Cookie Usage
Our website uses Cookies to help us provide you with a useful and reliable browsing experience and to help us improve our site. Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that are stored on your device. When someone visits our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We collect this information in a way which does not personally identify anyone.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device to help our website provide a better user experience. Cookies are stored on your individual device and you have full control over their use.
How to Change your Cookie Settings
You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of your web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you choose to disable cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
Types of Cookies We Use
First Party Cookies
These are necessary Cookies that are set by this website directly. These Cookies are essential to the running of our website and are kept for the duration of a user's visit. These keep track of things such as the session ID itself and whether the visitor has chosen to view the site in high visibility mode. You can find out more and view a list of the first party cookies used by this website here.
Third Party Cookies
These are Cookies set by other suppliers which we may be using to enhance our site and which are controlled by them. The following section details third party Cookies you might encounter through this site. For more information on these Cookies or to opt-out of third parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
Google Analytics
Like many websites, we use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour, such as the number of visitors to the various parts of our website. We do this to compile reports that help us improve our site. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, whether you are visiting on a desktop or mobile, how you got here, what documents you download and what you click on. This analytics data is not tied to personally identifiable information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
You can find a description of the Google Analytics Cookies we use on this site and what they are used for by clicking here.
You can find more about opting-out of having your site activity available to Google Analytics, and the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, here.
HubSpot
We use HubSpot to help us understand how visitors use our website and to improve the experience we offer. HubSpot places cookies on your browser to track the pages you visit and how you interact with our site. You can choose to accept or reject analytics cookies, including HubSpot cookies, through our cookie banner when you first visit the site. You can also change your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings.
If you complete a form on our website (for example, book for an event, or register for a school place), the details you provide are securely stored in our HubSpot system along with your website activity history. This allows us to respond more effectively to your enquiry and tailor our communications to your interests.
HubSpot cookies may collect information such as:
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The pages you visit on our website
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The length of time you spend on each page
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How you arrived at our site (e.g. via a search engine or link)
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Form submissions and interaction
All information collected through HubSpot is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You can manage or disable cookies at any time through your browser settings. You can find out more about the cookies that HubSpot places on your browser here.
The HubSpot tracking code may set a number of analytics cookies in visitors’ browsers. Analytics cookies are non-essential cookies and should only be set after the visitor has given consent (or if another lawful basis applies). The HubSpot analytics cookies that may be set include (but are not limited to):
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__hstc — the main cookie for tracking visitors. Stores data such as the domain, an identifier (hubspotutk), and timestamps for first, last and current visits. (expires ~6 months).
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hubspotutk — a GUID used to identify unique visitors; passed back to HubSpot on form submission and used to deduplicate contacts. (expires ~6 months).
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__hssc — tracks session information and is used together with __hstc to determine session counts. (short expiry, e.g. 30 minutes).
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__hssrc — indicates whether the visitor has restarted their browser; used in session handling (session cookie).
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__hmpl and hublytics_events_53 — browser storage entries used by HubSpot to temporarily store tracking events and metadata about the visitor journey (stored in sessionStorage or localStorage depending on consent).
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the site, measure site performance and improve the user experience. If you do not accept analytics cookies via our cookie banner, HubSpot analytics cookies will not be set (or will be stored only when consent is given) and tracking of visitor behaviour for analytics will be disabled. Please note that if you are logged into HubSpot as a user, additional authentication cookies may be present; these are not used for visitor analytics.