Cookie Policy
This page explains how the University uses necessary browser storage and how optional external media or analytics are handled.
Last updated: 10 November 2026
1. Necessary technologies
Some cookies or similar browser-storage mechanisms are required for functions you request, including account sign-in, Tutor LMS sessions, security, remembering privacy choices and maintaining course access. These are not used for advertising.
2. Optional categories
Preferences
Optional settings that remember non-essential display or media choices. These are used only where the relevant feature is enabled.
Analytics
Optional measurement tools may be enabled only after the relevant consent. Ordinary course access must not depend on accepting analytics.
External media
Spotify, YouTube or other third-party media can contact an external provider and may allow that provider to set or read identifiers. External media should therefore remain blocked until you choose to load it where consent is required.
Marketing
The University does not require marketing tracking for ordinary learning access. If a marketing technology is introduced, it must remain off until separately accepted.
3. Your choice
Optional categories must be off by default. The University uses equal-access choices for Accept optional, Reject optional and Manage. Continuing to browse is not treated as consent.
4. Spotify and other embedded media
Where a lesson or podcast uses a third-party player, the preferred behaviour is click-to-load: the external player is not contacted until the learner chooses to load it or has already allowed external media.
Where the University hosts media itself, the player can operate without loading a third-party tracking service.
5. Changing your choice
You can reopen Cookie Settings from the site interface and change optional preferences. Withdrawal applies to future optional loading; it does not erase server records that must be retained for account security or legal obligations.
6. Cookie inventory
The exact technical names and lifetimes of cookies can change when WordPress, Tutor LMS or other plugins are updated. The operational inventory should therefore be maintained from the live site rather than copied from a generic template. The University will not describe an optional provider as active unless it is actually enabled.
7. Privacy
For information about personal data, legal bases, retention and your rights, read the Privacy Notice. Questions can be sent through Contact & Learning Help.