Cookies

Because we only set cookies that are strictly necessary to run the service you asked for — signing you in and keeping you signed in. UK rules do not require consent for that, and asking you to dismiss a banner for it would be theatre.

If we ever add analytics, embedded videos or anything that tracks you, that stops being true, and we will ask properly before switching it on.

• The session cookie. Set when you sign in, so every page you open knows it is you. Without it you would be signed out on every click.
• The return cookie. Remembers which page you were trying to reach, so signing in puts you back there rather than on the home page.
• The sign-in form cookie. A token that proves the sign-in form you submitted is the one we handed you, so another site cannot submit it on your behalf.
• They are all first-party. Only our own site can read them, and they go nowhere else.
• They hold no revision data. Just proof you signed in, where you were going, and that the form was ours.
• They expire. Sign out, or clear your browser cookies, and they are gone.

• Google Analytics, or any other analytics.
• Advertising or retargeting pixels.
• Social media trackers.
• Anything that follows you to other websites.

This is not us being coy — there is genuinely no third-party script on the site. You can check in your browser’s network tab.

You can block cookies in your browser settings. LearnInc will still load, but you will not be able to sign in or stay signed in, so the app will not be usable. There is no way around that — it is how being signed in works.

More on what we hold and why: Privacy.