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.
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.
Third party cookies
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.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics website.
With your agreement we also use Microsoft Clarity, a product analytics service provided by Microsoft. Clarity records how visitors move through and interact with the website, including pages viewed, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, and combines this into session recordings and heatmaps so we can see where the site is unclear. Clarity sets the cookies _clck and _clsk to recognise your browser across pages and to group your activity into a single session, and the data it collects is processed by Microsoft. Clarity masks text entered into form fields by default, and we do not use it for advertising.
Neither Google Analytics nor Microsoft Clarity is loaded until you choose "Accept analytics" on the cookie banner. If you choose "Essential only" they are never loaded, and no cookies are set by either service. You can change your choice at any time using the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of any page.
Targeting and advertising cookies
We do not use targeting or advertising cookies. This website carries no advertising, we do not build advertising profiles from your visit, and we do not share your information with advertisers or advertising networks. Where a service we do use is capable of advertising features, those features are switched off: whenever Microsoft Clarity is loaded, advertising storage is set to denied.
If this changes in future we will update this policy before any advertising cookie is set, and add an advertising choice to the cookie banner so that you can refuse it in the same place you manage analytics.
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.
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.
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.
If you have any questions about the use of cookies please do not hesitate to contact jamie@thesurveyingacademy.co.uk.