Last updated: 21 Aug 2025
About this cookie policy
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies to improve your experience. This policy details what cookies are, the information that they gather, the types of cookies that are used on this website and why we use them. It also explains how you can manage your cookie preferences, changing or withdrawing consent at any time.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when a website is loaded in your browser and help make websites functional and more secure. Cookies also help us better understand how a website performs, so that we can analyse website features, performance and improve the overall user experience.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including performance, analytics and advertisement.
What types of cookies do we use on AIRDAT’s public site?
The cookies used on our website are organised into the following categories: necessary, functional, analytics, advertisement and others. Similar to other online services, our website uses first and third-party cookies.
The first-party or ‘necessary’ cookies are required for core website functionality and cannot be disabled. In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. These can be accepted or rejected using our cookie pop-up or the ‘Manage Consent’ button. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Third party cookies
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. Through these cookies Google has access to user browsing data collected on this website. IP addresses are anonymised within the analytics tracking.
We pay to advertise on Google search results and if visitors come through to our website via one of these sponsored links, Google Analytics cookies are used to store ad campaign information about the active user. For more information on the cookies used by Google Analytics and Google Ads, see the official Google Analytics page.
This site uses Pipedrive’s Leadfeeder add-on to track website visitors and browsing activity. A visitor cookie is used to track data including IP address (specifically company and geographic location), pages accessed and time spent on pages. Web visit data is grouped at an organisational level, not a personal one. For more information on Leadfeeder and GDPR compliance, please visit leadfeeder.com/leadfeeder-and-gdpr.
This site uses PostHog: an analytics tool which tracks live events such as page views and link clicks on the website. Through PostHog Cloud EU we gather information about how users interact with the website and also capture session recordings which allow us to see where visitors are getting stuck, find solutions to these obstacles and as a result create a better user experience for them. Recordings are restricted to the AIRDAT public site only and all sensitive data is hidden. IP addresses are anonymised within the analytics tracking. For more information on PostHog and GDPR compliance, please visit https://posthog.com/docs/privacy/gdpr-compliance.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
Full list of cookies used on this website
Necessary cookies
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| wt_consent | 1 year | Used for remembering users’ consent preferences to be respected on subsequent site visits. It does not collect or store personal information about visitors to the site. |
| li_gc | 6 months | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 6 months | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::a | never | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::f | never | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::b | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::c | session | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _cfuvid | session | Calendly sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services |
Functional cookies
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lidc | 1 day | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
Analytics cookies
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-* | 1 minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| vuid | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos on the website. |
Advertisement cookies
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bcookie | 1 year | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. |
| _gcl_au | 3 months | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
Other cookies
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SGPBShowingLimitationDomain9848 | 1 month | Description is currently not available. |
Managing cookie preferences on AIRDAT’s public site
Your consent applies to the following domain: https://www.airdat.org
You can manage your cookie preferences by clicking on the “Manage Consent” button and either accepting or rejecting all cookies or reviewing them on a category basis using the customisation menu.
In addition to this, web browsers provide different methods for blocking and deleting cookies used by websites. To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org or allaboutcookies.org.
Consent PreferencesCookie usage within AIRDAT’s systems
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
AIRDAT systems offer e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
So that we can deliver a great experience within our systems, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how the specific system should run when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
For system users we utilise Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our systems and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce valuable and engaging features. Through these cookies Google has access to user browsing data collected on this website. IP addresses are anonymised within the analytics tracking.
If you make a Passport system purchase with us we also track purchase information. This is limited to: course name, assessment type, training provider, purchase value, purchase currency, tax amount, purchase quantity and transaction ID.
We pay to advertise on Google search results and if visitors come through to the systems from the public site via one of these sponsored links, Google Analytics cookies are used to store ad campaign and purchase information about the active user (please see above paragraph for details of what is tracked).
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
We also screen record browser sessions using PostHog, so that we can review the user experience for system users and roll out improvements. Settings and sensitive information are hidden from the recordings and IP addresses are anonymised.
Necessary cookies within AIRDAT’s systems
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| auth_token | 2 hours | This cookie is used to confirm the user’s identity after login and keep them signed in during their session. |
| session_id | 2 hours | This cookie identifies the users’ session on the server and stores data in between HTTP requests on a server. |
| csrf_token | Session | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, which is known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. |
| temp_data | Session | This cookie temporarily stores information needed as the user navigates between pages. |
| 2fa_user | Session | |
| 2fa_remember | 30 days | |
| __stripe_sid | 30 minutes | A Stripe fraud prevention cookie that is used within our card payment process. |
Further information
Hopefully this policy has provided enough information about the cookies used on AIRDAT’s public site and systems. If you are looking for further information in addition to this policy or are at all concerned, please do not hesitate to contact the team through one of our preferred contact methods.
www.airdat.org
19 Cherry Garden Road
Canterbury, Kent CT2 8EL
United Kingdom
[email protected]
+441227 200066
