About cookies

Last revision: July 1, 2012

Nearly every web site uses cookies in one way or another to make your visit easier. Cookies are small, harmless text files that are stored on your computer or other web-enabled device to to provide a more personal and/or interactive visit.

gtslearning.com uses cookies to track our visitors (which country they come from, language spoken, etc), to maintain country settings on the site (so that UK visitors can see UK pricing) and for buying products and services from us. The table below shows all the cookies that are used on this site.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. The file names for our cookies are in the table below.

Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

Cookie Type Duration Description
ap_id 3 30 days Identifies referring sites
co 1 permanent Identifies your country as selected from the drop-down list on every web page. This cookie holds an ISO code for your country, eg. GB,US,FR
Comm100_CC_Identity_32813 3 session Used for the 'Live Chat' feature on the web site, provided by Comm 100. Identifies that any visitors clicking on the 'Live Help' button are from a gtslearning web site.
ms 3 session Used for marketing promotions to identify microsite where certain standard web page content should or shouldn't be displayed.
NREUM 2 session The NREUM cookie stores navigation start time as well as hash codes of the document location and referring page URLs. Navigation start time is required to measure end user response time. The cookie is written when the current page unloads (i.e. as the next navigation begins). The document location and referrer are used to validate that the start time refers to the page that was previously being viewed or refreshed (to avoid using an invalid start time from a different navigation).
PHPSESSID 1 session To identify your unique session on the website
SESS 1 session To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered
__utma 2 permanent This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.
__utmb 2 session __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site.
__utmc 2 30 mins __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.