Cookies
When you browse a website, small text files called cookies may be placed on your device.
We use cookies to:
- Speed up how quickly the site loads if you come back (caching)
- Analyse how popular our pages and posts are (analytics)
- Link buttons to social media platforms, e.g. Facebook or YouTube, to enable quick access to video clips and comments
We use some necessary cookies to make the website work better and set optional cookies to analyse and improve your journey around our website.
Optional cookies – statistical and marketing
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect, report, and improve our website’s experience, but the data this collects is anonymous.
We have included buttons for Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn social networks to enable easy access to video clips and The IT Training Surgery comments on these platforms. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from these social networks and also create third party cookies. Please read the privacy statements from these social media platforms to see how they process your personal data.
These optional cookies can be disabled using the cookie consent pop-up either on your first or subsequent visits to our website.
Necessary/functional cookies
If you turn off all cookies, some or all of our site may not perform properly. You can turn them off by using the settings in your browser.
Placed cookies
| WordPress (functional cookie) – WordPress_logged_in_* Sharing information – For more information, please read the WordPress Privacy Statement | |
| Purpose: WordPress log in cookie Retention period: 30 days Description: Cookie to keep you logged in |
| Google Analytics (statistical cookies) – _ga, _ gid and _gat Sharing information – For more information, please read the Google Analytics Privacy Statement | |
| _ga Purpose: Cookie to count and track page views for statistics (anonymous) Retention period: 2 years _gid Purpose: Cookie to count and track page views for statistics (anonymous) Retention period: 1 day _gat Purpose: Cookie to filter requests from bots for statistics (anonymous) Retention period: 1 minute |
| Google Fonts used for displaying web fonts – Google Fonts API Sharing information – For more information, please read the Google Fonts Privacy Statement | |
| Purpose: This cookie is used to requests a user’s IP address Retention period: 1 year |
| Facebook (marketing) – fbm_, actppresence, sb, csm, c_user, frstxs, datr, _fbp, _fbc, xs, wd, fr, act, presence, *_fbm_ Sharing information – For more information, please read the Facebook Privacy Statement | |
| Purpose: Facebook Personalised advertisements cookies to target users with personalised advertisements Retention period: 1 year |
| Twitter – local_storage_support_test, metrics_token Sharing information – For more information, please read the Twitter Privacy Statement | |
| local_storage_support_test (functional) Purpose: Twitter cookie to aid in load balancing functionality Retention period: persistent metrics_token (marketing) Purpose: Twitter cookie to store if the user has seen embedded content Retention period: persistent |
| YouTube – GPS, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, PREF Sharing information – For more information, please read the YouTube and Google privacy policy. | |
| GPS (marketing) Purpose: YouTube cookie to store location data Retention period: session VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (functional) Purpose: YouTube cookie to estimate bandwidth Retention period: 6 months YSC (statistical) Purpose: Twitter cookie to store a unique User ID. Retention period: session PREF (statistical) Purpose: Twitter cookie to store and track visits across websites. Retention period: 1 year |
| Complianz (for cookie consent management) – complianz_config, complianz_policy_id, cmplz_stats, cmplz_marketing, complianz_consent_status Sharing information – For more information, please read the Complianz Privacy Statement. | |
| complianz_config Purpose: Stores accepted consent preferences Retention period: 365 days complianz_policy_id (functional) Purpose: Stores accepted cookie policy ID Retention period: 365 days cmplz_stats Purpose: Stores cookie consent preferences Retention period: 365 days cmplz_marketing Purpose: Stores cookie consent preferences Retention period:365 days complianz_consent_status Purpose: Stores cookie consent preferences Retention period:365 days |
The cookie database website can often provide more information on any of the cookies listed above.