What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your devices when you visit our website via internet browsers. Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and improve the efficiency of our website.
What cookies do we use?
Essential cookies – These make our websites work and provide the basic functions of the website.
Performance cookies – Performance cookies also allow us to see if there are any technical issues on our websites and if you are experiencing any issues using our websites. We use Analytics cookies to help us understand how you use our services. They also allow us to look at usage statistics and performance.
Targeting cookies – We use these types of cookies and similar technologies to provide adverts that we think may be more relevant to your interests. This can be based on your browsing activity and is known as Online Behavioural Advertising or OBA. Cookies are placed on your browser, which remembers what websites you’ve been to. Advertising based on what you have been viewing is then displayed.
Types of cookies
If the cookie comes from our site it is a first party cookie. If it comes from another site, such as our marketing services or ad technology providers or business partners, it is a third party cookie, specifically chosen by us to provide a service, such as a more personalised visit for example from our website service providers, advertising partners and social media service providers.
How long do cookies last?
Different cookies can last for different lengths of time.
- Persistent cookies consist of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). Persistent or tracking cookies are employed to store user preferences and allow to customize how we present information through site layouts or themes.
- Session cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities only during a session and will expire when the web browser is closed.
The table below explains what cookies we use on our websites and why. These websites include:
- APG HQ
- Chepstow House School
- Davenport Lodge Nursery School
- Falcons Pre-Preparatory Chiswick
- Falcons School for Girls
- Hilden Grange School
- The Minors Nursery School
- Pembridge Hall School
- Peregrines Nursery School
- Portland Place School
- Rolfe’s Nursery School
- St. Anthony’s School for Boys
- St. Anthony’s School for Girls
- Wetherby School
- Wetherby Kensington
- Wetherby Preparatory School
- Wetherby Senior School
Table of cookies we use and why:
| COOKIE | DESCRIPTION |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _ga_LE21L6981C | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _gat | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| aka_debug | Vimeo sets this cookie which is essential for the website to play video functionality. |
| _openapply_session | No description |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category . |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Analytics”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Vuid | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. |
| _ga_2S15NQLDKR | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| nitroCachedPage | No description |
| schooAlert | No description |
| _ga_1RELM78FJQ | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _wpfuuid | This cookie is used by the WPForms WordPress plugin. The cookie is used to allows the paid version of the plugin to connect entries by the same user and is used for some additional features like the Form Abandonment addon. |
| Fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| NID | NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
| ui_locale | No description |
| _ga_H664Q9CLMW | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| Iutk | This cookie is used by Issuu analytic system to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products. |
| Player | Vimeo uses this cookie to save the user’s preferences when playing embedded videos from Vimeo. |
| sync_active | This cookie is set by Vimeo and contains data on the visitor’s video-content preferences, so that the website remembers parameters such as preferred volume or video quality. |
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies |
| CONSENT | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| _ga_B1T24Q5MBH | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics |
| _ga_F9PKKSW2HH | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics |
| _gat_UA-8736630-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. |
| _ga_2J0MCCY4KH | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| t.innertube::requests | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| _ga_4D3K9M8JGH | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga_V9EJE7LQLV | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| performance | is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. |
| JSESSIONID | The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. |
| _ga_S1J6W36V26 | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga_FJC5T207YY | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga_7B1MXLXZBW | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga_73JS82WJ83 | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
| _ga_YH1Z0HPWFD | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| ELOQUA | The domain of this cookie is owned byOracle Eloqua. This cookie is used for email services. It also helps for marketing automation solution for B2B marketers to track customers through all phases of buying cycle. |
| ELQSTATUS | This cookie is set by Eloqua. This cookie is used by PwC to track individual visitors and their use of site. This is set on the first visit of the visitor to the site and updated on subsequent visits. |
| _ga_YH1Z0HPWFD | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
| _ga_YH1Z0HPWFD | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. |
Consent to use cookies and managing cookies settings
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are essential to the operation of the Site. Essential cookies enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
To set all other cookies, we need your permission. Consent for non-essential cookies is sought when you first access the Site and can be managed via the Cookie settings link in the footer of our Site. You can follow that link to turn these cookies off.
You can also manage which cookies you receive via your web browser. Most browsers have built in privacy settings that provide differing levels of cookie acceptance, expiration time, and disposal. can set your browser settings not to accept cookies – please follow your browser provider’s instructions to do so.
You can find more information about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, at www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org or www.civicuk.com/cookie-control/. However, please note that some of our Site features may not function as a result of removing cookies.
If you would like to know more about what cookies we use on our site, please get in touch.
