This website, learnsuffolk.org, is run by Suffolk County Council’s Adult Learning Service.
We take the privacy of our website visitors and customers seriously, and are committed to safeguarding your privacy. We avoid collecting or storing sensitive personal data as much as possible.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies.
Our cookie policy describes what cookies are, how we use them, and which cookies we use.
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies, as described below, on your device.
If you are not comfortable with our website using cookies please change your browser settings (details of how to do this are provided later in this policy) or navigate away from our website.
Please note that if you choose not to use cookies, some of our website’s features may not be available to you.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by a website you visit.
Cookies are a reliable mechanism for websites to remember information, such as items added in your shopping cart in an online store, or which pages you have already visited.
How do we use cookies?
Comments on Posts
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Login
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.
This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Editing or Publishing
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Analytics
We do not use analytics cookies.
Security
We use cookies to help manage access to our website for logged in users.
We also use cookies to allow certain users (e.g. our staff) to access the website even though access to the country they are in has been blocked in our security settings.
Cookies we use
Cookies are regulated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK.
The ICO has four categories of cookie:
- Necessary
- Performance
- Preference / Functional
- Advertising
We have used these four categories to group the cookies we use into the tables below.
Necessary Cookies
These essential cookies do things like remembering whether you are logged in to the website, or your progress through a form.
They always need to be on.
wordpress_test_cookie
This cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data.
This cookie lasts until you close your browser.
wordpress_{hash}
This cookie is set if you login.
After login, WordPress sets the this cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are.
This cookie lasts for 14 days.
wordpress_sec_{hash}
This cookie is set if you login.
After login, WordPress sets the this cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are.
This cookie lasts for 14 days.
wordpress_logged_in_{hash}
This cookie is set if you ticked the “remember me” option when logging in.
This cookie lasts for 14 days.
wp-postpass_{hash}
This cookie is set if you supply a password to access a password-protected post.
This cookie lasts for 10 days.
wp-resetpass-{hash}
This cookie is set when you request to reset your password.
This cookie lasts until you close your browser.
comment_author_{hash}
This cookie is set if you leave a comment.
So that you won’t need to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment.
This cookie lasts for 347 days.
comment_author_email_{hash}
This cookie is set if you leave a comment.
So that you won’t need to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment.
This cookie lasts for 347 days.
comment_author_url_{hash}
This cookie is set if you leave a comment.
So that you won’t need to re-type all your information again when you want to leave another comment.
This cookie lasts for 347 days.
wordpress_rec_{hash}
This cookie is set if you logged in to the website after being alerted to a technical issue with the website (i.e. this cookie is only set for our website administrators).
This cookie lasts for 1 week.
wp-saving-post
This cookie is set if you are logged in and saved a post.
This cookie lasts for 24 hours.
wfwaf-authcookie-{hash}
This cookie is set by our firewall to perform a check of the currently logged in user’s role before the website processes a page request.
This cookie lasts for 12 hours.
wf_loginalerted_{hash}
This cookie helps us know whether there has been an admin login from a new device or location. This cookie is only set for administrators.
This cookie lasts for 1 year.
wfCBLBypass
This cookie gives us a way to allow certain users (e.g. our staff) to access the website even though access to that country has been blocked in our security settings. This cookie is set for anyone who uses a URL that allows bypass of standard country blocking.
This cookie last for a variable duration.
wfls-remembered-{hash}
This cookie is set for users who have logged in using Two Factor Authentication (2FA).
This cookie last for a variable duration.
Performance Cookies
None. We don’t use performance (analytics) cookies.
Preference / Functional Cookies
These cookies do things like remembering your preferences and the choices you make, to personalise your experience of the website.
wp-settings-{UID}
This cookie is used to remember the user settings you have chosen. This cookie is only set if you login.
This cookie lasts for 1 year.
wp-settings-time-{UID}
This cookie holds the time when you last updated your user settings. This cookie is only set if you login.
This cookie lasts for 1 year.
Advertising Cookies
None: we do not use advertising cookies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). An example would be YouTube videos.
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited the other website.
These other websites may collect data about you. They may use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
If you have an account on the other website, (whose content is embedded), and you are logged in to that website, then the other website may track your interaction with their embedded content in that way too.
How do I opt out of cookies?
Opting out of cookies can be done in your web browser settings. The steps required depend on which web browser you are using. The links below take you to the instructions for the most popular browsers:
Manage cookie settings in Chrome, Chrome Android and Chrome iOS
Manage cookie settings in Firefox
Manage cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Manage cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
Manage cookie settings in Safari and Safari iOS
Cookie Policy, Issue 1, Updated: January 2021