This Cookie Policy is provided to visitors (“you” or “your”) by St Edmund's School Trust Ltd (“us”, “our”, and/or “we”).
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is transferred from our website to the hard drive of your computer upon your use of our website. We use cookies to ensure that our website is able to function efficiently and effectively, and to distinguish you from other users of our website, amongst other reasons. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
By continuing to use our website, 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 our website. They are essential for ensuring that you experience a continuous and unified experience across the website, 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 our website, and to complete editable fields across multiple pages.
• Performance cookies: these cookies allow us to better understand how visitors use our website, including how visitors move around our website 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 our website 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 our website. 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	STEDMUNDS_MEMBER_CODE & <SCHOOLNAME> _PYROCMS	These cookies remember you as you travel from page to page in a single session (without leaving the website) in order to provide a continuous and unified experience across our website as a whole.
Functionality Cookie	STEDMUNDS also  _IDENTITY	This cookie enables us to remember your login details when you return to the website after previously logging out by storing them in your browser. This cookie is turned off by default and is only activated when you select the ‘Remember Me’ check box during login.

 
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) our website (or parts of our website) may not work. For more information on managing and deleting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.