Cookies Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to
provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our
site.
The website uses these analytical or performance cookies:
The website uses these targeting cookies.
What Are Cookies
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. https://aboutcookies.org/The Cookies We Set
We use the following cookies:- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, purchase a course or make use of our services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. 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 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).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- This site uses Google Analytics. which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page https://policies.google.com/privacy.
- Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.Cookies list
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: The website uses these strictly necessary cookies:Name | Expire | Purpose |
__lc.visitor_id.# | 999 days | This cookie is used in context with load balancing – This optimises the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers. |
__lc_cid | 3 years | Necessary for the functionality of the website’s chat-box function |
__lc_cst | 3 years | Necessary for the functionality of the website’s chat-box function |
lc_window_state | Session | |
wordfence_verifiedHuman | 1 day | This cookie is used to protect the website against malware or other types of cyber-attacks. |
Name | Expire | Purpose |
_ga | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
_gid | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
_gat | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
_hjid | 1 year | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
_hjid | 1 year | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
Name | Expire | Purpose |
__lc_vv | Session | Allows the website to recognise the visitor, in order to optimize the chat-box functionality |
lc_sso8712566 | 999 days | Allows the website to recognise the visitor, in order to optimize the chat-box functionality |
__lc2_cid | 3 years | Stores a unique ID string for each chat-box session. This allows the website-support to see previous issues and reconnect with the previous supporter. |
__lc2_cst | 3 years | Stores a unique ID string for each chat-box session. This allows the website-support to see previous issues and reconnect with the previous supporter. |
message_text | Session | Stores a unique ID string for each chat-box session. This allows the website-support to see previous issues and reconnect with the previous supporter. |
__livechat_lastvisit | 3 years | Stores when the user last used LiveChat |
_icl_visitor_lang_js | 1 day | Saves the user’s preferred language on the website |
__livechat | 3 years | Used to hide the user’s personal customisation of LiveChat. |
3rdparty | Session | Used to hide the user’s personal customisation of LiveChat. |
main_window_timestamp# | Session | Used to hide the user’s personal customisation of LiveChat. |
recent_window | Session | Used to hide the user’s personal customisation of LiveChat. |
lang | Session | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded “Follow us” panel. |
wfvt_# | 1 day | Remembers the user’s submitted data when a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto-populate form fields for subsequent comments, in order to save time for the user. |
wpml_browser_redirect_test | Session | Saves the user’s preferred language on the website. |
Name | Expire | Purpose |
_fbp | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
tr | Session | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
_gcl_au | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
_hjIncludedInSample | Session | Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
ads/ga-audiences | Session | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. |
bcookie | 2 years | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
bscookie | 2 years | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
lidc | 1 day | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
fr | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
GPS | 1 day | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
IDE | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
lang | Session | Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website. |
pagead/1p-user-list/# | Session | google page ad |
PREF | 8 months | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. |
test_cookie | 1 day | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
UserMatchHistory | 29 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 179 days | Tries to estimate the user’s bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
YSC | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
yt-remote-cast-installed | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-app | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-name | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | Session | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-connected-devices | Persistent | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
yt-remote-device-id | Persistent | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |