Cookies Policy for wiseu.com

Effective date: July 4th, 2024

 

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

  • First party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
  • Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser. A session cookie is deleted when you quit your browser.

When you visit this website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies. The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences for a certain period of time. That way, you do not have to re-enter them when browsing around the site. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

Similarly to most websites, this website uses both first-party and third-party cookies. To view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

The 3 types of first-party cookie we use or may use at a particular session are to:

  • store visitor preferences
  • make our websites operational
  • gather analytics data (about user behaviour).

 

Some cookies may fulfil more than one of these purposes.

‘Necessary’ cookies let you move around the website and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services.

We use these Necessary cookies to:

  • Identify you as being logged in to the website and to authenticate you
  • Make sure you connect to the right service on the website when we make any changes to the way it works
  • For security purposes
  • Make sure you connect to the right service on the website when we make any changes to the way it works
  • Remember settings you’ve applied such as layout, text size, preferences and colours
  • Remember if we’ve already asked you if you want to fill in a survey
  • Remember if you have engaged with a specific component or list on the website so that it won’t repeat
  • Show you when you’re logged in to the website
  • To provide and show embedded video content

If you prevent these cookies, we can’t guarantee how the website or the security on the website will perform during your visit.

Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.

Visitor preferences

Purposes: to remember if you have agreed to (or refused) this website’s cookie policy; to store your preferences for 3rd-party cookies (so you won't be asked again); to store your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again).

Operational cookies

Purposes:

  • required in order for certain web pages to function, for this reason, they do not require your consent;
  • required for authentication: these are stored when you log in to a gated section of this website, provided by a third party; when you do this, you accept the associated privacy policy;
  • to remember your domain, to identify your session, to remember your settings and preferences, to determine whether Javascript is enabled in your browser - this allows our websites to function properly;
  • to maintain a secure session for you, during your whole visit; to provide improved performance 

Analytics cookies

We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users. The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally), for example, to identify the pages viewed by the same user during the same visit. You are free to refuse these types of cookies – either via the cookie pop-up you will see on the first page you visit or in your browser’s settings.

‘Statistics’ cookies collect information about how you use the website, e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies are only used to help us improve how the website works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

We use performance cookies to:

  • Carry out web analytics: Provide statistics on how the website is used
  • Perform affiliate tracking: Provide feedback to affiliated entities that one of our visitors also visited their site
  • Obtain data on the number of users of the website that have viewed a product or service
  • Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
  • Test different designs for the website

Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.

‘Marketing’ cookies are used to track your visit to the website, as well other websites, apps and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, which allows us to display targeted ads to you on the website.

We may use targeting cookies to:

  • Display targeted ads within the website.
  • To improve how we deliver personalised ads and content, and to measure the success of ad campaigns on the website.

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages display content hosted by contracted services on domains external to this website, for example Google, LinkedIn, Jotform, Stripe. All third party cookies are used in one of the following categories of cookies: necessary, preferences, statistics, marketing. The external hosting may need cookies in order to function. These third-party services are outside of the control of the Website's owners. Providers may, at any time, change their terms of service, purpose and use of cookies, etc.

When do we require your consent?

All cookies require your consent. We request your consent before placing them on your device. You can give your consent by clicking on the appropriate button on the banner displayed to you. If you do not wish to give consent or wish to withdraw your consent to any cookies at any time, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings; see below for more information on how to do this. Please note that disabling Necessary cookies will affect the functionality of the website, and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on the website.

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details.

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. Some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).