Cookies Policy

This Cookie Policy is provided to visitors (“you” or “your”) by American University of Sharjah (“us”, “our”, and/or “we”). 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is transferred from our website to the hard drive of your computer upon your use of our website. We use cookies to ensure that our website is able to function efficiently and effectively, and to distinguish you from other users of our website, amongst other reasons. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Additionally, we may collect information about how visitors use our website. Using cookies and other data collection methods, we gather data such as the number of visitors, pages viewed, and the sources that bring visitors to our site. This information is used to analyze and improve our website, support marketing campaigns, and generate statistics on web traffic. All data is collected in aggregate form and cannot be used to personally identify individuals.

We use cookies in the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They are essential for ensuring that you experience a continuous and unified experience across the website, and do not lose the ability to utilise various features and functionality. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, and to complete editable fields across multiple pages. 
• Performance / Analytics Cookies: these cookies allow us to better understand how visitors use our website, including how visitors move around our website and which pages are viewed most frequently. The information collected by these cookies does not personally identify any visitor. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 
• Functionality Cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies cannot track your activities on other websites.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Managing Cookies:

You are able to control cookies through your browser settings on your web browser. It is possible, for example, to block cookies by activating a setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) our website (or parts of our website) may not work.
For more information on managing and deleting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookie Consent

When you visit the website, a cookie consent banner will appear, giving you the option to accept or reject cookies other than strictly necessary cookies. By making a choice, you control which types of cookies are stored on your device. You can update your preferences at any time via the banner or your browser settings.

Cookie Policy Inquiries:

American University of Sharjah can be contacted about this Cookies Policy by:

• Emailing: PrivacyOfficer@aus.edu

• Writing To:

Privacy Officer American University of Sharjah PO Box 26666 Sharjah United Arab Emirates

An individual can contact us anonymously or by using a pseudonym. However, in such circumstances, without identification, we may not practically be able to provide information or assistance.

If you are not satisfied with how your complaint has been handled, you may escalate this matter to the relevant data protection officer at AUS, PrivacyOfficer@aus.edu.”

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This Cookies policy was last updated in October 2025