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Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A ‘cookie’ is a small text file containing information that is stored on your computer. Cookies are only used for technical reasons, to facilitate your use of a website, and for Yale’s analysis of website use.
One type of cookie will save a file permanently on your computer. It can thereafter be used to customize this website based on the user’s choices and interests. Another common type of cookie is the “session cookie”. When you visit a website, session cookies are sent between your computer and the server to collect information. Session cookies are not saved once you close your web browser. For more information about how cookies work, please be referred to www.allaboutcookies.org .
You can restrict or block cookies in the privacy center or by changing your browser’s settings. Previously stored cookies can also be deleted through the web browser. More information can be found through your web browser’s support pages. Please note that certain areas and functions on this website require cookies and may not function if cookies are deleted or declined.
What cookies do we use?
This Yale website uses different kinds of cookies, detailed below.
- Necessary , Required to enable basic features of this website, such as providing secure login or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Advertisement , Used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze effectiveness of campaigns.
- Analytics, Used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
- Functional , Help perform certain functionalities such as sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collection feedback and other third-party features.
- Performance , Used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which help in developer a better user experience for the visitors.
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Cookie |
Domain |
Description |
Duration |
Type |
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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
.shopyalehome.com |
Hotjar sets this cookie to detect a user's first pageview session, which is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
30 minutes |
Functional |
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localization |
Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr. |
1 year |
Functional |
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_orig_referrer |
.shopyalehome.com |
Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart. |
14 days |
Necessary |
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_pay_session |
shop.app |
Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure checkout and payment function on the website. |
session |
Necessary |
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cart_currency |
Shopify sets this cookie to remember the user’s country of origin and populate the correct transaction currency. |
14 days |
Necessary |
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secure_customer_sig |
Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with customer login. |
1 year |
Necessary |
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shopify_pay_redirect |
Shopify sets this cookie to enable secure online payment and checkout. |
1 hour |
Necessary |
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__kla_id |
Klaviyo sets this cookie to collect information on the visitor’s behavior. This information is used for internal analytics and to optimise the website. It also registers if the visitor has subscribed to a news letter. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Analytics |
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_fbp |
.shopyalehome.com |
Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. |
3 months |
Analytics |
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_ga |
.shopyalehome.com |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Analytics |
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_ga_* |
.shopyalehome.com |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Analytics |
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_gid |
.shopyalehome.com |
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
1 day |
Analytics |
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_hjFirstSeen |
.shopyalehome.com |
Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_hjSession_* |
.shopyalehome.com |
Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_hjSessionUser_* |
.shopyalehome.com |
Hotjar sets this cookie to ensure data from subsequent visits to the same site is attributed to the same user ID, which persists in the Hotjar User ID, which is unique to that site. |
1 year |
Analytics |
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_landing_page |
.shopyalehome.com |
Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages. |
14 days |
Analytics |
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_s |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_shopify_s |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_shopify_sa_p |
.shopyalehome.com |
Shopify sets this cookie for marketing & referrals. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_shopify_sa_t |
.shopyalehome.com |
Shopify sets this cookie for marketing & referrals. |
30 minutes |
Analytics |
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_shopify_y |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
1 year |
Analytics |
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_vwo_ssm |
This cookie is set by VWO to track visitor behavior. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Analytics |
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_vwo_uuid_v2 |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is set by Visual Website Optimiser and calculates unique traffic on a website. |
1 year |
Analytics |
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_y |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite. |
1 year |
Analytics |
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CONSENT |
.youtube.com |
YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
2 years |
Analytics |
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_shg_session_id |
Shogun sets this cookie to tracks individual sessions on the website and app, allowing them to compile statistical data from multiple visits. This data can also be used to create leads for marketing purposes. |
30 minutes |
Advertisement |
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_shg_user_id |
Shogun sets this cookie to collect data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites in order to present more relevant advertisements. This also allows the website to limit the number of times that the visitor is shown the same advertisement. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Advertisement |
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muc_ads |
.t.co |
Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Advertisement |
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personalization_id |
.twitter.com |
Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Advertisement |
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po_visitor |
Push Owl places this cookie in order to test the effectiveness of advertisements across websites. |
1 year |
Advertisement |
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uuid |
MediaMath sets this cookie to avoid the same ads from being shown repeatedly and for relevant advertising. |
3 months |
Advertisement |
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uuid |
MediaMath sets this cookie to avoid the same ads from being shown repeatedly and for relevant advertising. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Advertisement |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
.youtube.com |
YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
5 months 27 days |
Advertisement |
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YSC |
.youtube.com |
Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
session |
Advertisement |
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_gat |
.shopyalehome.com |
Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. |
1 minute |
Performance |
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_vwo_ds |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie stores persistent user-level data for VWO Insights. |
3 months |
Performance |
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_vwo_sn |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie stores session-level information. |
30 minutes |
Performance |
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_vwo_uuid |
.shopyalehome.com |
Visual Website Optimizer sets this cookie to generate a unique id for every visitor and for its report segmentation feature. The cookie also allows to view data in a more refined manner. |
1 year 1 month 4 days |
Performance |
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BVBRANDID |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is a performance cookie used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics, to be correlated to the same user for interactions within a particular client domain. |
1 year |
Performance |
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BVBRANDSID |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is set by Bazaarvoice. This is a session cookie used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain. |
30 minutes |
Performance |
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BVID |
.network.bazaarvoice.com |
This cookie is set by the Bazaarvoice. The cookie allows internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network. |
less than a minute |
Performance |
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BVSID |
.network.bazaarvoice.com |
This cookie is set by Bazaarvoice.This cookie is used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions across the Bazaarvoice network. |
less than a minute |
Performance |
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session_id |
.shopyalehome.com |
This cookie is used to get or set the session id for the current session. |
1 month |
Performance |
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__olAlertsForShop |
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session |
Other |
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_cmp_a |
.shopyalehome.com |
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1 day |
Other |
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_hjIncludedInSessionSample_1935083 |
.shopyalehome.com |
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2 minutes |
Other |
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_master_udr |
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2 years |
Other |
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_secure_admin_session_id |
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3 months |
Other |
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_secure_admin_session_id_csrf |
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3 months |
Other |
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_secure_session_id |
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1 day |
Other |
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identity-state |
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1 day |
Other |
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identity-state-50bc22a7797c191da568a7823c801c49 |
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1 day |
Other |
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key |
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never |
Other |
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identity-state-7e9d3ec4d5bab10bf49995d729896936 |
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1 day |
Other |
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keep_alive |
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30 minutes |
Other |
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product_reviews_ugc_with_qa_by_hulkapps_session |
.reviews.hulkapps.com |
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2 hours |
Other |
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tkbl_cvuuid |
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1 year 1 month 4 days |
Other |
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tkbl_cvuuid |
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1 year 1 month 4 days |
Other |
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VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
.youtube.com |
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5 months 27 days |
Other |
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