Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 26/06/26
This Cookie Policy explains how Westside School ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website ([Insert Website URL]). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Westside School) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., interactive content and analytics).
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website.
The specific types of cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform include:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas (e.g., a parent or student portal). Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our site functions.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our communications are, or to help us customize our website for you. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
If Westside School does not run ads, you can remove this section.These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.
3. Third-Party Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our website or opened an email that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, and to understand whether you have come to our website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website.
4. How Can I Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Banner that appears when you first visit our site.
Additionally, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.