Cookie Policy

Last updated: 10th September 2025

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the site owners.

2. How We Use Cookies

Britain Online IT School uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyse website traffic, and personalise content. We use both first-party cookies (set by our website) and third-party cookies (set by other websites).

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic features like page navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your cookie preferences. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

  • Session cookies: Temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser
  • Authentication cookies: Remember your login status
  • Security cookies: Help identify security threats

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website's performance and user experience.

  • Google Analytics: Tracks website usage and performance
  • Visitor tracking: Counts website visitors and traffic sources
  • Page performance: Monitors loading times and errors

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, personalised features. They may be set by us or third-party providers whose services we use on our pages.

  • Preference cookies: Remember your settings and preferences
  • Language cookies: Remember your language selection
  • Accessibility cookies: Remember accessibility preferences

Marketing Cookies

These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an advertisement. They may also be used to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

  • Advertising cookies: Track advertising effectiveness
  • Social media cookies: Enable social media sharing
  • Remarketing cookies: Show relevant ads on other websites

4. Third-Party Cookies

We may use third-party services that place cookies on your device. These include:

  • Google Analytics: Web analytics service
  • Font Awesome: Icon font service
  • Social Media Platforms: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn widgets

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control and manage cookies in several ways:

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can:

  • Block cookies from specific websites
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Block all cookies
  • Delete cookies when you close your browser
  • Browse in private/incognito mode

Our Cookie Preference Centre

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie banner allowing you to:

  • Accept all cookies
  • Accept only necessary cookies
  • Customise your cookie preferences

You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in our website footer.

6. Cookie Duration

Cookies have different lifespans:

  • Session cookies: Deleted when you close your browser
  • Persistent cookies: Remain on your device for a set period (usually 30 days to 2 years)

7. Impact of Disabling Cookies

While you can browse our website with cookies disabled, some features may not work properly:

  • Login functionality may be affected
  • Personalised content may not be available
  • Website performance tracking will be limited
  • Some embedded content may not display correctly

8. Cookie Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our practices. We will notify you of any significant changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

10. Useful Links

For more information about cookies and how to manage them: