Cookie Policy

COOKIES POLICY
1. What are cookies

Like most websites, we use cookies. Cookies are tiny pieces of data saved on your computer or mobile device. There are several types of cookie and they each have different functions or uses.

2. How do we use cookies

2.1 We use the following types of cookies:

(a) Essential cookies – these are required for the operation of our website.

(b) Analytic/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.

(c) Functionality cookies – these are used for forms for example on our competition forms, to monitor single admonition.

(d) Targeting cookies – these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This is held within Google Analytics, who may use your information for advertising. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

2.2 The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

 

Type of cookie	Function and further information
Analytic/performance cookies
Analytics cookies including Google analytics	These are common performance cookies that many websites use. They allow us to collect anonymous information about how you and other users use our website and helps us to improve the website. The information collected includes technical information regarding the user’s browser, operating system, IP address and screen resolution. It also includes how users came to the website (which search engine and search terms were used, which links were clicked on) and the user’s navigation on the website (number of visits, dates and times of visits, time spent on the website, which pages have been loaded etc.). A tracking cookie from Google is also used to protect users from known malicious sites.
Cookie preferences	These cookies check whether the user’s browser supports cookies and registers whether the user has consented to the use of cookies.
Social media sharing	We use cookies which make it possible for users to share content across social networks using a tool such as HootSuite and provide detailed statistics to various providers. These cookies also register the user’s sharing.
Speed of requests to server	We use certain cookies to optimise the speed of requests to the server.
Microsoft synchronisation cookie	This cookie is used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.
Type of device	This cookie is used to determine what type of device (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user.
YouTube cookies	Cookies are used to register a unique ID (used by Google) to record statistics of how the user uses YouTube videos across different websites, which videos the user has seen, and to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Functionality cookies
User and session identification	These cookies allow you to use our site in a way that makes your browsing experience more convenient, for example, by remembering you across different pages of our website, recognising you when you return to the website, or remembering your preferences when using the embedded Flash player. If you register with us or complete our online forms, we will use cookies to remember your details during your current visit, and any future visits provided the cookie was not deleted in the interim.
Identifying trusted web traffic	This cookie is used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
Targeting cookies
Facebook cookies	Certain cookies are used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

3. Third party websites and social networks

3.1 If you click on a hyperlink from our website to any third-party websites (e.g. if you ‘share’ content from our website with friends or colleagues on social media), you may be sent cookies from these third party websites. They will do so pursuant to their own policies on privacy and cookies. It’s a good idea to check their privacy policies to fully understand their use of cookies.

4. Disabling cookies

4.1 By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time and the cookies we use will be stored on your device (unless rejected or disabled by your browser).

4.2 Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies. If you do not accept our use of cookies as set out in this policy, please set your internet browser to reject cookies . This may impair your ability to use our website so that some features may not work.

5. Changes to this policy and further information

5.1 We may update our use of cookies, and this policy, from time to time, so please check this policy regularly.

5.2 You can find out more about cookies generally and how to disable them at www.allaboutcookies.org or by contacting info@theapprenticeshiplevymanager.co.uk.