Cookie Policy
Version 1.0 · Last updated 26 October 2026
Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how International Humanitarian College of London (IHCL) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website, and how you can control them.
We use cookies in line with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. For more information about how we process your personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit it. They help the website work, remember your preferences and understand how it is used. Similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage, work in the same way, and this policy uses the word “cookies” for all of them.
Cookies set by IHCL are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by other companies whose services we use on this website are called third-party cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies are needed for the website to work, for example to keep you signed in and to remember your cookie choice. They do not require your consent.
- Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website so that we can improve it.
- Marketing cookies are used to measure our advertising and to play embedded videos.
When you first visit the website, we ask for your consent. If you choose “Only necessary”, we only use strictly necessary cookies. Analytics and marketing cookies are set only if you choose “Accept all”.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| ihcl_access_token | IHCL | Keeps you signed in to your application portal account. | Session |
| ihcl_auth_jwtihcl_auth_user | IHCL (local storage) | Keep you signed in and show your account details on the website. | Until you sign out |
| ihcl_auth_redirect | IHCL (local storage) | Returns you to the page you were on after you sign in. | 24 hours |
| cookieConsent.v1 | IHCL (local storage) | Remembers your cookie choice so that we do not ask you again on every page. | Until you change your choice or clear your browser data |
| __cf_bm | HubSpot (Cloudflare) | Distinguishes people from bots to protect our enquiry forms from spam. Set on HubSpot domains when a form is displayed. | 30 minutes |
Provider: IHCL
Purpose: Keeps you signed in to your application portal account.
Duration: Session
Provider: IHCL (local storage)
Purpose: Keep you signed in and show your account details on the website.
Duration: Until you sign out
Provider: IHCL (local storage)
Purpose: Returns you to the page you were on after you sign in.
Duration: 24 hours
Provider: IHCL (local storage)
Purpose: Remembers your cookie choice so that we do not ask you again on every page.
Duration: Until you change your choice or clear your browser data
Provider: HubSpot (Cloudflare)
Purpose: Distinguishes people from bots to protect our enquiry forms from spam. Set on HubSpot domains when a form is displayed.
Duration: 30 minutes
Analytics Cookies
These cookies are only set if you choose “Accept all”.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __hstc | HubSpot | Tracks visits to our website: the time of your first, previous and current visit and the number of sessions. | 6 months |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot | Recognises your browser and links enquiry form submissions to your visits. | 6 months |
| __hssc | HubSpot | Counts page views within a session. | 30 minutes |
| __hssrc | HubSpot | Detects when your browser has restarted so that a new session can be started. | Session |
| _ga_ga_<ID> | Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) | Distinguish visitors and sessions to produce statistics about how the website is used. | 2 years |
Provider: HubSpot
Purpose: Tracks visits to our website: the time of your first, previous and current visit and the number of sessions.
Duration: 6 months
Provider: HubSpot
Purpose: Recognises your browser and links enquiry form submissions to your visits.
Duration: 6 months
Provider: HubSpot
Purpose: Counts page views within a session.
Duration: 30 minutes
Provider: HubSpot
Purpose: Detects when your browser has restarted so that a new session can be started.
Duration: Session
Provider: Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager)
Purpose: Distinguish visitors and sessions to produce statistics about how the website is used.
Duration: 2 years
Marketing Cookies
These cookies are only set if you choose “Accept all”. Until then, embedded YouTube videos are not loaded and you can watch them on YouTube instead.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook) | Measures the effectiveness of our adverts and helps show relevant adverts on Meta platforms. | 3 months |
| YSCVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEVISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA__Secure-YNID__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | YouTube (Google) | Set by embedded YouTube videos to play them, count views, remember player settings and personalise content and adverts. | Session to 6 months |
Provider: Meta (Facebook)
Purpose: Measures the effectiveness of our adverts and helps show relevant adverts on Meta platforms.
Duration: 3 months
Provider: YouTube (Google)
Purpose: Set by embedded YouTube videos to play them, count views, remember player settings and personalise content and adverts.
Duration: Session to 6 months
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies are controlled by the companies that set them. To learn how they use your data, please read their privacy policies:
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can change your choice or withdraw your consent at any time by clicking here or in the footer of any page. If you withdraw consent, we delete the analytics and marketing cookies set on our domain and stop loading these services. Cookies stored on third-party domains, such as YouTube, can be removed in your browser settings.
Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of the website, such as signing in to the application portal, may not work. You can find out more at ico.org.uk.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the cookies we use. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated. If we start using new types of cookies, we will ask for your consent again.
Contact Us
International Humanitarian College of London Limited is the data controller for the information collected through cookies on this website.
- Registered office address:
5th Floor, Watson House
54–60 Baker Street
London, United Kingdom, W1U 7BU - Contact email: [email protected]