Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Harvard Reference Generator uses cookies and similar technologies on harvardreferencegenerator.co.uk.

Harvard Reference Generator is an independent UK-based Harvard citation generator, in-text citation tool and bibliography service.

Cookies are small data files that a website stores on or reads from a user's device. Similar technologies include browser local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, software development kits and identifiers that perform related functions.

These technologies can keep a website secure, remember a choice, retain an active reference list, measure how a feature performs, load external content or support advertising and campaign measurement.

Harvard Reference Generator may use strictly necessary technologies without consent where they are essential to deliver a feature requested by the user, protect the website, maintain a session or remember a cookie choice.

Harvard Reference Generator requests active consent before using non-essential analytics, advertising, personalisation or similar technologies where consent is legally required.

Accepting non-essential cookies is optional. Rejecting them should not prevent access to the core Harvard Reference Generator unless a particular third-party feature cannot function without the relevant technology.

Where cookie controls are displayed, users can accept, reject or customise non-essential categories. A choice can be changed or withdrawn later. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before the change.

Strictly necessary technologies

These support security, fraud prevention, network management, load balancing, form operation, session continuity, cookie-consent records and delivery of a feature expressly requested by the user.

Examples may include a security token, a session identifier, a load-balancing value or a record of cookie preferences.

Functional and preference technologies

These remember optional choices such as an active reference list, display preference, selected Harvard style or interface setting.

Where the function is not essential, these technologies are enabled only in accordance with the user's consent choice and applicable law.

Analytics and performance technologies

These help Harvard Reference Generator understand aggregated website use, source-type popularity, search failures, page performance and technical errors. Non-essential analytics are not intended to operate before the required consent has been provided.

Advertising and campaign measurement technologies

Where advertising or campaign measurement is enabled, these technologies may measure referrals, limit repeated advertisements, attribute a visit to a campaign or support audience measurement. They are used only after the required consent and are described in the relevant consent interface.

Embedded third-party content

A YouTube video, social post, map, external font or other embedded service may receive technical information or set its own technologies. Harvard Reference Generator aims to use privacy-enhanced or click-to-load options where reasonably available.

Harvard Reference Generator may use browser storage to retain an active bibliography, citation list, selected source type or interface preference on the user's device.

The most current cookie names, providers, purposes, categories and durations should be displayed in the live cookie-consent interface where one is in use, because exact technologies can change when hosting, security, analytics, advertising or embedded-content suppliers are updated.

As a general retention approach:

• session technologies normally expire when the browser session ends;
• cookie-choice records may remain for up to 24 months;
• preference storage remains until it expires or is cleared;
• consent-based analytics identifiers may remain for up to 14 months; and
• advertising or third-party durations follow the period shown in the consent interface.

Where a Harvard Reference Generator cookie-settings control is available, users can manage non-essential categories through that control.

Most browsers also allow cookies and local storage to be viewed, blocked or deleted. Blocking essential storage may prevent forms, saved reference lists or security features from working correctly.

Browser controls do not replace Harvard Reference Generator's responsibility to obtain consent where consent is required.

Harvard Reference Generator may use third-party suppliers for hosting, content delivery, website security, analytics, newsletter delivery, support forms, bibliographic metadata, advertising and embedded media.

A third party may set or read a technology only as allowed by the user's consent choice and applicable law. The third party's own privacy and cookie information may also apply.

Harvard Reference Generator may update this policy when technologies, suppliers, legal requirements or consent controls change. A new cookie audit should be completed when analytics, advertising, social-media pixels, embedded media, live chat, testing tools or a new consent platform is added.

The latest version will appear on this page.