Use of cookies on this website

Like many other organisations and their websites, the OD Academy website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise when you visit.

Cookies are sometimes used to improve the website experience of a visitor or member to a website and help deliver a better and more personalised service.

There are different types of cookies based on their use:

  • Some cookies we use to remember your preferences for tools found on our website, so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you switch a page or each time you visit. They will remember your user login, the language you prefer and help speed up your searches.
  • Some are created and used by web analytics software (such as Google Analytics) to track how many individual unique users we have and how often they visit the website. Unless you are signed into the site, these cookies cannot be used to identify you personally. If you are logged in, the login process links you to your stored membership record that includes your username and email address.
  • When you register with us, we generate cookies which signal whether you are signed in or not. We use these cookies to determine which account you are signed in with, and if you should get access to a service.

We work in conjunction with dedicated mail or marketing providers like Mailchimp, Membership Pro and SurveyMonkey on occasions to email promotional information.

Cookies are used on these Platforms to monitor visitors and the type of material accessed, for more details please see our Terms and Conditions and our full Cookie Policy (UK).

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log into our website.

You have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe there is a problem with the way the OD Academy (and its owners and operators) are handling your data.