Cookies
Use of cookies by Penguin Learning
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Necessary
We uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors like you to navigate and use key features on our site. These cookies help certain features work, for example, customer accounts; shopping trolley and checkout; URL redirects.
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This cookie is set by websites that use the Squarespace platform. The cookie is used to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone is logged in.
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Data from these cookies populates information in the Squarespace Analytics area, such as traffic sources, unique visitors and abandoned trolleys.
Squarespace (ss_cvr & ss_cvt)
This cookie is set by websites that use Squarespace platform. The cookie is used to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site.
Google analytics (_ga & _gid.)
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
YouTube (CONSENT)
These cookies are set via embedded YouTube videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback. No sensitive data is collected unless you log in to your google account, in that case your choices are linked with your account, for example if you click ‘like’ on a video.
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Google Analytics (_gat)
This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.
YouTube (YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE)
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel. This may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
VSC - * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months
doubleclick.net (test_cookie.doubleclick.net, IDE)
This cookie is set by Google DoubleClick. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. It stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time via your web browser. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
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, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.