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Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a user’s computer, usually to allow that website to track visits or to customise a user’s experience of that site.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to provide our students and website visitors with a better web experience. We do not use cookies to identify you personally or to gather personal information about you, unless you give us permission to do so.
What cookies are used on this site?
Functional cookies
| Name of cookie | What does it do? |
|---|---|
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.MVkqphteHT4 | A session-based cookie for an antiforgery system for ASP.NET Core designed to generate and validate tokens to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. The cookie is essential for website use and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| .AspNetCore.Identity.Application | This cookie is used to create and maintain a login for the application system on the website. The cookie is essential for website use where submitting or retrieving an application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| _GRECAPTCHA, AEC, DV, NID, SOCS | We use the Google reCAPTCHA APIs as part of our services to help protect our users and our systems from cyber spam and abuse. The reCAPTCHA API works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending this data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes. It will not be used for personalised advertising by Google. |
Measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Please see below for the cookies used:
| Organisation setting the cookie | Name of cookie | What does it do? | How to reject/delete these cookies? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga, _ga* | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | You may reject or delete all of the Google Analytics cookies mentioned in this table by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. |
| fr, tr, _fbc, _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver advertising. The cookie contains an encrypted Facebook user ID and browser ID. It will receive information from this website to better target and optimise advertising. Information collected includes IP addresses, information about the web browser, page location, document, referrer and device, button clicks, pages visited and page metadata. | Find out how to opt out of Facebook tracking | |
| TikTok | _ttp | This cookie is used to identify a visitor and track their behavior on the website. It stores a unique identifier for each user and allows TikTok to associate the user's actions on the site with an ad campaign. This cookie helps measure the effectiveness of TikTok ads. | Find out how to opt our of TikTok tracking |
| ShareThis | _zitok, euconsent-v2, mp_*, pubconsent-v2 | We use the ShareThis plugin to help us distribute our content. ShareThis offers online services and applications that allow users to share content on the Web more easily. |
When do the cookies expire?
Some cookies expire at the end of the users' session and others have a lifespan which ranges from 30 minutes to 2 years.
Where can I find more information about cookies, and how do I turn cookies off or delete cookies?
Find out more about cookies including how to disable/enable and delete them at the following website www.aboutcookies.org.
Users can block most cookies by activating the setting on their browser that allows users to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if the browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) users may not be able to access all or parts of the website, or users may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain services.
Unless users have adjusted their browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon they visit the website.
If users wish to delete cookies from the browser on their mobile phone, users will need to refer to their handset manual.