Cookies Policy

Last updated: February 02, 2021

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This Cookie Policy was last updated on 21/06/2022 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland

1. Introduction

Our website, https://professionalprograms.mit.edu (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple ﬁle that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traﬃc on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Advertising cookies

On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to personalize the advertisements for you, and we (and third parties) gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a proﬁle we create based on your click and surﬁng on and outside https://professionalprograms.mit.edu. With these cookies you, as website visitor are linked to a unique ID, so you do not see the same ad more than once for example.

5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user proﬁles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.

5.5 Social media buttons

On our website we have included buttons for Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram are located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

Bing Ads

Functional, Marketing

Usage

We use Bing Ads for advertising. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Bing Ads Privacy Statement.

Functional

Name	Expiration	Function
_uetsid_exp	Persistent
_uetvid_exp	Persistent

Marketing

Name	Expiration	Function
_uetsid	1 day	Store and track visits across websites
_uetvid	13 months	Store and track visits across websites

WordPress

Functional

Usage

We use WordPress for website development. Read more

Sharing data

This data is not shared with third parties.

Functional

Name	Expiration	Function
wpEmojiSettingsSupports	Session	Store browser details

Microsoft Clarity

Statistics, Marketing

Usage

We use Microsoft Clarity for heat maps and screen recordings. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Microsoft Clarity Privacy Statement.

Statistics

Name	Expiration	Function
_cltk		Store and track interaction
_clsk	1 day	Store and combine pageviews by a user into a single session recording

Marketing

Name	Expiration	Function
_clck	1 year	Store a unique user ID

Complianz

Functional

Usage

We use Complianz for cookie consent management. Read more

Sharing data

This data is not shared with third parties. For more information, please read the Complianz Privacy Statement.

Functional

Name	Expiration	Function
cmplz_banner-status	365 days	Store if the cookie banner has been dismissed

Google Adsense

Marketing

Usage

We use Google Adsense for showing advertisements. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Google Adsense Privacy Statement.

Marketing

Name	Expiration	Function
_gcl_au	Persistent	Store and track conversions

Google Analytics

Statistics, Functional

Usage

We use Google Analytics for website statistics. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Google Analytics Privacy Statement.

Statistics

Name	Expiration	Function
_ga_*	1 year	Store and count pageviews
_ga	2 years	Store and count pageviews
_gid	1 day	Store and count pageviews

Functional

Name	Expiration	Function
_gat_*	1 minute	Read and filter requests from bots

WPML

Functional

Usage

We use WPML for locale management. Read more

Sharing data

This data is not shared with third parties.

Functional

Name	Expiration	Function
wp-wpml_current_language	1 day	Store language settings

Yandex Metrica

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use Yandex Metrica for website statistics. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Yandex Metrica Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
_ym_zzlc

YouTube

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use YouTube for video display. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the YouTube Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
GPS
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
YSC
PREF

PayPal

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use PayPal for payment processing. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the PayPal Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
nsid
enforce_policy
tsrce
ts_c
paypal
__paypal_storage__

HubSpot

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use HubSpot for marketing automation (automated email marketing). Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the HubSpot Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
__hs_cookie_cat_pref
messagesUtk
__hssc
__hstc
__hsmem
hs-messages-is-open
*_key
hs_ab_test
__hs_do_not_track

Google Fonts

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use Google Fonts for display of webfonts. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Google Fonts Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
Google Fonts API

Vimeo

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use Vimeo for video display. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Vimeo Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
__utmt_player
vuid

Wistia

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use Wistia for video display. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Wistia Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
wistia

Google reCAPTCHA

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

We use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention. Read more

Sharing data

For more information, please read the Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Statement.

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
rc::c
rc::b
rc::a

Miscellaneous

Purpose pending investigation

Usage

Sharing data

Sharing of data is pending investigation

Purpose pending investigation

Name	Expiration	Function
lastExternalReferrerTime
lastExternalReferrer
in-session
cmplzSelectedRegion	365 days
cookieyes-consent
_fbp

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the ﬁrst time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

Manage your consent settings

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.

Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us. Right to rectiﬁcation: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.

If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.

Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.

Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justiﬁed grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.