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Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognize your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our site and to improve the usability and performance of our site.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our sites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information

We have set out below some common types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• Social media cookies. These allow you to share content from our website, or what you have been doing on it, on social media (such as Facebook or Twitter). This information may be linked to targeting or advertising activities.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookies	Cookie Type	Purpose
Google Maps	[FUNCTIONAL]	Google sets a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. Intended to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users. Also remembers your preferences such as language and zoom level.
Google Analytics	[ANALYTICAL]	Google sets a number of cookies on any page that includes Google Analytics. This is included to help us see how our website is used. Also remembers your preferences such as language. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.
AddToAny	[SOCIAL SHARING]	Allows users to share weADAPT content on social networks using the service AddToAny. Collects information such as URL, title, and related metadata. Data is anonymized and cannot be used to identify individual users.
YouTube	–>	These cookies are for YouTube which is what we use to host and display videos around the site. These cookies collect anonymous viewer statistics, such as how many users have viewed the videos.
Slideshare	[FUNCTIONAL]	On pages where SlideShare presentations are embedded, some cookies are set in order to improve the user’s experience. For more information click here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
LinkedIn	[SOCIAL MEDIA]	Sets some cookies on pages where SlideShare (part of LinkedIn) is embedded. For more information click here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
Slideshare	[FUNCTIONAL]	On pages where SlideShare presentations are embedded, some cookies are set in order to improve the user’s experience. For more information click here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
Mailchimp	[MARKETING]	We use MailChimp to send newsletters to subscribers.
Vimeo	–>	These cookies are for Vimeo which is used to host and display videos around the site. These cookies collect anonymous viewer statistics, such as how many users have viewed the videos.
Mapbox	[THIRD PARTY]	Mapbox is a third-party service used to render the Adaptation Layer.
weADAPT	[FUNCTIONAL]	The weADAPT website uses session data to record user preferences and to provide functionality provided through JavaScript.

Browser Settings

Web browsers will typically allow the control of cookies through the browser settings.

You can do this by refusing to accept any cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our sites. If you use different devices to view and access our sites (for example, your computer, smart phone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the sites.

More information.

For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies.

Changes to this notice.

We may revise this cookies notice from time to time. Any changes we may make to our cookies notice in the future will be posted on this page.

Version – May 2023