Cookie Policy


Last Updated: June 2024

Lenoir-Rhyne University (“Lenoir-Rhyne” or “we”) uses cookies on the Lenoir-Rhyne website (the “Site”). By using the Site, you consent to the use of cookies.

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, what they do, how Lenoir-Rhyne uses cookies on the Site and your choices regarding cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text placed on your computer or other device when you visit certain websites. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website or others. Cookies are also used to make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows Lenoir-Rhyne or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. The entity that places cookies on your browser can then read the information on the cookie that it set. Read more about cookies (and other similar tracking technologies) and how we use the data collected through tracking technologies, in our Privacy Policy.

Cookies are typically classified as either “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies do not stay on your device after you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain on your device until you delete them or they expire. Some cookies are set to stay on your device for a certain period of time.

For more information about cookies, you can visit the All About Cookies website.

How Lenoir-Rhyne uses cookies:

When you use and access the Site, cookie files may be placed in your web browser. Lenoir-Rhyne may use both first-party analytics cookies and third-party analytics cookies, as disclosed below.

Cookies are used on the Site to enable certain functions of the Site, provide analytics, improve your user experience, optimize advertising and marketing, and recognize you as a customer. Below is a list of the cookies used by the Site as of the date of this Cookie Policy.

Cookie Type Duration Description
_gid Analytics 1 day Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
_gat_gtag_UA_39294964_1 Analytics 1 minute Set by Google to distinguish users.
_ga_KQH4N4NHTG Analytics 2 years This cookie is installed by Google Analytics
_ga Analytics 2 years The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
UserMatchHistory Functional 1 month LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.
lang Functional session LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting.
bcookie Functional 2 years LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser ID.
lidc Functional 1 day LinkedIn sets this cookie to facilitate data center selection.
lang Functional session LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user’s language setting.
bscookie Functional 2 years LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website.
TS01e84c7d Necessary session Wix sets this cookie for security and anti-fraud purposes
_hash Unclassified 5 years These cookies are set to allow us to identify the status of a user on our website and are generally used across the web for things such as log-in routines and shopping baskets
_cap Capture 2 years This cookie is installed by Capture Higher Ed
_caps Capture 15 minutes This cookie is installed by Capture Higher Ed
AnalyticsSyncHistory LinkedIn 1 month Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries
slireg Salesloft 7 days Salesloft cookie for use in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads.
pardot Analytics past The pardot cookie is set while the visitor is logged in as a Pardot user. The cookie indicates an active session and is not used for tracking.
slirequested Salesloft 1 year Salesloft cookie for use in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads.
sliguid Salesloft 1 year Salesloft cookie for use in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads.
visitor_id <accountid> – hash Pardot 10 years The visitor cookie includes a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345 stores the visitor ID 1010101010. The account identifier, 12345, makes sure that the visitor is tracked on the correct Pardot account. The visitor value is the visitor_id in your Pardot account. This cookie is set for visitors by the Pardot tracking code.
lpv <accountid> Pardot 30 minutes This LPV cookie is set to keep Pardot from tracking multiple page views on a single asset over a 30-minute session. For example, if a visitor reloads a landing page several times over a 30-minute period, this cookie keeps each reload from being tracked as a page view.
_node Capture session Secure cookie-based session for user to allow or block cookies.
site_identity Salesloft 1 year Used by Salesloft to better understand your use of our Websites

What are your choices regarding cookies?

The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. However, if you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them through your browser, including removing cookies by deleting them from your browser history cache when you leave the Site. If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. To find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers visit the sites found at these links:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

You also have the ability to opt-out of the collection or use of cookies for remarketing, retargeting, online behavioral advertising, and interest-based advertising. You may do so by visiting the following websites:

Please note, however, that if you delete, block, or refuse to accept cookies, you might not be able to use or access all parts of the Site and some of our pages might not display properly.

If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Policy or Lenoir-Rhyne’s privacy practices in connection with the Site, please contact Lenoir-Rhyne at digital.team@lr.edu or Lenoir-Rhyne University,
Marketing and Communications, 625 7th Ave NE, LRU 7483, Hickory, NC 28601.