About Cookies
A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is a piece of data stored by a website within a browser, and then subsequently sent back to the same website by the browser. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember things that a browser/user had done there in the past, which can include having clicked particular buttons, logging in, having read pages on that site, usage statistics for a given site and compiling long-term records of browsers/users histories.
Web domains are only able to access cookies stored/set by that web domain, meaning that only Roffey Park servers can access the cookies set by this domain.
How Roffey Park uses cookies
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help provide you with a better user experience.
A visit to a page on the site may generate the following types of cookie:
- Session cookies
- Google Analytics cookies
- WordPress cookies
- Session cookies
Session cookies
Session cookies are used to store information about user page activities so users can easily pick up where they left off on the server’s pages. By default, web pages really don’t have any ‘memory’. Cookies tell the server what pages to show the user so the user doesn’t have to remember or start navigating the site all over again. Cookies act as a sort of “bookmark” within the site.
Google Analytics cookies
Every time a user visits our website, Google Analytics generates anonymous analytics cookies. These cookies can tell us whether or not you’ve visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.
WordPress cookies
The Roffey Park website uses a content management system called WordPress. WordPress uses cookies to identify content editors; this only affects Roffey Park staff who edit and manage the site. More information on how WordPress uses cookies.
How to control and delete cookies
Roffey Park will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, you may wish to control what cookies are set, stop them being used by this website or delete them altogether. All modern browsers allow users to change the cookie settings, which typically can be found in the ‘preferences’ or options menu of your browser.
To help you better understand these settings, we have provided links to enable you to look as these settings for some of the more common browsers below:
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Safari
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting or preventing cookies being used may impact on the functionality of the Roffey Park website.
Third party cookies
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Contact us
Roffey Park has made every effort to detail the cookies used on this website, but where we may have missed, or not listed, a cookie please contact us with the name of the cookie and where you found it. We will then ensure it is included in our list of cookies.