Coastal Carolina Community College

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of code your browser stores on your device, allowing a website to recall your actions or preferences over time.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to learn how you interact with our website during your first and subsequent visits. This is important so that we can continue to improve the user experience and ensure that we are providing content that our website visitors find helpful. For example, some cookies track first time visitors only to ensure that only those new to the site see certain pop-up messages. Allowing us to serve you specific content, such as videos on our website(s) gives us the ability to only show our users the content that matters to them. Additionally we may employ the learnings of your behavior on our website to serve you with targeted advertisements on third-party website(s) in an effort to “re-market” our products and services to you. What types of cookies do we use?

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website. First-party cookies are cookies issued from this domain that are generally used to render basic site functionality. Third-party cookies are managed by and belong to other parties. These cookies may be required to allow for some advertising outside of our website, but also give us valuable insights regardings things like the number of views a YouTube Video has had and/or click-through these advertisers have received.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used to remember you during the course of your visit to our website, and expire when the web browser is closed. Session cookies give us the ability to measure the effectiveness and value of the content on our website for our users.

How do I opt-out of cookies?

It is at your discretion if you want to allow the use of cookies at any given time. If you would like to reject or block all or specific types of cookies you can change your preferences for both first and third party cookie usage within the browser settings of your device. If you do not wish for cookies to be used, you may need to actively delete or block the cookies depending on the browser you're using as many browsers default to automatically allow the usage of cookies. If you block the usage of cookies within your browser, you will still be able to visit our websites but some of the functions may not work as originally intended. You may also visit www.allaboutcookies.org for additional details on how to delete or reject cookies, or to learn more. By using our website without deleting or rejecting some or all cookies, you agree that we can place those cookies that you are providing consent as outlined in this policy.