For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies – which are small text files – on its users’ computers. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users on subsequent visits, or to authorise other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose.
Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping baskets, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. Much, though not all, of the data that they collect is anonymous, though some of it is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience.
Information collected by cookies is not personally identifiable.
We use cookies and similar technologies that fall into the following categories:
- Necessary Cookies – Required for the website to function correctly and cannot be disabled.
- Preference Cookies – Remember choices you make, such as language or region settings.
- Statistics Cookies – Help us understand how visitors use the website so we can improve performance and content.
- Marketing Cookies – Used to measure campaign effectiveness and, where applicable, support advertising and remarketing activities.
The Education Endowment Foundation collects a number of cookies from its users for various reasons, not least to track our own performance – but also to let us serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience of the site. Amongst other things, the cookies allow us to calculate how many visitors we have – anonymously, of course – and how long they stay on our site.
We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We use these cookies solely to monitor and improve our web performance and content delivery service to you, the user. We believe that your experience of the site would be adversely affected if you opted out of the cookies we use.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. Generally you have the option to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is issued or reject all cookies. Visit the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser to change settings, and check the following links for more browser-specific information.
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We anonymise your IP address as soon as data is received, before any storage or processing takes place. The last octet of your IP address is set to zero while still in memory. For example; an IP address of 51.48.129.811 would be changed to 51.48.129.Only after this anonymity process occurs is the request transmitted to our analytic providers, your full IP address recorded as all anonymity happens in memory processing (nearly) instantaneously after the request has been received.
By continuing to use our site, you agree to the placement of cookies on your device. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be.