1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners. Cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, allowing us to improve the site's structure and content.

2. How We Use Cookies

As a non-commercial educational hub, our use of cookies is minimal and focused on functionality and analytics. We use them for the following purposes:

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. This includes cookies that manage your consent preferences regarding other cookies. They do not store any personally identifiable information.
  • Analytical Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize 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. All data collected is aggregated and anonymous.

We do not use cookies for advertising or commercial tracking purposes.

3. Cookie Table

Below is a list of the cookies this site may use:

Cookie Name Type Purpose Duration
cookieConsent Essential Stores the user's consent state for cookies on the current domain. 1 year
_ga, _gid, _gat Analytical Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and analyze site traffic anonymously. Varies (up to 2 years)

4. 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 buttons on our cookie consent banner. Additionally, 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 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.

5. Third-Party Cookies

We use Google Analytics as a third-party service provider to help us with website analytics. Google Analytics may set cookies on your browser to collect anonymous traffic data. The use of these cookies is governed by Google's own privacy policy. We do not have direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.

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.