Cookie Policy for Website Tracking, Consent and Preferences
How HKCyberU uses cookies to operate this academic knowledge hub, measure performance, and respect your stated preferences.
Last updated: 12 June 2024
How Cookies Support This Academic Knowledge Hub
This site serves researchers, postgraduate students, and faculty who come here for programme information, conference schedules, and reference material on knowledge and technology management. Cookies keep that experience coherent across visits.
When you set a language, accept a consent prompt, or move between the postgraduate and conference sections, a small file remembers that choice so the next page loads in a state you expect. Without these markers, the site would treat every click as a first visit. The goal here is narrow: support core functionality and understand, in aggregate, which resources people actually use.
About Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. On your next request, the browser sends that file back, which lets the site recognise the session and any preferences attached to it. Cookies hold short strings of data, not documents or programs.
Two lifetimes matter for this policy. Session cookies exist only while your browser window stays open and disappear when you close it; they handle things like keeping you on a consistent page version during a single visit. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period, sometimes minutes, sometimes months, until they expire or you clear them. A consent choice typically sits in a persistent cookie so you are not asked again on every page.
Cookies We Use
We group the cookies on this site by purpose rather than by vendor. That distinction matters when you decide what to allow.
Essential
These keep the site working. They manage your session, remember your consent decision, and maintain basic security. The site cannot function as intended without them, so they are not subject to opt-in.
Analytics
These help us see how visitors move through the site in aggregate, which pages load slowly, and where navigation breaks down. The data informs how we structure programme and conference material over time.
Advertising
We do not currently run advertising cookies. We list them here because we may introduce personalised content features in the future, and we would update this policy and the consent prompt before doing so.
If a category is listed as planned rather than active, it means no such cookie is set on the site today.
Third-Party Services
Some functions rely on services outside our own servers, and those services may set their own cookies under their own policies.
Analytics tooling is planned to measure traffic and performance; when active, it would record usage patterns rather than identify you personally. Advertising network integrations are likewise planned and not yet in use. Content delivery networks, which serve images and scripts from servers closer to your location, may set technical cookies to route requests efficiently. Where a third party handles data, its own terms govern that processing alongside our Privacy Policy.
Managing Cookie Preferences
You control most cookie behaviour through your browser. Every major browser lets you view stored cookies, delete them, and block new ones, either across all sites or for specific domains. Check your browser's privacy or settings menu for the exact controls.
Worth knowing: disabling essential cookies usually breaks core features. Consent prompts may reappear on every visit, language and section preferences will not persist, and some pages may not load as designed.
Blocking analytics or future advertising cookies, by contrast, has no effect on whether the site works. It simply limits what we can measure. If you clear all cookies, expect to make your consent choice again the next time you arrive.
Updates to This Policy
We revise this policy when our cookie practices change, particularly if we activate the analytics or advertising functions described above as planned. The last updated date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.
Material changes will be signalled through the consent prompt or a notice on the site, so a return visit prompts a fresh decision where one is needed. For questions about how cookies operate on this site, reach us through the Contact HKCyberU page. This policy describes current and intended practice for this site only and does not cover external sites you reach through links here.