Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by the website, stored by your web browser, and returned by your web browser to the website whenever you use any of our maths.org websites (including NRICH nrich.maths.org). Cookies are small files that sit on your computer, phone or tablet. 

This information is collected by us (the University of Cambridge) to record and store information about how you use our maths.org sites. Information is shared within the University of Cambridge, and in limited cases, may be shared with third-party partners (e.g. third-party sites hosting embedded content). 

Examples of how cookies are used on our websites include:

• Essential cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of a website, to make our sites work and maintain the security of our website’s connection to you. They always need to be on. 

• Analytics and performance cookies: Site usage measurement cookies allow us to analyse anonymised navigation patterns, to learn how people use our website and to make it better for our users. We also use the anonymised data gathered to evaluate the use of our content and may share aggregated anonymised data in reports. This anonymised aggregated evaluation data can also be important to us as evidence of use in funding applications, in order to keep our sites freely available for all end users.

  We use Google Analytics 4, which does not log or store individual IP addresses. The data is anonymised before it is stored and before we see or use it for analytics processing. For more information about how Google Analytics uses this information, please see the Google privacy policy

• Social and marketing cookies:  Our websites include pages with embedded content hosted by third parties such as YouTube or Podbean, or third party tools. Cookies generated by those sites are subject to their own privacy policies and are outside the control of our websites and the University of Cambridge. 

  Social and marketing cookies on our sites connected to third-party providers, such as YouTube, will be set when you take an action, such as watching an embedded video. Data will be passed back to the third-party provider, allowing that organisation to record how you use their service on our site, and in some cases show you relevant content, including advertising. For more information about these please view the cookie and privacy policies for the third-party sites. 

You may refuse to accept some or all cookies by activating the appropriate setting in your browser. However, if you choose to set your browser settings to block cookies, some of our websites’ content or functionality may not work properly.

To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, see the Information Commissioner's Office information page.