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What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. On your next visit the browser hands it back, which is how a site recognises that the same browser has been here before.
Cookies do useful work on sites where you log in or fill a basket. This one has neither. Everything here is a plain page, so the only cookies involved are the ones that count visits.
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What this site sets
Way Education sets no cookies of its own. The two below come from Google Analytics, which we use to see which pages people actually read and where they give up. Both are set when a page loads.
Cookies set by way-edu.com
| Cookie |
Set by |
Purpose |
Type |
Expires |
_ga |
Google Analytics |
Tells one browser apart from another, so a returning visitor is not counted twice. |
Analytics |
2 years |
_ga_G-WBTTV75X4P |
Google Analytics |
Holds the state of your current visit, so a single session is not counted as several. |
Analytics |
2 years |
Neither cookie carries your name, your email address, or anything you have sent us. What we see in the reports is aggregate: page views, rough location by city or region, device type, and how visitors moved through the site. Google processes that data as a provider working on our instructions, and its own terms apply to what it does with it.
There is no cookie banner on this site, so these cookies are set as soon as you arrive. If you would rather they were not, the controls in section five stop them, and nothing on the site stops working.
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Fonts and other outside requests
Our typeface, Plus Jakarta Sans, is loaded from Google Fonts. That sets no cookie, but your browser has to ask Google's servers for the font files, and any request of that kind reveals your IP address to the server answering it.
Nothing else on this site is fetched from a third party. There is no embedded video, no map, no social feed, and no font or script from any other source.
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What we do not use
Study abroad is a competitive market and many sites in it are heavily instrumented. This one is not. To be specific, there are no advertising or retargeting cookies here, no Meta or LinkedIn pixel, no social media trackers, no live chat widget, no session recording or heatmap tool, and no A/B testing script.
If that changes, this page changes with it, and the table above will name the new cookie before it goes live.
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How to control cookies
You can refuse or delete cookies without losing anything on this site. There is no account to stay signed in to and no preference to remember, so blocking them costs you nothing here.
- In your browser. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge all have a privacy or cookie section in settings where you can block third-party cookies, clear what is already stored, or block cookies from a named site.
- On a phone. The same settings exist in the mobile versions. On iPhone they sit under Settings, then Safari. On Android they are inside Chrome's own settings menu.
- Private or incognito browsing. Cookies set during the session are discarded when you close the window.
- Google's opt-out add-on. Google publishes a browser add-on that stops Google Analytics collecting data on any site you visit, not only this one.
Blocking analytics does mean we lose sight of which pages help students and which ones do not. That is a reasonable trade for you to make, and we would rather say it than bury it.
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Changes to this policy
The version published here is the current one. Any new tool that sets a cookie gets its own row in the table above, with what it does and how long it lasts, at the point it is added to the site.
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How to reach us
Questions about this page go to [email protected], or through the contact us page. Our privacy notice covers everything else we hold about you, and the terms and conditions cover use of the site.