Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a piece of data sent to your device from a website. This means the website can recognise your device if you return to the same website. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is an anonymous number (randomly generated) and is stored on your device. Some expire at the end of your website session; others remain on your computer for longer.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure that they are fast
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with our services so that we can make them better
How to Manage Cookies
- You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article Internet Browser cookies- what they are and how to manage them.
- Learn how to remove cookies set on your device
Cookies used on this Website
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using our website:
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.
First party cookies
The Dulwich College website uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
| Name | Typical Content | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFGLOBALS | Randomly generated URL token | Set by Adobe ColdFusion to help identify a client device to enable the site to maintain user session variables. | 30 years |
| CFID | Randomly generated number | Set by Adobe ColdFusion to help identify a client device to enable the site to maintain user session variables | 5 minutes |
| CFTOKEN | Randomly generated number | Set by Adobe ColdFusion to help identify a client device to enable the site to maintain user session variables | 5 minutes |
| JSESSIONID | Randomly generated | Used by sites written in JSP to maintain an anonymous user session by the server | When user exists browser |
Third party cookies
We use suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. The Dulwich College website does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | 2 years |
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state | 2 years |
| Name | Source | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ceir, is_returning | Crazy Egg | Track whether a visitor has visited the site before | 5 years |
| _CEFT | Crazy Egg | Store page variants assigned to visitors for A/B performance testing | 1 year |
| _cer.s | Crazy Egg | Track a recording visitor session unique ID, tracking host and start time | Recording session (expires when the browser is shut down) |
| _cer.v | Crazy Egg | Track whether a visitor has visited the site before | Up to 31 days (expires on the first of the month) |
| _ce.s | Crazy Egg | Track a recording visitor session unique ID, tracking host and start time | 5 years |
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
How to Control and Delete Cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view a cookie's code, just open your cookie file in your browser and click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data about your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.