Cookies on this Website

The Ivy Education Trust and all school websites within the Ivy Education Trust use Google Analytics to help us better understand your use of our website and enhance sections of our website that are most popular. Google Analytics tracking (and most web tracking software) uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about our site visitors. However, Google Analytics cookies do not collect personal data about our website visitors.

By continuing to browse this website you consent to cookies being used.

Further information about how Google Analytics use cookies can be found here.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies so that:

We can distinguish you from other users of our website and provide a good experience
We can remember the information you’ve provided us with while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering the information whenever you visit a new page
We can look at how you use our website so that we can improve it for other users.

We do not use cookies to:
Monitor your usage of other websites (privacy intrusive cookies)
collect any personal information about you (without your express permission);
collect any sensitive information;
pass data to any advertising networks;
pass personal data to third parties.

What cookie types do we use?

Cookie types and expiry:

Session cookies – these are temporary and are erased when you close your browser at the end of your visit, or if you delete them earlier. The next time you visit our website we will not recognise you and will treat you as a completely new visitor.
Persistent cookies – these remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire, this is after 12 months.

We may use one or more of the following kinds of cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the operation of our website. This can include cookies that will enable you to log into a secure area of our website, e.g. staff, parent or student area. Without these the website will not work as designed. These cookies do not require consent.

Functionality cookies

These cookies require consent. They are used to recognise you when you return to our website. The content is then personalised to you and can greet you by name (once in the secure area) or remember preferences that you may set.

Analytical/performance cookies

These cookies require consent. They allow us to count and recognise the number of visitors to our site. It also allows us to see when and how visitors navigate our website. Using these cookies helps us improve our website and make popular searched items easier to find. We also use the following widget(s) for this purpose:

Google Analytics

They help us to analyse how you engage with and use our website. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data using cookies, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Twitter

Twitter for Websites is a suite of tools bringing Twitter content and functionality to our webpage. This enables the Twitter audience to share our twitter content, and follow our feed. For further information on how Twitter collects and processes data using cookies, please visit https://twitter.com/privacy.

YouTube

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy- enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos. For more information on how Youtube collects and processes data using cookies, please visit YouTube embedding information page

Vimeo

We embed videos from our Vimeo channel or our Web Site Designer’s Vimeo channel using Vimeo’s privacy – private mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the Vimeo video player, but Vimeo will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos. For more information on how Vimeo collects and processes data using cookies, please click here.

How do we obtain consent for the use of cookies?

When you first visit our sites using a new browser, or if you visit in private browsing mode, we will provide you with a cookies permission banner seeking your consent to use of cookies as required by law.

How do I erase or opt out of the use of cookies?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie banner (bottom right hand corner of the page), but please be aware that opting out of cookies may affect your user experience on our website.

Turning cookies on or off in your web browser

Information about disabling and/or controlling how your web browser handles and accepts cookies can be found at the following, browser specific web sites: