Cookies
We put some small files called cookies on your device to make our site work. We’d like to set additional cookies so we can remember your settings, understand how people use our site and make improvements.
Let us know which cookies we can use. We’ll use a cookie to remember your choices.
Essential cookies
These cookies are required to make this site work. We do not need to ask permission to use these.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | Saves your cookie consent choices | 1 year |
| cookieconsent_status_[suffix] | Saves your cookie consent choices | 1 year |
Functional cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _oklv | The Olark loader version (for improved caching) | Session |
| _okbk | Extra state information (e.g. chat box being open/closed) | Session |
| olfsk | Storage identifier that we use to maintain chat state across pages (e.g. message history) | 1 year |
| _ok | Most recent Olark site ID (security measure) | Session |
| _okdetect | Used for detecting when storage contexts have changed due to things like ssl or host transitions (helps maintain your chat across pages) | Session |
| hblid | A visitor identifier that Olark use to remember visitors between visits | 1 year |
| wcsid | A session identifier that Olark use to keep track of a single chat session | Session |
| _okla | Used for caching purposes (loaded from CDN vs. loaded from our infrastructure) | |
| _okgid | Olark group id the visitor is locked to | |
| _okac | Used for caching by setting a hash for assets to determine if they have changed and if they need to be refreshed | |
| _okck | Used to test whether the visitor’s browser allows cookies to be stored |
Analytics cookies
These cookies store information about how you use our site, such as the links you click on. We use them to help make our site better.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga[suffix] | Used by Google Analytics, tells us how you use our web site | 2 years |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics, tells us how you use our web site | 2 years |
| lidc | 1 day | |
| li_gc | 6 months | |
| bcookie | 1 year | |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick providing ad delivery or retargeting | 1 year |
| wd | Stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. | Session |
| datr | To identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user. | 2 years |
| sb | Used by Facebook | 2 years |
To help us monitor the effectiveness of our marketing efforts to promote our courses and services across the web and social media, we make use of third party analytics services if you accept analytics cookies on our website.
Please familiarise yourself with their own privacy and cookie policies.
Third party cookies and services
YouTube
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| PREF* | Store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences | 8 months |
| VSC* | Used by the YouTube video player | End of your session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* | Used to detect and resolve problems with the service | 8 months |
| remote_sid* | A session cookie that enables basic functions of YouTube | End of your session |
Vimeo
We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| player | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player | End of your session |
| vuid | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player | 1 year 1 month |