King’s School The Crown
Cookies Policy
1. Introduction
This policy sets out how the website available at https://www.kingsschoolegypt.com/ (the “Website”) uses cookies and similar technologies. The Website is operated by King’s School The Crown, (the “School”), which forms part of the Inspired Education Group with address Sixth Floor, 3 Burlington Gardens, London, United Kingdom, W1S 3EP (the “Group”).
2. What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit that website. Cookies are widely used by websites to help remember small amounts of information and give you a better experience when using the website.
Certain cookies contain a limited amount of personal information, for example your IP address. However, most cookies used on our Website will not collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information to help us analyse how well our Website is performing so we can improve it. Sometimes, cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a website user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the website user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
3. How we use cookies
When you use the Website, you will be asked to confirm whether you agree to the Website using cookies and, if you accept, we will store cookies on your device. Please note that some cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of the Website and will be stored on your device regardless of your cookie settings. You can if you wish change the cookies settings on your device to refuse cookies. However, if you do this, or if you reject our request to use cookies when you visit our Website, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website and/or you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the Website.
4. The cookies we use and why we use them
We use the following cookies on the Website:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to remember information you have typed into an online form.
- Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website. 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 are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to remember your preferences and personalise our content for you.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.
Further details of the specific cookies we use can be found in the table below:
| Key | Name of Cookie | Type | Purpose | Expires |
| inspired_session | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Session | |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | .youtube.com | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used to store the user's consent and privacy choices for their interaction with the site. It records data on the visitor's consent regarding various privacy policies and settings, ensuring that their preferences are honored in future sessions. | 6 months |
| _openapply_session | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is used to maintain a user session on the website by not storing personal data, ensuring that the user's session is kept private and secure during their visit. | 1 day | |
| inspired_referer | Performance | This cookie is used to track the source that referred the user to the website, helping in analyzing the efficiency of marketing campaigns or referring sites. | 1 month | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | Targeting | This cookie is set by YouTube to keep track of user preferences for YouTube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the YouTube interface. | 6 months |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Targeting | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. | Session |
| ui_locale | .openapply.com | Functionality | This cookie is used to store the user's preferred language setting to provide a personalized experience by displaying the site in the user's preferred language. | Session |
| _openapply_session | .openapply.com | Functionality | 1 day | |
| msd365mkttr | Targeting | This cookie is used to track visitor and user interactions with the website to optimize marketing efforts and conversion rates by gathering data on user behavior. | 1 year | |
| _ga | Performance | This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. | 1 year | |
| CookieScript | Performance | This cookie is used to track user interaction and behavior on the website for internal analytics purposes. It helps in understanding user preferences and improving website functionalities. | Session | |
5. How to remove or block cookies
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our Website. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
6. Contact us
If you have any queries about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies and similar technologies on the Website, you may contact: dpo@inspirededu.com.