Use of Cookies
1. Introduction
1.1 The Accounting Student Limited (“us”, “we”, or “our”) are committed to the transparency of the cookies used on this website aimed at our visitors (“your” or “you”).
1.2 We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
2. About cookies
2.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
2.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
2.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
3. Cookies that we use
3.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the Site to work and enable you to move around on them and use their services and features. Disabling these cookies will encumber the Site’s performance and may make these services and features unavailable. Strictly necessary cookies are used to collect session ID and authentication data. They are session cookies, which expire when you close your browser session.
Privacy Preference Cookies
The options in this section will help to easier comply with data privacy regulations, like the European GDPR. When the “Cookie Banner” option is used, the site will create a cookie with the name “privacy_embeds” on user clients browsing the site to manage and store user consent to load the different third party embeds and tracking scripts.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the Site to help maintain your session and remember choices you have made in order to provide functionality for your benefit. Functional cookies are used to collect information about your language preferences and other preferences indicated during your visit to the Site. For example, functional “session” cookies allow the Site to remember settings specific to you, such as your country selection, which ultimately improves your web experience. Functional cookies also include persistent cookies which are used to remember your preferences when you subsequently visit our Site. Functional “persistent” cookies expire after 7 days.
Analytic Cookies
Analytic cookies are used to gather statistics about the use of the Site in order to improve the performance and design of the Site and our services. For these purposes, analytic cookies collect information about your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings, IP-address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the Site and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the country and time zone in which your device is located. These cookies are provided by our third-party analytics tool provider, Google Analytics, and the information obtained through these cookies will be disclosed to or collected directly by this third-party service provider. For more information about Google’s cookie and information practices (including the types of cookies used and their expiration date), please visit the link below:
Third Party Cookies
We partner with third parties to provide you with connections to certain social networks, such as Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn, and to provide you with additional features, such as Vimeo. By engaging with third-party plug-ins and widgets on our Site, such third parties may place session or persistent cookies on your browser. The use of these cookies is subject to such third party’s own cookie policies linked below:
4. Managing cookies
4.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
4.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
4.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
5. Cookie preferences
5.1 You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website through using the “Cookies and third-party services consent” function on the website upon the first browser load (per session).
5.2 When the “Cookie Banner” option is used, we will create a cookie with the name “privacy_embeds” on your browser, for the site to manage and store user consent to load the different third party embeds and tracking scripts.
5.3 A link to the “Cookie Banner” will be provided at the bottom of all webpages on the Site. You may also restrict or disable the use of cookies through your web browser by selecting “Decline”. Each type of web browser offers ways to restrict and delete cookies. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit the appropriate link below.
(b) Firefox
(c) Google Chrome
(d) Safari
5.4 Furthermore, you can delete Flash cookies or adjust your Flash cookie settings by visiting the Adobe Flash Website Storage Settings Panel and Global Storage Settings Panel. For more information on how we collect, use and share your personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.