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Cookies and JavaScript

Örebro University's website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file sent from a web server and stored on your computer or smartphone. These temporary text files are not harmful and do not contain any program code. We use cookies to improve the functionality of the website and to simplify for you, the visitor.

Read more about cookies on the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority’s (PTS) website.

Strictly necessary cookies used on this website

Accepted or denied cookies

Name: Oru-accept-cookies

  • Purpose: The cookie saves whether you accept or reject the website use of cookies. If you click “I accept cookies” the cookie saves the value “oru-accepted”. If you click “No, don’t save any cookies” the cookie saves the value “oru-denied”.
  • Use: To know whether or not you accept that we use cookies. If you accept, then cookies are saved in your web browser.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about your computer and your web browser.
  • Duration: The cookie is stored for one month from the date of consent or denial.

Do you want to clear your choice?

If you want to clear your choice to accept or decline the optional cookies from us, you can click the button below. Please note that this only clears your choice to receive cookies from us or decline them. If you want to clear all cookies, you can do this in your browser.

Information about an ongoing website visit

Name: ASP.NET_Sessionsid

  • Purpose: The cookie is used to register choices you make or services used during your visit on the website, also called a session.
  • Use: Storing the cookie simplifies the use of the website and its services.
  • Data stored: Information about the choices you make during your visit. This cookie does not identify you personally.
  • Duration: Closing the web browser window deletes the cookie.

Name: __RequestVerificationToken

  • Purpose: A cookie is used to verify the  authenticity of the site. 
  • Use: Increased security for users of our site.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about your computer and your web browser.
  • Duration: Closing the web browser window deletes the cookie.

Information about filling in web forms

Name: EPiForm_BID

  • Purpose: A cookie is used when you visit a page with a web form.
  • Use: Used when you fill in a web form so that the webserver can keep track of which form you are filling in.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about your computer and your web browser.
  • Duration: The cookie is saved for 90 days.

Name: EPiForm_VisitorIdentifier

  • Purpose: A cookie is used when you send in a web form.
  • Use: Used so that the webserver can keep track of which user has sent in which form.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about your computer and your web browser.
  • Expires: The cookie is saved for 90 days.

Optional cookies that we use on our website

Statistics about the use of our website

Name: siteimproveses, nmstat, AWSELB / AWSELBCORS.

  • Purpose: These cookies collect statistics about the number of visits over time, how long your visit lasts on our website, what pages you visit on our website and what page you as a visitor came from.
  • Use: Cookies allows us to improve your user experience as a visitor on our website.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about your computer and your web browser.
  • Duration:  The siteimproveses, AWSELB / AWSELBCORS cookie is deleted when you close the web browser. The nmstat cookie is deleted after 1,000 days.

Information about chat widget

Name: lhc_per, lhc_ses, lhc_ldep

  • Purpose: The cookies save information about the chat widget, chat id to be able to keep the same chat while you navigate through pages, temporary information about the chat and required department information.
  • Use: These cookies allows us to show a chat widget while you browse our web pages.
  • Data stored: No personal information, only information about the chat widget and ongoing chat.
  • Duration: The cookies are saved up to six months, information about ongoing chat is cleared when you close the chat.

Third-party cookies

At oru.se we use third-party cookies. These cookies are not set by Örebro University, but by external platforms that we use. We use some platforms to analyze and improve oru.se. Other platforms are used for communication and digital marketing.

Örebro University uses the following platforms that set third-party cookies:

  • Siteimprove, web analytics: read how Siteimprove sets cookies here
  • Userneeds (Norstat), website survey (Cookie name: UNC): read how Userneeds sets cookies here
  • YouTube: To watch videos from YouTube on our pages, you must accept that YouTube sets cookies in your browser. This is optional, and you can decide whether to accept or decline this on a page where a video is embedded.
  • Kaltura: To watch videos from Kaltura on our pages, you must accept that Kaltura sets cookies in your browser. This is optional, and you can decide whether to accept or decline this on a page where a video is embedded.
  • Social Media: To view a feed from platforms such as X, Facebook, or Instagram on our pages, you must accept that these services sets cookies in your browser. This is optional, and you can choose whether to accept or decline this on the page where a feed is embedded.

A third-party cookie can be used by several websites to understand user behavior. Örebro University receives information from third-party cookies. How we handle this information is explained further up the page. To find out how the external actors handle the information, you can visit the links listed in the paragraph above.

If you do not accept storing cookies

If you do not accept cookies by clicking “No, don’t save any cookies”, then you may also configure your web browser to automatically deny cookies upon all website cookie requests. You can also use your web browser to delete previously stored cookies. Visit your web browser's help for learn how.

If you choose not to accept cookies, then certain functions described above will not function or partially function on our website. Not accepting cookies will also prevent you from logging in to our website.

If you do not want user data collected in advertising or for web statistics by Google's services, then you can use a so-called opt-out extension in your web browser or service from the industry coalition, European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA):

Read more about how to activate the service on EDAA’s website

JavaScript

JavaScript is used on our website and by several of our web-based systems, such as Studentforum. These scripts are used, for example, to place the cursor in the correct field in a search form, to verify that specific fields are filled in or to open dialogue boxes. For the best use of the website and our web-based systems, you need to have JavaScript enabled.

More information

If you would like information about www.oru.se without using our website, you are welcome to call our switchboard at 019 – 30 30 00.