Information about cookies used on this site

By this site we mean PropaGate Learning and My Portfolio. Cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in browser directories. They are used to help you navigate through our site efficiently and to perform certain functions such as remembering preferences and to enable us to track usage. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access or use certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will reject cookies, our system will issue cookies when you use our sites.

This website uses the following cookies:

The primary cookie ‘MoodleSession’ provides continuity and maintains your login from page to page. The site will not work without this cookie. This cookie is deleted when you leave the site (i.e. close your browsing session). Another cookie, 'moodleID' remembers your username.  You will have been asked if you want PropaGate Learning to remember your username the first time you logged in.  You can delete this cookie without affecting performance - you'll just have to retype your username every time you log in.

Any other cookies used are to maintain preferences and to collect statistical data and do not collect personal data. See below for more details:

Videos

We embed videos from our official Vimeo account and from YouTube. Vimeo uses localstorage and cookies to store user preferences (such as turning on captions) and to obtain statistical data which gives RBGE useful video playback data. This may set cookies on your computer when you view a video, but Vimeo will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos. Read more at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy. For YouTube, we embed videos using the privacy-enhanced mode which may set cookies on your computer when you watch a video but personally-identifiable information will not be stored. 

Padlet

Padlet.com places some small pieces of data in your browser, so that when you visit the padlet in the future, it uses the information stored in your browser is used to find out if you created a Post or a Padlet in the past, so that you can edit or modify your posts. Occasionally a padlet is embedded in a PropaGate course.

Turning cookies on and off in your browser

You can delete or disable cookies in your browser settings.
Remember, disabling cookies completely will limit the functionality of PropaGate Learning and My Portfolio and it is likely that the sites will not work.For more information on how to do this in your browser check out the relevant link(s) at the following webpage:
Information Commisioner's Office - Cookies

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Updated 03/09/21

Changes: We no longer use Google Analytics to track usage; Added more details about YouTube embedded videos.