Immerse Education - Cookies Policy
Welcome to the Immerse Education Cookies Policy. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at ImmerseEducation.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like signing in or filling in forms, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Purpose of Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To enable certain functions of the website.
- To provide analytics.
- To store your preferences.
- To enable advertisement delivery, including behavioral advertising.
Detailed Cookie Usage
The table below provides more detailed information about the cookies we use on our site:
Immerse Education Cookie Details
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Type |
Duration |
| _ga |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
2 years |
| _gid |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
24 hours |
| _gat |
Used to throttle request rate. |
Performance |
1 minute |
| PHPSESSID |
Used to maintain user session. |
Strictly Necessary |
Session |
| ad_user_data |
Used for targeted advertising. |
Targeting |
90 days |
How to Manage Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the mechanisms provided by your web browser.
- Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Industry Opt-out Tools: You can also opt-out of being tracked by certain advertising networks through industry opt-out tools, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice Tool or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookies 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 therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Dr. Anya Sharma, at privacy@immerseeducation.com or by mail at:
Immerse Education
Privacy Department
10 Downing Street
London, SW1A 2AA
United Kingdom