Cookies Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the “accept” button on Our Cookie banner or when you have selected your preferred Cookie options in Our Cookie manager. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site.

Our Site is owned by Harding Education.

Email address: wwn@hardingeducation.com

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 cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These 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 are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These 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 (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting 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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

• _ga: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
  Expiry: 2 years. Statistics Provider: wwnumbers.com
• c-consent: The cookie consent component itself (to store the user’s preference)
• _GRECAPTCHA: Google ReCAPTCHA (human verification)
• wordpress* and wp-*: WordPress essential functions. Provider: wwnumbers.com
• tk_ai: WordPress Jetpack add-on. Provider: wwnumbers.com
• _ga_#: Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Expiry: 2 years. Statistics Provider: wwnumbers.com
• _gid: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Expiry: 1 day. Statistics Provider: wwnumbers.com
• _ga_* and _gid_*: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. Expiry: session Statistics. Provider: google-analytics.com
• fr_*, datr_*, and sb_* IDE_* _hj_*: Facebook Marketing, DoubleClick marketing, Hotjar

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

• Google

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.

We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of Our Site 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.

If you would like to know more about how We use Cookies, please contact Us at wwn@hardingeducation.com

For more information about privacy, data protection and our terms and conditions, please visit our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

For more details of the personal data that We collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy.