Cookies

Draft for DPO/professional review: not final legal text. The exact cookie names, providers and durations will be listed here once the site's final toolset is confirmed and reviewed.

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files a website stores on your device to remember things between visits: for example, a choice you have made, or whether you are the same visitor returning. Similar technologies (such as local storage) work the same way, and we treat them the same way on this page.

The two categories this site sets

  • Essential cookies. These make the site work: they remember your cookie-consent choice and support core functions such as submitting forms securely. They do not track you and cannot be switched off, because the site cannot function without them.
  • Analytics cookies, only after you consent. These help us understand how the site is used, so we can improve it. They are set only if you accept them through the consent banner shown on your first visit. If you decline, no analytics cookies are set, and the site works exactly the same.

We do not use advertising or marketing cookies, and we do not sell data collected on this site.

How to change your choice

You can change your mind at any time: reopen the cookie settings via the consent banner link in the site footer to withdraw or grant consent for analytics. You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Your browser's help pages explain how.

More about your data

How we handle personal data more broadly, including data collected through the site's forms and your rights, is set out in our privacy notice.

Needed for the site to work: security, and remembering this choice. Always on.

Helps us see which pages parents find useful so we can improve them. We count visits ourselves, with no cookies and nothing shared with anyone else.

This choice
Kept 12 months
A random visit id
Only while analytics is on
Third parties
None

Turning analytics off erases the visit id, so nothing already recorded can be tied back to this device. More detail is on our cookies page.