As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
By using our websites, you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies in this way, you should set your browser settings accordingly or not use our website. If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your user experience while on our websites.
What are cookies?
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored on your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our website. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come from, the "lifetime" of the cookie (i.e. how long it will remain on your device), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number.
What do we use cookies for?
We use cookies to make our websites easier to use and to better tailor the web sites and our products to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities and experience on our Sites. We also use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our websites and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information.
What types of cookies do we use?
Two types of cookies may be used on our websites - "session cookies" and "persistent cookies". Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our website. A persistent cookie remains on your device for much longer or until you manually delete it (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or "lifetime" of the specific cookie and your browser settings).
Types of Cookies
| Type of Cookie | What do they do? | Do these cookies collect my personal data / identify me? | Links to more information |
| Necessary | These cookies are essential to make our websites work correctly, they enable you to move around our websites and use our features. Examples include remembering previous actions (e.g. entered text) when navigating back to a page in the same session. | These cookies don’t identify you as an individual. If you do not accept these cookies, it may affect the performance of the website, or parts of it. | Read more |
| Performance | These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our websites. We might use information that we hold about you to show you relevant and "targeted advertising" through other companies' sites, like Google and Facebook | These cookies don’t identify you as an individual. All data is collected and aggregated anonymously. | Read more |
| Functionality | These cookies allow our websites to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) to provide a more personalized online experience. They can also enable visitors to watch videos, play games and engage with social tools, such as blogs, chatrooms and forums. | The information these cookies collect may include personally identifiable information that you have disclosed, such as your username or profile picture. We shall always be transparent with you about what information we collect, what we do with it and with whom we share it. If you do not accept these cookies, it may affect the performance and functionality of the website and may restrict access to content on the website. | Read more |
How do I change my cookie settings?
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
In addition, you may opt-out from cookies by visiting the following websites and selecting which company cookies you would like to opt-out through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe. Please note that ad blockers and tools that restrict our cookie use may interfere with these controls.
If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on our websites, for example you may not be able to visit certain areas of our website or you may not receive personalized information when you visit our website.
If you use different devices to view and access our websites (e.g. your computer, smartphone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
More information
Session / temporary - These cookies are deleted from your device after you leave the website.
Permanent / persistent - These cookies are not deleted from your device after you leave the website. They remain on your device for a longer period.
Necessary | ||||
| Provider | Name | Expires | First Party or Third Party | Purpose |
| Art of Living | has_js | Session | First Party | Registers whether the user has activated JavaScript in the browser. |
Performance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | Name | Expires | First Party or Third Party | Purpose |
| Google Analytics | __utma | 2 years | Third Party | |
| This is the main way Google Analytics tracks unique visitors. Stored in this cookie is a unique visitor ID, the date and time of their first visit, the time their current visit started and the total number of visits they have made. | ||||
| __utmb | 30 mins | This is how Google Analytics decides whether a visit has timed out and how deep a visit has gotten. It stores the number of pageviews in the current visit and the start time of the visitor's current visit. | ||
| __utmc | session | The __utmc cookie is the only session cookie used by Google Analytics. Its only purpose is to register that the visit ended if the browser gets closed. | ||
| __utmz | 6 months | This is the traffic source cookie. It contains all the traffic source information for the current visit, if it was different from the previous visit. | ||
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. | ||
| _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. | ||
| IPerceptions | WRUID | 1 year | Third Party | These cookies collect and analyze the feedback of real users in real situations across the customer lifecycle. |
| __CT_Data | 1 year | |||
| __hssrc | 2 years | |||
| __hstc | 2 years | |||
| hubspotutk | 10 years | |||
| ipe.35007.pageViewedCount | Session | |||
| ipe_35007_fov | 10 years | |||
| ipe_s | Session | |||
| Yandex | yabs-sid | Session | Third Party | |
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | ||||
| yandexuid | 10 years | |||
| yp | 10 years | |||
| WisePops | wisepops | 20 years | Third Party | WisePops helps marketers build intelligent website popups and exit popups. Increase email signups and conversions. |
| wisepops_session | session | |||
| Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) | _vwo_uuid_v2 | 1 year | Third party | This cookie is used for A/B testing of the website to improve the website performance |
| Yandex | yandexuid | 10 years | Third Party | Yandex cookies, a free Russian tool for increasing the conversion of the site. Watch for key performance site, analyze visitor behavior and evaluate the impact of advertising campaigns. Learn more |
| yabs-sid | Session |
Functionality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | Name | Expires | First Party or Third Party | Purpose |
| Art of Living | aol_ref | 1 year | First Party | |
| To save the URL from where the user came to our website | ||||
| aol_ref_url | session | |||
| aol_popup | Configurable - maximum 2 years | To remember the pop settings on the website | ||
| latlngloc{country_code} | ||||
| where {country_code} is replaced by appropriate 2-letter country code e.g. ar, de, us, uk | Persistent | To remember latitude, longitude and physical address details from last course search or if the user shared latitude / longitude via browser request | ||
| __atuvc | 1 year | Updates the counter of a website's social sharing features. | ||
| __atuvs | Session | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. | ||
| AddThis | ||||
| di2 | 1 year | Third party | Keeps track of expiry dates of other cookies used by the social sharing platform | |
| uid | 1 year | Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. | ||
| uvc | 1 year | Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. | ||
| YouTube | ||||
| PREF | ||||
| 8 months | Third Party | We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. | ||
| Read more at YouTube's embedding videos information page. | ||||
| VSC | ||||
| Session | ||||
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | ||||
| Session | ||||
| remote_sid | 8 months | |||
| tawk.to | __tawkuuid | 10 years | Third party | This cookie remembers you so that we can link chat conversations together to provide a better service. |
| Stripe | stripe_sid | session | Third party | Provides a unique session identifier for dashboard Users. |
| stripe_mid | Persistent | Provides a unique session identifier for authentication. Learn more |