Contact us - Our Cookie policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored in your web browser on your computer. They help you navigate websites efficiently, by remembering settings and choices you make during your visits to a website.

There are two types of cookies: 'Session Cookies' are used to store information about your visit to a website, so you can easily pick up where you left off when you leave a page and then return to it. They are temporary cookie files, which are erased when you close your browser. 'Persistent Cookies' help websites remember your information and settings when you visit them in the future. This results in faster and more convenient access. These remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire.

How we use cookies on this website

The cookies we use on this site remember settings and choices you make during your visits to our website. We use them to save you time and to make your experience better, in the following ways:

• Cookies make our online shopping basket possible: the shopping basket on our website uses a cookie to store information about you and your shopping basket choices. The cookie remembers the courses you have stored in your shopping basket until you are ready to enrol. The cookie also remembers information you provide (such as your name and address) so that you don't need to re-enter this information every time you enrol on a course.
  
  If you were to block cookies via your browser settings you would not be able to log in to our site and use the shopping basket to purchase courses online. Doing this may also prevent you from using some websites altogether.
• Cookies improve our course search: the course search uses a cookie to remember your filtering choices so we don't have to reload the page everytime you change the filters.
• Cookies let us see how visitors use our website: we use cookies to tell us what pages our users visited, how long they spent reading our information, what part of the world they came from, and similar. These cookies enable us to improve your experience on our website. For example, we might notice that our web users are consistently going to a particular place looking for directions to our facilities, and we could then place this information where users expect to find it.

How do we NOT use cookies on this website

• We never use cookies to track what products and services you look at on a range of different websites. These sorts of cookies are used to create targetted advertising. We do not - nor will we ever - give information about you or your use of our website to any outside organistations for any purpose.

For more information about cookies visit allaboutcookies.org or aboutcookies.org or visit the following sites for information about how to control and delete cookies.

What specific cookies are set on our website?

Shopping basket
We only set a single session cookie, called PHPSESSID and, as this is a session cookie, it expires when you close your browser.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to monitor the traffic to our website. We set the cookies named in the table below to do this.

For more information about the cookies named above, please visit Cookies set by Google Analytics.

What is the EU Cookie Law?

The EU Cookie Law is amended privacy legislation that requires websites to obtain informed consent from visitors before they can store or retrieve any information on a computer or any other web connected device - taken from http://www.cookielaw.org/.

For our implementation of this legislation we have taken guidance from JISC Legal (http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk) and from the UK Cookie Guide produced by the International Chamber of Commerce UK.