Information about our use of cookies

Our website located at www.rydersgreenprimary.co.uk (the “Website”), use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve it. By continuing to browse our Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Where do cookies come from?

Cookies can be set by different parties. First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time with the website displayed in the URL window. We use first-party cookies to monitor how visitors find and use our Website.

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website this would be a third-party cookie.

We use a variety of carefully selected third parties to provide certain services to improve the services we offer to you. Some of these third parties use cookies and similar technologies.

How long do cookies last?

Cookies can last for different lengths of time. Session cookies only last for the duration of your visit to a website. We use session cookies to help improve your experience with us and to support key activities that you want to undertake.

Persistent cookies are written on to your computer’s browser and remain in place until they expire or you choose to delete them. We use persistent cookies to measure your engagement with our Website to change and develop them to improve your experience with us.

What do cookies do?

Different types of cookies do different things. The following types of cookies are used in connection with Websites, Mobile Sites and Apps:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They are essential to enable you to move around our Website and use its features. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for, such as remembering your login details, cannot be provided.

Analytical/Performance Cookies

These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies collect anonymous information on how people use the Website.

Functionality Cookies

These are cookies that are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. They remember the choices you make such as the country you visit the Website from and search parameters. This information can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and which is more tailored and pleasant (for example, such cookies would allow us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences).

Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These are cookies that record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They collect information about your browsing habits and we will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to you and your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

These cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by third party advertising networks. They remember the websites you visit and that information may also be shared with other parties e.g. advertisers.

Social Media Cookies

These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the Website on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policy for the relevant social media platform(s) for how their cookies work.

Please note that third parties (e.g. advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.