Policies

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.

1. Definition
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit our site and are used to make the user experience more efficient.

The law states that we may store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

You can find out more about cookies and what they do by visiting an information site such as allaboutcookies.org.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by consulting the cookie statement on our website. To find out more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data, please see our privacy policy. Please include the ID and date of your consent when contacting us about this.

2. How we use Cookies

We use cookies to recognise you and your preferences, to improve the performance of our site, and to collect analytical information for ourselves and our business partners.  We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services. Without the knowledge gained, we would not be able to provide the service we offer.

3. ’Session’ and ‘Persistent’ Cookies

‘Session cookies’ allow us to track your actions during a single browsing session, but they do not remain on your device afterwards.

‘Persistent cookies’ remain on your device between sessions. We use them to authenticate you and to remember your preferences. We can also use them to balance the load on our servers and improve your experience on our site.

Session and persistent cookies can be either first or third party cookies. A first-party cookie is set by the website being visited; a third-party cookie is set by a different website. Both types of cookie may be used by us or our business partners.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies over which we have no control.

Cookies we use are from third party companies, such as Google Analytics (Google Inc), YouTube  or Font Awesome.

Google Analytics use cookies to  help us analyse how users use the site and to count the number of people who use the site so we can give you a better user experience. Google Analytics stores your IP address anonymously and neither Data Learning or Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information. Google’s cookie policy can be found by clicking here.

Youtube cookies: Our Youtube videos should have privacy-enhanced mode enabled. Ttherefore YouTube won’t store information about our visitors, unless they play the video, according to the Google-Youtube guide which can be found by clicking here.

Font Awesome Cookies: We used Font Awesome’s content delivery network to load icons. Font Awesome uses the services of Cloudfare to detect malicious visitors to their Customers’ website and minimise blocking legitimate users. Cloudfare’s cookie policy can be found by clicking here.

We use cookies to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary. We maintain specific records management and retention policies and procedures, so that personal data are deleted after a reasonable time according to the following retention criteria:

• We retain your data as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you (in particular, if you have an account with us).
• We will only keep the data while your account is active or for as long as needed to provide services to you.
• We retain your data for as long as needed in order to comply with our global legal and contractual obligations.

4. Disclaimer

All our cookies are categorised by the role they fulfil on our website:

1. Necessary: these are essential to enable you to move around our website and use features such as secure services. Without these cookies such services could not be provided;
2. Functional: allow the website to remember your choices and to personal certain features. These cookies may be anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites; and
3. Analytics: collect information as to how users use the website. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. The information collected is aggregated and used to improve our website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
4. Performance: Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
5. Advertisement: Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns. None of the cookies we use directly are classified as advertisement or behavioural targeting, but some of our partners may use them, in particular YouTube or Google.
6. Uncategorised: Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

If at any time you wish to disable our cookies, you may do so through the settings on your browser. However, if you choose to disable or delete our cookies that will prevent certain important areas and features of our service from functioning properly. (but if you do so you will not be able to use certain important features of our service). You can find additional information at AboutCookies.org.

Notwithstanding, the audit undertaken regarding our cookies, it is possible we may have missed one from our list above. If you happen to find one that is being set on our site, please let us know.

To opt-out of Google Analytics measurement for all sites, even sites whose source code we do not control, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

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