Cookies notice

Last updated: 30 July 2026

This notice explains how Studee uses cookies and similar technologies (such as web beacons) on studee.com, and how you can control them and for what purpose. Cookie use on this site is governed by regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) and, where cookies involve personal data, by the EU & UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Use & Access Act 2025 and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Cookies are small data files sent by a website's server to a web browser, processor memory, or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user's website experience, and storing that user's preferences and login information.

We use cookies to provide a better user experience, deliver a personalised experience and for analysing the effectiveness of our website so that we can continuously improve your experience with our brand. We also analyse behaviour insights into users' journeys on how you are using our website so that we can understand the issues you may face and to improve user interaction.

Your choice

When you first visit studee.com, you see a cookie banner with two prominent actions:

• Accept all - we load cookies in all categories described below.
• Manage preferences - you choose which categories to allow. Each category can be turned on or off independently.

No non-essential cookie loads will be captured before you make a choice.

To reject all non-essential cookies, click Manage preferences. The panel opens with every non-essential category - preferences, analytics, and marketing - already turned off. Click Save preferences without turning any of them on, and we will load only the cookies that are strictly necessary for the site to work. Rejecting takes one extra click compared with accepting, and the panel never pre-selects categories on your behalf.

Your choice is recorded in a first-party cookie called studee_consent for 12 months. You can change your mind at any time from the Cookie preferences link in the footer.

Categories

Essential

These cookies are always on because the site cannot function without them. They store your session, keep your cookie-consent choice, and protect against cross-site request forgery. They are first-party cookies set by studee.com and are not used for tracking, and will be stored for as long as your session has not expired.

The essential cookies Studee's own code writes to your browser are:

• studee_consent - records your cookie-consent choice and policy version. Set when you make a choice in the banner.
• studee_browserid - first-party browser identifier used to associate requests from the same browser across visits.
• studee_sessionid - first-party session identifier used to keep your context across page loads within a visit.
• studee_session_resolution - hands SSR-resolved session metadata over to the client-side app on first paint.
• StudeeActivity - tracks last-activity timestamp used to keep your session in a reasonable state.

In addition to cookies, we use your browser's session storage - a related technology that, unlike cookies, is never sent to our servers and is cleared when you close the browser tab - to remember transient interface preferences such as your selected currency (studee-preferred-currency). This is not used for tracking.

Preferences

Preferences cookies remember small UI choices you have made on the site - for example, dismissing a promotional banner - so we do not re-show it on later visits. They are not used for tracking, profiling, or measurement. If you reject preferences, this cookie does not load and the corresponding banner will be shown again on each visit.

The preferences cookie Studee's own code writes to your browser, once you opt in to preferences, is:

• studee_show_programs_universities_hero - remembers that you dismissed the promotional hero on the find-universities page. Retained for 12 months.

Analytics

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it - which pages are popular, which flows have friction, where errors happen. We use these aggregated insights to prioritise improvements, not to identify individual visitors. If you reject analytics, none of these cookies load.

Studee's own code does not write any analytics cookies. The cookies that fall into this category - for example Google Analytics' _ga and _ga_<measurement id> - are set by tags loaded from our Google Tag Manager container only after you have consented to analytics. Google Analytics data is retained for up to 14 months, and the _ga cookie itself persists for up to 2 years. We are working on a follow-up to enumerate every third-party analytics cookie we cause to be set; the names above are examples rather than a complete list.

Your analytics choice also decides whether embedded YouTube videos store cookies. See Embedded video below.

Marketing

Marketing cookies support advertising and campaign measurement - for example, remembering which campaign brought you to the site so we can evaluate that campaign's effectiveness. If you reject marketing, none of these cookies load.

Studee's own code does not write any marketing cookies. The cookies in this category - for example Google Ads' _gcl_au, Facebook's _fbp, LinkedIn's bcookie, Bing's _uetsid, and similar identifiers - are set by tags loaded from our Google Tag Manager container only after you have consented to marketing. As above, we are working on a follow-up to enumerate every third-party marketing cookie we cause to be set, and we will list them here once that work is complete.

Embedded video

Some of our pages include video hosted by YouTube. Because that video comes from YouTube rather than from us, it is worth explaining separately what happens.

The video player is loaded from YouTube when the page loads. That happens before you make a cookie choice, and it means YouTube receives your IP address, the address of the page you are viewing, and basic information about your browser, even if you never press play. The cookie banner does not prevent this.

Whether YouTube then stores cookies on your device follows your analytics choice:

• If you accept analytics cookies, YouTube sets its own cookies when a page containing a video loads. You may see names such as VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, __Secure-YEC, __Secure-YNID and __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN. The exact set can vary.
• If you do not accept analytics cookies, YouTube does not set them, and you can still watch the video.

Our video embeds use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which limits what YouTube stores.

If you would rather not contact YouTube at all, avoid pages containing video, or use your browser's controls to block third-party content from youtube-nocookie.com.

Changing your preferences

Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note that if you block all cookies, our website and its functionality will not work or display properly. You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites here: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can revisit and change your consent at any time:

1. Click Cookie preferences in the site footer.
2. Toggle the categories you want to allow.
3. Click Save preferences.

When you revoke consent for a category we have previously loaded, we delete that category's cookies from your browser and reload the page so the site re-renders without the revoked category's tags.

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third-party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Apple Safari

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in 'incognito' mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications that you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Policy updates

If we materially change this Cookie Privacy notice or the cookie consent policy - for example, adding a new category or a new cookie - the policy version will be reviewed. When your stored consent is for an older version, the banner reappears so you can make a fresh choice. The previous choice is not applied silently to the new policy.

Questions

If you want to know more about what a specific cookie does, the Categories section above lists every first-party cookie that Studee's own code writes, organised by category. The third-party cookies set by tags inside our Google Tag Manager container are explained in the same section, with names provided where the inventory work is complete. For broader privacy questions, please see Studee's Privacy notice or contact our Data Protection Officer.