Cookies Policy

Welcome to The Great Courses and to www.thegreatcourses.com website (“Website”). The Teaching Company Sales, LLC d/b/a The Great Courses, its subsidiaries and affiliates value your participation and loyalty. We are committed to the protection of subscriber and customer privacy.

Our Website uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including to distinguish you from other users of our Website. They also help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and allow us to improve our Website and services.

When you first access the Website, you will receive a message advising you that cookies are in use. By proceeding to use our Website and our Service, you understand and acknowledge that we will use cookies described in this Cookies Policy.

You do not have to accept our cookies and can block them by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. You may also delete them after they have been placed on your hard drive. You may also refuse cookies being set when a notice is displayed on the homepage of our Website asking you to consent to their use. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Website that you access may take more time to work, or may not function properly. For more information about cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies collect information that is transferred from your browser or computer's hard drive to us.

We seek to use the following categories of cookies on the Website:

• Essential cookies. Essential cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
• Analytics cookies. Analytics cookies count the number of visitors and allow us to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Targeting cookies. Targeting cookies are used to track and collect visitors actions on the site. These cookies store user data and behavior information, which allows advertising services to deliver relevant advertising. Also more customized user experience can be provided according to the collected information.
• Third party cookies. Some advertising on the website is displayed on third party websites and put in place by a third party (an advertising agency for example). These third parties use their own cookies to analyze how many people have seen and/or clicked on an advertising banner. The cookies placed by third parties are based on the cookies policies of the companies which place them.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them (first and third party) in the table below:

Cookies used by The Great Courses

 

Effective Date: June 4, 2024