Cookie Policy
Last updated: 21st October 2026
1. Introduction
ProgressTeaching (“we”, “our”) uses cookies on its website. This Cookie Policy explains more about cookies and why we use them. It also explains how you can control and opt out of receiving them.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Our website, progressteaching.com (“the website”), uses cookies and other similar technologies (for convenience, all of these are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies can be placed by ProgressTeaching and by third parties we have engaged. Below, we explain how cookies are used on our website.
2. About Cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on your computer or another device. The information stored in it may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a later visit.
What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
What is a pixel?
A tracking pixel is an HTML code snippet which is loaded when a user visits a website or opens an email. It is useful for tracking user behaviour and conversions.
3. Types of Cookies
Essential Cookies
Essential or strictly necessary cookies are cookies that are necessary for our website to function correctly and to provide the services you have requested. They may also be used where they are necessary to enable or facilitate the transmission of communications over an electronic communications network. These cookies cannot be switched off through our cookie settings.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you make on our website, such as closing the banner for an upcoming webinar, so that we do not show it to you again. They are optional, and we only use them if you allow them. Without them, a banner you close stays closed until you reload the page.
Statistics or Analytics Cookies
We use statistics or analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. This may include information such as the pages visitors view, how they arrived at our website, how they navigate around the website and how long they spend on different pages. We use this information to understand how our website is used, identify any problems and improve the performance, functionality and user experience of our website.
Where analytics cookies are provided by a third party, that third party may process information collected through the cookies on our behalf. Depending on the cookies and how they are configured, the information collected may constitute personal data.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies are cookies that are used to understand your interests and browsing activity in order to provide, personalise and measure advertising. They may be used by us or by third-party advertising partners to build a profile of your interests, show you relevant advertisements on our website or on other websites, and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Learn More About Cookies
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of the information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see the table below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org (opens in a new tab) or www.allaboutcookies.org (opens in a new tab).
4. Cookies Used by ProgressTeaching
The cookies we use on our website and their purposes are set out in the following table:
Strictly Necessary
Remembers whether you accepted or rejected each type of optional cookie, so we do not show you the consent banner again.
Protects HubSpot’s booking service from automated bots and excessive traffic. Only set when you open our booking calendar.
Protects HubSpot’s booking service from excessive traffic. Only set when you open our booking calendar.
Analytics & Performance
Assigns you a random, unique ID so Google Analytics can tell you apart from other visitors and count how many people use the site.
Keeps track of each visit (session) so we can calculate session data for site optimisation.
Measures how the booking calendar is used. Only set when you open our booking calendar, which only opens if you allow analytics cookies.
Measures how the booking calendar is used. Only set when you open our booking calendar, which only opens if you allow analytics cookies.
Functional
Remembers when you close the banner for an upcoming webinar, so that we do not show it to you again. Only stored if you allow functional cookies.
Advertising & Marketing
Set when you arrive from one of our LinkedIn adverts, so LinkedIn can tell us whether the advert led to a visit or enquiry.
Browser identifier LinkedIn uses to measure how well our adverts work and to show relevant adverts.
Routes your requests to LinkedIn’s servers (load balancing) when its advertising tag runs.
Remembers your LinkedIn cookie choices.
Protects LinkedIn’s service from bots.
5. Consent
On your first visit to our website, you will be shown a banner that lets you choose which optional cookies to allow. “Accept All” allows all of them, “Reject All” allows none of them, and “Manage choices” lets you choose each type and then “Save choices”. By allowing a type of cookie, you consent to the placement of the cookies of that type described in this Cookie Policy. We do not set any optional cookies until you make your choice, and we ask you again after 6 months.
Managing Your Consent Preferences
You can change your cookie choices at any time using “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. This shows each type of optional cookie, allowing you to change your choices as necessary.
If you withdraw your consent, we stop the relevant cookies and delete the ones they set on our website when you save your choice. If you have our website open in other tabs, close or reload them too. LinkedIn’s own cookies are stored on linkedin.com, so you can only remove those in your browser settings.
Enabling and Disabling Cookies Within Your Browser
You can allow or block cookies by using the setting in your browser that lets you change the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the availability or functionality of our website.
If you would like more information on how to manage cookies in some popular browsers, please use the links below:
6. How to Contact Us
For further information regarding your personal data or about ProgressTeaching's approach to data protection in general, please email us at privacy@progressteaching.com, or write to us at Progress Teaching Limited, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in response to changes in applicable laws and regulations, our processing practices, and the products and services we offer. When changes are made, we will update the date at the top of this page. Please review this Cookie Policy periodically to check for updates.