Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Course2Career ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website. It is intended to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR") and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (as amended) ("PECR"). By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies as described in this policy, unless you have adjusted your browser settings or other cookie preferences to reject cookies.

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, improve user experiences, and provide information to site owners.

Cookies enable a website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, and display preferences) over a period of time, so you don't have to re-enter them whenever you return to the site or browse from one page to another.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They enable core features such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, certain features and services may not be available, and the site may not perform as intended. As these are strictly necessary, we do not require your consent to place them.
  • Analytics Cookies: We use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies help us understand which pages are visited most often, how users navigate the site, and whether users receive error messages. The information collected is aggregated and anonymous. For more details, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
  • Marketing/Advertising Cookies: We may use tools like the Facebook Pixel to deliver relevant advertisements to you and measure the performance of our ad campaigns. These cookies track your browsing habits and help us understand your interests. For more information, see the Facebook Cookie Policy.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies remember choices you make (such as your language or region) to personalize your experience. They enable enhanced features and content but are not strictly necessary for the website to function.
  • Account-Related Cookies: If you create an account with us, we use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
  • Login-Related Cookies: We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
  • Email Newsletter Cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
  • E-Commerce Cookies: This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities, and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
  • Survey Cookies: From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
  • Form Cookies: When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
  • Preference Cookies: In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page

Third Party Analytics

Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

Testing New Features

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

E-Commerce

As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

Google AdSense

The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ

Advertising

We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

Custom Content

In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.

Affiliate Tracking

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

Social Media

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including, but not limited to; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Live Chat

In addition, this site uses the Click4Assistance live chat solution. The privacy policy for this third party application can be found here.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or the technologies we use. When we make changes, we will revise the "Last Updated" date below. Any changes will become effective when we post the updated policy on our website.

Last Updated: 4th March 2025

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at [email protected].