North West Regional College uses industry standard cookies to enhance your browsing experience. If you don’t want us to leave crumbs on your computer you can disable cookies in your browser.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your hard drive to allow the North West Regional College to recognise you when you visit. They can remember your preferences by gathering and storing information. They do not identify you as an individual user, just the computer used. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or create viruses on your computer. It does not give the College access to your computer.
Why do we use them?
We may use cookies to improve or personalise your online experience of our websites. For example, we use Google Analytics to enable us to identify which pages you find useful and which you do not. This allows us to improve our navigation so you can find things easier in future.
If you don’t want to receive cookies
If you would prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our site, you can set your browser so that it will not download cookies onto your computer. Doing so will still allow you to navigate through the majority of our site but possibly not all of it. If you wish to register on a password protected area of our website you will need to allow “per-session” cookies. These are temporarily used while you are visiting the site but deleted when you close your browser or log out.
To find out more information about cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org
Cookie Policy
Necessary Cookies
| Name of the cookie | Owner | Purpose of the cookie |
|---|---|---|
| CraftSessionId | CMS | This cookie is issued by Craft CMS and contains a unique ID to help recognise when an anonymous user attempts to log in. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information. |
| CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | CMS | This cookie is issued by Craft CMS and contains a unique ID that is used to verify that any form requests to the site are coming from valid user sessions. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information. |
| cookieBar | NWRC | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| necessary | NWRC | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| statistics | NWRC | Stores the user's cookie consent state for statistics. |
| fontSize | NWRC | Stores the user's chosen font size for accessibility |
Statistics Cookies
| Name of the cookie | Owner | Purpose of the cookie |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager. |