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The Site uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of the Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve the Site.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies and similar technologies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that and your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. We also give you information about how to disable cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so.
A number of cookies and similar technologies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Others are used to remember you when you return to the Site and will last for longer.
We use these cookies and other technologies on the basis that they are necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or because using them is in our legitimate interests (where we have considered that these are not overridden by your rights), and, in some cases, where required by law, where you have consented to their use.
We use the following types of cookies:
· Strictly necessary cookies – these are cookies that are required for the operation of our platform session and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to navigate and log into secure areas of our Platform.
· Functional cookies – you can choose to enable a cookie so that the platform remembers your username when you next sign in.
· Analytical/performance cookies – they 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 improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
· Marketing cookies – subject to your consent.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below.
| Name | Request | Purpose | Expiry |
| “course-title” | Necessary | Used by the platform to identify the course title and extricate the CPD certificate | 1 year |
| healthcare_pro | Necessary | Used by the platform to know whether to show HCP auth screen on first visit | 1 year |
These are the third-party cookies that are placed on our website:
| Name | Origin | Purpose | Expiry | Link to Third Party Cookies Policy |
| __cfduid | webserver | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic | 1 year | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/privacypolicy/ |
| wordpress_[hash] | WordPress | To store the authentication details on login. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | WordPress | To indicate when you are logged in, and who you are. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | To check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | WordPress | To customize the view of your admin interface and the front-end of the website. | Per session | https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/cookies/ |
| _ga | Page source line number 110-116 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gat | Page source line number 110-116 | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| _gid | Page source line number 110-116 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site | 1 day | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| collect | Page source line number 110-116 | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | Per session | https://developers.google.co m/analytics/devguides/collec tion/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| vuid | Iframe, page source line number 396 | Collects data on the user’s visits to the web site, such as which pages have been read | 2 years | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
Our website may contain links to other websites and third-party social media icons. When you click on a third-party website and/or third-party social network icon that takes you to that website or social network website, you will be presented with third party cookies from that relevant website.
The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the Site may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off.
If you want to disable cookies on our site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use.
Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:
For Microsoft Internet Explorer:
1. Choose the menu “tools” then “internet options”
2. Click on the “privacy” tab
3. Select the setting the appropriate setting
For Google Chrome:
1. Choose settings then advanced
2. Under “privacy and security,” click “content settings”.
3. Click “cookies”
For Safari:
1. Choose preferences then privacy
2. Click on “remove all website data”
For Mozilla Firefox:
1. Choose the menu “tools” then “options”
2. Click on the icon “privacy”
3. Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options
For Opera 6.0 and further:
1. Choose the menu files then “preferences”
2. Privacy
Where you have not set your permissions, we may also separately prompt you regarding our use of cookies on the Site
We will post any updates for the cookies policy on this page. This policy was last reviewed and updated in July 2023.
EUR-01989 | Date of preparation: September 2023
Please note that:
1. Upon submission of an order form for products through the Accord Partner Platform (an “Order”) you may be contacted by an Accord-UK Ltd. sales representative to confirm your details and to discuss your Order in more detail.
2. No Order (or part thereof) shall be considered as confirmed by us until you have received an email confirming that your Order (or part thereof) has been processed. Submission of an Order does not guarantee stock availability of the ordered products nor delivery of the ordered products by the chosen wholesaler.
3. Subject to the above, by submitting an Order you accept for this to be submitted by us to your chosen wholesaler on your behalf based on the confirmed Order.
4. All purchases of products under the Accord-UK Ltd. pricing Proposition (“Accord Proposition”) are subject to the Accord Proposition Terms and Conditions, available on request.
5. Products supplied by your chosen wholesaler that are purchased via the Accord Proposition will be invoiced according to your Accord Proposition pricing agreement.
