Cookie Statement

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Cookie Statement Central European University
(hereinafter CEU or the University)
This statement explains how we use cookies on websites using the CEU.EDU top level domain and/or hosted by Central European University-controlled servers.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time.
Cookies are usually small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer's browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions. The website stores a corresponding file (with same ID tag) to the one they set in your browser and in this file they can track and keep information on your movements within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given while visiting the website, such as email address.
You can find out more information about cookies at:
https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
How do we use cookies on our websites?
Cookies served while visiting CEU websites are used for:
Functionality purposes, e.g. to remember if the cookie consent agreement has already been submitted by a visitor.
Analytical purposes, e.g. to track anonymized visitor browsing statistics, typically done by Google Analytics.
Other marketing- or usage-related informational purposes - usually involving an embedded object like Facebook page or YouTube video.
How we do NOT use cookies on our websites?
If a cookie collecting personal data will be set on a website, we'll inform you about the data process in a privacy notice and ask for your informed consent. Note that first-party cookie data is fully anonymized.
Consent
We do not store cookies before consent is granted.
What type of cookies do we use?
1. First-party cookies
– the cookies set by CEU and stored by the website you are visiting.
Provider
Cookie name
Duration
Purpose (or link found on CEU)
Further Information
Central European University
has_js
session
Functionality cookie, used to determine if the visitor’s browser has JavaScript enabled.
https://www.ceu.edu/privacy
ShareThis
_utma
_utmz
_utmb
_utmc
2 years
6 months
session
session
Associated with the ShareThis service, which we use on article content to facilitate page sharing.
https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/
Google Analytics
_ga
_gat
_gid
2 years
1 minute
1 day
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Overview of Google Analytics privacy
2. Third-party Cookies
- the cookies created by domains other than CEU.EDU domain. Some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube, Twitter, and UniBuddy. To view or interact with this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over. Please follow the links under 'further information' in order to learn more about the full extent of potential purpose and usage of these cookies.
Provider
Cookie name
Duration
Purpose (or link found on CEU)
Further Information
Google (Maps, Calendar, Doubleclick)
NID
test_cookie
IDE
6 months
15 min.
1 year
This cookie is used by Google to track how many people are using their services.
Overview of Google privacy
YouTube
remote_sid
GPS
PREF
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
YSC
CONSENT
1 year
session
1 year
5 months
session
1 year
YouTube may still set cookies on the user's computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Overview
UniBuddy
_cfduid
Mp_(...)_mixpanel
_gat_(...)
_gid
_gat
1 month
1 year
2 years
1 day
1 day
Used by UniBuddy, a chat service used to connect CEU graduates with prospective students, who are interested in learning more about the university.
Unibuddy policy
Facebook
dpr
fbp
session
3 months
Advertisement targeting cookie used by Facebook.
Facebook policy
Twitter
lang
session
Used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
Twitter policy
Piktochart
_gat_piktov3
_ga
_gid
session
2 years
1 day
Used to embed infographics on some web pages.
Piktochart policy
How can you manage cookies?
Via OneTrust's cookie management options
The initial consent pop-up banner permits one to:
Accept all cookies
Accept only essential cookies, or,
Visit further options via cookie settings
If visiting cookie settings, it is possible to:
Allow all cookies
Manage consent preferences, i.e. accept or reject functional, performance, and targeting cookies granularly, or,
Reject all cookies
Directly via your browser
Removing cookies from your device
You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).
Managing site-specific cookies
For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.
Blocking cookies
You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And, some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).
Last updated
April, 2026
Future changes
Any changes we make in the Cookie Statement will be posted on this web page.
Previous revisions of this statement
Can be requested by emailing:
ceuwebteam@ceu.edu
Contact
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact the Web Team of CEU at
ceuwebteam@ceu.edu
.