What are Cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience.
Cookies can be “First Party”, i.e. set by us, or “Third Party” – set by another company to perform the function. On this Site we use several cookies of both types which are set out in more detail below.
How can I prevent Cookies being used?
When you first visit our website, we will continue to set all Cookies on your device if you continue to use the website. You have the ability to accept or disable cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking "help" on your browser's menu or by visiting All About Cookies.
However, please be aware that should you choose to disable cookies it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Site and some of the Site may fail to work.
Use of Cookies by Us
We allow cookies to be set by Google Analytics. They read and write their own cookies onto your devices. For example, these cookies are used to monitor the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from geographically, the pages they have visited and the devices and browsers the visitor is using.
If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through the Site, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. For further details please read our Privacy Policy.
The below information provides an overview of all the cookies used by our Site, the purpose of the cookie, and how you can find out further information about each cookie:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies allows you to move around the website and use essential features. These cookies don't gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet. There are no strictly necessary cookies on this site.
Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance most visited pages. They do not collect information which identifies visitors personally. They help improve how our Site works.
- _ga, by Google Analytics, is used for all areas of the website.
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We may 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 from geographically, the pages they have visited and the devices and browsers the visitor is using.
Functional (inc. Social Media) Cookies
Functionality Cookies allow the Site to remember user choices and also provide enhanced personal features. They do not collect information which identifies visitors personally. They help improve your user experience and the way our Site works.
- YouTube used for videos on this website [ACTIVITY, APISID,GEUP,HSID,LOGIN_INFO,PREF,SAPISID,SID,SSID,VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE,YSC,__utma,__utmz,dkv]
These cookies are required by YouTube to display videos, and remember your preferences. We do not have access to their content. See Google's cookie policy for details of how they use them.
- Facebook for page sharing functionality [csm, datr, fr, locale, p, c_user, lu, presence, s, xs]
These cookies are required when you share one of our pages to Facebook. We do not have access to their content. See Facebook's cookie policy.
- Google Maps [APISID, HSID, NID, OGP, OGPC, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID] on the Schools section
These cookies are required by Google Maps to display the schools map. We do not have access to their content. See Google's cookie policy for details of how they use them.
- acceptsCookies across all areas of the website
This cookie is used to record if a visitor has accepted the use of the cookies on the site.
- Advertising Cookie – N/A
Allow us to track the adverts and number of times each advert is viewed by visitors, and enable the same advert not to be served to a visitor more than once. It does not collect information which identifies visitors personally. It helps improve your user experience and the way our Site works.
We do not use advertising cookies on this Site.