Legal
Cookie Policy
What this site stores in your browser, why, and how you stay in control.
The short version
We keep this deliberately minimal. Browsing Atlas Learning sets no advertising cookies, no tracking cookies, and no third-party cookies of any kind. We do not sell or share what we learn, and nothing we store follows you to another website.
What we do store is a small amount of information in your own browser — and one short-lived, anonymous server log — so the site works and so we can tell which pages are helping. This page explains all of it.
Cookies, and the things people call cookies
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store and send back on every subsequent request. Browsers also offer two other stores that never travel with a request: local storage, which persists until it is cleared, and session storage, which is destroyed the moment you close the tab.
The law that governs all three in the UK — the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations — treats them the same way, so we do too. Everything on this page is covered by your consent choices, whether or not it is technically a cookie.
What this site stores
| What | Where it is kept | What it does | How long | Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your cookie preferences | Local storage | Remembers the choice you made in the banner so we do not ask again on every page | 365 days, or until you clear it | No — it exists only to honour your choice |
| Anonymous session ID | Session storage | A random identifier, generated in your browser, that lets us count one visit as one visit rather than as ten separate people. It is not linked to your name, email or any other record | Destroyed when you close the tab | Yes — analytics |
| Pages already counted this visit | Session storage | Stops the same page being counted twice in one visit | Destroyed when you close the tab | Yes — analytics |
| Sign-in tokens | Local storage | Only for administrators and tutors signing in to the management area. Never set for ordinary visitors | Until you sign out | No — strictly necessary for a service you asked for |
That is the complete list. At the time of writing this site sets no cookies at all for public visitors — the items above use local and session storage instead, which never leave your device unless the page explicitly sends them.
Our server log
Separately from your browser, our web server keeps a short log of page requests. For each page view it records the time, the path requested, the referring page and your browser's user-agent string.
It records no IP address and no identifier that could link one request to another, or to you. The log is discarded after 90 days and is used only to see which pages people read and which they abandon.
We rely on legitimate interests for this, not consent, because it is a server-side record with no identifier attached and no way to single anyone out. If you would still rather we did not, email us and we will exclude you.
Consent categories
The banner offers four categories. You may accept all, reject all, or choose individually under Customise.
| Category | What it covers here | Runs without consent? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keeping the site secure and working, protecting forms from abuse, and remembering your cookie choices themselves | Yes — the site cannot function without these, and the law does not require consent for them |
| Functional | Remembering display preferences between visits | No |
| Analytics | The anonymous session ID and page-counting described above | No |
| Marketing | Nothing. We do not run advertising or marketing trackers. The category is shown for completeness, and if that ever changes nothing will be set without asking you again | No |
Rejecting everything optional leaves the site fully usable. Nothing is withheld, degraded or nagged about.
Do Not Track
If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, our analytics does not run at all — regardless of what the consent banner says. We treat the signal as a decision you have already made.
How your choice is recorded
When you answer the banner we store your decision, the categories you allowed, a timestamp and the policy version — all in your browser's local storage, under the key domma-cookie-consent. Nothing about that choice is sent to us or to anyone else.
If we materially change what we store, we increase the consent version, which retires your previous answer and asks you again rather than assuming your old choice still stands.
Changing your mind
You can revisit your choices at any time:
- Reopen the banner and use Customise to switch categories on or off
- Clear site data for atlas-learning.co.uk in your browser settings — your stored preference goes with it, and the banner will ask again on your next visit
- Use your browser's private or incognito mode, where everything is discarded when you close the window
- Set your browser to block storage for this site entirely — the site will still work, though it will ask about cookies on every visit, because the record of your answer is the very thing being blocked
Where to find the setting: Chrome and Edge — Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies. Firefox — Settings → Privacy & Security. Safari — Settings → Privacy.
Third parties
We do not embed advertising networks, social media pixels, session recorders, heatmaps, or third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics. No third party can set or read storage through this website.
If we ever add an embedded service — a video player, a booking tool, a payment page — we will list it here, place it behind the appropriate consent category, and increase the consent version so you are asked again.
More information
How we handle personal data more broadly, including a full account of what we hold about the students we teach, is set out in our Privacy Policy.
Questions, or a request to be excluded from the server log? Email hello@atlas-learning.co.uk.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk — though we would appreciate the chance to put things right first.