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There are different types of cookies depending on which is their purpose, their owner, or the period of time that they remain active.
• According to their purpose:
– Technical or functional cookies: Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and help us store your user preferences. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website. Consent is not required to place these cookies.
– Analytical cookies: We use analytical cookies to understand how people use our website and optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.
– Marketing or tracking cookies: Marketing or tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. We ask your permission to place marketing cookies.
• According to their owner:
– Own cookies: Cookies that are sent to the user’s device from a computer or domain managed by the editor of the website and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
– Third-party cookies: Cookies that are sent to the user’s device from a computer or domain that is not managed by the website editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
• According to the period they will remain active:
– Session cookies: Cookies that remain active while accessing and browsing the site and that are deleted once the user leaves the website.
– Permanent cookies: Cookies that remain stored in the user’s device and can collect information for a period of time defined by the cookie owner.
3. PLACED COOKIES
These are our own website cookies:
| Name | Request | Purpose | Expiry |
| “course-title” | Necessary | Used by the platform to identify the course title and extricate the CPD certificate | 1 year |
| healthcare_pro | Necessary | Used by the platform to know whether to show HCP auth screen on first visit | 1 year |
These are the third-party cookies that are placed on our website:
| Name | Origin | Purpose | Expiry | Link to Third Party Cookies Policy |
| __cfduid | webserver | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic | 1 year | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/privacypolicy/ |
| wordpress_[hash] | WordPress | To store the authentication details on login. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress | To indicate when you are logged in, and who you are. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | To check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | WordPress | To customize the view of your admin interface and the front-end of the website. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| _ga | Page source line number 110-116 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gat | Page source line number 110-116 | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gid | Page source line number 110-116 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site | 1 day | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| collect | Page source line number 110-116 | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | Per session | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| vuid | Iframe, page source line number 396 | Collects data on the user’s visits to the web site, such as which pages have been read | 2 years | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
When visiting our website for the first time, a cookies banner will appear with basic information regarding cookies installation and we will request you to decide if you accept all the cookies or if you prefer to reject our analytical cookies. If you click the “Accept all” button, you will consent to the installation of these non-necessary cookies and the use we do according to this Cookies Policy.
The installation of these optional cookies on your device will always occur after the collection of consent and or configuration. However, cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website (technical cookies) will be activated by default, without being necessary for us to obtain your consent.
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed.
For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser or if you are using any of the below browsers, click to the relevant link below:
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Additionally, we inform you that you may avoid that Google Analytics uses your data through installing the following plug-in available here.
Please note that if you disable technical / functional cookies, our website may no longer work properly.
We will post any updated cookies policy on this page. This policy was updated on 15th April 2021.
Please note that:
1. Upon submission of an order form for products through the Accord Partner Platform (an “Order”) you may be contacted by an Accord-UK Ltd. sales representative to confirm your details and to discuss your Order in more detail.
2. No Order (or part thereof) shall be considered as confirmed by us until you have received an email confirming that your Order (or part thereof) has been processed. Submission of an Order does not guarantee stock availability of the ordered products nor delivery of the ordered products by the chosen wholesaler.
3. Subject to the above, by submitting an Order you accept for this to be submitted by us to your chosen wholesaler on your behalf based on the confirmed Order.
4. All purchases of products under the Accord-UK Ltd. pricing Proposition (“Accord Proposition”) are subject to the Accord Proposition Terms and Conditions, available on request.
5. Products supplied by your chosen wholesaler that are purchased via the Accord Proposition will be invoiced according to your Accord Proposition pricing agreement.
