Willows Pre-School

Cookies Policy

This is a Cookies Policy for Willows Pre-School Limited hereinafter referred to as ‘Willows’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’.

1 Cookies
‘Cookies’ are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the website to remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie, and a randomly generated unique number or other value. Like most websites, we use different categories of cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience.
Depending on the purpose, we use session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
When you visit Willows website, we ask for your consent to use cookies. At Willows we are continually evaluating and improving how we present our content to you, we use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. We aim to help you understand how we use the information from cookies set by our website and what you can do to manage them.

2 Why do websites use cookies?
Cookies are very important to websites, they help the website you are visiting to recognise your device and remember little bits of information about your visit like your preferences, settings and how you use the website. This information is then used to personalise and improve the way you interact with the site. This includes how it displays content to you, enabling you to use and select online services and tools, and providing you with content that is relevant to you based on your previous visits and browsing habits.

3 How do we use cookies?
Willows may automatically use cookies to enable you to interact with the site. It’s important to note that different cookies do different jobs, below are a summary of cookies that are or might be used by our website.
a) Necessary cookies: These cookies are important to the underlying operation of the website, supporting the technical operation of the website to ensure it performs how you would expect.
b) Site experience cookies: These cookies are used to support your experience on the site and include user-selected options, site navigation aids, etc. Generally, no personally identifiable data is collected with these types of cookies.
c) Performance and operation cookies: These cookies are used in the management of the site and include customer surveys, recording visitor numbers and other web analytics. Limited identifiable data may be collected.
d) Third party cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works and is structured. Some third-party software utilises its own cookies over which we have little or no control. You can find out about their use of cookies by visiting the third party’s website.

4 How do I manage my cookies?
You can control and remove cookies via settings in your web browsers.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee how our website will perform during your visit.

5 Does this policy change?
This Policy was last updated in Feburary 2024. From time to time, it may be necessary for us to change this cookie policy. This might be for a number of reasons; for example, if we offer a new service online. So, we suggest that you check here periodically for any changes.