This Cookie Policy clearly explains how we, Skyrocket English Class, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, skyrocketenglishclass.com. This Cookie Policy is effective from 2nd January 2024.
I. What are cookies
Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser, they 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.
II. Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. These are cookies that are either:
- Used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
- Strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. You consent to us placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your browser settings set to accept cookies. Non-essential cookies are basically 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).
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
- Analytical (or perfomance) cookies
- Targeting cookies
Analytical 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:
First party
- Google Analytics cookies to us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on and your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are the _ga cookie which is a persistent cookie and lasts for 2 years and _gid cookie which is a session cookie. As described in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above, we also use the _gat cookie to assist with the performance of Google Analytics on our site. Information collected by Google Analytics cookies is aggregated and anonymised.
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 their service. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here.
Third party
- Youtube (owned by Google) cookies which collect information about the videos you watch on our website, including what you watch and where you view them (e.g. on our homepage). These cookies are called YSC and PREF. They are persistent cookies and expire after 8 months.
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, click here.
For Google’s general privacy policy (including, in relation to YouTube), click here.
Targeting cookies
Targeting cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests in order to let us suggest you promotional offers specifically tailored to your platform usage. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less accurate promotional offers coming from Skyrocketenglishclass.com, as these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
We use the following targeting cookies: facebook.com, linkedin.com, ads.linkedin.com.
III. Session or 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.
IV. First party or 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