Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy
Cookies are small files which sit on your computer and record specific interactions between you and this website, and in some cases, other third party websites. This information is sometimes shared with our partners insofar as it is necessary for us to administer the OET Test to candidates, and in other cases, third parties (see our Privacy Policy for more information on data sharing). Please read below for more details about the cookies we use, what they record and who that cookied information is shared with. You are of course free to disable cookies by following instructions to enable Do Not Track settings in your chosen web browsers (see below links under “How to disable cookies”).
Functionality lost by disabling cookies
If you disable cookies in your browser, some functionality the cookies below will not be available, namely:
- the ability to use some functions, look and feel of the website including things such as page navigation, language settings and access to secure areas.
- the ability to be served relevant digital content or ads dynamically based on your interactions with our site or third party apps and sites used by OET.
- the ability for OET to analyse or optimise website functionality and digital content based on behavioural data insights.
Category: Necessary
Necessary 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.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Description | Expiry | More Information |
| __cfduid
_help_center_session _zendesk_session _embeddable_server_session _zendesk_authenticated
_zendesk_shared_session
ASTATUS
wsid
force_refresh | ZenDesk / Zopim | __cfduid is used by the content network, Cloudfare, to identify trusted web traffic; and other ZenDesk cookies preserve users session id and statuses across pages for Helpdesk and web-chat customer service tool tracking purposes. | 1 year
Session
1 day
Session or 21 days
Session or 30 days
Persistent | ZenDesk Privacy Policy |
| BIGipServer# | Marketo | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session | Marketo Privacy Policy |
| SESS#
csrftoken | Preserves users states across page requests (SESS#) and used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times (csrftoken). | Session | Pinterest Privacy Policy | |
| JESSIONID | Preserves users states across page requests. | 1 year | LinkedIn Privacy Policy | |
| PHPSESSID | OET | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Session | OET Privacy Policy |
| wc_cart_hash_#
wc_fragments_# woocommerce_items_in_cart
wp_woocommerce_session_# | WooCommerce | The third party WooCommerce for WordPress application is used by OET to identify shop products added to your cart and keep session records to facilitate online purchases. | Session
1 day | WooCommerce Privacy Policy |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | OET | Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests on OET’s candidate registration portal. | Session | OET Privacy Policy |
| QSI_History
QSI_HistorySession | Qualtrics | Third party cookies used by Qualtrics to facilitate OET surveys for research and feedback purposes, or as a backup candidate registration option if our primary registration system encounters errors. These cookies are generally meant to help keep track of survey sessions so that they aren’t repeated, or to maintain the session. These cookies cannot be disabled as they are controlled by Qualtrics and are necessary to facilitate the survey. | Session | Qualtrics Privacy Statement |
| FormSpringFormSession# | FormStack | Third party cookie dropped by FormStack for some OET web forms used for candidate, parter and internal purposes including assessor availability and candidate back-up registration forms. | Session | FormStack Privacy Policy |
Category: Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Description | Expiry | More information |
| lang | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded “Follow Us” panel. | Session | LinkedIn Privacy Policy | |
| FormSpringFormView# | FormStack | Third party cookie dropped by FormStack for some OET web forms used for candidate, parter and internal purposes including assessor availability and candidate back-up registration forms. | 1 year | FormStack Privacy Policy |
| _zendesk_cookie | ZenDesk / Zopim | Stores settings information for some ZenDesk features used by OET Helpdesk and online chat functionality. | 20 years | ZenDesk Privacy Policy |
Category: Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Description | Expiry | More information |
| _qca | Quantcast | Collects anonymous data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. | 1 year | Quantcast Privacy Policy |
| _ga
_gat _gid | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate and register unique IDs that are used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website for optimisation purposes. | 2 years
Session | Google Privacy Policy |
| _utmb
_utmt
_biz_sid
AWSALB
_utmb
_utmz
utmt _biz_flagsA _biz_nA _biz_pendingA _biz_uid
_utma | ZenDesk / Zopim | Used by ZenDesk for web analytics such as traffic source, throttle request rate goal tracking, custom variables, visitor sessions and load balancing. Keeps track of users’ states e.g. form submissions and cross-domain migration. Increments bizible sessions, number sequencing, unique IDs and pending requests. | Session
10 mins
30 mins
6 days
30 days
6 months
1 year
2 years | ZenDesk Privacy Policy |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | GoToWebinar | Third party cookies used by GoToWebinar to capture registrations and facilitate OET webinars and webinar email autoresponders to registrants. | Persistent | LogMeIn Privacy Policy |
| MoodleSession | Moodle | Third party cookie dropped via oetcentre.brightcookie.com.au | Session | Brightcookie Privacy Policy |
| optimizelyPendingLogEvents
optimizelyBuckets optimizelyEndUserId otimizelySegments | FormStack | Third party cookies dropped by FormStack forms used by Optimizely as a cache of a user’s actions between tracking calls (optimizelyPendingLogEvents). Used by Optimizely to store the user’s audience and dimension information (optimizelySegments) and to measure how selected users react to targeted changes to the website’s content and functionality in order to determine what variation is most efficient for conversion (optimizelyEndUserId). Stores settings on user experience experiments and variations that the visitor has been bucketed into and ensures the visitor is consistently seeing the same variation over multiple sessions (optimizelyBuckets). | Session
10 years | FormStack Privacy Policy |
Category: Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads and other digital content that is relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby personalised for a better experience.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Description | Expiry | More information |
| _zlcmid
zte# | ZenDesk / Zopim | ZenDesk facilitates OET’s online HelpDesk and web-chat functionality. Cookies dropped by ZenDesk are used to preserve users states across page requests (zlcmid) and saves a live web-chat ID that recognises a device between visits during a chat session (zte#). | 1 year
Session | ZenDesk Privacy Policy |
| mp_mixpanel__c
mp_# | GoToWebinar | Third party cookies used by GoToWebinar to capture registrations and facilitate OET webinars and webinar email autoresponders to registrants. | 1 year | LogMeIn Privacy Policy |
| _twitter_sess
ct0
guest_id personalization_id | Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service. | Session
2 years | Twitter Privacy Policy | |
| fr
tr (pixel) | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months
Session | Facebook Privacy Policy | |
| bcookie
bscookie visit
leo_auth_token lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 2 years
Session | LinkedIn Privacy Policy | |
| mc | Quantserv | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. | 13 months | Quantcast Privacy Policy |
| NID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 6 months | Google Privacy Policy | |
| collect
(pixel) | Google Analytics | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session | Google Privacy Policy |
| r/collect
(pixel)
IDE | Google
DoubleClick | DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications of this third party cookie are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. | Session
1 year | DoubleClick Privacy Policy |
| optimizely_data$$first_session
pardot lpv38532 test_cookie wistia-http2-push-disabled da786146-7013-46b7-bdb1-2b19e1 FormstackAdmin FormstackOpenIDConnect i/adsct images/# (pixels) s-9da4
visitor_id# visitor_id#-hash
_distillery
_ssid
d-a8e6
fs_returning_visitor
FSAC
FSAV
fsinitialVisit
loglevel
muxData wistia |
FormStack | Third party cookies dropped by FormStack for some OET web forms used for candidate, parter and internal purposes including assessor availability and candidate back-up registration forms. | Session
10 years
1 year
4276 days
29 days
7168 days
6 months
2 years
236 months
Persistent
20 years | FormStack Privacy Policy |
| UID
UIDR | Scorecard Research | Collects information of the user and his/her movement, such as timestamp for visits, most recently loaded pages and IP address. The data is used by the marketing research network, Scorecard Research, to analyse traffic patterns and carry out surveys to help better understand customer preferences. | 2 years | Scorecard Research Privacy Policy |
| _mkto_trk | Marketo | We use Marketo to serve web forms and personalised content on our website and landing pages and in our emails (for people that are opted into receiving emails from us). This cookie helps us establish a link between personally identifiable records in our database and their website activities, so that we can understand how people are using our website, and so that we can personalise communications with them to provide better services. | 2 years | Marketo Privacy Policy |
| _auth
_pinterest_session cm_sub
G_ENABLED_IDPS | Third party cookies used by Pinterest to remember which pins, boards, people or websites you’ve interacted with so they can show you related content. | 1 year
2915227 days | Pinterest Privacy Policy | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
YSC GPS | YouTube | Third party cookies used to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE) and to register a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen (YSC) and tracking based on geographical GPS location (GPS). | 179 days
Session | YouTube Privacy Policy |