Cookies Policy


Historic England Learning Platform Cookies Policy 

Historic England Learning Platform Cookies Policy 

 The Historic England Learning Platform is a Moodle based open-source learning platform that uses cookies to deliver core functionality and allow you to personalise certain aspects of your experience. 

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as maintaining your logged in session or remembering your username. Those cookies are set by us and are called first-party cookies. More specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes: 

Necessary Cookies 

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as maintaining a logged in session. We do not need to ask permission to use them.  

Cookie Name 

Purpose 

Expiration 

More Information 

MoodleSession 

You must allow this cookie into your browser to provide continuity and maintain your login from page to page. 

Session 

When you log out or close the browser this cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server). 


Functional cookies  

These are cookies that allow our learning platform to remember choices you make and to provide enhanced, more personal features.  

Cookie Name 

Purpose 

Expiration 

More information 

MOODLEID 

It remembers your username within the browser. This means when you return to this site the username field on the login page will be already filled out for you. 

1 month 

It is safe to refuse this cookie - you will just have to retype your username every time you log in. 

 


Other types of cookies 

We do not use  

  • Third-party cookies (which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting).  

  • Analytics cookies (which recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around a website when using it). 

  • Marketing cookies (which help website operators to improve the relevancy of advertising campaigns you receive).