COOKIE POLICY

 

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are

Our full details are:

  • Full name of legal entity: Veriwise Ltd
  • Email address: hello@verywisestudent.io
  • Telephone number: 02080 883911
  • Postal address: Level 39 One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, England, E14 5AB

Our websites

Throughout our websites we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device such as your computer, smartphone or other electronic device when you use our websites. We use cookies on our websites. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the websites, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data may be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

    We use the following 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 websites or use a shopping cart.
  • Analytical or performance cookies.These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our websites.
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

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

Essential websites cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Name:

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.#

Purpose:

Anti-forgery cookie is a security mechanism to defend against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Microsoft

Country:

United States

Type:

server_cookie

Expires in:

session

Performance and functionality cookies:

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

Name:

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

Purpose:

The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

30 minutes

Name:

ARRAffinity

Purpose:

Used by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform for load balancing.

Provider:

.veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Azure View Service Privacy Policy  

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

session

Analytics and customization cookies:

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our websites for you.

Name:

#collect

Purpose:

Sends data such as visitor’s behaviour and device to Google Analytics. It is able to keep track of the visitor across marketing channels and devices. It is a pixel tracker type cookie whose activity lasts within the browsing session.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

pixel_tracker

Expires in:

session

Name:

_gat#

Purpose:

Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session.

Provider:

.veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy  

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

1 minute

Name:

_hjRecordingEnabled

Purpose:

Set when a Recording starts.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

html_session_storage

Expires in:

session

Name:

602770229/

Purpose:

-

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

-

Country:

United States

Type:

pixel_tracker

Expires in:

session

Name:

_hjSessionUser_#

Purpose:

Set when a user first lands on a page.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

11 months 30 days

Name:

_ga

Purpose:

It records a particular ID used to come up with data about websites usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

1 year 11 months 29 days

Name:

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Purpose:

Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

2 minutes

Name:

_gid

Purpose:

Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on websites usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

1 day

Name:

_hjSession_#

Purpose:

Holds current session data.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

30 minutes

Name:

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

Purpose:

Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

2 minutes

Name:

_hjRecordingLastActivity

Purpose:

This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

html_session_storage

Expires in:

session

Name:

_hjFirstSeen

Purpose:

Identifies a new user’s first session.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Hotjar View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

30 minutes

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Name:

a

Purpose:

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.

Provider:

.veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Cox Digital Solutions (Fomerly Adify) View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

pixel_tracker

Expires in:

session

Name:

_gcl_au

Purpose:

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

AdSense View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

2 months 29 days

Name:

td

Purpose:

Used to deliver targeted adverts to users based on browsing activity. It is a HTTP cookie.

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

UnrulyX View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

pixel_tracker

Expires in:

session

Name:

IDE

Purpose:

Used to measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. Expires in 1.5 years.

Provider:

.doubleclick.net

Service:

DoubleClick View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

server_cookie

Expires in:

1 year 11 months 29 days

Name:

_fbp

Purpose:

Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising.

Provider:

.veriwise.co.uk

Service:

Facebook View Service Privacy Policy   

Country:

United States

Type:

http_cookie

Expires in:

2 months 29 days

Name:

test_cookie

Purpose:

A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.

Provider:

.doubleclick.net

Service:

DoubleClick View Service Privacy Policy

Country:

United States

Type:

server_cookie

Expires in:

15 minutes

Unclassified cookies:

These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.

Name:

caseMedias

Purpose:

-

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

-

Country:

United States

Type:

html_local_storage

Expires in:

persistent

Name:

.AspNetCore.Session

Purpose:

-

Provider:

.veriwise.co.uk

Service:

-

Country:

United States

Type:

server_cookie

Expires in:

session

Name:

hjViewportId

Purpose:

-

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

-

Country:

United States

Type:

html_session_storage

Expires in:

session

Name:

ARRAffinitySameSite

Purpose:

-

Provider:

veriwise.co.uk

Service:

-

Country:

United States

Type:

server_cookie

Expires in:

session

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  1. Stripe is our payment gateway provider; its privacy policy is here.
  2. Hotjar reveals our user’s online behaviours; its privacy policy is here.
  3. Google provides analytics servicers; its privacy policy is here.

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the third party’s websites to manage the use of these types of cookies.

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your permission to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our websites. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit.

Changes to this cookie policy

We keep our cookie policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 14th October 2022. It may change and if it does, these changes will be posted on this page.