Cookie Usage Guidelines
Understanding Cookies and Tracking Technologies: This Cookie Notice details the cookies and related tracking technologies used across our websites and mobile apps. It explains how these
tools function, their importance, and how you can manage them.
What are cookies?
Cookies, along with other tracking technologies like beacons, scripts, and tags, are small text files stored on your device. They remember your interactions with our site and help
personalize your experience. On mobile, we use device IDs and Advertising IDs similarly to cookies, enhancing site usability and ad targeting.
(1) Exploring How Cookies Enhance Our Site
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionalities such as security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot opt-out of these cookies.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies 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 find what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies 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 (such as your choice of language or region).
- Marketing Cookies: These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
(2) Using Websites Linked but Not Affiliated
The website may contain links to other websites. These links are for convenience to help you locate other resources of interest. If you go to a third-party website, you are agreeing to
the privacy practices of and use of personal information by that website.
This website uses the advertising marketing platforms to advertise on third-party websites to former visitors. It means that we advertise to past visitors who have completed a task on
our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the search results page. Third-party vendors, use cookies to serve ads
based on someone’s past visits to the College website. Any data collected will follow our own privacy statement.
(3) Operational Limitations Without Cookies
Navigating Our Website Without Cookies: While you can access our website without cookies enabled, be aware that certain functionalities that rely on cookies may be limited or
unavailable. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, yet you have the freedom to alter these settings. Remember, some website features may be impaired without cookies.
(4) Extra Policies
Email Open Tracking
Our emails may use a web beacon pixel to understand if you open our emails and interact with the contents, such as clicking on links. This helps us tailor our communications to better
match your interests. If you prefer not to be tracked, you can read the email in plain text or disable images.