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COOKIE POLICY OF SMART WISDOM

SmartWisdom (“We“) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By visiting www.smartwisdom.com (“our site”) you are accepting and consenting to our use of cookies. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

There are different types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

We use the following cookies: Secure, Session, Domain/Path, Expires, Http Only

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie

Name

Purpose

More information

HTTP cookie

Secure

A secure cookie is only sent to the server with an encrypted request over the HTTPS protocol. Even with Secure, sensitive information should never be stored in cookies, as they are inherently insecure and this flag can’t offer real protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_cookie

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Click here for more information from Google http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html 

Session

Session cookie

Also called a transient cookie, a cookie that is erased when the user closes the Web browser. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the user’s computer. They will typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/4910/session-cookie

Set-Cookie

Expires

Cookies can expire. A cookie with no expiration date specified will expire when the browser is closed. These are often called session cookies because they are removed after the browser session ends (when the browser is closed). Cookies with an expiration date in the past will be removed from the browser.

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/lucky-cookies

Name/ Value

Name/ Value

HttpOnly is an additional flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. Using the HttpOnly flag when generating a cookie helps mitigate the risk of client-side script accessing the protected cookie (if the browser supports it).

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HttpOnly

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 1 session, and 30 days.

SmartWisdom® Information Athlete® Programme

Understanding, capturing and analysing information real-time in meetings, presentations and lectures saves time and results in higher productivity.

Sample course quality – the introduction

This video-based, hands-on, personal effectiveness training course teaches the core SmartWisdom® techniques. From the minute you finish the training, you will be able to put away your old notebook and start using SmartWisdom® in every situation.

The outcome is that you will build your self-confidence, improve your ability to understand key points in a wide range of situations, and improve your recall of key conversations.

Students, business people, consultants, salespeople, lawyers and more will all benefit from the techniques. Would you answer “Yes” to any of these questions:

  • Do you attend lots of meetings, presentations or lectures where you struggle to capture key information?
  • Do you find it hard to listen, write and analyse simultaneously?
  • Do you come out of a meeting, interview or phone call, only then to come up with a great question?
  • Do you struggle to make excellent use of the notes you do take, and do not recognise them or recall the detail from the meeting three months later?
If you struggle with dyslexia, the benefits of using SmartWisdom® are even greater.

Enhance 10 of your key cognitive skills

In the course, you will learn:

  • Listening

  • Concentration

  • Real-time understanding

  • Knowledge structuring

  • Holistic overview

  • Linking & Connecting

  • Deep questioning

  • Ideas & Insights

  • Greater recall

  • Clear communication

  • Exactly how SmartWisdom® will benefit you day-to-day
  • How to build the SmartWisdom® structure using the unique template
  • How to focus on and capture the important information at speaking speed
  • How to personalise the techniques, putting you in control
  • And, in the bonus material, how others are using and benefitting from SmartWisdom®

By the end of the course you will be ready to start using SmartWisdom® at work, university, at home or wherever else it helps you.

Following a short introduction, the programme is structured in 6 modules.

Module 1

Provides some context to the learning to help you see the value of what you are about to learn

Modules 2-6

Teach you the techniques right from the start.

You will learn the basics of how to structure information differently on the page, and through a series of practical exercises that you complete in your course workbook, you will practise getting faster and more confident.

By the end of the course you will be ready to start using the techniques in real situations.

The online programme costs:

-Professionals £399

- Students £199

Once payment has been made:

  • You will receive an email giving you immediate access to the course in the SmartWisdom® University.
  • If buying the course at full price, your Course Workbook and your first SmartWisdom® notebook will be sent to the address you provide at purchase.
  • Alternatively, you can download and print the Course Workbook in the “Before you begin” section of the course. The SmartWisdom template is given is complimentary for all course purchases and can be downloaded at the end of the course.
  • You will have 12 month access to the course should you wish to return to it at any point to refresh your memory, and you will also be welcome as part of the SmartWisdom® groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Understanding, capturing and analysing information real-time in meetings, presentations and lectures saves time and results in higher productivity.

Sample course quality – the introduction

This video-based, hands-on, personal effectiveness training course teaches the core SmartWisdom® techniques. From the minute you finish the training, you will be able to put away your old notebook and start using SmartWisdom® in every situation.

The outcome is that you will build your self-confidence, improve your ability to understand key points in a wide range of situations, and improve your recall of key conversations.

Students, business people, consultants, salespeople, lawyers and more will all benefit from the techniques. Would you answer “Yes” to any of these questions:

  • Do you attend lots of meetings, presentations or lectures where you struggle to capture key information?
  • Do you find it hard to listen, write, analyse simultaneously?
  • Do you come out of a meeting, interview or phone call, only then to come up with a great question?
  • Would you like to feel more in control of a meeting agenda, discussion and resulting actions?
  • Do you struggle to make excellent use of the notes you do take, and do not recognise them or recall the detail from the meeting three months later?
If you struggle with dyslexia, the benefits of using SmartWisdom® are even greater.

Enhance 10 of your key cognitive skills

  • Listening

  • Concentration

  • Real-time understanding

  • Knowledge structuring

  • Holistic overview

  • Linking & Connecting

  • Deep questioning

  • Ideas & Insights

  • Greater recall

  • Clear communication

In the course, you will learn:

  • Exactly how SmartWisdom® will benefit you day to day
  • How to build the SmartWisdom® structure using the unique template
  • How to focus on and capture the important information at speaking speed
  • Would you like to feel more in control of a meeting agenda, discussion and resulting actions?
  • How to personalise the techniques, putting you in control
  • And, in the bonus material, how others are using and benefitting from SmartWisdom®

By the end of the course you will be ready to start using SmartWisdom® at work, university, at home or wherever else it helps you.

Following a short introduction, the programme is structured in 6 modules.

Module 1

Provides some context to the learning to help you see the value of what you are about to learn

Modules 2-6

Teach you the techniques right from the start.

You will learn the basics of how to structure information differently on the page, and through a series of practical exercises that you complete in your course workbook, you will practise getting faster and more confident.



By the end of the course you will be ready to start using the techniques in real situations.

The online programme costs:

- Professionals £399

- Students £199 (using Coupon Code “SW199STUD”)

Once payment has been made:

  • You will receive an email giving you immediate access to the course in the SmartWisdom® University.
  • Your Course Workbook and your first SmartWisdom® notebook will be sent to the address you provide at purchase.
  • If you wish to begin the course immediately, you can download and print the Course Workbook in the “Before you begin” section of the course.
  • You will have lifelong access to the course, should you wish to return to it at any point to refresh your memory, and you will also be welcome as part of the SmartWisdom® groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.