Holywood Primary School

What are Cookies?

To comply with the law, we must explain a little bit about how we use cookies. We aren't talking about the tasty chocolate chip variety; we're talking about little text files. Cookies are not dangerous and cannot be used to circulate viruses.

Most websites that you visit use cookies. A cookie is a harmless little text file that is downloaded to your computer. Cookies enable a website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits. 

We use cookies only where they are strictly necessary for the provision of this website service. We comply with the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and do not need to ask for your consent.

 

What's in a Cookie?

A cookie is a harmless little text file stored on your device. It contains some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name, and some digits and numbers. Any cookies that we use will not identify you personally; they consist of statistical information. This statistical data does not identify any personal information. 

 

About the Cookies

This website uses two cookies. One is a tracking cookie called ss_lastvisit to allow us to determine if a website visitor is unique. The second tells us you've seen our cookie consent message. If you have, it prevents the message from appearing for another 14 days.

 

Can I Block Cookies?

We don't recommend that you block cookies because they help you to get the most out of our website, but we take the law seriously and want to ensure that your privacy concerns are addressed. If you do want to stop cookies being stored on your device, you'll need to change the settings of your internet browser. These settings will affect all websites that use cookies. You can find browser-by-browser instructions at AboutCookies.org.

Please note that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.