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Overall, cookies help us to provide you with a better website by providing additional features and by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data that you choose to share with us.

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How are cookies used on Ideas to Inspire?

Ideas to Inspire does not store any cookies on your computer. However, we use the services of third parties in order to provide additional features. Some of these may use cookies in order to function correctly:

1) Statistics

'Teaching Websites' uses Google Analytics to track and monitor statistics about visits to the site. No personal information is collected by these cookies. They are used to collect general information about use of our site, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. You can read the Google Analytics Privacy Overview here. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, Google provide this browser add-on which you can install on your computers.

2) Embedded resources

A number of the resources on Teaching Ideas may be embedded, with permission, from other third party services. Each of these services have their own pages giving information about privacy and cookies (i.e. Google Docs, Youtube, Vimeo and Slideshare).

Social Networks

We have pages / accounts on a number of popular social networks. We use these to share ideas, resources and links with our followers. These pages are hosted on the social networks, so visitors will not receive cookies unless they visit the sites of each social network. However, useful links about each social network is provided below for our visitors' information:

If you have any questions about the use of cookies on Ideas to Inspire, please get in touch. This page was last updated in May 2012.