Strictly necessary
These are required for core website functions such as security, account login, enrolment, checkout, session management or remembering your privacy choices. The site may not work properly without them.
Nine Realms Institute
Cookie Policy
This page explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used on ninerealmsinstitute.com, what they do and how you can control them.
Last updated: 19 August 2026
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies can perform comparable functions, including scripts, tags, local storage and pixels.
Some are needed for the site to work properly. Others may be used for preferences, measurement, analytics, embedded media or advertising.
2. How Nine Realms Institute uses them
The website may use cookies or similar technologies to operate functions such as:
- keeping the website and student areas secure;
- remembering logins or session information;
- processing enrolment and checkout activity;
- remembering cookie choices and other preferences;
- understanding how the site is used;
- measuring the effectiveness of pages or campaigns;
- displaying embedded video, audio or other third-party content; and
- supporting advertising or remarketing where those functions are enabled.
3. Categories of cookies
Preferences and functionality
These may remember choices you make or help optional website features behave more conveniently.
Analytics and measurement
These may help us understand how visitors use the site, which pages are useful, how people arrive and where problems occur.
Advertising and marketing
Where enabled, these may be used to measure advertising, build audiences or show more relevant promotional material across other services.
4. Your consent
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without asking for consent where the law allows because they are needed to provide a service or function you have requested.
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies should only be activated where the required consent has been given.
Your choice should be made through the site's cookie controls. Where available, you should be able to accept or reject non-essential categories and change your decision later.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from reading ordinary website content, although some optional features or embedded third-party content may work differently.
5. Third-party content
Some pages may contain content supplied by third-party platforms, for example embedded video, audio, payment, social-media or other services.
Those services may use their own cookies or similar technologies when the content is loaded or used. Their privacy and cookie practices are controlled by the relevant provider rather than Nine Realms Institute.
6. Changing your cookie choices
You can normally review or change your non-essential cookie choices using the cookie-settings control provided on the website.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary by provider and device. Blocking all cookies may interfere with student login, checkout, enrolment or other essential functions.
7. How long cookies last
Some cookies exist only for the duration of your browser session. Others may remain for a longer period so that a preference, account state or consent decision can be remembered.
The exact duration depends on the cookie or technology concerned. The site's live cookie-management tool should provide the most specific current information where that functionality is available.
8. The live cookie inventory
The exact cookies used by the website can change when plugins, payment services, analytics, advertising, embedded media or other technology is added, removed or updated.
For that reason, the definitive list of individual cookie names, providers and durations should be generated from the live site's cookie-management system rather than hard-coded into this page and left to become inaccurate.
This page will be updated if the way Nine Realms Institute uses cookies changes materially.
9. Personal information
Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies amounts to personal information, it is also handled in accordance with the Nine Realms Institute Privacy Policy.
10. Contact
If you have a question about cookies or privacy on the Nine Realms Institute website, contact:
Martin Rothery / Nine Realms Institute
martin@ninerealmsinstitute.com
When the NRI plugins, analytics and advertising setup are inspected in the final technical pass, this policy should be checked against the actual cookies present on the live site and the consent banner should be tested at the same time.