Cookie Policy

Our cookie policy was last updated on the 22nd November 2022.

The Site

You may buy, enroll for, access and complete a Course on the Site or via our My Quest Portal.

The Site is owned By Education For Sustainability CLG (together referred to as “EFS” “we”, “our” or “us”).

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and trackers are and how we use them. You should read this policy so you can understand what type of cookies and trackers that we use, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used. You can also manage your settings for these cookies and trackers. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.

EFS uses cookies and trackers to help us remember details of your visits to our websites and our apps. This includes, but not limited to technical information about your visit e.g., traffic data, location data, browser language, your IP address, the previous website from which you reached us and the type of browser you use. Accordingly, our Privacy Policy  will apply to our treatment of the information we obtain via our cookies and trackers.

Please use the tools on this page to control how your data is processed on this website and around the web.

 

What are cookies and trackers?

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (e.g., your phone or your computer) which collects information, potentially including personal information about you. Trackers are the common name for a group of tools which do the same thing for sites and apps.

They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of websites. For example, a cookie could allow the Site to recognise your browser/login details, while another could store your preferences and other information and let you navigate the Site effectively. Cookies can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Statistical and analytical information from cookies and trackers provides us with general information about the number of people who visit this Site; the number of people who return to this Site; the pages that they visit; where they were immediately before they came to this Site and the page in the Site at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our Site so that we can manage the Site’s capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this Site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site.

We may partner with or receive services from third parties which you can visit from our Site. We may also embed external content and features from such third parties within our Site (e.g., social media networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter). We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site.

In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy statements and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

 

Changes to our Cookie Policy

We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Cookie Policy, we will let you know either by posting the changed Cookie Policy on the Site or by sending you an email.

It is important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Cookies Policy, then we cannot continue to provide the Site to you, and your only option is to stop accessing the Site.

 

Types of Cookies

We may place our cookies and trackers on your device via our website and apps. Our Privacy Policy will apply to how we treat the information we collect through these tools. The following are the main types of cookies used on the Site, links to their privacy statements and tools for controlling them where appropriate.

 

Essential/Strictly Necessary Cookies:

These cookies are necessary for our Sites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, filling in forms or serving contextual ads. The types of essential cookies used are:

  • GDPR Consent: A simple cookie to track whether you have reviewed and consented to the latest version of our privacy policies. 
  • Google reCAPTCHA: helps protect websites from spam and abuse.
  • Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
  • Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

Every time a user visits our Site, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether you have visited the Site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you do not, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the Site. Unless you are signed into our Site, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address. This allows us to better tailor our site for our registered users.

These analytics tools run on most sites across the web. If you wish to opt out of analytics tracking, you must do so on these 3rd party sites or by changing your browser settings. Click on a link below to see the privacy policy and manage your consent across the web for each cookie type:

These cookies typically persist for between one and three years to allow bulk comparisons of traffic from year to year.

 

Third Parties:

These advertising cookies may be set through our site and other sites you visit around the web by third-party advertisers.

They may be used by those third parties to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts here and on other sites across the web. These profiles are based on identifying your IP address, browser or internet device.

 

Change cookie settings in your browser

In addition, most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

 

Limit tracking in mobile apps

We provide push notifications as a service that you can opt into. You must choose to opt in before you receive these notifications. No personal information is recorded as part of these services which are delivered to you by either Apple or Google themselves. To opt out of push notifications, please turn off notifications in the relevant app or through your phones system settings.

To opt out of targeted ads in apps on your mobile device, follow the instructions below.

 

Android

Find Google Settings in one of these places (depending on your device):

  • Go to Settings
  • Select Google in the Accounts section
  • Select Ads in the Privacy section
  • Tick Opt-out of interest-based ads

Visit the Google support page for more information.

 

IOS (APPLE)

  • Go to Settings > Privacy > Advertising.
  • Turn on Limit Ad Tracking.
  • To opt out of push notifications, please turn off notifications in the relevant app.

Visit the Apple support page for more information.