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Cookie Policy
A cookie is a piece of data stored by a website to enable a mechanism for remembering browser actions. This helps us to track your activity on our web pages, to find out how you use these and to assess their usefulness. We do not collect personal data about you during the tracking process.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our websites. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ devices. The information generated relating to our websites is used to create reports about these websites are used. Google will store this information. You can find out more information on the cookies used by Google Analytics as well as details of the Google privacy policy.
Disabling Cookies
Most browsers have cookies enabled by default. If you wish to disable cookies on our websites or all sites, you can set your cookie preferences for your browser. To learn how to disable cookies click here.
However, disabling cookies may affect your experience browsing our website.
We also use third party persistent cookies from Google Analytics/Hotjar to track how you get to our sites and your activity on the site so that we can improve our business processes. These are as follows:
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Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Length Held |
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_utmb |
Establish a user session on the website and updates on |
30 minutes from creation/update |
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_utmc |
Used historically in conjunction with _utmb to determine if |
Expires on browser exit |
|
_utmz |
Stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach |
6 months from creation/update |
|
_utmt |
Used to throttle request rate |
10 minutes |
|
_utma |
Assigns a unique ID to track every new visitor |
2 years or until browser deletion |
|
_hjIncludedInSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor |
1 year |
|
p.gif |
TypeKit |
Expires on browser exit |
|
_widgetsettings |
Settings to allow School Twitter on bottom widget |
Persistent |
|
GPS |
Requires a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking |
Expires on browser exit |
|
IDE |
Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the |
1 year |
|
local_storage_support_test |
Used by Twitter.com |
Persistant |
|
PREF |
Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep |
8 months |
|
test_cookie |
Used to check if the user’s browsers supports cookies |
Expires on browser exit |
|
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with |
179 days |
|
YSC |
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos |
Expires on browser exit |
|
yt-player-two-stage-token |
Used by YouTube |
Persistent |
|
yt-remote-cast-installed |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Expires on browser exit |
|
yt-remote-connected-devices |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Persistent |
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yt-remote-device-id |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Persistent |
|
yt-remote-fast-check-period |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Expires on browser exit |
|
yt-remote-session-app |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Expires on browser exit |
|
yt-remote-session-name |
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded |
Expires on browser exit |
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_hjShownFeedbackMessage |
This cookie is set when a visitor minimises or completes |
Expires on browser exit |