Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how The Compliance Classroom uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Notice.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your device when you visit a website.

They can help websites operate correctly, remember information about your visit, maintain secure login sessions and provide information about how a website is used.

Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on a user’s device.

The current ICO guidance covers not just traditional cookies but other storage and access technologies including pixels, web storage, scripts, tags and fingerprinting technologies.

2. How we use cookies

The Compliance Classroom may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • operate and secure the website;
  • enable users to log in;
  • maintain learner sessions;
  • provide access to online training;
  • operate the shopping basket and checkout;
  • remember appropriate website or cookie preferences;
  • support website functionality; and
  • understand how the website is being used where appropriate and permitted.

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the website and training platform to operate.

These may be used for purposes such as:

  • user authentication;
  • maintaining secure login sessions;
  • website security;
  • maintaining shopping basket information;
  • processing checkout activity;
  • providing access to requested account functionality; and
  • remembering essential session information.

Where a cookie or similar technology is strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user, consent may not be required. The ICO specifically gives online basket and essential security/session functions as examples that can fall within this exemption.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot always be disabled through our cookie controls because doing so may prevent essential parts of the website from functioning.

4. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may be used to remember choices or preferences and provide enhanced website functionality.

Depending on how a particular technology is used and whether an applicable exemption applies, consent may be requested before these technologies are enabled.

5. Analytics Cookies

We use analytics technologies, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors use The Compliance Classroom, such as which pages are visited and how users navigate through the website.

Analytics technologies are not enabled for analytics purposes unless you consent to optional cookies through our cookie controls. If you reject optional cookies, analytics storage remains disabled.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using our cookie controls.

6. Marketing Cookies

We do not currently use cookies for personalised advertising or remarketing.

If we introduce advertising, remarketing or other marketing technologies in the future, we will update this Cookie Policy and our cookie controls as appropriate. Where consent is required, these technologies will not be activated unless you actively consent.

7. Third-Party Technologies

Some functionality may be provided by third-party services used to operate the website, process payments, provide training functionality, improve security or deliver other requested services.

These providers may use cookies or similar technologies where necessary to provide their functionality.

Where third-party technologies are not strictly necessary, they will be subject to appropriate cookie consent requirements.

8. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit The Compliance Classroom, our cookie banner allows you to Accept All, Reject Optional Cookies or Choose Cookies to manage your preferences.

Optional technologies requiring consent are not enabled unless the appropriate consent has been given.

You can reject optional cookies without losing access to the basic website, although some optional functionality may be affected.

9. Changing Your Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time using the Cookie Settings or Manage Consent facility available on our website.

You can also control cookies through your web browser.

Most browsers allow users to:

  • view cookies;
  • delete cookies;
  • block cookies;
  • restrict third-party cookies; and
  • adjust cookie permissions for particular websites.

Blocking all cookies may prevent some parts of The Compliance Classroom from operating correctly, particularly login, account, basket and training functionality.

10. Cookie Consent and Terms & Conditions

Consent to non-essential cookies is managed separately from acceptance of our Terms & Conditions.

Accepting our Terms & Conditions does not constitute consent to optional cookies.

This distinction matters: the ICO’s current guidance explicitly says cookie/storage consent should not be bundled into terms and conditions.

11. Cookies and Technologies We Use

The specific cookies and similar technologies used by The Compliance Classroom may change as our website, training platform and service providers are updated.

Our cookie management system provides information about the cookies and technologies detected on the website, including their purposes and categories where available.

We periodically review the technologies used by the website and update our cookie configuration where necessary.

12. Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy where:

  • website functionality changes;
  • services or plugins change;
  • our use of cookies changes; or
  • legal or regulatory requirements change.

The latest version will be available on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or personal information, please contact:

The Compliance Classroom
Email: [email protected]

For more information about how we process personal information, please see our Privacy Notice.