What are cookies? Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for? Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests. What types of cookies does the W-I-T use? There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” W-I-T Services routinely uses all four categories depending on the service. You can find out more about each cookie category below. Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas. Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our back end infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can show content different than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works. Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to view or complete a course while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of the courses you’ve viewed and/or completed. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide different courses or course catalogs and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services. Targeting Cookies. W-I-T may through a business partner use these to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. Although rare, it may happen from time to time. These cookies can remember that your device has visited our site and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services in order to deliver W-I-T advertising. How long will cookies stay on my device? The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted. First and third party cookies First-party cookies are cookies that belong to W-I-T, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for W-I-T, for example the provider of our electronic forms or the Learning Management System (LMS) that contains our courses will help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. How to control and delete cookies If you want to delete cookies or disable your browser from receiving cookies, follow the instructions for the browser you use. Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not work properly. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.