Endorsements
Mercury Direct
Mercury Direct is a Sevenoaks based Tour Operator that offers holidays to a selection of destinations including Europe and the Indian Ocean. They ...
Laser Energy Buying Group
Laser is a leading energy-buying group representing local authorities and other publicly funded bodies. It is part of Kent Commercial Services at ...
Kent Design Initiative
The Kent Design Initiative (KDI) is a partnership which includes Kent's local authorities, professional organisations, academic bodies, ...
Privacy Policy
GradsKent and Kent County Council (KCC) want to make our websites and the online services we provide useful and reliable.
This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information called cookies on your computer, mobile phone or other device used to access the internet. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, enabling you to use services you have specifically asked for and remembering your preferences. They also give website operators useful, non-personal information about how people use their website. You can find more information about cookies at:
We do not use cookies for the general running of this website. However, we do use cookies to:
- Enable services you have specifically asked for, such as your online GradsKent account
- Collect anonymous information on the pages visited using Google Analytics. This helps us understand how our website is used and improve our service; the information we collect using Google Analytics is not linked to you as an individual.
- Improve your experience of the website (such as watching videos from YouTube or viewing news feeds from Facebook and Twitter, which we will be incorporating in the near future)
By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Neither GradsKent nor KCC’s main website use cookies that collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
Third party cookies
We embed videos from YouTube and will soon be bringing in news feeds from other websites such as Facebook and Twitter to enhance the user experience of our website. These third party websites place cookies on your device when watching or viewing these pages. Below are links to their cookie policies:
Disabling cookies
You can stop cookies being downloaded on to your computer or other device by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do this, however, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website; in particular, you will not be able to register or log into your account.
There is more information about how to delete or stop using cookies on the About Cookies website. If you wish, you can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
Kent County Council website cookie audit
The cookies used across KCC websites fall into 3 categories:
1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for. In particular, if you do not allow cookies you will not be able to register or log into your account.
2. Performance cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited.
This includes information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
3. Functional cookies
These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
For more information about how KCC’s main website uses cookies and the different types, please visit http://kent.gov.uk/website_information/how_we_use_cookies.aspx
