Cookie Policy

Introduction

We employ cookie technology to help log visitors to our website [https://aiusainc.org/] and Alpha Online Platform [https://online.alpha.org/]  (together the “Website”). This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our site. Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a Website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer or mobile device. A number of cookies may be created when you visit our Website.

We use the following cookies:

Functionality cookies. These are cookies that enable our Website to function. They allow you to move around our Website and use its features, log into secure areas of our Website and remember your choice of language or region. Some of these cookies may be ‘strictly necessary’ to our service and we explain what this means in further detail below.

We may use the following cookies:

Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some of the cookies we use are strictly necessary for the Website to function and cannot be deactivated in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Website will not then work. These cookies do not store any information that directly identifies you. Other non-essential cookies may be deactivated using our systems and we explain how to do this below.

ThirdParty Cookies

Please note that we may integrate third party service providers or applications on our Website that may also use cookies to deliver certain services or functionality. Since these cookies are set by a third party, we do not have control over these cookies. These thirdparty cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies and may enable the third party to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

List Of Cookies Used

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Deactivating Cookies

The third party analytical or performance cookies and any other cookies that we may use which are not strictly necessary are turned off as a default. They will not be used without your consent.

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.

CookieVendorDescriptionFunction3rd PartyDurationStrictly Necessary
intercom-session-*Intercomused for identifier for each unique browser session. The users can access their help desk chatbot conversations and have data communicated on logged-out pages for 1 week, as long as the session isn’t intentionally terminated with Intercom(‘shutdown’);, which usually happens on logoutFunctionalNoPersistent: 1 weekYes
_pk_idMatomoused to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.PerformanceNoPersistent: 13 monthsNo
_pk_sesMatomoshort lived cookies used to temporarily store data for the visit.PerformanceNoPersistent: 30 minutesNo