Cookie Policy
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Essential Cookies used by this site
The following cookies are considered to be essential for the operation of this website and can not be opted out of.
| Cookie Name | Functionality |
|---|---|
| enrolmentYear | Set by this website to enable us to provide you with targetted specific information depending on the year you are looking to enroll |
| PHPSESSID | Set by this website to determine the current user’s session and to ensure that the correct information is presented. |
| wp_lang | Set by this website’s content management system (Wordpress) to store your language setting. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Tests that the browser accepts cookies. |
| esherSixthFormCollegeCookiePrefs | Stores your cookie preferences. |
| Simplefavorites | Stores a list of all of the pages that you have favourited. |
Administrative Cookies
The following cookies are set for administrative website users only.
| Cookie Name | Functionality |
|---|---|
| wfwaf-authcookie | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded |
| wp-settings-{user_id} | Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. |
| wporg_logged_in wporg_sec |
Used to check whether the current visitor is a logged in WordPress.org user. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Tests that the browser accepts cookies. |
| wporg_locale | Used to persist a user’s locale configuration. |
Non-essential cookies used by this site
The following cookies are considered to be non-essential for the operation of this website and can be opted out of by updating your cookie settings.
| Cookie Name | Functionality | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| Cookies set by Google Analytics | ||
| _ga | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. | Two years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | One day |
| _gat | The GA tracking ID allows the creation of up to 50 different views in Analytics to show data in relation to the website. | One minute |
| 1P_JAR, CONSENT, NID | Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. | Various |