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Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University website, www.rsm.nl, uses cookies for various purposes. These purposes and applications are described below. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University uses first-party and third-party cookies, which means that cookies from rsm.nl as well as cookies from third parties can be placed on your computer. Please find an overview of the cookies that are used below, as well as the intended application and validity.
Here is an overview of the cookies that can be placed on your computer. Functional, performance and statistical cookies are always used, regardless of whether or not you have chosen to accept cookies. These cookies do not require permission to be placed on your computer.
Some cookies make sure Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University website functions properly. These cookies ensure that the basic settings of the website are correct and that you can use the website optimally during your visit. For example, these cookies ensure that you get the mobile version of the website when you access it using a mobile phone and that certain preferences can be saved. The website may not function properly without these cookies.
To provide rsm.nl users with information in the best possible way, it is valuable to know what information is important to them. That is why we also use cookies that collect statistical information about the website. We can use them to measure how many visitors come to the website and how they use the website. This information helps us understand how we can keep improving the website, for example its structure, navigation, and content. The statistics we collect are anonymous and cannot be traced to individuals.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University places advertisements on various other websites, for example for the programmes we offer and the events we organise. To measure the effect of these advertisements, we place cookies that measure matters such as whether you request a brochure, register for a programme or sign up for an event.
We also use remarketing and retargeting. This technology makes it possible to use the visitor’s interests on the rsm.nl website to present advertising related to these interests on partners’ websites. This form of advertising is completely anonymised: no privacy-related data is saved.
Our website places cookies from various social media channels to enable you to share information from it on social media. This way, these networks recognise you when you want to share information. The data that the social media channels collect and use can be different for each channel. For more information, please consult the declarations these parties have drawn up on this topic.
In some instances, we use elements that are provided by third parties. In such cases we cannot always control and monitor the cookies that are placed by these websites, for example when elements from external websites are loaded into our website and displayed. If you encounter cookies from such parties and would like more information about this, you can contact us or the other party directly.
| Name | Validity | Set by | Functionality |
| rsm_cookie_control_page | 1 year | RSM | Functional cookie to set your cookie preferences |
| rsm_cookie_control_status | 1 year | RSM | Functional cookie to set your cookie preferences |
| _hjIncludedInSample | End of session | Hotjar | Statistical information |
| _hjUserId | 1 year | Hotjar | Statistical information |
| ABTasty | 13 months | AB Tasty | Functional cookie for website optimization |
| ABTastySession | End of session | AB Tasty | Functional cookie for website optimization |
| _dc_gtm_UA-1099882-15 | 1 minute | Loads the Google Tagmanager Container | |
| __unam | 9 months | Sharethis | Functional cookie for social media sharing |
| __utma | 2 years | Statistical information, used to distinguish users and sessions | |
| __utmb | 30 minutes | Statistical information, used to determine new sessions/visits | |
| __utmc | End of session | Statistical information, used to determine new sessions/visits | |
| __utmz | 6 months | Statistical information, used to store the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached the site | |
| cuvid | 2 years | ClickDimensions | Statistical information, used to determine unique visitors to the site and it is updated with each page view |
| cusid | 30 minutes | ClickDimensions | Statistical information, used to establish and continue a user session with the site |
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