This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, TutorExtra Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://tutorextra.co.uk/ (our website).
Effective date 26th February 2021.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Contents
About cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
First and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
List of cookies used
We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:
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Name of Cookie
|
Essential or Non-essential? |
Type of cookie |
First or Third party? |
Session or Persistent? |
Expiry Time |
Purpose |
|
PHPSESSID |
Essential |
User state preservation related |
First party |
Session |
End of browser session |
Preserves user session state across page requests. Essential for site operation. |
|
SIDCC |
Non-essential |
Functional (security) |
Third party |
Persistent |
3 months |
Google security cookie used to prevent unauthorised access to the user’s information. |
|
CONSENT |
Non-essential |
Functional (consent related) |
Third party |
Persistent |
20 years |
Google consent setting cookie. |
|
_hjIncludedInSample |
Non-essential |
Functional |
First party |
Session |
End of browser session |
Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
|
_gat |
Non-essential |
Functional |
First party |
Session |
End of browser session |
Used by Google to throttle the request rate. |
|
_ga |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
First party |
Persistent |
2 years |
To distinguish website visitors. |
|
_gid |
Non-Essential |
Analytical |
First party |
Session |
End of browser session |
Generates statistical data on how a visitor uses the website. |
|
G_ENABLED_IDPS |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Helps us improve the content on our sites, by giving us basic tracking information. For example, the number of times you have visited, which search engine you came from, and the keyword you used. |
|
HSID |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and Youtube on the website. |
|
SAPISID |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and Youtube on the website. |
|
SID |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and Youtube on the website. |
|
SSID |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Used by Google to analyse user behaviour in connection with Google maps and Youtube on the website. |
|
APISID |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps and Youtube |
|
OGPC |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
Third party |
Persistent |
2 years |
These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps and Youtube on them. |
|
_hjRecordingEnabled |
Non-essential |
Analytical |
First party |
Session |
End of browser session |
Hotjar Session Recorder - No personal data recorded |
|
c_user |
Non-essential |
Analytical / Advertising |
Third Party |
Persistent |
2 years |
We use the Facebook to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com. In doing so this causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not. |
|
datr |
Non-essential |
Analytical / Advertising |
Third Party |
Persistent |
2 years |
We use the Facebook to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com. In doing so this causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not. |
|
dpr |
Non-essential |
Analytical / Advertising |
Third Party |
Session |
End of browser session |
We use the Facebook to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com. In doing so this causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not. |
|
sb |
Non-essential |
Analytical / Advertising |
Third Party |
Persistent |
2 years |
We use the Facebook to integrate our website with our page on Facebook.com. In doing so this causes some cookies to be created by Facebook that detect the number of "likes" and whether you are logged into Facebook or not. |
|
fr |
Non-essential |
Advertising |
Third party |
Persistent |
3 months |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers |
|
NID |
Non-essential |
Advertising |
Third party |
Persistent |
6 months |
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
|
IDE |
Non-essential |
Advertising |
Third party |
Persistent |
1 year |
Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficiency of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
|
1P_JAR |
Non-essential |
Advertising |
Third party |
Persistent |
1 month |
Google cookie used to gather website statistics, and track conversion rates. |
Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
Functional cookies
These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:
How to opt in or out from functional cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing and enhancing the website’s functionality.
Analytical (or performance) cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
More information
Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
For YouTube’s (Google’s) privacy policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
How to opt in or out from analytical cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://tutorextra.co.uk/page/privacy-policy/53
Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website:
Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en
For further information on Google’s advertising cookies, please see their cookies policy here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types
How to opt in or out from advertising cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using advertising cookies by accepting the use of such cookies via our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, including profiling and automated decision-making please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://tutorextra.co.uk/page/privacy-policy/53
Facebook Pixel
We use Facebook Pixel on our website. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements we use on Facebook and to improve the effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the device you used to access our website and the actions you took on our website using cookies. We may also use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and custom audiences for our advertisements on Facebook and on our website.
Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our website with data it gathers from other sources, in order to improve and target advertisements displayed on its website or via its services, to improve its systems and to provide measurement services to third parties which use Facebook’s advertising services. You can find out more about how Facebook handles information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using Facebook Pixel turning on marketing cookies using our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel, including profiling please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://tutorextra.co.uk/page/privacy-policy/53
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Cookie control tool
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.
Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Adsettings
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
Facebook Pixel
You can block Facebook Pixel using our cookie control tool.
Disconnect for Facebook
You can install a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the too here:
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option
Copyright
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