Privacy policy. Use of cookies on the UCU websites

Cookies are small pieces of data that your web browser stores on your computer or other device when you first visit ucu.edu.ua, and which allow to recognize your computer or other device when re-visiting ucu.edu.ua. When you open the page of the ucu.edu.ua website, web browser sends to our website these pieces of data as part of the http-request. Thus, ucu.edu.ua can access only those cookies that your browser has provided. Cookies are designed to preserve the characteristics of the tools that you use, your individual settings, personal preferences and anonymous statistics of your interaction with our website, etc. and to carry out automated collection and processing of such data.

Cookies can be permanent and stored on a computer or other device until the user deletes them, or temporary (session), i.e. stored only until the current browser session is closed.

There are the following cookie file types:

Extremely necessary cookies - required for navigation of user on the web page, and when using certain services, in particular for registration and authorization, website search, etc. For example, without such cookies, the site will not be able to remember that you have logged in or placed products in the cart. Such files are integral to the basic functions of the site.
Operational (analytical) cookies - used to collect information about how the site is used. Examples of such information are: length of stay on the site, the most frequently visited pages, etc.
Functional cookies - allow the site to remember the user’s choice of settings. For example, the information about the language version of a website, location, other settings of the site, which a user can adapt to his needs. Such cookies also allow users to watch videos, leave comments, participate on interactive polls and voting, to interact with social networks.
Target cookies files (targeting technology) are used to provide a content that may be of interest to a user. Examples of data collected using such cookies are the following: tracking of text, graphics, audio and video data to avoid re-display, setting up targeted advertising.

Examples of information that can be collected using cookies through ucu.edu.ua include: information about the media used to access our website, software, operating system, IP address, type of your browser, its extensions and add-ons, location, language, time spent on a particular page of our website, and the content you have viewed, the links you have used to access our site, your login and PIN (password) to log in to the Personal Account etc.

The purpose of collecting and further processing of the specified information through ucu.edu.ua:

to improve the work of the ucu.edu.ua website and to make its use more efficient and convenient for you;
to adjust the proposals that would be most interesting and useful for you (including contextual advertising).

The data collected by means of cookies through ucu.edu.ua are processed within the time which does not exceed the necessary time, based on the purpose of their processing.

Data collected using cookies through ucu.edu.ua can be processed using the services of Google Analytics, Google Ads, Firebase Analytics exclusively in accordance with the purpose of processing, stated above. The collection and processing of Your data using such services is subject to these terms and the Google Privacy Policy (available at: policies.google.com; policies.google.com), Firebase (available at: firebase.com) respectively.

Cookies do not collect information from your computer or other devices (including files on your computer or other devices). Note that a cookies are a set of characters, text data, that cannot perform any actions on its own (including being viral, spyware, or any other malicious software).

You can independently, using the settings of your browser, completely disable the cookies, activate the complete disabling of cookies after the end of the current session of Your browser, block the third-party cookies, create so-called ‘black’ and/or ‘white’ list of cookies, ban cookies from the ‘black’ list, etc. These settings will be valid for both the cookies that we set and the cookies of any third parties. Below are links to how to disable cookies in major web browsers:

Please note that some functions of the ucu.edu.ua website may not work properly due to disabling cookies.

Continuing to use the ucu.edu.ua website, you consent to the UCU (USREOU code 26205857 ; located: Sventsitsky Str., building 17 Lviv 79011) for the use of cookies and processing, registration, accumulation, storage, adaptation, modification, renewal, use and spread (distribution, sale, transfer), depersonalization, destruction (including use of information (automated) systems) of data in the manner and under the conditions specified above, as well as you confirm that you are acquainted with the rights granted to you in accordance with the current legislation of Ukraine. Data collection using cookies and their further processing are carried out in accordance with current legislation of Ukraine, including, but not limited to, the Law of Ukraine ‘On Personal Data Protection’, the Law of Ukraine ‘On Advertising’, the Law of Ukraine ‘On Information’, the Law of Ukraine ‘On Telecommunications’. UCU takes all measures necessary to maintain the privacy and security of information, obtained as a result of the collection of cookies, including using generally accepted standards of technological and operational protection against possible loss, improper use, alteration or destruction. Concerning all questions related to cookies, please call: 03222409940.

Thank you for understanding!