Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Version 1.0 — Effective date: 13 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Spartan Education Services Ltd, trading as Spartans EDU (“we”, “us”, “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on spartans-edu.org and the Spartans EDU Course Platform.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
Who we are
Spartan Education Services Ltd
Trading as: Spartans EDU
Company number: 13072345
Registered office: 54 Ridgestone Avenue, Bilton, Hull, England, HU11 4AJ
Privacy, cookies, support, and general enquiries: [email protected]
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files or similar technologies placed on your device when you visit a website. They can help a website work properly, remember your preferences, keep you logged in, measure how the site is used, or support marketing and embedded content.
We also use similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, tags, and embedded third-party technologies. In this policy, we refer to all of these as “cookies”.
Types of cookies we use
We use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:
Category | Purpose | Consent required? |
|---|---|---|
Strictly necessary | To operate the website and Course Platform, keep you logged in, maintain security, prevent fraud, remember cookie preferences, process payments securely, and support essential functionality | No |
Analytics | To understand how visitors use the website, measure page performance, and improve content and user experience | Yes |
Video and embedded media | To enable Vimeo, Bunny, and YouTube video playback and embedded content | Yes, where the technology is not strictly necessary |
Marketing | To measure the performance of marketing campaigns, emails, adverts, or promotional content | Yes |
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website and Course Platform to function as requested. They enable core features such as:
- Keeping you logged in to your account.
- Maintaining secure sessions.
- Remembering items or settings during a session.
- Protecting against fraudulent or malicious activity.
- Distributing website traffic reliably.
- Remembering your cookie preferences.
- Processing payments securely and maintaining checkout security.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary, they may be set without your consent. However, we only use them for essential purposes.
Payment processor cookies
We use Stripe and PayPal to process payments for our courses and services.
These payment providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, or similar technologies to:
- Process payments securely.
- Detect and prevent fraud.
- Verify payment transactions.
- Maintain payment-session security.
- Remember payment-related preferences.
- Comply with anti-fraud, regulatory, and security requirements.
Some payment-related technologies may be strictly necessary where they are required to process a payment you have requested, protect against fraud, or maintain the security of the checkout process.
Other payment-related technologies, such as those used for analytics, marketing measurement, or fraud-prevention profiling beyond the immediate payment transaction, may require consent where they are not strictly necessary.
We do not store your full card details on our own systems. Card data is handled by Stripe or PayPal under their own security and privacy controls.
You can find further information about how Stripe and PayPal handle personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Analytics cookies and Google Analytics 4
We may use Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”) to understand how visitors use our website, including:
- Pages viewed.
- Time spent on pages.
- Links clicked.
- Device, browser, and operating-system information.
- Approximate location derived from IP address.
- Referring website or campaign information.
- General website-performance data.
GA4 may use cookies or similar technologies, including cookies such as _ga, to distinguish visitors and understand website usage.
Analytics cookies are not strictly necessary for the website to function. Therefore, we will not set GA4 or other non-essential analytics cookies until you give consent through our cookie banner or cookie-preference tool.
If you refuse analytics cookies, we will not load Google Analytics or set GA4 cookies on your device. You can change your decision at any time using the cookie settings on our website.
Video and embedded-media technologies
Our website and Course Platform may include video content delivered or embedded through:
- Vimeo
- Bunny
- YouTube
Some video technologies may be strictly necessary to deliver a video you have requested, maintain secure access to paid Course Content, prevent fraud, or protect the Course Platform.
However, video analytics, advertising, cross-site measurement, marketing measurement, and non-essential player preferences are not strictly necessary. These technologies will remain blocked until you give consent or choose to load and play the relevant embedded video.
YouTube
Where we embed YouTube videos, we use privacy-enhanced mode where available. This uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embedding option and may reduce cookie activity when a video page loads.
However, cookies or similar technologies may still be set when you play or interact with a video. YouTube may also collect technical and viewing information during playback.
Vimeo and Bunny
Vimeo and Bunny may use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies to deliver video content, remember player settings, measure playback, protect content, or support video delivery.
Where these technologies are not strictly necessary, they will not be loaded until you give consent or choose to load and play the embedded video.
Click-to-load video
For embedded videos that use non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we use a click-to-load approach unless you have already consented to the relevant video and embedded-media category. A video placeholder may appear first, and the third-party video technology will load only when you select it.
Before an embedded video is loaded, the video placeholder will identify the relevant provider, explain that cookies or similar technologies may be used, and provide a link to this Cookie Policy.
By selecting “Load video” or “Play video” after seeing the relevant notice, you choose to load that embedded video and understand that the relevant video provider may use cookies or similar technologies and collect technical and viewing data.
Marketing cookies
We may use marketing cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, emails, and promotional content.
These technologies may help us understand:
- Whether a marketing email was opened.
- Whether a link in an email was clicked.
- Whether a visitor arrived through a particular campaign.
- Whether a visitor later purchased a course.
- Which pages or offers are most relevant to visitors.
Marketing cookies and similar technologies are not strictly necessary. They will not be set unless you give consent.
You can withdraw consent for marketing cookies at any time using the cookie settings on our website.
Email engagement tracking
Our marketing emails may contain tracking pixels or similar technologies to measure whether an email was opened, whether links were clicked, and how recipients interact with our emails.
This helps us improve our emails and understand which content is relevant. Where required by applicable law, we will obtain consent before using these technologies.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email or by contacting us at [email protected].
Where you withdraw consent for email-engagement tracking, where applicable, we will stop using tracking technologies in future marketing emails sent to you.
Cookie consent
When you first visit our website, we will present a cookie banner or preference tool.
You can choose to:
- Accept all non-essential cookies.
- Reject all non-essential cookies.
- Accept only selected categories, such as analytics, video and embedded media, or marketing cookies.
- Change or withdraw your preferences at any time.
Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. We will not use pre-ticked boxes or assume consent because you continue to use the website.
Non-essential cookies, including Google Analytics, marketing technologies, and non-essential video technologies, will not load before you give consent.
Our cookie banner provides separate choices for:
- Necessary — always active and not selectable.
- Analytics — including Google Analytics 4.
- Video and embedded media — including non-essential Vimeo, Bunny, and YouTube technologies.
- Marketing — including campaign, advertising, and marketing-measurement technologies.
Essential payment, checkout, fraud-prevention, login, and security technologies remain active because they are necessary to provide the services you request.
How to manage your cookie preferences
You can manage cookies in the following ways:
Through our cookie settings
Use the Cookie Settings or Cookie Preferences link in the website footer, or reopen the cookie banner where available.
From there, you can:
- Accept or reject analytics cookies.
- Accept or reject video and embedded-media cookies.
- Accept or reject marketing cookies.
- Withdraw a previous consent decision.
Through your browser
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device.
- Delete cookies.
- Block cookies from particular websites.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Set alerts when cookies are used.
Browser settings may not prevent all similar technologies, such as local storage or tracking pixels; use our Cookie Settings link to manage preferences for this website.
If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the website or Course Platform may not work properly. For example, you may be unable to log in, access purchased courses, complete a payment, or use certain security features.
Cookies and similar technologies we use
The exact technologies used may change as we update our website, Course Platform, video providers, analytics tools, payment providers, or marketing systems. The table below describes the main categories of technologies currently used.
Technology | Provider | Category | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Authentication and session technologies | Spartan Education Services Ltd / Course Platform | Strictly necessary | Keep you logged in and maintain secure access | Session or short-term |
Security and bot-protection technologies | Cloudflare | Strictly necessary | Protect the website, prevent fraud, and maintain availability | Session or short-term |
Cookie-preference technology | Spartan Education Services Ltd | Strictly necessary | Remember your cookie choices | Up to 12 months |
Payment-session, fraud-prevention, and checkout-security technologies | Stripe | Strictly necessary / consent-dependent where non-essential | Process payments securely, detect fraud, verify transactions, and protect checkout | Session or short-term |
Payment-session, fraud-prevention, and checkout-security technologies | PayPal | Strictly necessary / consent-dependent where non-essential | Process payments securely, detect fraud, verify transactions, and protect checkout | Session or short-term |
_ga and related GA4 technologies | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguish visitors and understand website usage | Up to 2 years |
Vimeo player technologies | Vimeo | Video and embedded media | Video delivery, playback, preferences, security, and optional measurement | Varies |
Bunny player and delivery technologies | Bunny | Video and embedded media | Video delivery, playback, content delivery, and security | Varies |
YouTube player technologies, including privacy-enhanced embed technologies | YouTube / Google | Video and embedded media | Video playback, preferences, security, and optional measurement | Varies |
Email campaign and engagement technologies | Brevo | Marketing | Measure email opens, clicks, and campaign engagement | Varies |
We will keep this Cookie Policy updated where we add, remove, or change cookies or similar technologies.
Third-party providers
When you interact with embedded videos, make a payment, or consent to non-essential cookies, information may be shared with the relevant third-party provider.
Our main third-party providers include:
- Stripe — payment processing, fraud prevention, and checkout security.
- PayPal — payment processing, fraud prevention, and checkout security.
- Google / YouTube — video embedding, video playback, and analytics.
- Vimeo — video hosting and streaming.
- Bunny — video delivery, streaming, storage, or content-delivery support.
- Brevo — email delivery and marketing engagement tracking.
- Cloudflare — website security, performance, and content delivery.
These providers may act as processors or independent controllers depending on the service and the nature of the processing. Further information about how we share personal data is available in our Privacy Policy.
International transfers
Some cookie and similar-technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States or other countries where they operate.
Where we make or permit an international transfer, we will ensure that an appropriate safeguard is in place. Depending on the provider and destination, this may include a UK adequacy regulation, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism recognised under UK data-protection law.
You can contact us at [email protected] for further information about relevant transfer safeguards.
Your rights
You have rights over your personal data under UK data-protection law, including the rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, and port certain personal data.
To exercise your rights, contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Post: Spartan Education Services Ltd, 54 Ridgestone Avenue, Bilton, Hull, England, HU11 4AJ
Further details are set out in our Privacy Policy.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we use cookies or handle your personal data, please contact us first at [email protected].
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Website: https://ico.org.uk/
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will publish the updated version on this page and update the effective date above.
Where changes materially affect how we use cookies or similar technologies, we will provide a more prominent notice or seek fresh consent where required.