This Cookie Policy describes what cookies and similar technologies REA Network uses on rea.network and the REA Platform, and how you can manage them. It does not cover how we handle personal data outside of cookies — that is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Types of cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you use a website. They let a site remember things about your visit — that you are signed in, which chapter page you came from, or which preferences you set — and they can also be used to measure how a site is used.

We group the cookies on this site into three kinds.

  • Strictly necessary. Required for the site to work at all: keeping a session open on the Platform, protecting forms against abuse, balancing traffic across servers, and remembering the cookie choices you make here. These cannot be switched off, because without them the site cannot serve you a page.
  • Analytics. Used to understand how the site is used in aggregate — which chapter pages and resources are read, where readers arrive from, and where they give up. This tells us which parts of the network need better explaining. We do not use it to identify individuals.
  • Marketing measurement. Used to measure whether our recruitment, chapter and event campaigns reach the students and firms they are meant for. This is the category most likely to involve a third party, because the measurement happens on the platform the campaign ran on.

Similar technologies

Alongside cookies, we use a small number of related mechanisms. Local storage keeps your cookie choice and a few interface preferences on your own device, and is never sent to us. Pixels — a single invisible image loaded from another service — may be used in campaign measurement. Where those act like cookies, we treat them like cookies: they fall under the categories above and honour the same choice.

Cookies set by others

Some cookies come from services we rely on rather than from REA directly. That includes our hosting and content-delivery provider, the platform that hosts the REA Platform, and — where we run a campaign — the network it ran on. These providers act on our instructions, and we do not sell what they collect.

Events hosted with partner firms sometimes require registration on the firm’s own system. That system is theirs, and their cookie policy applies to it. We say so at the point of registration.

Managing cookies

You can change what you allow at any time, and the choice takes effect immediately.

Manage cookie preferences

Your browser also has its own controls. Every major browser lets you see the cookies a site has set, delete them, block cookies from particular sites, or refuse third-party cookies altogether. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop parts of the site — signing in, in particular — from working.

We honour a Global Privacy Control signal where your browser sends one, and treat it as a refusal of analytics and marketing measurement.

How long cookies last

Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay until they expire or you clear them; the ones we set expire within thirteen months, and your cookie choice is stored for twelve.

Changes to this policy

As REA and the Platform develop, the cookies we use will change with them. When they do, we update this page and the date at the top of it. Questions about anything here can go to info@rea.network.