Cookie Policy

Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can store on a visitor’s device.

Websites can also use other technologies that perform similar functions, including:

• browser and local storage;
• scripts and tags;
• embedded third-party technologies; and
• other technologies that store information on or access information from a device.

In this policy, we use the term cookies to include these similar technologies where appropriate.

Some cookies last only for the duration of your browser session. Others remain on your device for a defined period so that information or preferences can be remembered between visits.

We use Cookiebot by Usercentrics to manage cookie choices on our website.

When you first visit the website, you can:

• Deny optional cookies;
• Allow selection and choose which optional categories you permit; or
• Allow all optional cookies.

Necessary technologies remain enabled because they are required for core website functions.

Optional Preferences, Statistics and Marketing technologies are not selected by default.

You can change or withdraw your choices later using the Cookie Declaration available on this page.

Where consent is required, optional technologies are not enabled until the relevant permission has been given.

Necessary technologies enable functions required for the website to operate and cannot normally be disabled through our cookie-consent system.

Technologies currently detected in this category include:

CookieConsent

Provider: Cookiebot / Usercentrics
Purpose: Remembers the visitor’s cookie-consent choices for this website.
Maximum duration: 1 year

wpEmojiSettingsSupports

Provider: St George’s School website / WordPress
Purpose: Allows WordPress to determine whether the visitor’s browser supports particular display features, including emoji presentation.
Storage: Browser/session storage

The exact technologies in use may change as the website is updated. The live Cookie Declaration below provides the current technical inventory.

With your permission, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our website and to help us improve its content, navigation and performance.

Google Analytics may measure information including:

• pages viewed;
• scrolling;
• outbound link clicks;
• site searches;
• form interactions;
• video engagement;
• file downloads;
• approximate location; and
• browser and device information.

Google Analytics cookies currently detected include technologies such as:

• _ga – used by Google Analytics to distinguish visitors; and
• _ga_<identifier> – used to maintain Analytics session and measurement information.

Statistics cookies are off by default and are enabled only where you permit the Statistics category.

The School uses Google Analytics for website measurement and improvement rather than personalised advertising.

Our current Google Analytics configuration does not use:

• Google Signals;
• user-provided data collection; or
• advertising personalisation.

Our current Google Analytics data-retention configuration is:

• event data – 2 months; and
• user data – 14 months.

Some pages on our website contain videos embedded from YouTube, which is operated by Google.

YouTube may use cookies and other browser-storage technologies when embedded content is enabled. These may be used to:

• provide the embedded video player;
• remember player settings;
• measure interaction with videos;
• identify content viewed; and
• perform other functions provided by Google and YouTube.

Cookiebot currently classifies these technologies as Marketing because some YouTube technologies can be used to identify or track interactions beyond the immediate website session.

YouTube content is blocked where the relevant consent has not been provided. If you deny optional cookies, an embedded video may therefore remain unavailable until you change your cookie choice.

The exact YouTube technologies in use can change over time. The live Cookie Declaration below provides the current list, purposes and storage durations detected on our website.

Google Consent Mode

Our website uses Google Consent Mode alongside Cookiebot.

Before you make a cookie choice, the website sends default consent signals indicating that optional Analytics and advertising-related storage has not been permitted.

Cookiebot then updates the relevant consent state according to the choices you make.

The presence of advertising-related consent signals does not mean that St George’s School currently uses personalised advertising or remarketing.

Third-party services

The main third-party services currently associated with cookies or similar website technologies are:

• Google – for Google Analytics and embedded YouTube content; and
• Usercentrics / Cookiebot – for managing and recording cookie choices.

These organisations operate their own infrastructure and may process information internationally in accordance with their own privacy arrangements.

Google-hosted fonts

Some font resources used by the website are currently hosted by Google.

Loading these resources may involve a browser communicating technical information, such as an IP address, to Google.

Google Fonts do not necessarily use cookies or browser storage and may therefore not appear within the Cookie Declaration. Further information is provided in our Website Privacy Notice.

Changing or withdrawing your consent

You can change or withdraw your consent to optional cookies at any time using the Cookie Declaration below.

Rejecting optional cookies does not prevent you from using the main website. However, some optional third-party features, particularly embedded YouTube videos, may not function unless the relevant category is permitted.

Browser controls

You can also use your browser settings to view, remove or block cookies stored on your device.

Browser controls vary between browsers and devices. Blocking all cookies through your browser may affect functions that rely on necessary cookies.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We keep the technologies used by our website under review.

We may update this Cookie Policy where:

• website functionality changes;
• new third-party services are introduced;
• cookie classifications or purposes change; or
• applicable law or regulatory guidance changes.

The date shown at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.

Contact us

If you have questions about the use of cookies or personal information on this website, please contact:

Data Protection Officer
St George’s School, Edgbaston
31 Calthorpe Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 1RX

Email: dpo@sgse.co.uk