This Cookie Policy explains how AbboTalk Language School ("AbboTalk," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at abbotalk.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, AbboTalk) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (such as advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described below:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our website functions.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| PHPSESSID |
Preserves user session state across page requests |
Session |
| csrf_token |
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks |
Session |
| cookie_consent |
Stores your cookie consent preferences |
1 year |
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| language |
Remembers your preferred language setting |
1 year |
| user_preferences |
Stores user interface preferences |
1 year |
| recently_viewed |
Tracks recently viewed course pages |
30 days |
Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
Provider |
| _ga |
Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how you use the website |
2 years |
Google Analytics |
| _gid |
Registers a unique ID used to generate statistical data on how you use the website |
24 hours |
Google Analytics |
| _gat |
Used to throttle request rate |
1 minute |
Google Analytics |
Marketing Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not directly store personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
Provider |
| _fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver advertisements |
3 months |
Facebook |
| ads/ga-audiences |
Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors likely to convert to customers |
Session |
Google |
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Provider |
| Various |
Share buttons and social media widgets |
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram |
External Services
We may use external services like Google Maps, YouTube videos, or embedded content from other websites which may set their own cookies. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Cookie Management
Cookie Consent
When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline cookies. You can choose to:
- Accept all cookies
- Accept only necessary cookies
- Customize your cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.
Browser Controls
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
Browser instructions for cookie management:
Do Not Track
Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Currently, there is no standard for how online services should respond to "Do Not Track" signals, so we do not currently respond to such signals.
6. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or our business practices. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Cookie Policy on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
