LearnSphere Academy Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how LearnSphere Academy ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, learnsphereacademy.com (the "Site"). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Cookies help websites remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
How LearnSphere Academy Uses Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly. They enable you to navigate the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas and using our learning management system. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like course enrollment, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Site, such as which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our Site works. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to understand how customers arrive at our Site, browse or use our Site and highlight areas where we can improve areas such as navigation, learning experience and course content.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Specific Cookies We Use
The following table outlines the specific cookies we use on our Site, their purpose, and their duration:
LearnSphere Academy Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| LSACookieConsent |
Remembers user's cookie consent preference. |
1 Year |
| Google Analytics (_ga) |
Distinguishes unique users. |
2 Years |
| Google Analytics (_gid) |
Distinguishes users. |
24 Hours |
| SessionID |
Maintains user session across pages. |
Session |
| CartItems |
Stores items in the user's shopping cart (if applicable). |
30 Days |
Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies, such as:
- Web beacons: Small graphic images (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") that may be included on our Site and typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
- Local Storage: Technologies like HTML5 local storage provide persistent storage on your device and can be used for similar purposes as cookies.
Your Consent
By using our Site, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies as described in this Cookies Policy. When you first visit our Site, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner or pop-up that informs you about our use of cookies and requests your consent. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by adjusting your browser settings, as described below.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the mechanisms described below:
- Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Third-Party Tools: Many advertising networks provide tools that allow you to opt-out of targeted advertising.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date this Cookies Policy was last updated is stated at the bottom of this page.