Cookies

This Cookie Policy is provided to visitors (“you” or “your”) by ToucanTech (“us”, “our”, and/or “we”), who are acting as a Data Processor for King Edward VI School, Southampton in hosting the KES Alumni Hub, but also as a Data Controller in their own right for cookie data.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is transferred from the KES Alumni Hub to the hard drive of your computer upon your use of the KES Alumni Hub. We use cookies to ensure that the KES Alumni Hub is able to function efficiently and effectively, and to distinguish you from other users of the KES Alumni Hub, amongst other reasons. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the KES Alumni Hub and also allows us to improve our site.

By continuing to use the KES Alumni Hub, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as set out in this Cookie Policy.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of the KES Alumni Hub. They are essential for ensuring that you experience a continuous and unified experience across the KES Alumni Hub, and do not lose the ability to utilise various features and functionality. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the KES Alumni Hub, and to complete editable fields across multiple pages.

Performance cookies: these cookies allow us to better understand how visitors use the KES Alumni Hub, including how visitors move around the KES Alumni Hub and which pages are viewed most frequently. The information collected by these cookies does not personally identify any visitor. This helps us to improve the way the KES Alumni Hub works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to the KES Alumni Hub. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies cannot track your activities on other websites.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Cookie Name	Purpose
Session Cookie	PHPSESSID	This cookie is used for session management. It is used as temporary management while you navigate the KES Alumni Hub and is deleted once the session is over/browser is closed.
Session Cookie	[KES]_PyroCMS	Used to remember you as you travel from page to page in a single session (without leaving the KES Alumni Hub) in order to provide a continuous and unified experience.
Functionality Cookie	[NID, AND, 1P_JAR 7 consent	These cookies are used by Google Captcha on pages / forms where enabled and are used to identify if the user is real or a programmed bot.

You are able to control cookies through your browser settings on your web browser. It is possible, for example, to block cookies by activating a setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) the KES Alumni Hub (or parts of it) may not work. For more information on managing and deleting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.