Privacy and preferences
Cookie Statement
This statement explains how Uganda Christian University uses cookies and similar browser storage on its website, and how you can manage optional categories.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. They help a site remember information about your visit, such as a consent choice, a preferred setting, or whether a form is working as expected. Similar browser technologies, including local storage, may be used for the same limited purposes.
How We Use Cookies
Uganda Christian University uses cookies to provide website functionality, remember preferences, protect services, understand aggregate traffic, monitor performance, and support communication with prospective students, students, staff, alumni, and partners. Optional cookies are used only when you allow them.
Types of Cookies
| Type | Purpose | Retention period | Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Cookies | Keep the website available and secure, remember consent choices, support forms, and enable basic page navigation. | Session to 12 months | No |
| Analytics Cookies | Help UCU understand aggregate website traffic, popular pages, and visitor journeys so content can be improved. | Up to 24 months | Yes |
| Performance Cookies | Monitor page speed, errors, uptime, and browser compatibility across university services. | Session to 12 months | Yes |
| Functional Cookies | Remember optional interface choices, accessibility settings, dismissed prompts, and embedded content preferences. | Session to 12 months | Yes |
| Marketing Cookies | Measure the effectiveness of admissions, events, scholarship, alumni, and public engagement communications. | Up to 24 months | Yes |
Third-Party Cookies
Some pages may include services provided by third parties, such as Google Analytics, YouTube embedded videos, Google Maps, or social media integrations. These services may set their own cookies when they load or when you interact with them. Their use is governed by the relevant provider's privacy and cookie terms.
Managing Cookies
You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. You can also update this website's optional cookie choices at any time by selecting the floating cookie settings button in the bottom-left corner after your first choice has been saved. Blocking some cookies may affect embedded media, forms, or saved preferences.
Changes to this Cookie Statement
UCU may update this statement when website services, cookie categories, legal requirements, or university practices change. The latest version will be published on this page.
Contact Information
For questions about privacy, cookie preferences, or the handling of personal information, contact Uganda Christian University through the official channels below and ask for the Privacy Office or the office responsible for data protection.
Uganda Christian University, Bishop Tucker Road, P.O. Box 4, Mukono, Uganda+256 312 350 800 / 880info@ucu.ac.ugPrivacy Policy