Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on the device you used to access the website. The cookie is then sent back to our server each time the browser requests a page from the server. The purpose of cookies is to identify users in order to prepare customized web pages for them and allow VCU to prioritize and improve the content delivered to its site visitors. The following types of cookies may be used on a VCU official site:

· Non-Persistent Cookies: Some VCU official sites use non-persistent cookies for the purpose of fulfilling form requests, so as you move through the web pages in that browsing session, the site will remember customized settings, choices made and content selected. These cookies are automatically discarded after closing the web browser.

· Persistent Cookies: Some VCU official sites use non-persistent cookies in order to provide improved services and enhance website performance. These cookies help VCU to count the number of visitors to VCU web pages, track visitor engagement on VCU web pages and improve the content VCU provides through its websites. These cookies are not automatically discarded upon browser closure.

· Web Beacons and Third-Party Cookies: Some VCU official sites may use web beacons along with third party non-persistent and persistent cookies to collect non-identifiable data from site visitors. VCU uses this collected data to prioritize and improve the content it delivers to its site visitors and to promote the university in a manner that is most relevant to its site visitors.