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Purpose of Cookies:
Session Management:
Keeping you logged in
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:
Stored on your device until they expire or are manually deleted
Used for remembering login credentials, settings, etc.
First-Party Cookies:
Set by the website you're visiting directly
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 #20-054 (02-7-20, 1:50 pm) - Subject - Athletic Game Contracts
Name - Rachel Lautigar
Affiliation - College AD
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting copies of the current contracts, and all amendments thereto, for your institution’s current game contract with any and all parties for the following areas:
1-All signed and or executed football game contracts between the years 2015-2040
2-All signed and or executed men’s basketball game contracts between the years 2015-2040
3-All signed and or executed women’s basketball game contracts between the years 2015-2040
I am interested in receiving purchasing records from University of Connecticut School of Medicine for purchases made from 11/30/18 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 #20-050 (02-4-20, 1:34 pm) - Subject - Employment Agreement
Name - Josephine Gartrell
Affiliation -
Good afternoon. Pursuant to applicable Connecticut freedom of information laws, the undersigned hereby requests the following information.
1. Copies of all employment agreements and compensatory arrangements with the current Director of Athletics and 2nd highest paid athletics administrator for University of Connecticut.
2. Pay records, including salary, bonus, retirement, health care and other benefits and perquisites for the last three completed school years.
For every section of every undergraduate course offered at the Storrs campus and between Fall 2015 and Fall 2019 (inclusive of these two semesters and all intervening summer & winter sessions), I request the following information:
- Semester (e.g. Fall 2015)
- Instructor name & unique identifying number (if such a number exists and is invariant to name changes)
- School (e.g. ENGR, CLAS, etc)
- Course written name (e.g. Intro to Microeconomics)
- Course identification number (e.g. ECON 1201)
- Section identification number (e.g. 001)
- Section enrollment/number of final grades posted (e.g. 97. This should equal the sum of the counts for each letter grade provided in the distribution of letter grades and should reflect the total number of students receiving a letter mark for the section.)
- Average GPA (out of 4.0)
- Median GPA (out of 4.0)
- Distribution (counts) of letter grades (including non-grade values such as I, W, P, F, N, X, etc.)
If possible, do not combine cross-listed courses. (e.g. A course offered under two separate names, majors, schools but is actually a single course.)
Please provide the requested data in either Excel (.xlsx) or comma-separated value (.csv) format.
Please ensure the provided information is FERPA compliant. For example, courses with sufficiently low enrollment (e.g. <= 5) may need to be excluded in order to prevent identification of individual students. Please include those courses but refrain from including any of the requested GPA/grade information. (This is to ensure an accurate index of courses & sections irrespective of their enrollment numbers.)
If this request will incur a cost, please get in touch before incurring that cost. Additionally, please contact me if any individual piece of information is prohibitively time-consuming to aggregate. (e.g. Suppose the School of a course may not be readily available in any database and may need to be manually populated.)
As a potentially helpful reference for completing this request, the University of Wisconsin provides a similar array of information (in PDF form) for each semester going back to Fall 2013, which can be found at the following URL under 'Course grade-distribution reports': https://registrar.wisc.edu/grade-reports/
FOI #20-048 (02-3-20, 4:21 pm) - Subject - Agreements
Name - Michael McBride
Affiliation - University of Houston
Any agreement, term sheet, and/or memorandum of understanding referencing and/or pertaining to any equipment, shoe, or apparel partnership. Including allotments, cash payments, sponsorship, marketing, advertising, promotion, purchase discounts or bonus structures.
The Union is submitting a formal Freedom of Information Request regarding a recent search:
• Job ID # 494209– Academic Advisor 2, UCP 6, School of Business
Please include the following:
• The original job posting.
• The names of those who served on the search committee, and the dates of their most recent search committee training.
• Any and all recruitment qualification reports.
• Any and all applicant selection reports.
• Any and all applicant summary reports.
• Any and all candidate selection reports.
• Any and all additional materials or reports produced in relation to this search.