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Cookie Notice
Our website uses cookies to facilitate certain interactive elements of the website. These do not store or provide any personal information in which us or any third party can identify you.
Our visitors’ privacy is of paramount importance to us, and our use of cookies will in no way allow us to access your computer. We simply use cookies to record the areas of the website that was visited, and for how long. This will provide us with useful information on how to improve our website for our visitors.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored by the internet user’s browser, if they agree. They are placed on your computer or mobile phone by websites you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently.
Cookies are not dangerous – they are not computer programs and it is impossible for then to circulate viruses.
Use of Cookies by Kilkeel Primary School
We use cookies on our website to:
There is no way to prevent these necessary cookies from being set, other than to not use our website
We DO NOT use cookies to:
Granting Kilkeel Primary School to use Cookies
If the settings on your internet browser that you are using to view our website are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website to mean that you are consenting to this.
If you wish to remove cookies from our site, you can do this through your browser settings – although, we warn you that our website will more than likely not work as well as you would like it to, or expect it to.
What cookies we use:
CATEGORY 1: STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our websites and use its interactive features and secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for cannot be provided. For example, you may not be able to use our repeat prescription service on our website or fill in our online contact form.
By continuing to use our website, you agree that we can place these cookies on your device.
CATEGORY 2: PERFORMANCE COOKIES
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that verifies a visitor. All information that is collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Kilkeel Primary School does not use Google Analytics or tracking cookies on the website, however, the social media buttons on our website mean that you leave our site and go to the social media platforms. It is possible that they are using analytics cookies. Please check their privacy and cookie notices.
By continuing to use our website, you agree that Kilkeel Primary School can place performance cookies on your device.
CATEGORY 3: FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
Category 3 cookies allow the website to remember the choices you make on our website (such as the language you have selected and the region you are in) and provide enhances and therefore more personal features. These cookies can be used to remember changes you have made to text sizes, fonts and other parts of our websites that you can customise. They may also be used to provide service you have asked for, such as commenting on our posts, and using social media to like this website. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
By the continued use of our website, you are giving us permission to place these cookies on your device.
CATEGORY 4: TARGETING COOKIES OR ADVERTISING COOKIES
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. The remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to the site functionality provided by the other organisation.
OUR WEBSITE DOES NOT use this category of cookies
Third party cookies:
On our website, we have a link to our Facebook account. This button on our website allows you to interact with our social media platform and to engage with our existing followers. Facebook may set up a cookie on your computer memory. This is separate to Kilkeel Primary School’s cookie policy. Fore more information, see:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
https://www.google.com/+/policy/pages-services.html
https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/products/flickr/index.html
What happens if you disable all cookies?
If you disable all cookies from your browser, then it is more than likely that the following features will not work:
Want to opt out of all cookies?
If you want to, you can manage the cookies that you allow on your computer through the internet browser that you use.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all, or just some cookies. As mentioned above, if you use your browser to block all cookies (including the necessary ones), our website is unlikely to perform as you would expect it to.
If you would like to find out more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, and how to manage and delete them, please visit: https://www.aboutcookies.org/
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