1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit certain websites. They are used to 'remember' you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a 'session cookie') or for multiple repeat visits (using a 'persistent cookie'). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors and perform essential functions.
2. How We Use Cookies
As a non-commercial educational website, our use of cookies is minimal. We use them for the following purposes:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for you to browse the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like the cookie consent banner cannot be provided.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to remember choices you make, such as your cookie consent preference. This allows us to provide a more personalized experience.
- Performance/Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website. This helps us understand which pages are visited most often and if users get error messages from web pages. This data is aggregated and anonymous and helps us improve how our website works. We do not collect personally identifiable information.
3. Cookie Table
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Functionality | Stores the user's consent state for cookies on the current domain. | 1 year |
| _ga, _gid, _gat | Analytics (Google) | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and throttle request rate. This is an example; we use a non-descript analytics tool. | Up to 2 years |
Note: The specific names of analytics cookies may vary depending on the service provider.
4. How to Manage Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Our cookie consent banner also gives you the option to accept or decline non-essential cookies upon your first visit.
5. Third-Party Cookies
This site may embed content from third-party websites, such as maps from Google Maps. These third-party sites may set their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites, even if you are directed to them from our website. We recommend that you review the cookie policies of these third-party websites for more information.
6. Policy Updates
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.