Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy explains how Journalism Courses ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, journalismcourses.com (the "Website"). 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 text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Website. Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our Website. They enable you to navigate the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for example, 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 user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. 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.
• 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 campaign. 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. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
• Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our Website. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve the Website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come to the Website from and the pages they visited. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting Google's opt-out page.

Types of Cookies We Use

Here is a list of the specific cookies we use on our website:

• _ga: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Expires after 2 years.
• _gid: Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours.
• _gat: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.
• cookieconsent_status: Used to remember if the user has accepted the cookie policy. Expires after 1 year.

How to Control Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in several ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can impact your user experience and some features may no longer be available.

• Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to block all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being set. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. For more information on how to manage cookies, please consult the "Help" section of your browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
• Cookie Consent Tool: On your first visit to our website, you will have been presented with a cookie consent banner. This allows you to consent to the different categories of cookies we use. You can change your settings at any time by revisiting the banner (if available) or by using the options in your browser.
• Third-Party Tools: There are also several third-party tools available that allow you to manage cookies and tracking technologies.

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 our site.

• 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.
• 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.

More Information

We hope that this policy has clarified things for you. 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.

By continuing to use our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this Cookies Policy.

For more information about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy.

You can also review our Terms and Conditions and our Accessibility statement.