About Cookies

This website, like most others, uses cookies to help provide you with the best browsing experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a website or page.

We use cookies to:

•Make our website work as you’d expect

•Improve the speed/security of the site

•Allow you to share pages on social networks

•Make improvements to our website by seeing how users navigate around it

We do not use cookies to:

•Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)

•Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)

•Pass data to advertising networks

•Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

•More information about the cookies that we use and how to disable them is given below.

Giving us permission to use cookies

If your browser is set to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our site as acceptance of our cookie policy. If you do not wish to accept the use of cookies, or to delete any that have already been set, you can find out how below. Please bear in mind that some features on our website might not work correctly with cookies disabled.

Our cookies

OCEANSECUREID

These are session cookies. Session Cookies are only stored temporarily and are deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed.

Third party cookies

www.youtube.com

Some of our pages feature videos from Youtube, and on these pages Youtube sets the following cookies:

use_hitbox

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

recently_watched_video_id_list

PREF

You can view Google’s privacy policy here

Twitter

We use Twitter to feed the latest news about SchoolMoney to our website, and Twitter sets the following cookies:

guest_id

k

original_referer

_twitter_sess

You can view Twitter’s privacy policy here

Managing cookies

If you want to, you can usually stop your browser accepting cookies from all sites, or stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites, this will probably limit the functionality of not only our site but many others too.

You can find the tools to manage cookies in the ‘preferences’ or ‘tools’ menu of your browser. Below are instructions for the main browsers, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

To check cookies are enabled on a PC...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

1.    On the menu bar at the top of your browser, click 'Tools', select 'Internet Options', then click on the privacy tab

2.    Set the privacy level to 'Medium or Below', this will enable cookies in your browser

3.    To turn cookies off - set privacy level to above medium

Google Chrome:

1.    At the top of your browser window click on 'Tools', then select 'Options'

2.    Select 'Under the Hood' tab, locate the 'Privacy' section, choose the 'Content Settings' button

3.    Then choose 'Allow local data to be set'

Mozilla Firefox:

1.    At the top of your browser window click on 'Tools' and select Options

2.    Choose the Privacy icon

3.    Click on Cookies, then choose 'allow sites to set cookies'

Safari

1.    At the top of your browser window click on the cog icon, select 'Preferences'

2.    Click 'Security', check the option for 'Block third-party and advertising cookies

3.    Click 'Save'

Check your cookies are enabled on a Mac...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX

1.    At the top of your browser click 'Explorer', then select 'Preferences'

2.    Scroll down to 'Cookies' - this is under receiving files

3.    Select the 'Never Ask' option

Safari on OSX

1.    At the top of your browser window click on Safari then select 'Preferences'

2.    Click 'Security' then 'Accept Cookies'

3.    Select 'Only from site you navigate to'

Mozilla and Netscape on OSX

1.    At the top of your browser click 'Mozilla' or 'Netscape' then select 'Preferences'

2.    Scroll down to 'Privacy & Security' where you should see cookies

3.    Select 'Enable cookies for the originating web site only'

Opera

1.    At the top of your browser window click 'Menu' and select 'Settings'

2.    Choose 'Preferences' and select the 'Advanced' tab

3.    Select 'Accept Cookies'

For all other browsers please see the individual browser's documentation or online help files.