This website www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the “accept” button on Our Cookie banner or when you have selected your preferred Cookie options in Our Cookie manager and pressed the “Continue” button. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

Cookie: means a small file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site;

Cookie Law: means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);

Personal data: means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and

We/Us/Our: means “Our Website/School/Company”, the brand owned and operated by Company name or Person.

3.1 Our Site may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
3.2 By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than Us. Third-party Cookies are used on Our Site for analytics and for marketing purposes. For more details, please refer to section 4 below.
3.3 All Cookies used by and on Our Site are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookie:

3.3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
A Cookie falls into this category (usually first-party cookies) if it is essential to the operation of Our Site as without them we cannot provide the functionality that you need to use this website. For example, essential cookies help remember your preferences as you navigate through the online school, also support functions such as logging in, and payment transactions.
3.3.2 Functionality Cookies
Functional Cookies allow our web site to remember choices you make, e.g. your user name, log in details and language preferences and any customizations you make to pages during your visit. They are necessary to provide features and services specific to individual users.
3.3.3 Analytics Cookies
It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.
3.3.4 Marketing/Targeting Cookies
It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties.
3.3.5 Third Party Cookies
Third-party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third-party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).
3.3.6 Persistent Cookies
Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site.
3.3.7 Session Cookies
Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

Name of Cookie	Purpose	Strictly Necessary	Expires
XSRF-TOKEN	Preserves User Login information and states	Yes	When you close your browser
DPSettings	Preserves the user's Cookie policy preferences	Yes	12 days
slim_session	Preserves User Login information and states	Yes	2.5 days
affiliate	Tracks purchases made through affiliate links to ensure proper credit is given to the affiliate partner.	No	Depends on your affiliate cookie settings

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
__stripe_sid	checkout.stripe.com	Used to process payments for our website.	30 minutes
__stripe_mid	checkout.stripe.com	Used to distinguish users.	1 year
cid	checkout.stripe.com	Used to process payments for our website.	3 months
vuid	vimeo.com	These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information.	3 years
player	player.vimeo.com	These cookies are used by Vimeo to collect analytics tracking information.	1 year
cf_clearance	www.cloudflare.com	Used by clouflare to specify the duration that our website is accessible to a visitor that successfully completed a previous Captcha or challenge.	4 hours

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
hblid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	a visitor identifier that we use only on your site to remember this visitor between visits	2 years
wcsid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	a session identifier that we use only on your site to keep track of a single chat session	When you close your browser
olfsk	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	storage identifier that we use to maintain chat state across pages (e.g. message history)	2 years
_okbk	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	extra state information (e.g. chat box being open/closed)	When you close your browser
_ok	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	most recent Olark site ID (security measure)	When you close your browser
_oklv	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	the Olark loader version (for improved caching)	When you close your browser
_okla	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	used for caching purposes (loaded from CDN vs. loaded from our infrastructure)	When you close your browser
_okgid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	used for caching by setting a hash for assets to determine if they have changed and if they need to be refreshed	When you close your browser
_okac	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	used for caching by setting a hash for assets to determine if they have changed and if they need to be refreshed	When you close your browser
_okdetect	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used for detecting when storage contexts have changed due to things like ssl or host transitions (helps maintain your chat across pages).	When you close your browser
_okck	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used to test whether the visitor's browser allows cookies to be stored.	When you close your browser

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
tawk_uuid_	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	HTTP cookie
twk_idm_key	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor connection management	Session
twk_token_	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	HTML local storage
tawk_uuid_propertyId	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor tracking	6 months
tawkUUID (deprecated)	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor tracking	6 months
__tawkuuid (deprecated)	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor tracking	6 months
ss (deprecated)	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor session management	Session
TawkConnectionTime	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Manages visitor connection	Session
Tawk_xxxxxxx (deprecated)	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Visitor preference	6 months

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
pubsub_cookie	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for the freshchat service	When you close your browser
hop-	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for the freshchat service	When you close your browser
	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for the freshchat service	When you close your browser
_	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for the freshchat service	1 year
pnctest	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for the freshchat service	1 year

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
ZD-zE_oauth	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Stores the authentication token once the user has been authenticated.	2 hours
ZD-currentTime	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Sets the time when page loads.	Forever
ZD-settings	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Stores a hash of settings so that we don't keep sending blips after the initial one	Forever
ZD-suid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Session id for pathfinder.	20 minutes
ZD-buid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Collects Machine ID.	Forever
_answer_bot_service_session	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used to uniquely identify a user session when using Answer Bot Article Recommendations.	When you close your browser

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
intercom-id-[app_id]	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Anonymous visitor identifier cookie. As people visit your site they get this cookie.	9 months
intercom-session-[app_id]	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Identifier for each unique browser session. This session cookie is refreshed on each successful logged-in ping, extending it one week from that moment. The user can access their conversations and have data communicated on logged-out pages for 1 week, as long as the session isn’t intentionally terminated with Intercom('shutdown');, which usually happens on logout.	1 week
intercom-device-id-[app_id]	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Identifier for each unique device that interacts with the Messenger. It is refreshed on each successful ping, extending it another 9 months. We use this cookie to determine the unique devices interacting with the Intercom Messenger to prevent abuse.	9 months

4.4 Our Site uses analytics services provided by your analytics services, if any. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve Our Site and the products and services offered through them.
4.5 The analytics services used by Our Site use Cookies to gather the required information. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however, whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
4.6 The analytics services used by Our Site uses the following Cookies (remove cookies not exploited in your school):

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
_ga	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	2 years
_gat	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Google Analytics: Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate.	When you close your browser
_gid	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Google Analytics: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	When you close your browser
_ga_container-id	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used to persist session state.	2 years

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
__smToken	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	The __smToken is set once you login to Sumo and is checked to verify whether you are logged into Sumo or not	1 year
__smSmartbarShown	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	cookie is set when the Smart Bars are shown on your website	1 year
__smVID	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used to display relevant advertising	1 month
__smSessionId	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Used by Sumo to establish a cookie on a users computer to begin a session to enable Sumo products	When you close your browser
__smListBuilderShown	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	cookie is set when the List Builder is shown on your website	1 year
__smScrollBoxShown	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	cookie is set when the Scroll box is shown on your website	1 year
__smWelcomeMatShown	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Cookie is set when the Welcome mat is shown on your website	1 year
__smListBuilderOptOut	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Is set when a visitor clicks an "Opt-Out" button on the List Builder	1 year
__smSmartBarOptOut	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Is set when a visitor clicks an "Opt-Out" button on Smart bars	1 year
__smScrollBoxOptOut	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Is set when a visitor clicks an "Opt-Out" button on Scroll box	1 year
__smWelcomeMatOptOut	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Is set when a visitor clicks an "Opt-Out" button on welcome mat	1 year
__smSubscribed	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Is set when a visitor subscribes via any of the List Builder, Welcome Mat, Scroll Box or Smart Bars they are shown on your website	1 year

4.7 Targeting/Marketing cookies
Targeting/Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising (remove cookies not exploited in your school):

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
_fbp	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Identifies browsers for advertising and site analytics services	90 days
fr	facebook.com	Delivers advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers	90 days
datr	facebook.com	Identifies the web browser used to connect to Facebook; enhances security and site integrity	2 years
c_user	facebook.com	Contains the user ID of the currently logged-in user	1 year<
xs	facebook.com	Contains session number and secret number for security	Varies, tied to session
sb	facebook.com	Helps improve friend suggestions	2 years
oo	facebook.com	Opt-out of Facebook showing ads based on activity on third-party websites	5 years
presence	facebook.com	Contains user's chat state (e.g., which chat tabs are open)	End of session

Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
__hstc	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk (see below), initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).	6 months
hubspotutk	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor's identity. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when de-duplicating contacts.	6 months
__hssc	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie keeps track of sessions. This is used to determine if we should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp.	30 min
__hssrc	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set. We set it to 1 and use it to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when we manage cookies, we assume it is a new session.	session
messagesUtk	www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com	This cookie is used to recognize visitors who chat with you via the messages tool. If the visitor leaves your site before they're added as a contact, they will have this cookie associated with their browser. If you have a history of chatting with a visitor and they return to your site later in the same cookied browser, the messages tool will load your conversation history with that visitor.	6 months

(Keep section 5.1 and 5.2 if you are using our cookie opt-in mechanism from School Privacy settings.)

5.1 Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a banner requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of Our Site may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of Cookie that We use.
5.2 In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.
5.3 The links below provide instructions on how to control Cookies in all mainstream browsers:

Cookie Policy

Effective date: October 19, 2026

This policy explains how ATU Educational Services, LLC (Aquatic Therapy University) ("ATU", "we", "us") uses cookies and similar technologies on www.aquatictherapyuniversity.com (the "Site"). Read it together with our Privacy Policy.

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage and scripts that read device information, work in much the same way. In this policy, "cookies" covers all of them.

2. The kinds of cookies we use

Strictly necessary. These keep the Site working and secure. They keep you signed in, remember your cookie choices, protect the Site from attacks, and let payments go through. They cannot be switched off in the cookie banner. You can block them in your browser, but then parts of the Site will not work.

Analytics. These help us understand, in summary form, how visitors use the Site. We use them only if you accept them in the cookie banner.

Third-party features. Some features, such as video players or social sign-in, are provided by other companies, which may set their own cookies when you use them.

Affiliate referral. When you arrive through an affiliate's referral link, LearnWorlds sets a cookie so the affiliate can be credited if you buy within the cookie period. That cookie is listed in the table below.

We do not use advertising or retargeting cookies, such as Meta (Facebook), LinkedIn or TikTok pixels.

3. Cookies on the Site

Cookie	Set by	Type	What it does	How long it lasts
slim_session	LearnWorlds (our platform)	Strictly necessary	Keeps you signed in and remembers your session	About 2.5 days
XSRF-TOKEN	LearnWorlds	Strictly necessary	Protects forms and sign-in from forgery attacks	Short-term (usually until you close your browser)
DPSettings	LearnWorlds	Strictly necessary	Remembers your cookie choices	Up to about 12 days
_cfuvid	Cloudflare	Strictly necessary	Security and traffic management	Until you close your browser
__stripe_mid	Stripe	Strictly necessary	Fraud prevention for payments	1 year
__stripe_sid	Stripe	Strictly necessary	Fraud prevention for payments	30 minutes
m	Stripe (m.stripe.com)	Strictly necessary	Fraud prevention for payments	About 13 months
_ga, _ga_EKGETSX6V8	Google Analytics	Analytics (only with your consent)	Counts visits and pages viewed, in summary form	Up to 2 years
set by LearnWorlds	LearnWorlds	Affiliate referral	Credits the referring affiliate when you arrive through a referral link	Currently 7 days

Stripe's script runs on all Site pages, not only at checkout, so that payments and fraud checks work. That is why Stripe cookies may appear before you buy anything.

Video. Some course pages play video hosted by Wistia, which may store data in your browser to play and measure the video, under Wistia's own policy.

Social sign-in. If you choose "Sign in with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Apple", that company may set its own cookies under its own policy.

4. Your choices

Cookie banner. When you first visit, a banner says "We use cookies…". Click "accept individual cookies" to choose which kinds you allow, or "Got it!" to accept them. Analytics cookies stay off until you accept them.
Change your mind. If you have an account, go to your profile → Edit → Privacy settings. You can also clear cookies in your browser.
Browser settings. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop sign-in and checkout from working.
Google Analytics opt-out. You can also use Google's browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

5. Changes

We will update this policy when we add or remove tools that use cookies, and we will change the effective date.

6. Contact

ATU Educational Services, LLC (Aquatic Therapy University)
1143 Oak Ridge Turnpike #226, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA
Phone: (865) 204-0618
Email: info@swimatu.com

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Name of Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
ci_session	refersion.com	Preserves users states across page requests.	When you close your browser
refersion_csrf_code	refersion.com	Sets csrf token to prevent cross site request forgery.	When you close your browser
__cfduid	refersion.com	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.	1 year

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