FOUNDERS4SCHOOLS.ORG.UK COOKIE POLICY

1 OUR USE OF COOKIES

1.1 Welcome to www.founders4schools.org.uk (‘Website’). Our website may use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our Website. Here you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit our Website and the purposes for which we use those cookies. The Website is owned and operated by Founders4Schools, a registered charity (charity number 1162197) located at 22 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LS (‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’ as applicable).

1.2 For further detailed information about this Website, please click here to see our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.

2 WHAT ARE COOKIES?

2.1 A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your browser or the hardware of your computer or other device to allow a website to recognise you as a user when you return to the website, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (a ‘persistent cookie’). Other similar files work in the same way and we use the word ‘cookie’ in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

2.2 Cookies are an extremely common technology for remembering certain information about a visitor to a website. The vast majority of websites currently make use of cookies and they are commonly used for a wide range of tasks. This Website also uses cookies.

3 OUR USE OF COOKIES

3.1 Certain cookies we use are strictly necessary for the Website to work. For example, when you visit our Website for the first time or after a prolonged period, we present you with a pop-up message notifying you about our use of cookies. We had to use a cookie to remember that we have presented this notice to you (you can see details of this cookie in the Cookie Details section below).

3.2 Besides strictly necessary cookies that make the Website operate, we will not store cookies on your device before you allow us to. In relation to all optional types of cookies, by clicking the relevant “Accept” button on the Cookie Banner, you are agreeing to the use of such optional cookies as indicated in the Cookie Banner and as specified further in this Cookies Policy. However, by not accepting the use and storage of cookies on your device may result in the Website not functioning optimally and certain features may not be able to be used. Please see further section 5 How to Control and Delete Cookies below regarding the ways you can control or delete the cookies we use.

3.3 We use cookies for the following purposes:

3.3.1 Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.

3.3.2 Analytical cookies. They 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.

3.3.3 Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website and to embed functionality from third party services. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.

3.4 A list of the main cookies used by us on this Website together with details about what each is used for can be found in the Cookie Details section below.

4 THIRD PARTY COOKIES

4.1 We also use and work with a number of third-party suppliers and partners who set or read cookies on this Website. We do not have any control over these cookies. Whilst we provide a summary of the third-party cookies used in the table below, you should also check the relevant third party’s privacy policy using the links in that table for more information about how these cookies are used.

4.2 The third-party cookies used in connection with this Website include:

4.2.1 Analytics cookies. We use cookies to help us collect information that allows us to analyse web traffic to our Website. The information collected via the cookies, which is anonymous, is sent to a third party that operates analytics tools which we use to analyse the information collected and improve the Website’s performance.

4.3 A list of the third-party cookies used in connection with the Website can be found under the relevant section in the Cookie Details section below.

5 HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES

5.1 If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this Website (or, indeed, on any other site) you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how. If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

5.2 Alternatively, you may wish to visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer, as well as more general information about cookies. Please note that, as these websites are not owned or operated by us, we are not responsible for any of the content on them.

5.3 Please be aware that restricting cookies may mean that you will not be able to take full advantage of all the features or services available on this Website.

6 Cookies and personal data

6.1 When you visit our Website, we collect information about you and your use of the Website, which happens through the storage of different cookies. We may collect information about which type of browser and search words you use, operating system, device, including your network location. We also collect information about what you click on within our Website and how you navigate our Website.

6.2 Cookies may, depending upon the circumstances, be used to identify you indirectly when the collected information is combined with other information. We will not attempt to make such identification, but were this to happen nonetheless, the information will be treated as personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see this policy for additional information regarding our processing of personal data.

7 CHANGES

7.1 We may make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time by sending you an e-mail with the modified Terms or by posting a copy of them on the Website. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date of our email or the date on which we post the modified terms on the Website, whichever is the earlier. Your continued use of the Website after that period expires means that you agree to be bound by the modified policy.

8 CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about cookies or your privacy when using this Website, please contact us by email at: privacy@founders4schools.org.uk or write to us at: Founders4Schools, 22 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LS.

COOKIE DETAILS

Necessary Cookies

Name Expires Purpose Type
__cfduid 30 days from date set Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. Strictly necessary, /performance
csrftoken Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. Strictly necessary, /performance

Marketing Cookies

Name Expires Purpose Type
IDE 1 year from date set Used by Google Double Click to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. Analytical/performance
pagead/1p-user-list/# Always in session Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. Analytical/performance
test_cookie 1 day from date set Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. Analytical/performance

We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We’d also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us know how you use our website, which improves your online experience and our services.

We won’t set optional cookies unless you enable them. To read more about how we use cookies, see our Cookies Policy.

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These enable core functionality such as logging in and volunteer search preferences. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this will affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies: These help us take and analyse visitor information, which assists us to improve our website and your user experience. For further details of the specific analytics cookies used and to enable/disable such analytics cookies, please click here.