Cookie policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a site. Before using our website, we ask you to give your consent to the use of cookies. At any point, you may withdraw this consent.

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How we use cookies

We use cookies on The Surveying Academy to provide you with the best possible experience on our website and to identify critical details such as account, user and curriculum identification.

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Third party cookies

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Performance cookies:

Additionally, we use cookies from Google Analytics to anonymously record your usage of the website. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our service in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes to influence our development plans.

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For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics website.

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Targeting cookies:

We also use targeting Cookies. Third party vendors including Google may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than The Surveying Academy.

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This information may be shared with organisations outside of The Surveying Academy, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.

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You can opt out of these kinds of cookies by adjusting your own ad settings (by visiting Google ad settings) or adjusting your own device settings.

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Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

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Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

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If you have any questions about the use of cookies please do not hesitate to contact jamie@thesurveyingacademy.co.uk.

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