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Every cookie this site can set

Reading the site sets no cookie of ours. The cookies below fall into three groups: necessary (sign-in only), analytics and advertising. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, analytics and advertising cookies are set only if you agree in Google’s consent message, the one consent manager this site uses.

Your choices

On your first visit to a page with ads, Google’s consent message asks what you allow. To change your answer at any time:

Privacy and cookie settings

If the button does nothing (for example an ad blocker stops Google’s message), clear this site’s cookies in your browser and the message appears again. You can also opt out of personalised ads at Google Ads Settings.

1. Necessary: your sign-in

smv_session: set only when you sign in to manage a listing. It holds a random token and nothing else: no name, no email, nothing readable. It is how the site knows the next page you ask for is still you.

Strictly necessary. Thirty days. Signing out deletes it. Refusing it is possible and means you cannot sign in.

__Host-smv_admin: the same, for Studies Multiverse staff signed in to the administration area. Strictly necessary. Twelve hours.

Your shortlist

Schools you save are kept in your own browser’s storage (localStorage), not in a cookie, and are never sent to us. It exists only because you pressed save; clear your browser data and it is gone.

2. Analytics: counting readers (no cookie)

Cloudflare Web Analytics tells us which pages are read. It uses no cookie at all and no device fingerprint, and it cannot follow you to another site. It runs for everyone, because it needs nothing from you.

3. Analytics: Google Analytics, only if you agree

_ga and _ga_<id> tell us how many people read which pages and how they found us. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland they are set only if you agree in Google’s consent message. Up to two years.

4. Advertising: Google AdSense, only if you agree

On pages with ads, Google and its advertising partners may set cookies such as __gads, __gpi, IDE (on doubleclick.net) and NID, to show ads, limit how often you see one, measure them and, if you allow it, personalise them. Google’s consent message stores your choice in FCCDCF and FCNEC. Up to 13 months, depending on the cookie. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland none of the advertising cookies is set unless you agree. Google’s explanation: how Google uses data from sites that use its services and how Google uses cookies.

Affiliate links set no cookie on this site. The company you go to may set its own on its site.

What there is none of

• No ads, and no advertising cookies, on institution pages or on any page where you send us your details.
• No social media tracking pixels. No Facebook pixel, no LinkedIn tag, no TikTok pixel.
• No cross-site profile of you, built by us, at all.

More detail on what is collected and why is on the privacy page.

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