Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 21 August 2027. This Cookie Policy explains how Oxbridge Summer Courses Guide uses cookies and similar technologies on oxfordsummerschools.com.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. They help websites work, keep accounts secure, remember choices, understand performance, and, where you consent, support analytics or marketing activity.

How we manage consent

We use CookieYes as our consent management platform. CookieYes displays the cookie banner and preferences panel, records your choices, and helps pass those choices to Google services through Google Consent Mode.

Non-essential Google consent types are set to denied by default before Google Tag Manager loads. If you accept optional categories in the cookie banner, CookieYes can update those consent settings for analytics or advertising tags.

You can reopen the preferences panel at any time using the button below.

Cookie Settings

Types of cookies and similar technologies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These are needed for the website to work safely and cannot usually be switched off through our banner. They may include cookies used for security, consent storage, authentication, fraud prevention, and basic site operation.

• CookieYes: stores your consent preferences so we know which optional cookies you have accepted or rejected.
• Clerk: supports sign-in, sign-up and provider dashboard authentication. Clerk sets authentication/session cookies when a user interacts with protected account features.
• First-party site cookies: may be used for essential site cache or operational state, such as refreshing client-side catalogue data after an authorised cache purge.

Analytics and performance cookies

These help us understand how visitors use the website and how pages perform, so we can improve the service. They should only run where consent allows them.

• Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics: may use cookies such as _ga and related Google Analytics cookies if analytics consent is granted.
• Vercel Speed Insights: helps us understand site performance and Core Web Vitals.

Functional cookies

These support enhanced functionality, forms, preferences and user experience. Some may only be set when you interact with the relevant feature.

• HubSpot forms: where HubSpot forms or enquiry tracking are active, HubSpot may use cookies such as hubspotutk, __hstc, __hssc and __hssrc. The hubspotutk value may be passed with an enquiry form submission to help HubSpot identify or deduplicate contacts.
• Provider dashboard features: account and dashboard functionality may use authentication/session cookies through Clerk.

Advertising and marketing cookies

These may be used to measure campaign performance, understand referral sources, or support advertising activity. These should only run where advertising or marketing consent allows them.

• Google Tag Manager: may load advertising or marketing tags configured inside our GTM container, subject to your consent choices.
• HubSpot: may support marketing attribution or form analytics where the relevant scripts and consent settings allow it.

Third-party providers

The main third-party services that may set cookies or use similar technologies through this website are CookieYes, Google, HubSpot, Clerk and Vercel. Their cookies may change over time, so the exact cookie names and durations may vary depending on browser, region, consent settings and which site features you use.

How to control cookies

You can manage optional cookie categories through the Cookie Settings button above. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the website, sign-in, forms or dashboard features may not work properly.

Useful browser guidance:

• Google Chrome cookie controls
• Safari cookie controls
• Firefox cookie controls
• Microsoft browser cookie controls

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, analytics setup, consent platform, forms or provider dashboard features change. The latest version will always be published on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, contact us at apply@oxfordsummerschools.com.