Disclaimer
While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the original material provided on the Queen’s University Belfast website, Queen’s University Belfast does not represent or warrant that the information available on this website is accurate, complete or current.
The Queen’s University Belfast provides the website, its contents and facilities on an "as is" basis and makes no (and expressly disclaims all) representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, with respect to this website or the information, content, or services made available through the website.
The Queen’s University Belfast, its officers and employees, do not accept liability for any loss, damage or injury of any kind, howsoever arising, resulting from a defect or an inaccuracy in the information or code contained within the University website.
This material is regularly reviewed and is subject to alteration without notice.
The Queen’s University Belfast is not responsible for the content of external websites that the University website may link to or reference from time to time. Providing references to and/or links to external websites should not be viewed as an endorsement by the University of the content and services provided by those websites. Nor is the University responsible for the opinions, content and services contained on external websites that link to or reference the Queen’s University Belfast website.
Accessibility Statement
Queen’s University Belfast is committed to making the information and resources provided via its website accessible to all users. We aim to be standards compliant and follow general principles of usability in order to help all visitors to this website.
This central section of the Queen’s University Website has been designed to meet Level AA (2) of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C-AA) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. All new University sites are also designed to conform to W3C-AA standards. However, it is possible that our older pages do not currently conform to these standards. We are working with information providers across the University to ensure that all future web pages compliant with accessibility guidelines.
We intend to continue improving the accessibility of our site, so if you have any difficulty accessing the site and require further help, or if you have any suggestions to help improve our accessibility, please contact us.
Virtual Learning Environment
Queen’s Virtual Learning Environment, "Queen’s Online", has been designed to ensure that all students and staff can get access to learning resources and services. To access the system, and associated online manuals and help, please go to the Queen’s Online Login Page.
Assistive Technologies
Queen's University endeavours to ensure that its website resources are accessible to all, regardless of disability. Any user who experiences difficulty accessing University website resources and who may require access to Assistive Technology such as screen readers, voice recognition software, alternative mice/keyboards, etc. should contact staff within Disability Services (disability.office@qub.ac.uk) who will liaise with colleagues to make appropriate provision.
Cookies Statement
A cookie is a small file that is downloaded to your computer when you visit certain websites. Cookies typically store the name of the domain or website you are visiting, the duration or lifetime of the cookie, and a content value - typically a randomly generated unique number.
Queen's University Belfast does not use cookies to store personal information about people visiting our website and typically a cookie cannot by itself identify you.
Generally websites use 2 types of cookie - session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are eliminated when you close all your browser windows. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive either indefinitely or for a specified period. (Third party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than the one you are currently visiting and these can be session cookies or persistent cookies.)
You can choose to manually disable cookies on your computer, or delete existing cookies by adjusting your browser settings.
If you normally use more than one browser be sure to adjust each browser’s settings individually.
Please note if you do not choose to accept cookies you may be unable to access certain parts of our websites.
Find out more information about cookies.
Online Environments
A number of our online services require users to engage and provide information in order to gain access to content, for example our Library and Research Systems. These systems need to store information about these interactions so they can provide the service and in some instances they use cookies to do this. Additionally where users are required to login to gain additional functionality or to gain access to user customised facilities, cookies are essential to our websites functioning correctly for access control and security.
Please Note - If you disable cookies in these instances, core functionality and services may not be available to you or the quality of the service will be severely degraded.
University Portals, (e.g. Queen's Online and Qsis), our Web Content Management System, the Virtual Learning Environment, Library Systems and our Outlook Web Access Email Service require users to login to use the system. These systems use cookies for access control, system security, personal data security, effective monitoring and internal business reporting.
The storage of cookies by our Online Environments is provided for under regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations Section (4) Paragraph (1) in that the directive:
… shall not apply to the technical storage of, or access to, information
(a) for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network; or
(b) where such storage or access is strictly necessary for the provision of an information society service requested by the subscriber or user.
The cookies used by our Online Environments are not used for any purposes other than access control, system security, personal data security, effective monitoring and internal business reporting. The cookies stored are session cookies and are removed once you have closed down all your browser windows.
Web Analytics
Three main web analysis tools are used at Queen’s, Google Analytics, Piwik Analytics and Awstats. They are used to monitor the traffic to the site, to collect information about how users are using the site and to produce reports for business and marketing purposes. The information gathered is not used to identify or target individual users.
Awstats reports are based on analysis of the web server log files and it does not store cookies on a user’s machines. The data collected by Awstats is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the data:
However both Google Analytics and Piwik create cookies on your machine. Piwik creates 2 cookies and Google Analytics creates 4 cookies on a user’s machine. The cookies collect information about how the site is used, the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from and the pages they visit while on our site. In the case of Piwik information about the use of our site, including user IP addresses is held at Queen’s in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and in the case of Google Analytics the information collected, may be transmitted to, and stored by, Google where we will use it for analysis and reporting purposes. For more information please see Google’s statement on Cookies and Analytics and Google Privacy Centre.
The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on can be installed in your browser to tell the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) that information about your website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. This add-on does not interfere with other information gathering processes such as information gathered by Awstats. Find out about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
External Websites
From time to time we may link from our website to external websites that set cookies on your machine, please note such websites are outside the University’s control and are not covered by this Cookie statements.
Main Cookies Used
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Core University Websites Cookies associated with Google Analytics. (Main site and areas such as the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering.) |
_utma | Expires at end of Session |
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| _utmz | Persistent | |
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Core University Websites Cookies associated with Piwik Analytics. |
_pk_id | Persistent |
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Queen's Online Portal Cookies necessary for portal login, access rights and session management. |
WSS_KeepSessionAuthenticated | Expires at end of Session |
| QUBSESSID | Expires at end of Session | |
| qolWindows | Expires at end of Session | |
| qolWindows1 | Expires at end of Session | |
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PFact Research System Cookies necessary for login and session management. |
ASP.NET_SessionId | Expires at end of Session |
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Web Content Management System Cookies necessary for login, site access and session management. |
JSESSIONID | Expires at end of Session |
| curUser | Expires at end of Session | |
| curLang | Expires at end of Session | |
| curUserLevel | Expires at end of Session | |
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Outlook Web Access Email Facility Cookies necessary for login, account access and session management. |
CookieTest | Expires at end of Session |
| sessionid | Expires at end of Session | |
| Cadata | Expires at end of Session | |
| UserContext | Expires at end of Session | |
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Go - Short URL’s A University Service to shorten a URL for dissemination purposes typically publications. |
PHPSESSID | Expires at end of Session |
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Clubs and Societies Some of our Clubs and Societies websites may set a cookie relating to the site styles and themes they use. |
siteTheme | Persistent |
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University Blog Service Blogging service available publically. |
PHPSESSID | Expires at end of Session |
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Qsis: Student Information System Cookies necessary for login, access rights and session management. |
X-Mapping-kcepobcd | Expires at end of Session |
| qsis-wap-m1-8900-PORTAL-PSJSESSIONID | Expires at end of Session | |
| ExpirePage | Expires at end of Session | |
| PS_LOGINLIST | Expires at end of Session | |
| PS_TOKEN | Expires at end of Session | |
| SignOnDefault | Expires at end of Session | |
| HPTabName | Expires at end of Session | |
| PS_TOKENEXPIRE | Expires at end of Session | |
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Library Systems-Encore Cookies necessary for login, search and session management.Plus additional cookies associated with Google Analytics. (This site will automatically create more cookies through its interactions with Amazon (7 cookies), Google (2 cookies) and Myilibrary (3 cookies) if you avail of specific sections of the site. These are outside the control of the University.) |
JSESSIONID (encore_qub) | Expires at end of Session |
| JSESSIONID (jstor) | Expires at end of Session | |
| III_SESSION_ID | Expires at end of Session | |
| PAT_LOGGED_IN | Expires at end of Session | |
| III_ENCORE_PATRON | Expires at end of Session | |
| XProxyTicket | Expires at end of Session | |
| MAID | Persistent | |
| SERVER | Expires at end of Session | |
| TENACIOUS | Expires at end of Session | |
| SessionID | Expires at end of Session | |
| machine-id | Persistent | |
| _utma | Expires at end of Session | |
| _utmb | Persistent | |
| _utmc | Expires at end of Session | |
| _utmz | Persistent | |
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Library Systems-LMS Cookies necessary for login, search and session management.
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JSESSIONID |
Expires at end of Session |
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org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n. |
Persistent |
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CASTGC |
Expires at end of Session |
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Advisory Helpdesk Cookies necessary for accessing user profile and logging requests.
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ASPSESSIONIDSSRQRAA |
Expires at end of Session |
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SmartCard Payments via WorldPay Payment facility. (These are necessary for the service transaction and are outside the control of the University.) |
select.worldpay.com |
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JSESSIONID |
Expires at end of Session |
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machine |
Expires at end of Session |
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secure.worldpay.com |
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JSESSIONID |
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machine |
Expires at end of Session |
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Research Portal |
JSESSIONID |
Expires at end of Session |
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ubid-main |
Expires at end of Session |
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session-id-time |
Expires at end of Session |
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session-id |
Expires at end of Session |
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com.sun.faces.context.flash.PostbackRequest (Multiple cookies created of this type depending upon site interactions.) |
Expires at end of Session |
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_utma |
Expires at end of Session |
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_utmb |
Persistent |
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_utmc |
Expires at end of Session |
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_utmz |
Persistent |
University Complaints
If you would like to make a complaint about content on any of the University websites or there is an issue that you would like us to address in relation to a website please follow this link and fill in and submit the available form.
