Academy Plus Group Ltd – Cookie Policy
Welcome to Academy Plus Group Ltd’s (“name”, “we”, “us”, “our”) cookie policy.
This policy applies to the following websites which are all owned and operated by Academy+ Limited:
https://staffskillstraining.co.uk/
https://newskillsacademy.co.uk/
https://staffskillsacademy.co.uk/
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our sites.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact our data privacy team as follows:
Email: data@academypl.us
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.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary/Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, 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 websites. 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 websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Third Party Cookies
We use Google Analytics on our websites. This is a third party cookie operated by Google. More details are provided in the list of cookies below. Click on this link to view Google’s Privacy Policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit the Google Opt Out page.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie table
| Cookie Name | Purpose and whether the cookie is ‘strictly necessary’ (identified by *). | Duration |
| __cf_bm – | Cloudflare places the cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode.
|
1 day |
| SRM_B | Atlast Adserver used in conjunction with Bing services. | Expires after 180 days |
| ANONCHK | Used by Bing as a unique user identifier for users seeing bing ads | 1 DAY |
| test_cookie | A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _ga_# | Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions
|
1 month |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
|
Not specified |
| _ga | Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user | 1 month |
| _gid | Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session. | 1 day |
| _clck | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID | 1 day |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity | 1 year |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording 685003114 – Google |
1 year 1 month |
| MUID | Sets a unique user id for tracking how the user uses the site. Persistent cookie that is saved for 3 years | 1 year 1 month |
| c.gif | Clarity MS | not specified |
| vuid * | Used by Vimeo player to check if certain features or preferences have been selected by the user on websites with embedded videos from Vimeo | 1 year 1 month |
| SM | Session cookie used to collect anonymous information on how visitors use a site to help improve their experience and for better target ads. | Session – not specified |
| MR | This cookie is used by Microsoft to reset or refresh the MUID cookie.. – Clarity.ms | 5 days |
Consent and Control
Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown pop up requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies you are enabling us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies unless those cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of our websites may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of cookie that we use.
In addition to the controls that we provide, you can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org, or use the “Help” function within your browser.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this cookie policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our websites after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
In the event of any conflict between the current version of this cookie policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.