What are cookies?

During your visit to The Faculty website, cookies may be used. Cookies are small files sent by a website to your computer when you visit the website and stored on your computer. These files allow you to be recognised as a user when you visit the The Faculty website. The Faculty uses these cookies to make your browsing experience easier and more pleasant, and to better adapt the content to your needs and preferences, by taking into account your previous visits. A cookie is therefore completely passive and does not contain any software programmes, viruses or 'spyware'.

Which cookies does The Faculty use?

The Faculty uses various cookies, both files that disappear automatically after the browser is closed and files that are also used during a later visit. The Faculty itself sends a number of cookies ('first party cookies'), which The Faculty manages itself, also in terms of processing the collected data. This enables The Faculty to improve your user experience of its website, for example by saving the chosen language settings or avoiding you seeing the same advertisements repeatedly.

Partners of The Faculty also place cookies ('third party cookies'), which were developed by or for them and only these partners have access to the cookies and the collected information. The Faculty therefore has no control over and/or knowledge of the content and functioning of these cookies. Advertisers can, for example, add cookies to their advertisements on the The Faculty website to gain insight into your areas of interest, to show you only interesting advertisements.

In addition, The Faculty uses third parties, such as Google Analytics, to analyse the use of the website. These services also place cookies on your computer to analyse how visitors use the website. This analysis is necessary for The Faculty to adapt its website to the preferences of visitors, again to increase its ease of use. Other third parties that may place cookies on your computer via our website are social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. This is done via the buttons of these services that you see on the website to promote ("like") or share ("tweet") content. These include Facebook's famous "Like button" and "Like box" (Friend 1, Friend 2 and x people like this), where Facebook can recognise visitors using cookies.

Refusing or deleting cookies?

If you wish to continue visiting the The Faculty website without adjusting the cookie settings and click the "continue" link, the installation of cookies will be accepted. It is possible to refuse the installation of cookies via your computer's browser settings. However, some parts of our websites may then not work or may not work optimally and/or access to them may not be possible, which is of course not the intention.

You can also remove already installed cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time. After disabling and/or removing cookies, you will continue to see advertisements, but these will not be tailored to your previous use of The Faculty website.