Cookie Policy

The standard cookie policy for the Business Studies website is to allow all cookies. This website makes use of cookies to help provide the user with certain features. This helps to ensure the user has the best possible experience.

If users wish to continue with the optimal website experience, no changes need to be made. However if they wish to restrict or block the use of cookies, this can be done through the settings in the web browser.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are saved to your computer hard drive when visiting a website and navigating through its webpages. They are widely and commonly used to make websites function properly and to make them function more efficiently, as well as to provide different types of information to the website owners.

They are designed to hold a small amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client computer.

Some of the ways cookies are used include:

  • saving the users' recently viewed pages
  • identifying any issues encountered during the website visit, so that any problems can be solved.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be grouped into four categories:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are essential to enable users to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies we are unable to provide services such as online payments.

Performance cookies

By using the website, the user agrees that these types of cookies can be placed on the device(s) that are being used to engage with the website. These collect information about how visitors use a website, for example which pages visitors look at most often, and if an error has occurred on a page. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All the information collected is kept anonymous and are only used to improve how a website works.

Targeting cookies

Targeting cookies are used to deliver adverts relevant to the user and their interests. They are usually placed by advertising networks (with the website operator’s permission). They remember those users who visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation. This website does not use targeting cookies.