bgfl.org is a teaching and learning website owned by Birmingham City Council (BCC). The following information has been taken from the BCC website, birmingham.gov.uk.

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There are two kinds of cookies - session (set on a short-term basis and auto-deleting after a few minutes or when you close your browser), usually in order to register to a website that you are logged in to it, and persistent, set by the website and stored for a longer period of time, usually used to store commonly entered information on forms (such as your name, address, and telephone number), any preferences the website might allow you to store in terms of layout and functionality (such as widgets on an iGoogle home page), and information about your browsing habits across multiple sites, usually used to allow advertisers and social network site operators to target advertising at you.

bgfl.org uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site. The data collected is completely anonymous and does not store any personal details. The information, collected by Google through the use of the cookie, is used to analyse how visitors make use of the website and allows us to gather statistical information such as website activity, visitor numbers, popular pages, customer journey through the website, etc. We similarly also use another site statistics information provider, Comscore (formerly Nedstat) for more detailed analysis.

Some other areas of our website use cookies as part of how they store and pass your search data.

If you would like to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics you can use the opt-out tool at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies our websites set. However, if you would like to, you can change your cookie settings at any time.

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Further work is currently in progress to review the cookies currently in use across the whole of our website estate and to provide more information about each one.

The use of persistent cookies in the European Union has been regulated by EU Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications, and in the UK is enacted under the authority of the Information Commissioner's Office.


If you would like to know more about cookies, including how to control and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.