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What are Cookies?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ˜lifetime’ of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Click here to find out more about cookies.
Google Analytics
Phoenix Education uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (œGoogle). Google Analytics uses cookies to help our Websites analyse how users use the sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling reports on Website activity for Website operators and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use this information to keep our site relevant and to make it easier to use. We have already set a cookie that is essential to the sites operation.
Consent
By using our Websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by Phoenix Education, its subsidiaries and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Third Party Cookies
Sometimes we embed photos, video content and links from websites such as flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on our websites, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. Phoenix Education does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
Additional Information
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.