Cookie Policy
Last updated 12 August 2026. Applies to theunideals.com.
The Uni Deals does not set cookies. Not our own, not anybody else's. There is no analytics tool, no advertising script and no third-party tag on this site, which is why you have never been asked to accept anything here. What the site does keep is a short list of settings in your own browser, and this page names every one of them.
No cookies, and nothing to consent to
- We set no cookies of our own, for any purpose, including for sign-in.
- No third party sets a cookie through us, because no third-party code runs here.
- There is no analytics tool measuring your visit, and no advertising or retargeting pixel.
- Every script, font and image on this site is served from theunideals.com. Nothing loads from an outside host.
Since nothing here tracks you, there is no consent to give and none to withdraw, and a consent banner would be theatre. If that ever stops being true, this page changes before the code does.
What we keep in your browser
Browser storage is not a cookie: it stays on your device, is never attached to a request automatically, and can only be read by the site that wrote it. The site uses it to remember your settings and to keep you signed in. This is the whole list.
| Name | What it does | How long it stays |
|---|---|---|
tud_theme |
Remembers whether you chose the light or the dark theme. | Until you clear it localStorage |
tud_offer_lang |
Remembers whether you read offer text in English or in Urdu on a brand's page. | Until you clear it localStorage |
tud_ref |
Remembers the campus link you arrived through, so a sign-up is credited to the right campus. | Until you clear it localStorage |
tud_r |
Remembers the referral code in a link a friend shared with you, so their referral is counted. | Until you clear it localStorage |
tud_jwt |
Your signed-in session, as a token. It is what keeps you signed in when you open a deal in a new tab. | The token is issued for 30 days, and signing out removes it at once localStorage |
tud_me_note |
A short copy of your account status, email and profile name, so moving between pages does not ask our API again. | Until you close the tab, and refreshed after five minutes sessionStorage |
You can see which of these your browser holds right now, and clear any of them, on the cookie settings page.
The partner portal and the admin console
Brands sign in at partners.theunideals.com and our own team signs in at admin.theunideals.com. Those are separate hostnames, so their storage is separate from this site's and never visible to it. They keep a sign-in token that dies when the tab closes (tud_portal_token and tud_admin_token), the theme preference above, and, on the portal, the branch a till page is set to (tud_scan_location) so staff do not pick it again on every scan. None of that applies to you unless you are a partner or a member of our team, and neither of those sites sets a cookie either.
The live portal demo embedded on the partners page is the real portal running on a sample account. It holds its demo session and branch in memory only, so reading it cannot touch a real partner's session or write anything to your browser beyond the theme you already chose.
The widget on merchant sites
Some brands put our student pricing widget into their own checkout. On the brand's page that widget renders a button and nothing else: it sets no cookie, reads and writes no storage, and makes no network call from their site. Pressing it opens our own claim window on theunideals.com, where you sign in and we check you are verified. Inside that window, and only there, your session is held in tud_sdk_jwt, which lives in sessionStorage and disappears when the window closes.
When you leave for a brand's site
A deal link takes you to the brand's own address directly, with no click-tracking hop and no affiliate network in between. Once you are on their site you are in their hands, and their cookies and their privacy policy apply, not ours. How brands and money work here is set out in our ad disclosure.
If this changes
If we ever add something that sets a cookie or measures your visit, we will update this page first, name the thing here, and ask for consent before it runs where consent is what the law requires. We would rather explain a change than have you discover it.
Contact us
Questions about anything on this page? Email hello@theunideals.com and a person will get back to you.