Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how The UK Research Academy uses cookies on our website. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

Last updated: 8 July 2026

1. What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to keep them secure, and to provide information about how people use them.

Similar technologies may also be used to store information on, or access information from, your device.

2. How we use cookies

The UK Research Academy uses cookies for the following purpose:

• to support essential website security and functionality;

We do not use cookies for analytics, advertising, remarketing or embedded third-party media.

3. Essential security cookies

Our website uses essential security technologies to help protect the website from spam, malware, malicious traffic and unauthorised access.

These security features may use cookies or similar technologies to help identify suspicious activity, distinguish legitimate visitors from automated bots, and keep the website safe.

We use the following third-party security services:

• Wordfence — used to help protect the website from malware, suspicious traffic and security threats;
• CleanTalk — used to help detect and prevent spam and automated submissions.

These cookies are necessary for the security and proper operation of the website. They cannot be switched off through our cookie controls, although you may be able to block them using your browser settings. If you block essential cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly.

4. We do not use analytics cookies

We use WP Statistics to help us understand how visitors use our website. This helps us improve the website, understand which pages are useful, and monitor general website traffic.

WP Statistics does not use cookies.

5. Cookies we do not use

The UK Research Academy does not use:

• analytics cookies;
• advertising cookies;
• remarketing cookies;
• social media tracking pixels;
• embedded video cookies;
• embedded map cookies.

If this changes in the future, we will update this Cookie Policy and, where required, ask for your consent.

6. Third-party providers

The essential cookies used on our website are provided by third-party services.

These include:

• Wordfence;
• CleanTalk;

These providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies. We recommend reviewing their policies if you would like more information about how they use cookies and similar technologies.

7. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we change the cookies or services used on our website.

The latest version will always be available on this page.

8. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how The UK Research Academy uses cookies, please contact us at co*****@***************my.com.