Cookie Policy

Blue Sky eLearn Cookie Policy

Last updated: 05 April 2018

Websites covered

For information regarding information practices, data collections, and personal information protection, see our Privacy Policy at www.blueskyelearn.com/privacy

  • www.blueskyelearn.com – Refers to Blue Sky eLearn’s Corporate Website
  • www.pathlms.com – Refers to Blue Sky eLearn’s Learning Management System designed for organizations looking to deliver learning and virtual event content to a global audience
  • secure.blueskybroadcast.com – Refers to Blue Sky eLearn’s Clinical Trial Training Platform

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to your web browser when you visit a website. Cookies on the Blue Sky eLearn websites do lots of different jobs, like authenticate you when visiting the websites, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, storing your settings and preferences of video playback functionality, and generally improving your experience on the site.

The Blue Sky eLearn websites can also use some non-essential cookies. We do not do this to track individual users or to identify them, but to gain useful knowledge about how the sites and their content are used so that we can keep improving them for our users. Without the knowledge we gain from the systems that use these cookies, we would not be able to provide the service we do.

The types of cookies we use

Type of Cookies Description Managing Settings
Strictly necessary cookies These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our web properties and use their features, such as accessing secured areas of the site, and providing services that you have asked for Because required cookies are essential to operate the Company’s Websites and the Services, there is no option to opt out of these cookies if you want to continue using our service(s).
Performance cookies These cookies collect information about how you use our website(s), for instance which pages you go to most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you, and all information collected is anonymous and is only used to improve how the website works. To opt out of these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”
Functionality cookies These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, for example username, language, region, and provide enhanced, more personal features. To opt out of these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”
Targeting and advertising cookies

(only used on our corporate website)

These cookies, web beacons and similar technologies allow us to track you as you visit our websites, helping us to send you emails and target ads based on information and products that you have shown an interest in. Once you have logged into your account, registered an account with us, or provided your contact information, the cookies will no longer be tracking you anonymously but the information gathered from these cookies will be linked to the contact information you have provided to us. To opt out of these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”

Blue Sky likes to understand how visitors use our websites by using web analytics services. They count the number of visitors and tell us things about the visitors’ behavior overall – such as the typical length of stay on the site, the average number of pages a user views, what media content a user consumes, and similar behavior and viewing patterns. For this purpose we place a “third party analytics cookie” on your browser. Information collected through these cookies are not used to identify users, thus no personal information is collected and data is used as aggregated information only so that an individual user may not be identified.

Any personal data collected by using these cookies may be stored and managed by third parties, who act for or on Blue Sky’s behalf, for further processing in accordance with the purposes described in the Blue Sky eLearn Privacy Policy www.blueskyelearn.com/privacy.

For more information on third parties and for contact information, please refer to the online Blue Sky eLearn Privacy Notice www.blueskyelearn.com/privacy

How long will cookies remain on my computer or mobile device?

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 90 days and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device. See the section below on how to control cookies for more information on removing them before they expire.

How to control cookies

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible or function properly.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies, can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our websites or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our websites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@blueskyelearn.com

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