Cookie and IP Tracking Techniques

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computing devices. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about network traffic and network interaction so that we can offer better network experiences and tools in the future. Cookies may be set by organizations other than Organization. Because the cookie policies of these third party service providers may change over time, you should review their policies by visiting their privacy policies directly. We also use targeting and advertising cookies, which may be set by Organization or by third parties. Users may disable cookies through their individual browser options. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our websites or technology network.

Operational Cookies on Our Site

We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

Engaging with Linked External Websites

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.

Miscellaneous

Data Retention Policy

Your personal data is retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the intentions stated in our Privacy Policy. Usage Data may be stored for internal analysis purposes to strengthen security, enhance service functionality, or comply with legal retention guidelines.