The University's websites have services that uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that contain information about usage of a web site and are created and stored on your device when you visit our website.
The cookies on umu.se are used to improve the site for you as a visitor:
to be able to customise the content and direct relevant information to different visitor groups
to collect and analyse visitor statistics
for the opportunity to log in and use our services
for displaying external content (for example, video clips).
We use two types of cookies:
Session cookies are temporarily stored during your visit to the site. They are used, among other things, to facilitate navigation and the use of features and services. The cookie disappears when you close the browser.
Fixed cookies remain on your computer and are reused on your next visit to the site. For example, to be able to customise content based on your needs and interests. You can remove these cookies from your browser.
Services that use cookies
Necessary cookies (always required)
Optimizely - umu.se is based on the publishing solution Optimizely (formerly Episerver) CMS. The system uses cookies, for example, when you log in or fill in a form.
Load balancer - When you visit umu.se sites, the load balancer ensures that you end up on one of the servers that presents the information.
Klaro - Used to allow you to manage your choice of cookies.
Matomo
We use Matomo as a statistical tool on our website to understand how you as a visitor use the website. The IP addresses are anonymized.
Video
Youtube - We have embedded videos from our Youtube channels on the website. When you play the movies, cookies are used by youtube.com.
Vimeo - We have embedded movies from Vimeo that use first-party cookies that are considered essential to the video player experience. Embedded Vimeo movies do not use third-party analytics or promotional cookies when the video player is displayed on a third-party website.
Kaltura (Umu-play) - We have embedded movies from Kaltura (Umu-play) that can put a cake.
Chat
We use Dynamics 365 Customer Service as a chat tool on umu.se. When the chat is used, the service can use cookies. No personally identifiable information is collected.
More about cookies
General information about cookies is available on the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's web site.
More about how Umeå University processes personal data
To find out more about how we store and process personal data, please visit the following page: