ADS Cookies

In this section you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit the ADS website and how to reject or delete those cookies. You may wish to read the University of York's policy on Data Protection .

The ADS use First-Party Cookies for the purposes of collecting statistics about site usage. The site will work if Cookies are disabled in the browser.

The ADS will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the ADS, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the ADS website.

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'Add This' Social Media toolbar (Third Party)	.addthis.com	psc
ColdFusion Session Identifier	archaeologydataservice.ac.uk	CFID
ColdFusion Session Identifier	archaeologydataservice.ac.uk	CFTOKEN
ColdFusion Session Identifier	oasis.ac.uk	CFID
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Java Session Identifier	archaeologydataservice.ac.uk	JSESSIONID
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Tomcat Session Identifier	archaeologydataservice.ac.uk	SSOSESSIONID

Is the ADS web site accessible?

This web site has been designed to be 'accessible' and standards compliant. This means that we have used standards mostly supplied by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in the construction of this site.

The pages have been built using a combination of Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). We aim to make all our resources as accessible as possible for all our users, following the guidelines established by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

If there are known accessibility issues with any of the tools or resources available through our web site we will always endeavour to supply an accessible alternative. If you know of any problems accessing our resources please let us know .

News pages are supplied using Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Site Summary (RSS) newfeeds which allow up-to-date information to be included in external web sites.

The ADS catalogue ArchSearch uses Dublin Core Metadata .