Cookies
Cookies are used on theorytwenty7.io web pages.
Your browser gives you a variety of controls with respect to cookie control and whether they remain after the session or after you restart the browser.
For more information, see your browser’s privacy controls.
1. What is a Cookie?
A cookie (HTTP cookie or web/Internet/browser cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser while browsing that website. Every time you load a website, your browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of your previous activity. Cookies were made to remember stateful information like items in your shopping cart or logging in, clicking particular buttons, or recording which pages were visited previously (as far back as months or years).
2. How Cookies Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect;
- Save you from having to log in every time you visit the site;
- Remember your settings during and between visits;
- Improve the speed/security of the site;
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook;
- Personalize our site to you to help you get what you need faster;
- Continuously improve our website for you;
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do).
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission);
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission);
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties;
- Pay sales commissions.
3. Permitting Use of Cookies
If the settings on the software you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site, you can learn how to do this below; however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
4. More About Our Cookies
Website function cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work, including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not;
- Remembering your search settings;
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions;
- Allowing you to add comments to our site;
- Tailoring content to your needs;
- Remembering your preferences such as colors, text size, and layout;
- Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey)
There is no way to prevent these cookies from being set other than not using our site.
Third Party Functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
- YouTube and Google – YouTube Privacy Policy and Google Privacy Policy: Used to deliver search and display-based adverts via Google’s Advertising platform (including showing adverts after visiting theorytwenty7.io) and Google’s Analytics platform to anonymously monitor your visits and interaction with our site. You can opt out of advertisements on your browser by visiting settings and advertisements. More information on opting out of Google Analytics is available here.
- HubSpot – Privacy Policy: Used to deliver educational resources across theorytwenty7.io domains, tracking your page views and form submissions. You can opt-out via the pop-up that appears on your first visit to the site. After that, please clear your cookies and revisit the site to do so.
- LinkedIn – Privacy Policy: Used to deliver search and display-based advertisements on LinkedIn.
- Microsoft Advertising – Privacy Policy: Used to serve search and display-based advertisement on Microsoft Bing and Edge. To opt-out, please visit here.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
We use these so you can easily like or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
- X (formerly Twitter) Privacy Policy
- Facebook Data Policy
- LinkedIn Privacy Policy
- Google Plus Privacy Policy
The privacy implications will vary from social network to social network and will depend on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Site Improvement Cookies
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.
We use:
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called ‘analytics’ programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware.” Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting considered invasive cookies.
