias reduction in medical information
Name - Morgan Yardis
Affiliation -
From June 1, 2020, through the date this request is processed, records of communications university employees who worked on, or are currently working on, FAIN 2147305: the $393K grant from the NSF for “Bias reduction in medical information" and the listed individuals.
a) Election Integrity Partnership
b) Virality Project
c) Kate Starbird
d) Twitter, ‘@twitter.com’
e) Graphika, Inc., ‘@graphika.com’
f) Krebs Stamos Group, ‘@ksgroups.in’
g) Facebook, ‘@fb.com’
h) Stanford Internet Observatory
Nyah Jones
UConn Storrs
Complete
FOI #23-141 (03-23-23, 1:02 pm) - Subject -
Name - Nyah Jones
Affiliation -
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request electronic copies of the current contracts, as well as any current amendments/extensions, for the following members of the athletic department:
Dan Hurley
Kimani Young
Tom Moore
Luke Murray
Paul Wettemann II
Gavin Roberts
James Doran
Matthew Johnson
Mamadou Diarra
David Benedict
If full contracts are not available, the listed individual's annual salary figures will suffice. I sincerely appreciate your prompt response to this request. We would highly appreciate the fulfillment of this request within the next 10 days.
FOI #23-140 (03-22-23, 11:57 pm) - Subject - Phone Records
Name - Kenneth Kulo
Affiliation -
Please provide any and all university business related phone records (including incoming & outgoing text messages) for January 2023 for: Andy Kelly, PMP
All data / documentation / information in regards to Parking Garage Validation #01 for April 2018 including ,but not limited to, copies of cashier shift reports and copies of both the front & rear of the validated garage tickets.
I am looking for a list of validation numbers used in the year 2018 at North & South Garages. I am looking specifically for the numbers that were not billed / charged to any account or person or organization [i.e. #01, #56, etc.].
FOI #23-136 (03-22-23, 1:36 am) - Subject - Security Camera Data - South Parking Garage
Name - Kenneth Kulo
Affiliation -
Data / information pertaining to the installation of the security camera on the 5th floor of the South Garage near the bottom of the ramp to the 6th floor [outside of booths covering entrance lanes].
All policies & procedures, operations manuals, work instructions, decision matrices, rules & regulations, and/or applicable literature pertaining to Parking Enforcement by, or on behalf of, UCONN Police Department.
All policies & procedures, operations manuals, work instructions, decision matrices, rules & regulations, and/or applicable literature pertaining to Parking Enforcement by, or on behalf of, Parking Services.