Types & Uses
The cookies on the NOLS websites do not collect personally identifiable information beyond your first name. We use a variety of cookie types to make our websites functional for our users.
Preferences cookies
These cookies allow our websites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can personalize.
Security cookies
We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. Some of these cookies capture and use your first name to make the website friendly and to address you by name when you log in to our website.
Functionality cookies
These cookies help make the website work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages,accessing secure areas of the website, or accepting payment for services offered on the site. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
Analytics cookies
These cookies provide us information to help our engineers do things like improve page load times to make our website more responsive to visitor requests. We also use cookies to analyze the usefulness of our web pages and to evaluate changes to our website.
Social Sharing cookies
We enable users to share content on their social media platforms via AddThis. The cookies allow our visitors to share our content on social media platforms outside of the NOLS.edu website.
Third Party cookies
Google
Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. Click here for a link to the full Google cookies policy.
HubSpot
We also use HubSpot’s website analytics to evaluate how our website is meeting the needs of our customers (current and prospective). Click here for a link to the full Hubspot cookies policy.
Chat/ Messaging Providers
We use a variety of tools as part of our chat/messaging services to offer an alternate method of communication with our admissions team. Click here for a link to the full SnapEngage privacy policy. Click here for a link to the full Quiq cookies policy. Click here for a link to the full Help Scout cookies policy.
