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We’d like our site visitors to get fully involved with our posts here on Pearson Labs. When we collect information from you, we want to ensure that we do so in a way that does not infringe your right to privacy. Our privacy and cookies policy is designed to give you helpful information about how we collect and use personal information and how our sites use cookies.
Privacy
Our privacy policy applies to all the pages on our sites and any areas on them which invite you to enter your details. However, it doesn’t apply to third-party sites which are linked to ours, so we recommend that you read the privacy policy for any of those additional sites that you visit, as we are not responsible for those.
By using our sites, you accept the terms of this privacy policy.
We don’t collect any personal data from you unless you specifically provide it and we will only use that information for the purposes to which you have consented. We never ask you to provide any more information than is reasonably necessary to enable you to participate in an activity on our website and to improve the website.
When you take participate in an online discussion or post a comment on our site, we may receive personal information about you. This will usually consist of basic information such as your name, email address, and your publicly available Facebook, Twitter, et al, information.
Except as described in this privacy policy, we do not maintain any personal information obtained from users through this website in a retrievable form.
Cookies
We use cookies on our sites to enable certain features of the site to function and to collect non-personal information about how you use Pearson Labs sites so that we can improve your experience.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer or mobile device by the websites you visit. Cookies don’t harm your computer, phone or tablet and don’t contain any information which would allow us to identify who you are. Cookies do let our sites recognise your computer and give us bits of other non-personal information, such as which browser you’re using. This information helps to show us how often people visit our sites, what they look at when they do and also help the sites to work. Any other information you give us in other ways – such as by commenting on an article – will not be associated with the data collected by cookies.
By using our sites, you agree to us sending you cookies.
Which cookies do we use on this site and why?
The list below sets out the main cookies that we use on this site and what we use them for.
How we use cookies
Here are the main ways we use cookies on our sites and what we use them for.
Google analytics
We use Google analytics for our site – these don’t collect your personal data, but if you want to understand how Google Analytics uses cookies, visit this site.
Sharing with social media
We use cookies to let you share a post with a third party – such as to Twitter, Facebook or other social media channels – but those cookies don’t give us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to any of your accounts.
Clicking on hyperlinks
Our posts and articles will often include links to other sites, which will each have their own cookies and privacy policies. We can’t take responsibility or liability for the privacy practices on those sites, so we would advise you to read those terms too.
Want more details?
If you would like more detail on how businesses use cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. This site will also give you information on how to manage your cookies via your browser, plus lots of detail about cookies in general.